Salt helps Ecostore’s personalised mag covers win hearts, minds and inaugural Glossies Award. Read what Stoppress had to say.

Happy New Year people. May 2012 bring you all the best. Salt is open from the 9th Jan.

Auckland indie band The Naked and Famous and sultry songstress Brooke Fraser were the big winners at last weeks Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. With the launch of Salt Interactives new chart web site for RIANZ you can now keep track of the New Zealand Top 40.

Listen, watch, buy and share: nztop40.co.nz

Salt Interactive’s “Journal” for the Ministry of Health and DraftFCB has cleaned up at the 2011 Advertising Effectiveness Awards, the EFFIEs, including Most Effective Campaign of the Year. Stop Press have a full story at http://www.stoppress.co.nz/news/2011/10/in-rude-good-health-draftfcb-and-moh-revel-in-effie-domination/

Last month the Journal picked up yet another award this time at the TVNZ – NZ Marketing Awards. Stop Press has a great article about the project.

It was no easy task creating the No Nasty Chemicals website. It had to make print ready ICC colour profile compliant pdfs with the touch of button allowing for the automation of 3000 personalised magazine covers. But somehow we did!

Read more about the campaign here and visit the site to get your personalised Little Treasures magazine cover before its too late.

There’s always a bit of spare change hiding round the house. Play Hide ‘n’ Seek and dig our the $$. This is the latest Facebook game designed, illustrated and developed by Salt Interactive for DRAFTFCB and Save the Children New Zealand. Play against your FB friends and help save the kids by donating your find to charity.

Play Hide ‘n’ Seek: www.facebook.com/savethechildrennz

The Orcon business banner Salt Interactive created for Special Group has won 3 Axis Golds and taken out the Interactive Axis for best in category at the 2011 Axis Awards. The banner picked up Golds for Digital Craft, Direct Response and Online Advertising as well as winning the Interactive category. Congratulations to all those involved in the project. The CAANZ AXIS Awards honour the creative talents of the NZ advertising industry and are a celebration of the year’s most exciting and original ideas.

“Never before has one campaign for one client achieved so much in the 23-year history of the Marketing Association’s RSVP and Nexus Awards”. That’s how Admedia summed up The Journal’s record breaking haul on friday night. Conceptualised, designed and built by Salt Interactive for DraftFCB, The Journal won the RSVP Grand Prix, Nexus Supreme Award, 3 RSVP Golds, 2 Nexus Golds and 3 of the 8 RSVP craft categories. Read the awards review here.