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Caruso, Bender Win Gold Medal for Angeleños Cover
Marquez Press is proud to announce that Nick Caruso and Mark Bender have won an Independent Publishers Gold Medal for their work on the cover for Ron Schuler's novel Angeleños: L.A.'s Golden Age.
Winning in the category of "Fiction - Cover Design," Caruso's audacious front cover design features sunset-infused, vertically stacked text, layered into an Art-Deco-inspired scene illustrated by Bender—a visual allusion to one of the novel's main characters, a 1930's era L.A. private club bartender, shaking a cocktail in the background as the hands of privileged club guests linger over a blood-red Manhattan in the foreground. The back cover, also featuring artwork by Bender, shows two iconic speeding vehicles from 1940s Los Angeles that figure prominently in the novel—a Cadillac coupe and a Pacific Electric streetcar.
Nick Caruso is an award-winning designer across multiple platforms, including fiction and non-fiction books, branding, exhibition design, posters and apparel. Before launching his own studio in Pittsburgh, Nick worked as a designer for studios and publishers in New York City, and created the covers for New York Times bestselling books. He has served as an adjunct design professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His clients include Grand Central/Jimmy Fallon, SPIN Magazine, Johns Hopkins University, The Warhol Museum, Artisan Books, Henry Holt & Company, Wiley, WW Norton/Countryman Press, Metropolis Magazine, WR Case & Sons, Potter Style/Random House, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster.
Mark Bender has been recognized by Communication Arts Magazine, 3X3 Magazine, Creative Quarterly, Archive 200 Best Illustrators and the New York Society of Illustrators. He has been included in the society’s annual exhibitions and in Original Art, the best in children’s book illustration. A member of both the NY Society of Illustrators and the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, he has also been awarded both gold and silver Addys and a prestigious silver medal from the New York Society of Illustrators.
The Independent Publishers silver and bronze medal-winners for "Fiction - Cover Design" were Hugh D’Andrade's design for Across the Deep by Lisa McGuinness (Bonhomie Press) and Naia Poyer's design for an anthology edited by Lenore Hart, The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires (Northampton House Press).
Angeleños: L.A.'s Golden Age, Ron Schuler's first novel, focuses on the interconnected tales of a Mexican American immigrant family and a Midwestern Anglo migrant family in Los Angeles during the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
Winning in the category of "Fiction - Cover Design," Caruso's audacious front cover design features sunset-infused, vertically stacked text, layered into an Art-Deco-inspired scene illustrated by Bender—a visual allusion to one of the novel's main characters, a 1930's era L.A. private club bartender, shaking a cocktail in the background as the hands of privileged club guests linger over a blood-red Manhattan in the foreground. The back cover, also featuring artwork by Bender, shows two iconic speeding vehicles from 1940s Los Angeles that figure prominently in the novel—a Cadillac coupe and a Pacific Electric streetcar.
Nick Caruso is an award-winning designer across multiple platforms, including fiction and non-fiction books, branding, exhibition design, posters and apparel. Before launching his own studio in Pittsburgh, Nick worked as a designer for studios and publishers in New York City, and created the covers for New York Times bestselling books. He has served as an adjunct design professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His clients include Grand Central/Jimmy Fallon, SPIN Magazine, Johns Hopkins University, The Warhol Museum, Artisan Books, Henry Holt & Company, Wiley, WW Norton/Countryman Press, Metropolis Magazine, WR Case & Sons, Potter Style/Random House, Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster.
Mark Bender has been recognized by Communication Arts Magazine, 3X3 Magazine, Creative Quarterly, Archive 200 Best Illustrators and the New York Society of Illustrators. He has been included in the society’s annual exhibitions and in Original Art, the best in children’s book illustration. A member of both the NY Society of Illustrators and the Pittsburgh Society of Illustrators, he has also been awarded both gold and silver Addys and a prestigious silver medal from the New York Society of Illustrators.
The Independent Publishers silver and bronze medal-winners for "Fiction - Cover Design" were Hugh D’Andrade's design for Across the Deep by Lisa McGuinness (Bonhomie Press) and Naia Poyer's design for an anthology edited by Lenore Hart, The Night Bazaar Venice: Thirteen Tales of Forbidden Wishes and Dangerous Desires (Northampton House Press).
Angeleños: L.A.'s Golden Age, Ron Schuler's first novel, focuses on the interconnected tales of a Mexican American immigrant family and a Midwestern Anglo migrant family in Los Angeles during the 1920s, 30s and 40s.
