The Akron Chapter of the American Advertising Foundation (AAF) named Ignite magazine’s Fall 2021 cover as a silver Addy award winner at its annual American Advertising Awards celebration, a hybrid event held Friday, Feb. 18, at the Akron (Ohio) Civic Theatre.

The Fall 2021 Ignite cover won a silver ADDY for Publication Design Cover in the Collateral Material Category for professional agencies, organizations and individuals. The cover, which depicts the ongoing (sometimes seemingly Sisyphean) challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, was commissioned from Dave Szalay. An illustrator and frequent Ignite contributor who has won many awards for his Ignite covers and illustrations, Szalay is a professor at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron – a NEOMED partner school.

Professionals and students from the Greater Akron, Canton, Kent, Massillon and Youngstown advertising communities participated in the 2022 contest. Judges from the event were from Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania..

Ignite is a human-interest magazine published twice a year by NEOMED. Its editor, Elaine Guregian, and its publication designer, Scott J. Rutan, are members of NEOMED’s Marketing and Communications team, led by Roderick L. Ingram Sr., vice president for communications and chief marketing officer. Ignite has won more than 50 national and regional awards in the last five years.

View the Fall 2021 issue of Ignite.