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Sandstorm Design In The News

01.04.10
Sandstorm Design's Expansion Featured in the Chicago Tribune!
Sandstorm Design is starting the year off with a bang by being featured in the business section of today’s Chicago Tribune. The article, "Small Businesses See Good Omens for 2010," talks to small business owners anticipating new opportunities and significant growth in the coming year.

10.29.09
Sandstorm Design Ranked 21st Top Gen Y Employer in Chicago
Sandstorm Design is thrilled to be ranked 21st in Brill Street's list of the top 50 most Generation Y friendly companies in Chicago. Joining Sandstorm on this list are huge companies like Google and Orbitz and local gems like Threadless and The Field Museum.

10.26.09
Sandstorm Design and the Green REsource Council Win WebAward
Sandstorm Design and the Green REsource Council have been awarded a Standard of Excellence WebAward by the Web Marketing Association.

05.13.09
Sandstorm Design and CareerBuilder.com Help U.S. Veterans Find Work
Sandstorm Design has launched MissionGetHired.com, a new US Veterans employment site powered by CareerBuilder.com.

05.11.09
Chicago-Based Sandstorm Design Selected as One of the Small Business Administration's Emerging 200 Companies
Sandstorm Design has been selected by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to participate in their Emerging 200 (E200) initiative.

05.07.09
Sandstorm Design and National Association of REALTORS® Launch the Green REsource Council Web Site to Help Make Green Building Accessible
Sandstorm Design has launched a new web site for the National Association of REALTORS® to promote the Green REsource Council and NAR's Green Designation.

03.26.09
WBE Certification Awarded to Sandstorm Design
Sandstorm Design, a Chicago marketing and interactive web design agency, has been awarded WBE certification by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).

03.23.09
Sandstorm Helps the National Association of REALTORS® Go Green!
Sandstorm Design has been selected to design, write and build the new site promoting NAR's Green Designation and the Green REsource Council.

03.04.09
Sandstorm Design's Web Work Selected as "Today's Webpick" by Communication Arts
The JamesHardieColorPlus.com web site, a site Sandstorm designed, conducted user research on, wrote, conducted usability testing on, and developed, is today's webpick on CommArts.com.

01.19.09
Sandstorm Design Featured in the Chicago Tribune
Minding Your Business: Women who hit glass ceiling are pushed to start their own businesses. By Ann Meyer.

01.12.09
Sandstorm Design Featured in the January Issue of Today's Chicago Woman
Real Business Owners, Real Resolutions: You do make New Year’s Resolutions for your business, don’t you? By Hedy M. Ratner.

12.01.08
WBE Certification Awarded to Sandstorm Design
Sandstorm Design achieves WBE status from the Women's Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), the nation's leading advocate of women-owned businesses as suppliers to America's corporations.

09.01.08
Sandy Marsico Selected as a "Top-Idea Maven" by The Woman's Advantage. Entrepreneur's Advice Featured in 2009 Woman's Advantage Calendar
Sandy Marsico, Principal, Sandstorm Design was selected from numerous submissions to be featured in the 2009 Woman's Advantage Calendar. The calendar will provide advice for women business owners from influential women leaders across the US and Canada.

03.01.08
Sandstorm Design Adds Web Usability Lab
Chicago marketing, design and usability firm adds on-site usability lab to faciliate usability testing quickly and efficiently.

02.21.08
New Year, New Space
Marketing and usability experts at Sandstorm Design have recently moved to accommodate their growing team.

11.30.07
Sandstorm Design Featured in the Globe and Mail
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11.12.07
Sandstorm Design Featured in the Crain's Chicago Business
The crazy-making open office plan.

04.07.07
Sandstorm Design Selected to Judge Manitoban Signature Awards
The Sandstorm Design team judges the category, B2B and environment design.

07.10.06
Sandstorm Design Featured in the Chicago Tribune
Minding Your Business: Vacation Policies gaining Flexibility. Companies respond to worker's demands for more time off.

06.12.06
Sandstorm Design Wins First Place in the Illinois Press Woman's Association Annual Report Awards for the Second Year in a Row
Sandstorm Design wins first place for their work on the 2004 Annual Report for Cathedral Shelter of Chicago, "Celebrating 90 Years".

12.19.05
Sandstorm Design Featured in the Crain's Chicago Business
Holiday Package Tale: Mailroom Tolerance, Revenge

06.06.05
Sandstorm Design Wins First Place in the Illinois Press Woman's Association Annual Report Awards
Sandstorm Design wins first place for their work on the 2003 Annual Report for Cathedral Shelter of Chicago, "Heroes".

11.01.04
Sandstorm Design is a Proud Sponsor of the Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications at Northwestern University
Sandstorm Design is one of 4 gold sponsors for Northwestern University's industry leading journal for the Department of Integrated Marketing Communications.

10.20.04
Sandstorm Design Selected to Judge Web Awards
Sandy Marsico, founder of Sandstorm Design, has been selected to judge the 2005 boats.com/National Marine Manufacturers Association North American Marine Industry Web Awards.

5.15.04
Sandstorm Design Interviewed by Big Idea Magazine for Industry Article on Copywriting
Sandy Marsico, founder of Sandstorm Design, interviewed for news article, Righting the Wrongs of Interactive Writing.

WBE CERTIFICATION AWARDED TO SANDSTORM DESIGN Sandstorm Design achieves WBE status from the Women's Business Enterprise National Council.