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Second City Design Team Named Merit Winner in HOW International Design Awards

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The Course Catalog for The Second City Training Centers was chosen as a Merit winner out of 292 award-winning designs, from more than 1,000 entries total, in the most recent HOW International Design Awards. This prestigious competition sponsored by HOW Magazinerecognizes excellence on a global scale-and every year honors entries from all over the world.

HOW's editorial and design team-along with judges Sagi Haviv, Mona Patel and Magnus Berg-evaluated more than 1,000 entries and selected winning projects that will gain international exposure in the Spring 2017 issue of the award-winning HOW magazine and online at HOWDesign.com.

The creative team reposible for The Second City Training Center 2017 Course Catalog includes Bob Knuth, art director; Matt Roeder, Lead Designer/illustrator; Kirsten Miccoli, photographer; Dana Angelo, Sheena Laird, copywriter. The printer was Gemini Graphics. Additional design support provided by Sara Dennis, Wolf Stein and Allyson Wakeman.

"I am so proud of our design team. They continually to produce amazing work and this prestigious award recognizes their extraordinary talent." Andrew Alexander, CEO/Executive Producer of The Second City.

"Second City's internal design team has captured the whimsical, expressive, creative spirit that imbues all of what we do in our Training Center. It was a thrill to work with such talent on this project." Kerry Sheehan, President Second City Training Centers

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