{"id":13527,"date":"2013-10-24T21:55:21","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T02:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=13527"},"modified":"2013-10-24T21:55:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T02:55:21","slug":"andrew-lewis-receives-prestigious-gold-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/andrew-lewis-receives-prestigious-gold-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Lewis receives prestigious Gold Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13528\" alt=\"Andrew_Lewis_Converse_marimekko\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Andrew_Lewis_Converse_marimekko.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Andrew_Lewis_Converse_marimekko.jpg 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Andrew_Lewis_Converse_marimekko-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Victoria, British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alewisdesign.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Lewis<\/a> received the prestigious Gold Medal in a ceremony held today at the BC Parliament Building from His Excellency Francisco Suarez-Davila, Ambassador of Mexico in Canada, and Ms. Claudia Franco, Consul General of Mexico. The Gold Medal was won by Lewis at the <em>International Poster Exhibition of Mexico<\/em> in Mexico City out of a field of 8,400 entries.<\/p>\n<p>The poster, featuring a co-branding image between Converse (USA) and Marimekko (Finland), was used for local retail business Baggins Shoes of Victoria BC. This is the first time a Canadian designer has won the Gold Medal in the 24 year history of this international poster Biennial.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Congratulations, Andrew! (<\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.graphicart-news.com\/victoria-graphic-artist-to-receive-prestigious-gold-medal-from-ambassador-of-mexico\/#.Uml9BJTXScI\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\">source<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria, British Columbia Andrew Lewis received the prestigious Gold Medal in a ceremony held today at the BC Parliament Building from His Excellency Francisco Suarez-Davila, Ambassador of Mexico in Canada, and Ms. Claudia Franco, Consul General of Mexico. The Gold Medal was won by Lewis at the International Poster Exhibition of Mexico in Mexico City [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6,9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}