Design is throughout us, even after we don’t discover it. The expansive trendy canvases of billboards, posters, and environmental design set the stage for city life, so the creatives behind these mediums play an enormous position in influencing how we predict. Whereas some designs get misplaced within the site visitors and noise of our on a regular basis shuffle, the great ones at all times stand out.
That’s why the PRINT Awards classes of Posters, Promo, Environmental Design, and Billboards characteristic a workforce of specialists who know what makes a design nice. These spectacular aesthetes come from everywhere in the western hemisphere and have made waves within the fields of promoting, training, media, and extra. They’ve labored with authorities businesses, esteemed universities, and even The Smithsonian!
In the event you’re a poster, billboard, or environmental designer considering a PRINT Award, we wager you’re inquisitive about who’s your work. Learn all about them under…
Maurice Cherry
Principal and Artistic Director — Lunch
Atlanta-based design strategist Maurice Cherry is the founder, principal, and inventive director of Lunch, an award-winning multidisciplinary studio that helps inventive manufacturers craft messages, inform tales for his or her focused audiences, and fostering relationships with underrepresented communities. Maurice is a pioneering digital creator who’s finest recognized for the award-winning Revision Path, the primary podcast to be added to the everlasting assortment of the Smithsonian’s Nationwide Museum of African American Historical past and Tradition (NMAAHC). Different tasks of Maurice’s embody the Black Weblog Awards, 28 Days of the Internet, The Yr of Tea, and the design anthology RECOGNIZE.
Alberto Rigau
Freelance Designer / Co-Chair for AIGA’s DEC Steering Committee
Puerto Rican designer Alberto Rigau has over 18 years of expertise crafting and conceptualizing manufacturers, reveals, way-finding techniques, publications, books, photographic tasks, and environmental graphics. As Co-Chair of AIGA’s Design Educators Group, he collaborates with design educators to develop content material and programming to additional tutorial analysis, instructing practices, and conversations inside the subject. Alberto holds levels from NC State College’s School of Design, Syracuse College’s S.I. Newhouse Faculty of Public Communications, and the Maxwell Faculty of Citizenship. He’s a 2004 Poynter Institute Summer season Fellow and teaches graphic design at miscellaneous establishments, most not too long ago Virginia Tech and NC State College.
Pablo Ulpiano
Shopper Options Supervisor – Important Well being, Pores and skin Well being (International) — Johnson & Johnson
Pablo Ulpiano is a devoted advocate of storytelling and sustainability who believes the most effective design stems from understanding individuals. In his present work for Johnson & Johnson, he helps innovate among the world’s most beloved manufacturers. He additionally lectures on the Faculty of Visible Arts Grasp’s in Branding program on case research that combine modern analysis strategies into a variety of tasks. He’s labored with startups, multinational firms, and authorities businesses throughout industries together with healthcare, monetary providers, and luxurious retail. He excels at serving to manufacturers outline their goal, develop their innovation pipeline, and ship insight-driven branded experiences.
On the lookout for inspiration? Final yr, Mirko Ilic Corp’s poppy psychedelic design for the play Moj muž (My husband) impressed our judges sufficient to win First Place within the Posters class.
The clock is ticking, so don’t wait one other minute— apply for the PRINT Awards right this moment!