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 …
All Platinum for SPARK Publications in the 2017 MarCom Awards
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 won all platinum for creative excellence. The …
Healing Our ADHD Children Honored with Better Living Award
Linda Artis’s debut book, Healing Our ADHD Children, won the silver medal for health and wellness in the 2017 Living Now book awards. The competition honors recently published books that help readers improve their lives. Join us in congratulating Linda. You can find her online, on Facebook, or on LinkedIn.
SPARK Publications Named B2B Service Provider of the Year
For the third consecutive year, SPARK Publications was named Service Provider of the Year at the 2017 BMA Carolinas ProAd Awards. The firm also won Silver ProAd Awards for PPB magazine and b2bTRIBE magazine. Based in Charlotte, BMA Carolinas is the North Carolina and South Carolina chapter of the …
NAWBO Charlotte Honors Fabi Preslar as Woman Business Owner of the Year
At its 32nd Annual Women in Business Awards Gala on May 3, 2017, the National Association of Woman Business Owners – Charlotte Chapter (NAWBO Charlotte) named Fabi Preslar the Woman Business Owner of the Year and Carolina Aponte the Rising Star of the Year. The Woman Business Owner Award recognizes …
SPARK Publications Distinguished in 23rd Annual Communicator Awards
Ballantyne Magazine, PPB magazine and b2bTRIBE magazine won Awards of Distinction in the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts’ 23rd Annual Communicator Awards. With over 6,000 entries received from across the US and around the world, the Communicator Awards is the largest and most competitive awards program honoring creative excellence …
SPARK Publications Shines with Platinum and Gold MarCom Awards
SPARK Publications, a Charlotte-based graphic and digital design firm celebrating its 18th year in business, won four platinum and three gold 2016 MarCom Awards for its creative work for magazine and catalog design. The Platinum MarCom Award winners include: b2bTRIBE magazine for the “Overcoming Crisis: Picking Up the Pieces” …
SPARK Publications Honored with International Davey Award
The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts (AIVA) has honored SPARK Publications with a 2016 Silver Davey Award for print design creativity in the b2bTRIBE v5 magazine cover. The Davey Awards honors the finest creative work from the best small agencies, firms, and companies worldwide. AIVA is a membership organization …
SPARK Publications Wins Five 2016 Communicator Awards of Distinction
Graphic design and custom publishing firm SPARK Publications won five Awards of Distinction in the 22nd Annual Communicator Awards. The awards recognized the firm’s visual communication, creativity, and design skills on five client projects: Ballantyne Magazine for Bissell Media LLC, Carolina Culinarian for the North Carolina Chapter of the American …