Editor's Note: Gold Awards Notes

Finally, Abny explains, "As a judge, it was nice to have dialogue with the other judges and actually discuss the merits of packages. And I think that discussion really pushed the best packages to the surface more effectively rather than just basing it on number scores. The way we did it called for agreement around the top three in each category, and that made us have to look at certain elements more closely and really 
compare the packages side by side."