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Contact: Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
cgonzal@unm.edu

March 19, 2008

UNM Press Designer Wins Award

Kathleen Sparkes, senior designer for the University of New Mexico Press has won Bookbuilder's West best book design in the reference and scholarly book category for her design of New Perspectives on Pottery Mound Pueblo, edited by Polly Schaafsma.

Sparkes has been a designer for the University of New Mexico Press for five years and has freelanced in commercial marketing and publication design.

Winners of the design awards were recently announced at the 37th Annual Bookbuilders West Book Show in Oakland, Calif.

Bookbuilders West is a nonprofit organization founded in San Francisco in 1969 to promote and support book publishing in 13 western states.

For more information, contact Amanda Sutton, UNM Press, 272-7190 or asutton@unm.edu.

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