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ADDY Award Winners

The American Advertising Awards, also known as the ADDYs, is the advertising industry's largest and most representative competition, attracting over 40,000 professional and student entries every year in local AAF Club competitions. The mission of the American Advertising Awards competition is to recognize and reward the creative spirit of excellence in the art of advertising. Conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation (AAF), the local Ad Club phase is the first of a three-tier, national competition. Winners advance at each level. ADDY winners at the local level can go on to compete at the District level, and District winners can advance to the National competition.

Students can be awarded Gold or Silver for their work. A Gold ADDY is recognition of the highest level of creative excellence and is judged to be superior, and the Silver ADDY is awarded to entries that are considered outstanding and worthy of recognition. Unlike other competitions where there may be one silver, and one gold handed out, the ADDY judges determine how many entries will receive each honor. Often multiple golds, but no silvers are awarded, and vice versa.

The Nashville student ADDY competition is one of the most competitive in the nation, with hundreds of entries from colleges and universities in Middle Tennessee. Nashville State students have competed with students from Watkins College of Art & Design, The Art Institute of Tennessee, Austin Peay, MTSU, Nossi College of Art, TSU and O'More College of Design.

Special thanks to the NSCC Foundation for supporting our student entries through a generous grant.

2023

In 2023, nine NSCC students were awarded twelve ADDY awards in eight different categories. Our winning entries are shown below.

Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Book Jacket Design
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Book Jacket Design
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Echo Guild Campaign: brochure
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Echo Guild Campaign: Social Media Strategy
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Echo Guild Campaign: Mobile Landing Page
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) silver for Echo Guild Campaign: Print Ad
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Gold for Museum brochure
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Museum brochure layout detail
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '23) Museum brochure layout detail
Natalie Hickman (AAS Graphic Design '25) Gold for Holiday Hangover Tea
Poppy Simmons (AAS Graphic Design '22) Gold for Mateando subscription box
Rebekah Gizaw (AAS Graphic Design '24) Silver for New Wave Album Design
Brittany Hooper (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Saul Bass poster
Brittany Hooper (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Saul Bass brochure
Brittany Hooper (AAS Graphic Design '23) Silver for Saul Bass brochure
Christina Rush (AAS Photography '23) Silver for A Story Bigger Than Me
Eric Dawson (AAS Photography '23) Silver for Night Skies
Eric Dawson (AAS Photography '23) Silver for Night Skies detail
Eric Dawson (AAS Photography '23), Silver for In His Study
Isaac Marquez (AAS Photography '23), Silver for Sophia
Jeff Pead (AAS Photography '23), Gold for Malik

2022

In 2022, five NSCC students were awarded six ADDY awards in five different categories. Our winning entries are shown below.

Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '22): Gold in Product Promotion for Matches
Pearl Lomax (AAS Graphic Design '22): Silver in Collateral Material, Stationary Package for Pearl Lomax Identity
Chelsea Griffith (AAS Graphic Design '22): Silver in Collateral Material, Printed Annual Report or Brochure for Outline
Mari Davis (AAS Graphic Design '22): Silver in Product Promotion for Cha Cha Cha
Poppy Simmons (AAS Graphic Design '22): Judge's Choice for Love Happens Pet Brochure
Tasha Powers (AAS Photography '22): Gold in Color Photography Campaign for Flowers

2021

In 2021, four NSCC students were awarded seven ADDY awards in four different categories. Our winning entries are shown below.

Landon Edwards (AAS Graphic Design '20): Silver in Book Cover Design for The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Christy Link (Graphic Design): Gold in Book Cover Design for Emma by Jane Austen
Erica Avi Hart (AAS Photography): Silver in Color Photography for Nikki
Brandon Hopkins (AAS Photography '20): Gold in Black & White Photography for Black Revolutionary
Brandon Hopkins (AAS Photography '20): Judges Choice Award and Gold in Black & White Photography Campaign for Black Revolutionary—Black Panther

Brandon Hopkins also won the Mosaic Student ADDY award for his campaign Black Revolutionary—Black Panther. The Mosaic Award is is voted on by all 4 judges and is awarded to the entry that exemplifies a spirit of diversity and inclusion and demonstrates understanding and sensitivity of targeted multicultural audiences.

2020

In 2020, three NSCC students were awarded seven ADDYs in five different categories. Our winning entries are shown below. In addition, Brandi Cameron's design (which was selected to be the face of the 2019 ADDYs) was used again for the awards presentation and on the cover of the winners book which was distributed to all guests at the awards show.

Landon Edwards (AAS Graphic Design): Silver in Black & White Photography for When You're Lonely
Erica Avi Hart (AAS Photography): Silver in Color Photography for Silas
Erica Avi Hart (AAS Photography): Silver in Color Photography for Kaitlynn
Anna Conoley (AAS Graphic Design & Photography): Silver in Color Photography for Lone Tomato
Landon Edwards (AAS Graphic Design): Gold in Logo Design for Landon Edwards logo
Landon Edwards (AAS Graphic Design): Gold in Stationery Package

Landon Edwards also won a Gold in Book Design for Goldenlands (not pictured)

2019

In 2019, NSCC brought home a total of four ADDYs in three of the 31 categories. Our winning entries are shown below. In addition, Brandi Cameron's design was selected to be the face of the ADDYs and was used for the poster, awards book cover and social media creative content for this year’s show. Her design was selected by a team of professionals in November, and she worked with the AAF to produce the materials used to promote the competition.

Brandi Cameron's (AAS Multimedia) design for all 2019 ADDY creative content and promotion
Anna Conoley (AAS Graphic Design & Photography): Gold in Publication Design category for the Great Gatsby book cover
Caleb Brown (AAS Photography): Gold in Color Photography category for Coke Bottle
Sydney Amos (AAS Photography): Silver in Photography/Campaign category for Monster Ad
Tyre Grannemann (AAS Photography): Silver in Photography/Digitally Enhanced category for St. Louis Arch

2018

In 2018, NSCC students won a total of 10 ADDYs in four of the 31 categories. Our winning entries are shown below.

Abbie Adkerson: silver ADDY for Single Illustration, ABC Poster
Abbie Adkerson: Gold ADDY for Single Illustration, Calendar
Cory Guinn: Silver ADDY for Single Color Photograph, Stardust (left) and Silver ADDY for Single Color Photograph, Moondust (right). In addition, Cory won a Silver ADDY for these 2 photographs together in the Color Photograph Campaign category.
Jen Vogus: Silver ADDY for Single Black & White Photograph, Morning of the Women's March, 2017
Nathaniel Huber: Silver ADDY for Single Black & White Photograph, Richard
Nathaniel Huber: Silver ADDY for Single Black & White Photograph, Shockley
Nathaniel Huber: Silver ADDY for Single Black & White Photograph, Todd
Matt Booker: Silver ADDY for Single Black & White Photograph, Jacquelyn
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