Boots & Spurs: Magazine Cover of the Decade

Matt (middle) receives awards from host Nina Conti

The Winter issue of Boots & Spurs has been voted the best Scottish magazine cover of the decade at the tenth anniversary of the 2012 Scottish Magazine Awards

It won a one-off category prize following a public vote, after judges had drawn up a shortlist of 12 covers from 262 entries. Other entries included Holyrood magazine, The Big Issue and People's Friend.

PPA Scotland business manager, Kathy Crawford Hay said: “The fantastic response we received to the Scottish Magazine Cover of the Decade category and the wonderful support shown by publishers in Scotland is truly overwhelming, and continues to show just how strong the magazine publishing sector is in Scotland."

Other magazines I'm involved with also did well. The Times Educational Supplement Scotland (TESS) was named magazine of the year as well as winning the business and professional magazine of the year. I redesigned TESS in 2011.

The Biologist, published by Think won business & professional magazine design, I designed the pitch that helped win the contract for Think.

The Customer Magazine of the year was awarded to Escape, the First Great Western passenger magazine. I design Escape on behalf of Think publishing.

The cover of Boots & Spurs was illustrated by Garry Marshall and we are both absolutely thrilled to win. We'd like to thank everyone who voted, the response was overwhelming.