2020

NYX Awards - 2020 Silver Winner Winner: Ronit Plank/And Then Everything Changed podcast

Hollywood Park featuring Author/Singer Mikel Jollett

Entrant Company

Ronit Plank/And Then Everything Changed podcast

Category

Audio & Podcasts / Audio & Podcasts / Other

Client's Name

Self

Country / Region

United States

Experience Level

Lecturer

Mikel Jollett, frontman of the indie band The Airborne Toxic Event and author of the new memoir, Hollywood Park, spent his early years with his brother in an orphanage at the Synanon cult not knowing he had a mother and father of his own.
Then, one day his birth mother returned to take them away from Synanon and give them a home. Unfortunately, this new arrangement created a further level of harm for the brothers and they suffered emotional abuse and deprivation at her hands. Over the next few years they would endure poverty, isolation, and constant uncertainty about their future and safety. The only bright spot was their father, a recovering heroin addict who became part of their life when he got out of prison and whose new wife Bonnie became the mother they had always needed.
In this episode, Mikel joins Ronit to talk about early trauma and it’s lasting legacy, the search for family, and who we invent to survive; how for years though he tried to undo the abuse and absence of his childhood he wasn’t able to make lasting changes until he faced his fears head-on. Hollywood Park is his memoir and also The Airborne Toxic Event’s new album, the story of how Mikel not only survived but became the person he was meant to be.

Credits

Mikel Jollett
2020
Design & Print
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Entrant Company

Oliver Gantner Creative

Category

Design & Print / Other Design & Marketing

Country / Region

United States

2020
Advertising
NYX Awards 2020 Winner - Rising Brand - Crispy Green, Crispy Green
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winner
Crispy Green, Inc.

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Crispy Green

Category

Advertising / Business / Trade Publication

Country / Region

United States

2020
Publications
NYX Awards 2020 Winner - REACH Magazine, Tarrant County College
silver
winner
Tarrant County College

Entrant Company

Tarrant County College

Category

Publications / Magazine

Country / Region

United States

2020
Design & Print
NYX Awards 2020 Winner - 4PerSCENT: The Self-Care Candle Experiment - Package Design, Joshua Lipka Design
silver
winner

Entrant Company

Joshua Lipka Design

Category

Design & Print / Packaging

Country / Region

United States