With its allusions to handcrafted artforms, centuries-old traditions, and naturally, print, the PRINT Awards classes of Handlettering & Kind Design, Illustration, Invites & Bulletins, and Logos converse to the center of what we’re all about. Whereas most fashionable illustrators and typographers could use software program to assemble their elaborate works, you’ll be able to nonetheless really feel the spirit of outdated printing presses, calligraphy, and different traditional trades in the very best of them. In reality, loads of creatives nonetheless depend on old fashioned strategies, whereas others take a blended media strategy that makes use of each analog and digital know-how.
Irrespective of the way you make your work, there’s no higher place to point out it off than The 2023 PRINT Awards, and this 12 months’s ceremony boasts one in every of our strongest panels ever. The judges for this class group embrace an enchanting number of sort, handlettering, illustration and design consultants from virtually each nook of America. Their mixed resumes might fill a bookshelf, cowl a big home in astonishing artwork, and construct an unbelievably sturdy advert company. This generation-spanning class options creatives who’ve labored for many years, constructed spectacular followings, and have used their platforms to make unbelievable statements on the timeless energy of artforms like typography, illustration, and handlettering.
Be taught all concerning the movers and shakers who shall be testing your work under!
Tucker Nichols
Artist
Tucker Nichols is a Bay Space artist whose work has appeared in galleries on each American coasts and quite a few international locations, from the Denver Artwork Museum to Copenhagen’s Den Frie Museum. He’s an Artist Trustee at SFMOMA and prolific illustrator whose drawings have been featured in publications like The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, and The New York Occasions. He has co-written two kids’s books: Crabtree along with his brother Jon and This Bridge Will Not Be Grey with Dave Eggers. In his ongoing multimedia artwork undertaking Flowers for Sick Individuals, he makes use of artwork to alleviate the isolation confronted by communities battling sickness.
Gemma O’Brien
Artist & Designer
Gemma O’Brien is a designer, letterer, and artist who makes use of hanging, psychedelic pictures to look at communication, nature, and the human situation. She’s identified for hand-painted murals and illustrations with colourful, eye-catching graphics, intricate particulars, and sharp typography. Her industrial work has included a variety of spectacular shoppers equivalent to Apple, Nike, and Google, and you could find her artwork within the everlasting assortment of New York’s Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum.
Lisa Congdon
Lisa Congdon is a self-taught Portland polymath who’s mastered all kinds of mediums, together with however not restricted to artwork, design, writing, and podcasting. She’s introduced her design abilities to world-famous on a regular basis manufacturers like Goal, REI, and Amazon in addition to high-culture icons like Comme des Garçons and MoMA. She’s identified for her unconventional rise to success on the age of 40 and her funding in training, social justice, and mentorship. In 2021, Lisa was featured within the Adweek 50, an annual checklist devoted to spotlighting the business’s most inspiring individuals and firms.
These consultants can’t wait to get an eye fixed in your work! Final 12 months, we awarded First Place to Sunday Afternoon for his or her sharp, futuristic model id for the event platform HyperSpace.
Do you’ve work that you simply suppose will blow the socks off our panel? Step proper up and take a look at your luck on the 2023 PRINT Awards! Our judges are ready…
