Best Graphic Design Firm at the AZNIA awards
Event Apr 23, 2012
Published Nov 13, 2026
Spring 2012 was a voting campaign. I was nominated twice in the Arizona Nightlife Industry Association’s Best of 2012: Colores Media for Best Graphic Design Firm, and me for Best Nightlife Photographer. Halfway through, I got pulled off the photographer ballot (“OMG WHAT HAPPENED, they just removed me”), and three days later: “I GOT PUT BACK ON!!!”
The show was April 23 in downtown Phoenix. “I WON BEST GRAPHIC DESIGN FIRM!!!! @coloresmedia thanked my followers! Now it’s time to win best nightlife photographer!!!” That one didn’t go my way, but I had Best Graphic Design Firm. The acceptance went up on YouTube that night, “I THANKED MY FOLLOWERS!!!,” and in May Arizona Foothills Magazine ran an interview with me as one of the winners.
Sources
- AJ on X, "I WON BEST GRAPHIC DESIGN FIRM!!!!" (Apr 23, 2012)
- AJ on X, "they just removed me from the Best Nightlife Photographer voting" (Mar 26, 2012)
- AJ on X, "I GOT PUT BACK ON!!!" (Mar 29, 2012)
- Arizona Foothills Magazine, "Famed Digital Artist Talks About AZNIA Awards" (May 2012, Wayback) (archived copy)
- YouTube, RoyalEpicClothing, "Colores Media wins Best Graphic Design Firm | AZ Best of 2012 Awards AZNIA" (video)