2024 Student Awards Winners

Various winners from the 2024 Applied Arts Student Awards competition"

"Impressed. The level of talent from the college level down through to high school was inspiring."

2024 Student Awards judge Kevin Sato, Creative Director, Zulu Alpha Kilo, Toronto, ON on reviewing this year's entries. Amazing work by everyone who submitted their award-worthy projects to this year's Student Awards competition. A huge round of applause to the winners of the 153 winning entries that were select by the 16 jurors.

The Student Awards competition is an international competition open to individual or group-class and personal projects created any time during the school year at a domestic or international college, university, and high school students studying creative arts—advertising, design, digital, motion and gaming, illustration and photography.

"Simple and smart. Nicely Executed".

Feed New York, winner in the Social Responsibility Advertising category, Yuchien Wang, May Ruzicka - Advertising program at Miami Ad School, New York, NY

The criteria for judging the Student Awards entries are the same criteria as the professional categories: Creative merit, technical excellence and suitability for end use in the category it is submitted to. Many judges add additional criteria when it comes to scoring the entries. Joel Harding, Group Creative Director, Critical Mass, Calgary, AB added to the criteria:

 1. Do I get it? 2. Does it move me? and 3. Could it have been a real project in the real world?

"Great use of typography, colour and layout. Creates a beautiful upscale packaging".

Sole Limoncello, Packaging Design, Jayden Manzara, Visual Communication Design in Graphic Design at AUArts, Calgary, AB.

Take a look at this year's winners in the Student Awards Winners Gallery. Be sure to explore the interactive links to see the pure craft, especially in the Digital, Motion, & Gaming categories. Mike Postma, Creative Director, Wunder, Halifax, NS says of the winning entries, "They apply a high level of craft to an equally strong and insightful concept."

For page-turning inspiration, be sure to check out the Winter Annual, available mid-December for subscribers. The Winter issue will be a double-Awards Annual with the 2024 Advertising Awards winners. For non-subscribers, subscribe for as little as $40 CAD* for two issues, pre-order your single copy and have it shipped directly to you. The issue will also be available at select newsstands in January.

Thank you to our award sponsors VISTEK; our association partners CAPIC, Design Professionals of Canada (DesCan) and RGD; and our print and paper partner Mi5 Print & Digital Communications for their support!

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