365: AIGA Year in Design Winners Announced for 2024

AIGA Celebrates the Innovation and Inspiration of the Design Community

New York, NY-AIGA, the professional association for design, is pleased to announce the winners of 365: AIGA Year in Design, a 360-degree view of design over 365 days. The competition celebrates designers, design teams, and their clients for effectively working together to design creative solutions for challenges presented by businesses and organizations during the calendar year 2024. This competition recognizes excellence and represents innovation across all categories of communication design, from print to web to service to spaces-both physical and virtual.

With 348 entries from 18 countries around the globe, including the United States, Canada, France, Georgia, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Mexico, Moldova, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain UAE and UK, this year's jurors selected 32 entries that represent excellence in design.The winners span 13 categories, including Brand and Identity Systems, Environmental/Experiential Design, Promotional Design and Advertising, Typographic Design, Editorial Design, Illustration/Photography, Sustainable Design, Social Design, Motion Graphics/Animation, Immersive Design, Experience/Product/Service/Systems Design, Package Design, and Civic Design.

Selections from this year's jurors of the 2024 competition can be viewed in the Winners Gallery.

"From large global branding projects to local/community-based promotions, or an occasional one-off individual project or application of design, this year's jury reviewed an extremely wide range of work that in many ways exemplifies the rapidly shifting nature of designers and design today," said Dan Vlahos, 365: AIGA Year in Design Chair and AIGA Boston Board Member. "Regardless of budget or scale, the jury sought to recognize work that, like a time capsule of design, might somehow record and reward work that defines our time. Beyond this, we also sought to reward work that might serve to signal the future."

This year's jury was thoughtfully composed of a diverse range of perspectives and experiences that were brought to the evaluation process. Over the course of four months, there were three rigorous rounds of individual evaluation followed by a final group discussion. This collaborative process allowed the jury to consider the breadth of work submitted and select winning entries that truly reflect the spirit, innovation, and impact of contemporary design.

AIGA thanks this year's panel of esteemed jurors: Dan Vlahos (chair), Senior Lecturer, Bentley University; Jaakko Tammela, CPO/CDO, Stocci; Jeff LoPilato, Founder & Lead Designer, Planet People Studio; Kaleena Sales, Department Chair & Associate Professor, Tennessee State University; and Morgan Light, Design Director, COLLINS.

"In the jury's deliberations, we considered context, craft, typography, art direction, impact, originality, and more. In general, the jury was highly impressed with the overall quality of the submissions, which made some decisions extremely difficult. It is clear that contemporary design is everywhere and touches nearly everything. Design is being leveraged to inform, educate, celebrate, orient, generate interest, create value, and more-and in some cases, design is being leveraged to solve or address critical and complex problems," Vlahos said. "For those reasons and more, we are grateful to all who submitted to this year's 365: AIGA Year in Design competition. I am also thankful for the many hours that this year's jury-Kaleena, Jeff, Morgan, and Jaakko-spent ranking, reviewing, discussing, and thoughtfully deliberating this year's entries. At a glance, one thing remains abundantly clear: the future of design is curious, evolving, and bright!"

Giulia Donatello, AIGA's Design Competitions and Event Manager, played a pivotal leadership role in the success of this year's competition. She expanded its international reach by assembling a diverse, global jury and expertly managing the complex coordination of this esteemed panel. Under her strategic direction, the multi-stage judging process was seamlessly executed, resulting in the thoughtful selection of winning entries that highlight excellence in design worldwide.

Click here to view the winning entries.

The competition was first launched in 1924 as "Contemporary Printing for Commerce." Since then, it has been called: "Printing for Commerce" (1925-1953); "Design and Printing for Commerce/Fifty Advertisements of the Year" (1954-1967); "Communication Graphics" (1968-2000); and "365: AIGA Year in Design" (2001-2011).

Design is at the heart of successful businesses, and AIGA is committed to creating and restoring pathways for designers and design teams to raise awareness of their work and its impact. Competitions are instrumental in identifying emerging and hidden talent within the design community, recognizing effective visual design solutions in the marketplace, and communicating the added value of design to adjacent industries. Work selected by jurors will chronicle the contributions of design and designers to business value and visual culture.

Learn more about 365: AIGA Year in Design competition.

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