July 3: Thompson Nepal has been won the Best Cover Design Award in thE New Business Age Cover Design Award 2016. The second edition of the award ceremony was organized amid a grand program held at Shangrila Hotel on July 1. The winners were selected from the cover designs of last 15 issues of New Business Age magazine dating from April 2015 to June 2016.

Similarly, AD Factor and Project A Studios were awarded with the second and third best awards respectively.  Prizes and certificate of appreciation were handed over to the winners. The judging panel under the chairmanship of Dr Bhoj Raj Aryal including Avaya Pandey and Manoj Raut as members selected the best cover designs of the magazine.  

The program was started with the welcome speech of Madan Lamsal, Chairman of New Business Age.  Welcoming the participants and guests, Lamsal said that the event was organized to encourage the creativity in Nepali advertisements. “The joint effort of entrepreneurs, advertisement agencies and media can increase the creativity in this sector and make the advertisements effective,” he mentioned.

The event was comprised of a discussion on ‘Creativity in Nepali Advertisement’ hosted by NBA Chairman Lamsal which was followed by the award ceremony. The discussion also included a Q&A session where guests answered the queries of the audience regarding the ways of increasing the level of creativity in advertisements and various issues faced by the Nepali advertisement industry.