For more than four decades, PRINT has led the conversation in design journalism and celebrated the industry and its practitioners. The PRINT Awards (global since 2020) annually recognize designers, agencies, in-house teams, and students who are elevating the profession and exploring creativity with new techniques and technologies, as well as respecting and incorporating traditional craft.
Inspired by a variety of work we’ve covered, including the PRINT Book Club with Roz Chast’s book, I Must Be Dreaming, and Paul Peart Smith’s graphic novel adaptation of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, we added Graphic Novels as a new category for 2025. And while Social Media and Content Design have always been part of our brand categories, we felt it was the right time to carve out a category for work in this space. We look forward to continued growth in these categories in the coming years.
This year, we were also excited to welcome our Presenting Sponsor, PepsiCo Design + Innovation, and partner, Clampitt Paper. Design leaders from PepsiCo, a long supporter of the creative community, joined our jury to consider entries in Brand Collaborations, In-House Design, Self-Promotions, and Packaging.
Tactility in a Digital World
Vintage design, craft, and elevated printing techniques had a strong presence in this year’s awards, reflecting a growing desire for authenticity, tactility, and nostalgia in a digital-first world.
Clockwise from upper right: Lasso Motel Campaign by Caliber Creative, Cicada: Dual Emergence Handlettering by Marguerite Dreyer, La Vie Bohème Invitation by Firebrick Design, Fall Gala – Feast for the Soul by Selman, Shadow Fleets by Owen Gildersleve.
Designers embraced retro aesthetics—such as hand-drawn typography, analog textures, mid-century color palettes, and classic printing techniques—to evoke emotional connections and timeless charm.
We hope you’re as excited as we are about the 2025 PRINT Awards winners! In addition to the entire list of winners below, learn more about the honorees in Professional Best of Show, Student Best of Show, Editors’ Choice, Agency of the Year, Citizen Design, the Clampitt Professional Selection and a special recognition for one of the leaders in our community who has led the call for social justice and design.
As we celebrate the PRINT Awards, we’ll share the winning projects in every category so you can enjoy the full range of creativity, innovation, and joy of this year’s awards.
Special Award For Social Justice Achievement
The Tolerance Project
Mirko Ilić – Mirko Ilić Corp.
USA
The Tolerance Project, which began in 2017, is a traveling poster exhibit, organized by Mirko Ilić, that celebrates and honors the starting point of all meaningful discourse: Tolerance. The Tolerance Project has brought a message of social acceptance to more than 500,000 people through 216 exhibitions in fifty countries worldwide. The posters appear in public spaces—in parks, on university campuses, even on buses—thus engaging with a wide cross-section of the population. Artists from every nation are asked only to illustrate the word “tolerance” in their native language.
In posters that are by turns playful and profound, surprising and original, The Tolerance Project utilizes the unique power of design to remind us what we all have in common — and what it takes to bridge the divides between us. The Tolerance Project starts a conversation about inclusion, which can only begin with a foundation of tolerance.
Mirko Ilić
Clampitt Paper Professional Selection
Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages Safety Comic Book
Katie Kitchens – *Trace Element
USA
Clampitt Paper, a family-owned and operated company started in 1941, is a valuable source for all things paper, from traditional paper to wide format media, printers & finishing equipment. In addition to sponsoring the PRINT Awards, Clampitt selected one entry that included printed materials from the following states: Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arkansas.
Coca-Cola Southwest Beverages is one of the largest bottlers of Coca-Cola in the world, employing thousands of workers across dozens of bottling facilities and warehouses in the Southwestern United States. As such, they take safety very seriously. CCSWB approached *Trace Element, wanting to communicate its 14 Life Saving Rules in a way that would be engaging and memorable to their employees. Last year, the team created 14 comic-book style posters to hang in the hallways, illuminating the rules. This year, they took their established rules and turned them on their head, creating a “nap-mare” storyline comic book that placed safety in peril at the clutches of zombie workers. The books were printed and distributed to all workers and became part of the CCSWB onboarding packets.
Additional credits:
Jeff Barfoot, Katherine Scoggin, Kasey Cooley, Jocelyn Yun, Stuart Hill, Nathan Fox
Citizen Design Award
CHARACTERS: Type In Action
Vocal Type
USA
Characters is an exhibition at the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) that explores how typography has shaped both oppression and liberation. Featuring typefaces from the Vocal Type catalog, the show highlights Black history and Atlanta’s central role in the civil rights movement.
Typography is presented not as neutral design, but as a powerful force that has influenced protest, policy, and identity. From 1960s protest signs to ballots that disenfranchised voters, and contemporary work by Black designers, each typeface tells a story of resistance.
Created by Tré Seals of Vocal Type and Civilization studio, with writer Kaleena Sales and designer Mark Baker-Sanchez, the exhibition includes The Vocal Civilian, a custom newspaper. Characters challenges visitors to see letterforms as more than style, revealing them as tools for storytelling, justice, and change.
Additional credits:
Tré Seals; co-creator, Civilization; co-creator, Kaleena Sales, writer & researcher; Mark Baker-Sanchez, print designer; Adam McNeil, sign painter
Professional Best of Show Award
The Interpretive Power of Memories
Yungi Peng – Royal College of Art
UK
The Interpretive Power of Memories is an audience-centered research project exploring independent publishing practices, with a focus on the diverse and shifting roles within China’s art publishing scene. The project examines how stories and images intersect—how one story can evoke multiple images, and one image can trigger different memories. Interpretation is intentionally returned to the audience, fostering a shared, intimate reading experience.
The artist collected various forms and documents common to Chinese individuals born in the 1990s—school contact forms, COVID-era temperature logs, test sheets—framing them as cultural artifacts. Unlike traditional publishing, which conveys fixed meaning, this work invites open interpretation. All imagery is in Chinese, foregrounding language as both a barrier and a bridge. Viewers are encouraged to match bilingual diary notes to pages, forming a temporary, imagined community through shared visual understanding.
Student Best of Show
Ecobites
Kanika Anand – Maryland Institute College of Art
USA
Ecobites is a collection of ten ecology-themed DIY experiments called Science Snacks from The Exploratorium, a public learning laboratory in San Francisco. Each experiment provides a list of easily available tools that can be used to discover and learn scientific ecological concepts like biodiversity, planktons, bacteria, germination, soil aeration by earthworms, chemical compositions of seashells, structure of leaves, etc. This project aimed to package these hands-on experiments into pamphlets that are easy to carry. Printed on newsprint, they unfold into miniposters that can be savored as collectables. This project is part of Graduate Typography taught by Jennifer Cole Phillips at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Editors’ Choice
HUE: The Magazine of FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology, summer 2024
Alexander Isley – Alexander Isley Inc. Designers
USA
HUE alumni magazine, published by New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), is a vibrant reflection of the creativity and diversity of the FIT community. This special digest-sized issue explores the theme “Where do ideas start?” through an innovative visual and editorial approach. Featuring sketchbook artwork from designers, artists, educators, students, writers, and business professionals, the magazine captures the full spectrum of the FIT experience.
Designed at a compact 6″ x 9″ trim size, the 48-page issue includes gatefold inserts that enhance the tactile and visual storytelling. For the past three years, the design team has collaborated closely with FIT’s editorial staff, commissioning alumni to contribute original photography and illustrations. The result is a richly layered publication that serves as both a showcase of talent and a thoughtful meditation on the origins of creativity.
Additional credits:
Maire Roussel
Agency of the Year
Whiskey Design
Matt Wegerer – Whiskey Design
USA
Located in Kansas City, in a historic building constructed in the 1920s by the Red Star Yeast Company, Whiskey Design is built on a straightforward principle: every aspect of the company is designed to positively influence the quality of the final creative product. Creativity is at the core of the studio’s culture, guiding both process and philosophy.
This streamlined approach allows the team to fully immerse themselves in the creative process, producing work that is both impactful and influential. Their expertise spans a wide range of design disciplines, including packaging, website and app design, branding, environmental graphics, advertising, promotions, and events. Regardless of the medium or platform, the studio is committed to delivering work that is artful, engaging, and memorable.
This year, Whiskey Design won second place honors in Branding Collaborations for Jack’s Garage, third place in Packaging for Vine Street Brewing Artisan Series, and second place in Branding Identities & Systems for Twang’s Company Rebrand.
Professional Honorees
Advertising
First Place—Morphe – Holiday Drama | Pum Lefebure | Design Army
Second Place—Morphe – Forbidden | Pum Lefebure | Design Army
Third Place—AARP Movies for Grownups Takeover Ads | Matt Hlubny | AARP
Annual Reports
First Place—The Future is Nuclear, Bruce Power Annual Report | Erin Grandmaison | Bruce Power
Second Place—Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Year-End Report 2023 | Ann M. Giangiulio | Anne M. Giangiulio Design
Third Place—Hall Family Foundation Annual Report 2023 | Rob Mitchell | MBB
Books—Covers/Jackets
First Place—Blueprint | Robin Bilardello | Harper Collins
Second Place—The Ministry of Time | Alison Former | Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
Third Place—The Regenerative Almanac for Matriarchal Design Futures | Will Moran | One Design Company
Books—Entire Package
First Place—The Interpretation Power of Memories | Yunqi Peng | Royal College of Art
Second Place—This Page is an Occupied Territory | Warren Lehrer | EarSay
Third Place—The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930 | Alice Chau | Letterform Archive
Branding—Campaigns
First Place—SXSW 2024: Global Reframing | Luigi Maldonado | Guerilla Suit
Second Place—Lasso Motel Campaign | Syd Stroope | Caliber Creative
Third Place—WYXR: Raised By Sound Fest 2024 | Josh Breeden | St Francis Elevator Ride, LLC
Branding—Collaborations
First Place—Camp Burt’s – Summer of ’84 | Mike Perry | Tavern Agency
Second Place—Jack’s Garage | Matt Wegerer | Whiskey Design
Third Place—Doritos x Empirical Nacho Cheese Spirit | PepsiCo
Branding—Identities & Identity Systems
First Place—The Auditorium Brand Identity | Parker Sheley | Design B&B
Second Place—Twang: Company Rebrand | Roberto Camacho | Whiskey Design
Third Place—Society De La Rassi Brand Identity | Andy Webb | Blurr Bureau
Brochures & Catalogs
First Place—Fall Gala – Feast for the Soul | Johnny Selman | Selman
Second Place—Neiman Marcus 2024 Holiday Book | Jessica Oviedo | Neiman Marcus
Citizen Design
First Place—CHARACTERS: Type in Action | Vocal Type
Second Place—ANKA | Doga Bircan | Doga Bircan LLC
Third Place—The Vocal Civilian | Vocal Type
Data Visualization & Information Design
First Place—2024 Comparing Campuses Poster Water | Angi Kwak | Ayers Saint Gross
Second Place—203 Culture Series | Sung Hwan Jang | Infographics Lab 203
Third Place—203 Design Series | Sung Hwan Jang | Infographics Lab 203
Design for Social Impact
First Place—GREATNESS: Diverse Designers of Architecture | Jason Murphy | Beyond the Built Environment
Second Place—Mammogram Awareness Posters | Rob Mitchell | MBB
Third Place—ADL Impact: Ensuring Community Safety | Rick Slusher
Editorial
First Place—HUE: The Magazine of FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology | Alexander Isley | Alexander Isley Inc. Designers
Second Place—Shadow Fleets | Owen Glidersleeve
Third Place—Dialogues Magazine | Drew Campbell | Atlantic Re:think
Environmental Design
First Place—Building Stories | Traci Sym and Daniel Meyers | Plus And Greater Than
Second Place—Just Frame It: How Nike Turned Sport Stars into Superheroes | Ola Baldych | Poster House
Third Place—WPP Atlanta | Jill Ayers | Airspace
Graphic Novels
First Place—Coca Cola Southwest Beverages Safety Comic Book | Katie Kitchens | *Trace Element
Second Place—A.C. 2020 | Mirko Ilić | Mirko Ilić Corp
Handlettering
First Place—Arabic Lettering Posters | Wael Morcos | Arabic Lettering Workshop
Second Place—Three Wide Brewing Co. Handlettering | Brandon Murphy | Caliber Creative
Third Place—Cicada: Dual Emergence 2024 | Marguerite Dreyer | Dreyer
Illustration
First Place—Joystick Jazz vol.2 | Mark Borgions | HandMade Monsters
Second Place—Ferny’s House | Max Hauler | Stout Creative
Third Place—Joystick Jazz vol.3 | Mark Borgions | HandMade Monsters
In-House
First Place—Anatomy of a Threat Booth Design | Jessica Yeung | HUMAN Security Inc.
Second Place—HUMAN Security Comic Book Series | Jessica Yeung | HUMAN Security Inc.
Third Place—Texas Tech University Rebrand | Veronica Medina | Texas Tech University
Invitations & Announcements
First Place—Golisano Children’s Hospital – The Land of Oz Invitation | Marshall Statt | Dixon Schwabl + Company
Second Place—La Vie Bohème Invitation | Pamela Howard | Firebrick Design
Third Place—Brian+Annie: Til Death | Brian Ablaza | McMann+Tate
Logos
First Place—Polliate Labs | Siddharth Khandelwal | Pollinate Labs
Second Place—The Auditorium Logo | Parer Sheley | Design B&B
Third Place—Lilac | Nora Dyer | One Design Company
Motion Graphics & Video
First Place—Hong Kong Ballet – Tutu Academy Film | Pum Lefebure | Design Army
Second Place—Neiman Marcus 2024 Fall Campaign Video | Tim Flannery | Neiman Marcus
Third Place—Fayetteville State University Campaign Video | Robert Shaw West | The Republik
Outdoor & Billboards
First Place—Siempre Pa’Lante | David DaCosta | TheRealDaCosta, LLC
Second Place—Regency Centers Murals | Robert Shaw West | The Republik
Packaging
First Place—Paradisse | Chad Michael | Chad Michael Studio
Second Place—Bird Creek Distillery | CF Napa Brand Design
Third Place—Vine Street Brewing Artisan Series | Matt Wegerer | Whiskey Design
Posters
First Place—Florida Surf Film Festival 2024 Poster | Tom Macaluso | Anson-Stoner
Second Place—Las Vegas History Print | Jovaney Hollingsworth | DLR Group
Third Place—WYXR: Raised By Sound Fest 2024 Posters | Josh Breeden | St Francis Elevator Ride, LLC
Self-Promotions
First Place—Craft is King | Stacey Chapman | Tom, Dick & Harry Creative
Second Place—I Survived The Enormous Crocodile! | Emily Bridge | The Roald Dahl Story Company
Third Place—KUDOS Pivot Calendar | John Kudos | KUDOS Design Collaboratory
Social Media & Content Design
First Place—Dilworth Coffee Social Media Campaign | Robert Shaw West | The Republik
Second Place—Goodsurf Social Media | Syd Stroope | Caliber Creative
Type Design
First Place—Growtown | Frontier Design
Second Place—Sharp Serif Text & Display | Lucas Sharp | Sharp Type
Third Place—Rosalie | My-Lan Thuong | Sharp Type
Website & App Design
First Place—The Tremaine Collection | YuJune Park | The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation and Synoptic Office
Second Place—Neue Galerie New York | YuJune Park | Neue Galerie New York and Synoptic Office
Third Place—Ballotics: News & Election Data App | Antwon Key | University of Maryland
Student Honorees
Annual Reports
First Place—Burt’s Bees Annual Report | Lauren Dean | University of North Texas
Books—Covers/Jackets
First Place—The Stranger by Albert Camus | Ipek Koprulu | Rochester Institute of Technology
Second Place—Ever Arriving: Highlands to Islands | Megan Barnum | Utah Valley University
Third Place—A History of Our Time | Aleigha Thompson | Loyola University New Orleans
Books—Entire Package
First Place—Devisoss | Camila Leite | Centro Universitário Belas Artes de São Paulo
Second Place—Different Ways of Seeing | Yaheng Li | ArtCenter College of Design
Third Place—undercurrent* | Zhouyan Sun | University of the Arts, London
Branding Campaigns
First Place—Amoeba rebrand | Peilin Li | ArtCenter College of Design
Second Place—TOHO | Kevin Lee | ArtCenter College of Design
Third Place—One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest | Ying Han
Branding—Identities & Identity Systems
First Place—ISSUE Project Room | Jamie Kim | ArtCenter College of Design
Second Place—Tickticktick | Jaden Kim | Maryland Institute College of Art
Third Place—Tokyo 2036l | Jaiwon Lee | ArtCenter College of Design
Brochures & Catalogs
First Place—Ecobites | Kanika Anand | Maryland Institute College of Art
Second Place—Mysterious Islands | Shengxuan Hu | Maryland Institute College of Art
Third Place—Verses in Forms: Generative Sheet Poetry | Zhouyan Sun | University of the Arts, London
Citizen Design Award
First Place—Lewis Latimer House: Inspiring Tomorrow’s Problem Solvers | Vidisha Agarwal | School of Visual Arts
Second Place—Cada Voto Cuenta | Jayden Rea | Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Third Place—MyFeelingsMyAnswer | Michele Rivero, Andrew Kong, Alexander Ryan | Kean University
Concept Design
First Place—Yaar | Soumya Gupta | School of Visual Arts
Data Visualization & Information Design
First Place—Donald’s Twitter Wonderland | Yun Gao | The Cooper Union
Second Place—Bouncing Conversations | Aayush Agarway | Maryland Institute College of Art
Design for Social Impact
First Place—What IF? Richmond Public Schools | Claire Snyder | VCU Brandcenter
Editorial
First Place—Science Snacks | Aayush Agarway | Maryland Institute College of Art
Second Place—Postmodern Heretics | Ronnie Alley | ArtCenter College of Design
Third Place—Queue Magazine | Sooyoung Yang | School of Visual Arts
Illustration
First Place—The Brief Moments We Are (Gorgeous) | Trang Hoang | School of Visual Arts
Second Place—Science Channel | Heji Joo | ArtCenter College of Design
Third Place—HAHA, YES, YES, I UNDERSTAND. | Vannysha Chang | Cambridge School of Art
Logos
First Place—Classic Kickboxing | Mishen Liu | ArtCenter College of Design
Motion Graphics & Video
First Place—I Worried: Visual Poem | Jamie Kim | ArtCenter College of Design
Second Place—Fungal Fantasia | Heji Joo | Art Center College of Design
Third Place—Animated Christmas Card: Berry Sweet Holidays | Yeon Ko | ArtCenter College of Design
Packaging
First Place—Live By The Sun, Love By The Moon | Jazmyne (Christine) Choi | Art Center X
Second Place—Into You | Yitong Jiang | ArtCenter College of Design
Third Place—MYCO Mushroom Tea | Seungeun Song, Elena Mehlman, Margaret Sun | School of Visual Arts
Posters
First Place—Macbeth – Shakespeare in the Park | Ipek Koprululu | Rochester Institute of Technology
Second Place—Tokyo 2036 | Jaiwon Lee | ArtCenter College of Design
Thred Place—Next Wave Festival 2023 | Shengxuan Hu | Maryland Institute College of Art
Type Design
First Place—DELTA ORIGIN | Dong Hyun Kim | School of Visual Arts
Second Place—BFRB Type Family | Shengxuan Hu | Maryland Institute College of Art
Third Place—Soil | Navya Arora | Maryland Institute of Art
Website & App Design
First Place—Intosphere | Yaheng Li | ArtCenter College of Design
Second Place—Strava | Kristopher Boyce | ArtCenter College of Design
Third Place—Space Exploration with Astr | Mehak Garg, Rithvika Reddy | California College of the Arts
View all the winners in our 2025 PRINT Awards galleries.
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