Honors and Awards:

  • First place: New York Book Show 2018, Hardcover Non-fiction Covers/Jackets, “Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone”

  • Association of American University Presses 2017 Book, Jacket, and Journal Show Selected Entries for "Clearing the Air" and "New York Exposed"

  • First Place, Washington Book Publishers' 2016 Design Awards for "The Consequences of Chaos: Syria's Humanitarian Crisis and the Failure to Protect"

  • Best Cover Design 2016, The Bookish Oscars for "Furiously Happy"

  • Association of American University Presses design contest, 2015 book cover design for “A Coney Island Reader”

  • Association of American University Presses design contest, 2014 book cover design for “Abominable Science”

  • Artwork selected for Print magazine 2013 Regional design annual

  • Association of American University Presses design contest, 2013

  • The College of Saint Rose, Prominent Alumni

  • Merit award: New York Book Show design contest, 2012

  • Second Place: New York Book Show design contest, 2010

  • Work featured in an American Photo article, March 2010

  • Association of American University Presses design contest, 2010

  • Featured in an article on Design Related, 2009

  • Featured in an article on Faceoutbooks, 2009

  • Artwork selected for Graphis design annual 2005

  • Third place: New York Book Show design contest, Spring 2003

  • Artwork selected for Print magazine 2003 Regional design annual

  • First place: New York Book Show design contest, Spring 2002

  • Artwork selected for CMYK magazine Spring 2001

  • Artwork selected for CMYK magazine Spring 2000

  • Finalist RSVP: The Directory of Illustration and Design “View from the Edge” illustration contest, New York, NY, 1999

  • Scholarship Nori Public Communications , The Ad Club, Albany NY, 1999

  • Art Scholarship, The College of Saint Rose, 1996––2000

  • Art Talent Award, The College of Saint Rose, 1996––2000

  • Academic Scholarship, The College of Saint Rose, 1996––2000

Pepco Studio is the award-winning design and illustration of Philip Pascuzzo. Accolades have been received from Graphis, Print, CMYK magazine, the New York Society of Illustrators, The New York Book Show, Readerville, American Photo, Association of American University Presses, and Faceoutbooks.