Fabi Preslar, founder and president of SPARK Publications, was inducted into the North Carolina Women Business Owners Hall of Fame Class of 2019 at a gala on May 7, 2019. Founded in 2018, the Hall of Fame honors North Carolina’s most successful female entrepreneurs and advocates who have made significant …
2019 Communicator Awards Honors the Best in Print Media
Three SPARK Publications client projects were recognized in the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) 2019 Communicator Awards. The Giving Book won a Gold Award of Excellence in the magazine special edition category. This annual publication by The Society Guide highlights Charlotte-area nonprofits for philanthropists to consider. Ballantyne Magazine …
Reality of Your Greatness Wins Gold eLit Award
The Reality of Your Greatness: A Personal Journey through the Twelve Rays by Michael G. Love won a 2019 Gold eLit Award in recognition of outstanding digital publishing in the New Age / Mind-Body-Spirit category. Though the awards program is now in its tenth year, this year is the first …
2018 MarCom Awards for Creative Excellence
Each year thousands of corporate marketing and communications departments, advertising agencies, PR firms, design shops, production companies, and freelancers from the U.S., Canada and 17 other countries submit thousands of entries to the MarCom Awards competition. This year, SPARK Publications and its clients made an excellent showing with two platinum …
Big Win at the 2018 FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards
On the evening of October 10, 2018, more than 350 magazine media professionals gathered in New York City at the FOLIO: Eddie & Ozzie Awards to recognize excellence in magazine editorial and design across all sectors of the industry. PPB magazine, designed by SPARK Publications, won the association/nonprofit data visualization …
Friou and Solomon Honored with 2018 Living Now Book Awards
Two SPARK Publications clients were honored with bronze medals in the 2018 Living Now Book Awards—Cathia Friou for Rock Paper Scissors: Scenes from a Charmed Divorce and Lou Solomon for Freeing Your Radical Hero: Fighting the Impostor Mindset. The Living Now Book Awards celebrate the innovation and creativity of newly published …
SPARK Publications Wins Four Communicator Awards
Four SPARK Publications client projects were recognized in the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) 2018 Communicator Awards. Ballantyne Magazine won an Award of Excellence in the consumer magazine category. And PPB magazine, The O Report and Freeing Your Radical Hero: Fighting the Impostor Mindset won Awards of Distinction …
Stellar Business Marketing
SPARK Publications won two Silver Awards at the 2018 Business Marketing Association (BMA) of the Carolinas ProAds Awards for stellar design. This annual competition celebrates the region’s best business-to-business marketing design and strategy with proven results. Space exploration influenced this year’s awards gala them—stellar B2B marketing with real-world results. Our …
SPARK Publications Recognized as First-Generation Family Business of the Year
SPARK Publications was named 2018 First-Generation Family Business of the Year at the Charlotte Business Journal’s Family Business Awards. A 20-year-old, custom-design firm, SPARK Publications specializes in magazines, catalogs and books in print, digital and interactive formats for national associations, trades and entrepreneurs. The award recognizes the firm’s overall excellence, …
SPARK Publications Honored as a 2018 Family Business Awards Finalist
SPARK Publications—our mother ship, our home away from home, our bastion of sparkly virtue—began as Fabi Preslar’s one-woman, home-based, lifestyle business twenty years ago, a degree of longevity less than 28 percent of small businesses achieve according to the US Census Bureau. Though it remains wholly woman-owned, it has grown …