Announcing the 2025 Design Awards Winners

The results are in! Each year, the Applied Arts Design Awards shine a spotlight on the incredible talent driving the creative industry forward—and 2025 is no exception. The Applied Arts Design Awards celebrate the year’s most compelling, forward-thinking design work. With entries from across the globe and fierce competition in every category, this year’s winners have truly raised the bar. Get ready to be inspired.

Handpicked by the 2025 Design Awards jury—a panel of industry leaders, the winning work will be featured in our upcoming Summer Annual and online in the Winners Gallery, where their influence will continue to resonate. We are so excited to share the winning work in the Summer 2025 Awards Annual alongside the Photography & Illustration Awards winners—but for now, we are unveiling the 133 winning entries.

"An entry that stops you in your tracks and gets you to feel something, an emotion or a visceral reaction. There were a few entries where I also just had that ‘I really wish I’d thought of that’ moment!"

Bryony Meyrick, CD, C0-Founder, Together Design, London, UK., 2024, an Applied Arts Design Awards judge said of what made a winning entry.

 
How are entries selected? The judges were divided into groups, each judging a different and random group of entries separately and without discussion. Each entry is given one total score based on creative merit, technical excellence and suitability for end use in the category it was submitted to. Entries that exceeded the pre-determined cut-off score were selected for inclusion in the Photography, Illustration and Design Award Annual. Subscribers and winners can expect to receive their issue in early July. Not a subscriber? Subscribe for as little as $4 per month* on or before May 31 to have the issue delivered to your post box.

Thank you to everyone who entered this year's competition, and congratulations to all who had their work selected for inclusion in the Summer issue alongside the 2025 Photography & Illustration. Again, a HUGE thank you to all our jurors; we are grateful to you for lending your expert eye to this year's competition!

The Applied Arts 2025 Design Awards Winners:
* denotes multiple Award winner

Meat Studio*
atelierbienvenue.ca
Baillat Studio*
BERGER
Blok Design
Bruce Power
Channel 13
compagnie et cie*
Cossette, Montreal*
CRITERIUM*
Daughter Creative*
Emma Kaniuk Ltd
Eun Ji Kim
Forsman & Bodenfors Canada*
Harrison Fun
Imedia*
Inna Efimova
Ion Brand Design
Iregular*
K72
Leo Toronto*
LG2 Quebec/Montreal/Toronto*
Lippincott
Lisa Stuve and Mike Withers 
MJMA Architecture & Design*
No Fixed Address*
Nouvelle idée*
Public Eye
Publicis Toronto*
Sid Lee*
Stuart Weitzman
Studio Caserne*
Studio TagTeam
Supersystème
TBWA\\\\Canada*
The Local Collective*
Underline Studio*
Vanderbrand
WePlayDesign
Whitman Emorson*
ZAK Design Studio
Zulu Alpha Kilo*

A huge shout-out goes out to our award sponsors VISTEK; association partners CAPIC, Design Professionals of Canada (DesCan) and our print and paper partner Mi5 Print & Digital Communications for their generosity and support! 

NOTE: If you have received a winner’s notification email and your name is not on the list, please email awards@appliedartsmag.com, and we will edit the list to recognize the winning work.

* Billed monthly, min. 6-mth. $40 annually in Canada. US is $60 USD or $100 USD for International. A subscription includes 2 Awards-based Annuals, access to the Digital edition archive and the AA Extra monthly e-newsletter.