Down The Shore Publishing has won double national acclaim for the design of its Long Beach Island pictorial history book Local Color: Long Beach Island’s Photographic History Reimagined.

Published last summer, the book won top awards in two categories – gold in Cover Design-Nonfiction, and silver in Interior Design – in the 34th annual Benjamin Franklin Book Awards held this spring in Orlando, Fla.

The unique concept and objective for the pictorial book, according to publisher Ray Fisk, were “to breathe new life…