CAHSS Faculty Creates Winning Cover Design for Uppercase magazine
Tennille Shuster, M.F.A., faculty in the Department of Performing and Visual Arts in NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) created the winning cover design in the design/illustration competition held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Uppercase magazine, “a quarterly print magazine for the creative and curious: publications that spark the imagination and inspire creativity.” Her design appeared as the cover of the 10th anniversary supplement published in December 2018. As part of the award package, Shuster received an honorarium and complimentary subscription.
Her approach to the cover design uses abstracted tree rings to communicate the concept of longevity, and to symbolize the annual growth of the magazine. She included a variety of artistic mediums and materials, representing the varied topics covered within the publication over the past decade.
Shuster has received other honors including the Florida Artists’ Book Prize and top prize in the AIGA Miami PosterFest Design for Good Competition. Her work has been published in numerous publications including American Craft and American Libraries magazines and For the Love of Letterpress (A&C Black Publishing). Shuster’s book art is internationally exhibited and resides in public and private collections including the Iraq National Library, Duke University’s Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library, the Jaffe Center for Book Arts, and the Bienes Museum of the Modern Book, among others.
