Students in Ozarks Technical Community College’s Graphic Design Technology Program earned 25 medals at the 2023 Addy Awards. The event recognized the top advertising of 2022 for the Heartland Chapter of the American Advertising Federation. The 2023 Addy Awards were held on Saturday, Feb. 25, at Downstream Casino near Joplin, Mo.
Overall, OTC students brought home six gold awards and 19 silver awards.
“We could not be prouder of our students,” said Hope Brooks-Lovan, OTC graphic design instructor. “After the event, our students were swamped by professionals asking about their plans after graduation.”
OTC students won awards in a wide variety of categories, including:
Packaging:
- Gold: Isaiah Leak, Flower Mouth Honey Package Design
- Silver: Isaiah Leak, Good Acre Cereal Box
Special Event Materials:
- Silver: Isaiah Leak, Chicken Pickin’ Event Guide
Book Design:
- Gold: Aaron Caley, GDT Program Book
- Gold: Svetlana Rupert, Ozone Brand Style Guide
- Gold: Isaiah Leak, Mountainhead Style Guide
- Silver: Anna Coursey, DeftPeak Brand Style Guide
Direct Mail Marketing:
- Silver: Anna Coursey, Chicken Pickin Mailer
Magazine Single:
- Silver: Isaiah Leak, Toothpaste
Poster:
- Silver: Isaiah Leak, Movie Poster
- Silver: Cecily Wright, Movie Poster
Outdoor Billboard:
- Gold: Amber Bucy, Terrawanda
- Silver: Isaiah Leak, Dive In
Site:
- Silver: Emily Welch, Khara Avery, Aspasia Lin, Coleman Baker, Ideas Door Graphic
Campaign:
- Silver: Isaiah Leak, Mountainhead
Integrated Brand Identity Campaign
- Silver: Lacey Fernandez, Fade
Logo Design:
- Silver: Lacey Fernandez, Fade
- Silver: Isaiah Leak, Mountainhead
Illustration:
- Silver: Aspasia Lin, Rainbow Gala event flyer
- Silver: Jasmine Lejeune, Comic Con event flyer
Color photo:
- Silver: Lofton Atchley, You’ve Got Mail
- Silver: Jonathon Ziegler, Fall Upon Us
Animation or special effects:
- Gold: Amber Bucy, Elvis movie sequence
- Silver: Isaiah leak, Top Gun movie sequence
- Silver: Aspasia Lin, Glass Onion movie sequence