Blog: Awards madness
22 May 2024
BIG in Milan
The first Biennale Internazionale Grafica takes place from 23-26 May 2024
The Biennale Internazionale Grafica (BIG) opens this week, with four days of exhibitions, talks, etc. across Milan.
11 January 2024
Two winners, 2000 losers
Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy
Minnesota’s crowd-sourced flag and seal raise questions for professional design practice, writes Steven McCarthy
31 December 2023
Women in the room
The fifth edition of the AIAP Women in Design Awards (AWDA) brought together exemplary work from around the world.
The fifth edition of the AIAP Women in Design Awards (AWDA) brought together exemplary work from around the world.
16 June 2023
Best in class
The ISTD’s Student Assessment Scheme crosses borders through typographic excellence. Barrie Tullett, who was on the jury, reports
The International Society of Typographic Designers (ISTD) began in 1928 …
8 March 2019
Figures that don’t add up
In Aotearoa New Zealand, Designers Speak (Up) is challenging the male-dominated awards system. By Catherine Griffiths
A new campaign aims to address the gender imbalance in New Zealand design, writes Catherine…
20 December 2017
Lincoln in the limelight
Robert Hanks takes a final look at the cover designs for The Man Booker 2017 shortlist and the winner – George Saunders’ Lincoln in the Bardo
Book design can be an unlovely process – a set of negotiations to find something…
27 November 2017
Two tribes
It’s always fun to win awards. But what do two wildly different ceremonies tell us about the state of magazine design, editing and publishing? By John L. Walters
Last week I attended two magazine awards ceremonies on two successive days. I don’t make…
14 October 2017
And then there were six …
The winner of the Man Booker Prize 2017 will be announced on 17 October. Robert Hanks talks to the designers whose covers wrap round the six shortlisted contenders
In ‘The look of literature’ I wrote about the thirteen covers on this year’s Man…
1 June 2017
Porto’s studio culture
This year’s European Design Awards ceremony was held in the city of Porto, which is about to launch an international design biennale
Last weekend, designers from all over Europe converged on Porto for the European Design Awards…
15 September 2016
Books received #22 (EDA special)
Oldřich Hlavsa, Fairy Tales, FBA: O design gráfico como prática de clarificação, Carved Names and El Protectorado español en Marruecos
The 2016 European Design Awards drew submissions from all across Europe – Poland, Greece, Hungary…