{"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 CC<\/abbr> students win national advertising awards"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Alex Kawamoto and Linda Inamasu at the American Advertising Awards<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Honolulu Community College communication arts<\/a> students Linda Inamasu and Alex Kawamoto<\/strong> were honored at the American Advertising Federation’s<\/a> 2014 National American Advertising Awards<\/a> held in Boca Raton, Florida on May 31. The only students from Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>, Kawamoto won ADDY gold for his design brochure for a children’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

The American Advertising Awards, formerly the ADDYs, is the advertising industry’s largest and most representative competition, attracting more than 40,000 entries every year in local competitions.<\/p>\n

Inamasu won gold and Kawamoto received silver in the student category at the Pele Awards, the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> district competition. Their entries were then entered into the national student category of the American Advertising Awards.<\/p>\n