International brand design agency, Design Bridge, has received the special Agency of the Year Pentaward, as well as picking up three Silver awards for its designs for Marqués de Riscal, Kapiti and Sominex, and a Bronze award for Vitalis. The Agency of the Year honour is awarded to Design Bridge for having won the largest number of Pentawards in three consecutive years, placing it well ahead of its competitors.

Graham Shearsby, Group Creative Director of Design Bridge received the awards during aceremony at the Belgo-EU Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010. He commented: “We have now been awarded for work designed by all our three studios for clients in countries as varied as New Zealand, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Spain and the UK since the launch of the Pentawards awards.”

Receiving the Agency of the Year Pentaward is a real testament to the commitment of our creative directors in our London, Amsterdam and Singapore studios. They continually push creative excellence and seek out those great ideas. I feel extremely proud,” he continues.

Design Bridge received Silver Pentawards for the creation of the Marqués de Riscal Finca identity, the category-leading redesigns of the Kapiti brand for Fonterra, one of the world’s largest dairy companies, and that of Sominex for leading pharmaceutical firm, Actavis. The agency received a Bronze Pentaward for the premium redesign of Vitalis part of the Unicer stable of brands.