44: December 2008 Archives

Throw A Dog A Bone

Beside this year's competition being a special one (new categories, eliminated circulation rule, free mag of the year entry,) and in lieu of our canine Best in Show theme, we're also giving back to the companion animal.
By submitting for one of our new categories (creature feature,) the entry fee will be donated to Bidewee.org, one of the oldest humane organizations in the United States. Download entry form here.
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We are the world...

Oh, but PUB 44 is for your magazine.

As with my own experience meeting folks last month from the publishing industry in Denmark & Norway, and from all those amazing mags in the Berlin Shop of Heaven our SPD Pres Scott Dadich posted about, we see there's some fantastic work from all over the globe that can be rewarded and shown-off in the published annual, so keep note that this is an international competition. Download the entry form here!

NEW Categories!? MORE Categories!? WHAT?

Here's the deal with this year's bow-wow competition 44: No more circulation categories, but focus on content. Shazaam. Like goes with like, and the unsung (non-celebrity work, service, etc.) are DEFINITELY getting a medal at the Gala. Whaaat!?! Yeah, no joke. It's time to keep the groups together, like pooches at the Westminster Dog Show. Download the entry form here.

(Photo courtesy of Hulton Collective/Getty Images)

PUB 44: Behind The Scenes

While your PUB 44 co-chairs Judith Puckett-Rinella and yours truly have been preparing all the details for the competition, I couldn't bear but document our Best in Show star Chrome during the photoshoot for the announcement poster (to be found in your mailbox this week.)
I have never met a pooch with more dash and obedience; so much that I had to stop myself from trying to mess up his perfected hair-do with the possibility of getting a mischievous reaction.

Check out the video after the jump of Chrome getting primped and primed to show us his stuff just as those tearsheet entries will be for the judging weekend in January...

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