{"id":25346,"date":"2014-06-17T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=25346"},"modified":"2021-10-29T13:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T23:43:30","slug":"honolulu-cc-students-win-national-advertising-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/06\/17\/honolulu-cc-students-win-national-advertising-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Honolulu <abbr title=\"Community College\">CC<\/abbr> students win national advertising awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_25351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25351\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/honcc-addy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"296\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/honcc-addy.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/honcc-addy-260x256.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Kawamoto and Linda Inamasu at the American Advertising Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Honolulu Community College <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/?q=node\/407\">communication arts<\/a> students <storng>Linda Inamasu and <strong>Alex Kawamoto<\/strong> were honored at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaf.org\">American Advertising Federation&#8217;s<\/a> 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/winners.americanadvertisingawards.com\/awards2014\/\">National American Advertising Awards<\/a> held in Boca Raton, Florida on May 31. The only students from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, Kawamoto won ADDY gold for his <a href=\"http:\/\/winners.americanadvertisingawards.com\/awards2014\/page73\/page85\/one.html\">design brochure for a children&#8217;s museum in Philadelphia called Please Touch<\/a> and Inamasu brought home the silver for her Design Museum Boston coffee table book.<\/storng><\/p>\n<p>The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDYs, is the advertising industry&#8217;s largest and most representative competition, attracting more than 40,000 entries every year in local competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Inamasu won gold and Kawamoto received silver in the student category at the Pele Awards, the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> district competition. Their entries were then entered into the national student category of the American Advertising Awards.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/07\/honolulu-cc-students-sweep-pele-awards\/\">Read about Inamasu and Kawamoto&#8217;s Pele awards win<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;In Florida we were told that only a handful of student entries ever make it to the national awards, and fewer professional firms from <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> ever receive national recognition. It was an extreme honor to represent <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>,&rdquo; says Inamasu.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I was in disbelief when they called my name. I kept waiting for them to announce Linda&#8217;s name,&rdquo; says Kawamoto. &ldquo;I never imagined that I would come home as a gold winner.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Inamasu and Kawamoto are currently interning at Core Group One, a local marketing strategy and creative firm. Kawamoto will continue his internship at Core Group One and Inamasu plans to graduate from the communication arts program in spring of 2015.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Billie Lueder<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr> communications arts students bring home gold and silver at the National ADDY Award for their outstanding designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[661,62],"class_list":["post-25346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-communications","tag-honolulu-community-college","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25346"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150889,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25346\/revisions\/150889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}