Press Club Award for Cover Design

Among the honors bestowed by the Alaska Press Club at its annual conference last weekend, Alaska Business Magazine was recognized for its graphic design. At the ceremony April 12 for work done in 2024, Alaska Business earned top marks for two of its covers and two of its feature articles.

Underwater Caves and Winter Trails

The July issue, celebrating the winners of the Best of Alaska Business reader survey, featured an underwater scene by artist Emily Longbrake. The piece was inspired by archaeological research in the littoral caves of Southeast, where Ice Age people may have lived. Mixing science with whimsy, Longbrake patterned her design after illustrator Ed Emberley’s Caldecott Medal-winning works and the Where’s Waldo series by Martin Hanford. The detailed images dare viewers to scrutinize every square inch, so Longbrake populated a private fantasy world, or “paracosm” as she calls it, with puckish, offbeat examples of the Best of Alaska Business at work.