2020 Azbee Awards of Excellence

Category

Design > Opening Page/Spread-Photo > Less Than $3 Million Revenue > Heartland

Awarded to

Allison Washko, Graphic Designer

Entry details

Cyber Attacks Threaten Smart Inverters, But Scientists Have Solutions

Issue or publication date: May 2019
Publication name: Solar Power World
Publishing company: WTWH Media, LLC.
Website home page: solarpowerworldonline.com

Please describe the publication's mission and readership:

Solar Power World is the leading online and print resource for news and information regarding solar installation, development and technology. Since 2011, Solar Power World has helped U.S. solar contractors—including installers, developers and EPCs in all markets—grow their businesses and do their jobs better.

Solar Power World produces daily online news content, weekly e-newsletters, bimonthly print issues, regular webinars, podcasts, videos and social media. We have the largest engaged online audience of any solar industry magazine. Solar Power World publishes the annual Top Solar Contractors list, the most recognized listing of solar companies in the United States.

Solar Power World‘s mission is to help U.S. solar PV contractors, installers, EPCs and developers grow their businesses and do their jobs better, starting today.

Please describe the enterprising work that went into this entry and its significance or impact on readers:

This particular article speaks about cyber attacks, so our editors reached out to me with the idea of creating an opening spread that conveyed the eeriness of a cyber attack. Since these attacks are usually done behind a screen, it can sometimes be impossible to know who exactly is doing the attack, and having been given an image of a hand, I had the idea to portray this hand creeping up from the corner. I combined three photos provided by Adobe Stock and/or iStock (the hand photo with a photo of a keyboard and an abstract photo of dots) to create a spooky, eery “feeling” photo with the hand creeping up from the shadows, blending in with the keyboard to portray a “cyber” attack from an unknown source. I used dark colors and a lot of blending to mesh the three photos together to give it that spooky, elusive feel.

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