Students from three University of Hawaiʻi campuses took top honors in the college category of the 2021 Pele Awards. Kapiʻolani Community College’s students had a stellar showing, winning 21 awards, including Best of Show, with four students also receiving Judge’s Recognition Awards. Two students at UH West Oʻahu won awards and a student from UH Maui College won two awards.
This year, the annual Pele Awards were presented live during a virtual awards show on June 5. The prestigious Best of Show award went to Kapiʻolani CC student Dave Maluyo for “Book Cover Design – Criminal.” Maluyo’s work also won Pele Gold in the Publication Design – Cover category. A video about his design process for turning a podcast into a book cover can be viewed on the Pele Awards website.
“Good ideas are started from sketching,” Maluyo said in the video. “The sketchpad is a home for possibilities.”
Another Gold and Judge’s Recognition Award winner, Dominic Nobriga, also demonstrated his design process on the Pele Awards website.
UH winners included:
Gold
- Anthony Diep, Kapiʻolani CC, “Case Study House Postage Design” Category: Stationery Package (Judge’s Recognition Award)
- Dave Maluyo, Kapiʻolani CC, “Book Cover Design-Criminal” Category: Publication Design – Cover (Best of Show – College)
- Dominic Nobriga, Kapiʻolani CC, “Podcast to Book Cover” Category: Publication Design – Cover (Judge’s Recognition Award)
- Liana Michelle Young, Kapiʻolani CC, “Kalihi Pet Center Website Redesign” Category: Website (Judge’s Recognition Award)
- Anthony Diep, Kapiʻolani CC, “Logo for The City of Kuala Lumpur” Category: Logo Design (Judge’s Recognition Award)
- Tomy Takemura, Kapiʻolani CC, “Okinawa Postcards” Category: Illustration – Campaign
- Dave Maluyo, Kapiʻolani CC, “Book Cover Design-Criminal” Category: Cinematography
- Dominic Nobriga, Kapiʻolani CC, “Podcast to Book Cover” Category: Cinematography
Silver
- Michael Harrell, Kapiʻolani CC, “Michael Designs Some Book Covers” Category: Publication Design – Cover
- Liana Michelle Young, Kapiʻolani CC, “Prime Mobile App” Category: App
- Evan Costa, Kapiʻolani CC, “Pace’s Adventure” Category: App
- Sanako Saito, UH West Oʻahu, “Opaque” Category: Integrated Brand Identity Campaign
- Dominic Nobriga, Kapiʻolani CC, “Rhymes Ain’t Gonna Write Themselves” Category: Black & White Photography
- Josiah Castillo, UH Maui College, “EVE” Category: Cinematography
- Michael Harrell, Kapiʻolani CC, “Michael Designs Some Book Covers” Category: Cinematography
- DyLin Khoe, Kapiʻolani CC, “The Sword 2” Category: Animation or Special Effects
- Erica Faith Lactaoen, Academy for Creative Media UH West O’ahu Early College/Waipahu High School, “You & Me” Category: Music & Sound Design
- Evan Costa, Kapiʻolani CC, “Pace’s Adventure” Category: Digital Creative Technology
Bronze
- Tomy Takemura, Kapiʻolani CC, “Conquest Packaging” Category: Packaging
- Lily Lam, Kapiʻolani CC, “This Is Love Trilogy Book Covers” Category: Cover/Editorial Spread or Feature – Series
- Lily Lam, Kapiʻolani CC, “The Art of Typography” Category: Entire Book Design
- Ariana Taylor Enomoto, Kapiʻolani CC, “Go Bananas” Category: Logo Design
- Josiah Castillo, UH Maui College, “Where Home is Everything” Category: Animation or Special Effects
For the past 40 years, the Pele Awards have recognized excellence in advertising and design in Hawaiʻi. The Pele Awards is one of 15 elite regional competitions for the American Advertising Awards (also known as ADDYs). Pele Gold winners in all national categories are sent to the national finals of the ADDYs Competition to represent Hawaiʻi’s District 13 for their creative design work. Since the Pele Awards are held before the ADDYs, ADDY winners are announced at the Pele Awards for the following calendar year.
There were two 2020 ADDY national winners from Kapiʻolani CC. Raleigh Harris won a National Silver Recognition in the College Division for his short animation, “Up in Smoke.” Liana Michelle Young also won a National Silver Recognition in the College Division for her “This is Love Trilogy Book Cover.”
