Book cover of “Plastered in Pretty” by N.C. Marks, winner of the American Graphic Design Award 2018.
PHILIPSBURG--House of Nehesi Publisher (HNP) has won the American Graphic Design Award for Plastered in Pretty by N.C. Marks, Graphic Design USA (GDUSA) editor and publisher Gordon Kaye announced.
Carole Maugé-Lewis designed the winning book cover for the new dystopian novel by Marks, an author from St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
New York City-based GDUSA presented its award to Maugé-Lewis for HNP, said HNP president Jacqueline Sample.
From across the USA, “Roughly 10,000 entries were submitted” to the annual design competition and “a highly selective 10 per cent are recognised today – that includes you,” as a GDUSA Award winner 2018, wrote Awards Director Rachel Goldberg in a letter to Maugé-Lewis and HNP.
GDUSA has been spotlighting “excellence and opportunity for creative professionals” in the USA for the last 55 years, said Goldberg. GDUSA’s American Graphic Design Award has also been “honouring outstanding work of all kinds and across all media,” said Goldberg.
Plastered in Pretty was published here in November 2018. Maugé-Lewis integrated bold colours and the dominant digital art portrait “Dark girl” by Vietnamese illustrator Nguyen Thanh Nhàn to design the cover, said Sample.
Maugé-Lewis is a professor and coordinator of graphic-communication internships at Kennesaw State University, Georgia, USA.
Other clients whose designers or agencies were honoured in the 2018 competition include the American Bar Association, Mattel Inc., Bank of America, Enterprise Creative Solutions, BET Networks, Boston University, PepsiCo Design and Innovation, Dell, Experience Design Group and Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Many thanks to Professor Maugé-Lewis for her stunning design. Thanks to GDUSA for selecting an HNP book among its 2018 awardees and congratulations to N.C. Marks. I’m happy that she chose to publish Plastered in Pretty with HNP,” said Sample.
The HNP title Language, Culture, and Identity in St. Martin by Rhoda Arrindell is a previous GDUSA Award winner, said Sample.
