For more than 35 years, PRINT’s Regional Design Awards has been honoring excellence across all channels of design. Whether you’re a freelancer, part of a large agency, an in-house creative or even a student, your unique work could reign supreme in this widely celebrated competition. Behind each RDA is a panel of A-list design experts ready to unearth fresh talent and shine a spotlight on groundbreaking ideas. In this series, we will interview each judge and take a closer look

For more than 35 years, PRINT’s Regional Design Awards has been honoring excellence across all channels of design. Whether you’re a freelancer, part of a large agency, an in-house creative or even a student, your unique work could reign supreme in this widely celebrated competition. Behind each RDA is a panel of A-list design experts ready to unearth fresh talent and shine a spotlight on groundbreaking ideas. In this series, we will interview each judge and take a closer look

For more than 35 years, PRINT’s Regional Design Awards has been honoring excellence across all channels of design. Whether you’re a freelancer, part of a large agency, an in-house creative or even a student, your unique work could reign supreme in this widely celebrated competition. Behind each RDA is a panel of A-list design experts ready to unearth fresh talent and shine a spotlight on groundbreaking ideas. In this series, we will interview each judge and take a closer look

If these beer labels and packaging designs say anything about the flavor of the product within, then you’re in for some delicious spirits. And if they don’t keep you warm this weekend, we’re not sure what will. Maybe this 65-foot tall lava bubble. Once you’re nice and toasty, and don’t forget to enter the 2018 Regional Design Awards. We are accepting entries for all 26 categories. The extended deadline to enter is April 30 at 11:59 EST. This year’s panel of A-list judges incl

My favorite part of the Regional Designs Awards each year is the slew of book cover designs that we receive from each region. The old adage may be never judge a book by its cover, but we all know how important first impressions are. And I know I’m not the only one who’s a sucker for a good-looking book. So if you’re looking to add something to your summer reading list for 2018, you may want to consider the following titles with their Regional Design Award–winning book cover d

Editor’s note: This interview was originally conducted by Zachary Petit in 2016 Official bio: Gail Anderson is a designer, writer, and educator. She is the director of design and digital media for Visual Arts Press at the School of Visual Arts, and a partner at Anderson Newton Design. Anderson is the author of Outside the Box, for Princeton Architectural Press, as well as co-author of 12 books on design, typography and popular culture with Steven Heller. She has also written

By: Callie Budrick For nearly 40 years, PRINT’s Regional Design Awards has been the industry’s most respected design competition for professionals, regularly drawing entries from the likes of Paula Scher, Michael Bierut, Stefan Sagmeister and many, many others. It has served as a catalogue of graphic design’s greats—and now, we’re looking for the greats of tomorrow. For the second time in RDA history, we will have an entire section devoted specifically to students, organized

For more than 35 years, PRINT’s Regional Design Awards has been honoring excellence across all channels of design. Whether you’re a freelancer, part of a large agency, an in-house creative or even a student, your unique work could reign supreme in this widely celebrated competition. Behind each RDA is a panel of A-list design experts ready to unearth fresh talent and shine a spotlight on groundbreaking ideas. Without further ado, let’s meet this year’s star-studded jury! MEET

Steven Brower says farewell to the printed PRINT magazine with a tribute to fellow past art directors & editors who helped to reshape the magazine over the years. Hard to believe the Winter 2017-2018 Regional Design Awards issue is the very last printed edition of PRINT. For younger readers this may seem like the logical progression into the digital realm, but to my generation it is a rite of passage. My connection with PRINT began in the early 1980s, when I was an undergrad

How do you celebrate the holidays? Our RDA winners have some suggestions. Check out some decked-out, holiday-cheering, gift-tastic winners from across the US. Still need some gift ideas? HOW Design has its Gift Guide for Designers. Happy Holidays! 1. Alcoholidays—I love you [ ] Man [ ] Woman 1 Tick Pony gave their clients the tasty holiday gift of, well, alcohol. The packages came shipped in slender tubes with beautiful gold lettering and six bottles of “sensual situation enh

The deadline for the PRINT Regional Design Awards is May 8! Don’t miss the chance to have your work selected as the best in the country by Aaron Draplin, Jessica Hische, Pum Lefebure, Ellen Lupton, Eddie Opara and Paula Scher! From why to enter to profiles of our winners and judges, here is a roundup of our best RDA coverage from 2017. Enter now, and you could see your work in PRINT magazine—and could even win a big ticket to HOW Design Live. Draplin, Hische, Lefebure, Lupton

This article is part of PRINT’s Hollywood Issue: San Francisco. Jessica Hische is also judging this year’s RDA competition. Deadline: May 1. Last call—enter now! Lettering artist Jessica Hische is hilarious yet poignant, eloquent yet fond of the occasional F-bomb, elegant yet not averse to tossing back a bourbon—and moreover, every element of her character feels genuine, and every element of it appears in her work. After spending time at Headcase Design and at Louise Fili’s s

Ellen Lupton, 2009. Photo by Michelle Qureshi. Curator, director of a graphic design MFA program, author, design critic, lecturer, DIY advocate and AIGA Gold Medalist. Only someone who works hard and smart could receive titles like this. For nearly 25 years, Ellen Lupton has been curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt’s National Design Museum. During her time there, she’s not only created numerous exhibits, but has also published several books—19 to be exact—includin

Here we take a look at the world of Eddie Opara, one of the judges for the 2017 PRINT Regional Design Awards. Every year thousands of art directors, studios and creative professionals not only enter the RDA, but also look to it to find the country’s top talent. Will you be next? Eddie Opara was born in Wandsworth, London in 1972. He grew up during a time when England was suffering economically. “There were huge deficits and strikes,” he told PRINT in 2011 while explaining how

When PRINT turned 75 in 2015, it gave us a great excuse to blissfully disappear into the bowels of the archives with a scanner for days on end. The covers for the annual RDA—which is now nearly 40 years old—serve as an evolutionary chart for the field’s aesthetics and trends over the years. Here is an updated list of all the RDA covers from the past four decades, from the bold to the brilliant to the bizarre. Design: Andrew P. Kner. Photos: Harold Whitely. Bill Purdom David W

At PRINT, we’re suckers for a good book cover. So as we gear up for the Regional Design Awards’ big deadline of April 2, we have fresh reason to geek out on a roundup of some of our favorite book covers from 2016’s RDA—as selected by Jessica Walsh, Timothy Goodman, Gail Anderson, Marc English, Jennifer Morla and Bill Grant. Beyond the Fleeting Moment Amy Klee, Nahant, MA: Amy Klee (creative director/art director/designer), Lure Design Inc. (cover illustration), Zoran Orlic (p

Interviewing Paula Scher is like talking to the graphic design professor that I always wanted but never had. She’s smart. She’s cunning. She’s a little intimidating. But ultimately she’s a never-ending well of design knowledge. After doing a short feature on Scott Dadich’s latest project—a docu-series called Abstract—I was given the opportunity to chat with Paula about her involvement in the Netflix original, her more than 45 years in the design field and her advice for desig

As we gear up for our early bird deadline (March 1!), we asked a selection of winners from the latest Regional Design Awards why they entered—and how being published in the RDA has impacted their business. Here are some of their responses—along with their brilliant work. Chad Cheek, Elephant in the Room Why did you enter the RDA? I believe it is important to represent our region well. We have a cohort of very strong design firms in the area and we want to be recognized for ou

Jessica Hische grew up in Pennsylvania, “raised by two non-creatives that decided it would be OK to let their little girl pursue a seemingly impractical career.” Seemingly being the key word there. After declaring graphic design as her major, Hische graduated in 2006 and joined HEADCASE Design in Philadelphia where she spent time designing books. Soon after, she began working for Louise Fili out of Brooklyn. And by 2009, she was on her own as a letterer, type designer, illust

As we gear up for the 2017 PRINT Regional Design Awards, we’re taking a look at some favorite pieces by our judges: Aaron Draplin, Jessica Hische, Pum Lefebure, Ellen Lupton, Eddie Opara and Paula Scher. Today, we bring you Pum Lefebure’s Manifesto created for our sister publication HOW—a shot of Lefebure’s kickass advice and overall killer style. Click the image for a high-res PDF you can print to keep yourself on point throughout the year. For more on Lefebure, see below. A