A huge, huge thank you to the Women’s Jewelry Association for honoring me with an Award for Excellence for design Monday night! I was nominated for this award last year but didn’t win, and I sincerely expected the same result this year. The award recognizes a body of work, rather than a single design, and…
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It’s an Honor to Be Nominated by WJA!
I’m delighted to be nominated in the design category for the Women’s Jewelry Association’s 2017 Awards for Excellence! This is the second year in a row that I’ve been nominated. Thank you, WJA! These awards have always recognized women in the jewelry and watch industries “who have demonstrated significant achievements throughout their careers.” This year,…
What Wendy Wore: MrB Was an Honoree
MrB received an award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press at the organization’s annual dinner on Tuesday. Honoree! #awarddinner #firstamendment #freedomofthepress #freedomofspeech #reporterscommitteeforfreedomofthepress #journalism A post shared by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on May 23, 2017 at 4:35pm PDT We attended the event last year, too; little did we know how much more…
InDesign and in the Times!
I’m so excited to share this news! The two-finger ring I did as a collaboration with ANZA Gems won first place in the colored-stone category in the InDesign Awards. The winners were informed of the results a couple of weeks ago, but we had to keep it on the down-low until the official announcement was…
A Pleasant Surprise From JCK Magazine
I feel like a winner even though I’m not one! My designs didn’t place in this year’s JCK Jeweler’s Choice Awards, but my two-finger ring for ANZA Gems still made it into JCK’s “Best of the Best” awards supplement. I found out from Monica Stephenson, who is the editor of jewelry blog iDazzle, as well…
Throwback Thursday: Press Freedom Awards
I always look forward to the International Press Freedom Awards dinner held by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The black-tie fundraiser — which has for years taken place the Tuesday before Thanksgiving at the Waldorf-Astoria — honors journalists from around the world who risk their lives to report from war zones and in defiance of…
What Wendy Wore: WJA Awards of Excellence
“It’s an honor just to be nominated” is an awards-ceremony cliche, but it’s true! There are a lot of female jewelry designers, but I was one of only five nominated for a Women’s Jewelry Association Award of Excellence at the WJA’s gala dinner on Monday, and I am truly grateful for that. Of course, it…
What Wendy Wore: Vienna Mission Accomplished!
We had to take our photos at night this time, but yesterday MrB and I managed to recreate our throwback pictures from our long-ago trip to Vienna. First, we attended the Data Journalism Awards, held at Vienna’s City Hall, where MrB both presented awards and also accepted the award for best individual portfolio on behalf…
I’m Nominated for a WJA Award for Excellence!
I am thrilled to be nominated in the design category for the Women’s Jewelry Association’s 2016 Awards for Excellence! As the WJA’s press release explains it: “The awards are given to female professionals in the jewelry and/or watch industries who have demonstrated significant achievements throughout their careers, in categories that include: design; manufacturer, dealer, supplier; retail;…
Congrats to ProPublica on Its Third Pulitzer Prize!
A big congratulations to MrB’s nonprofit investigative reporting organization, ProPublica, on its third Pulitzer Prize! The article was a collaboration with another nonprofit, The Marshall Project, which specializes in covering criminal justice. T. Christian Miller, a senior reporter for ProPublica, and Ken Armstrong, a writer for The Marshall Project, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for…