Winners of the 2020 Lohmann & Van Sinderen Prizes in Undergraduate Printing and Design have been announced.
Due to the University’s response to Covid-19, this year’s competition was held entirely online and two additional categories were created to broaden the competition. Judges saw more than eighty submissions that featured a wide variety of academic, personal, and professional pieces.
This year the committee awarded an additional $2,000 in prize money in honor of the class of 2020 and all the students who will be missing their summer opportunities.
All of this year’s participants are to be congratulated on the quality and imagination of their work.
This year’s first prize in the Digital Design and Printing category was awarded to Sophia Zhao (PM ’23) for her body of work that included xx pieces. Pictured below are selected pieces including posters entitled Chaos, After Dark, and 19Q4.
Rudd Fawcett (JE ’22) was awarded second prize for his pieces Chernobyl Disaster and Chernobyl Files 1986, pictured below.
Soledad Tejada (DP ’20) was also award second prize for her body of work of five submissions. Shown below is a poster entitled Sargasso, Routine Descents, Reverberating Routes, and A Cartographic Redesign of Rebecca Solnit’s City of Women
Third Place was awarded to Josh Chough (BR ’23) for a body of work. Below are posters Y Pop Up, Playfest, and Tacos Tacos Tacos
Lauren Gatta (GH ’21) was awarded third place for a body of work. Below are spreads from When the Ink Will Not Fade, and 32 Stamps.
Sidney Hirschman (ES ’22) was also awarded third place for her body of work.
Below are spreads from submissions Theodora and Eleanor, and Tomoko Miho: Life and Work.
Honorable Mention went to Ivy Li (TD ’21) for her YUNA 2020 logo and T-shirt design; Sunnie Liu (JE ’21) for TV Dinner and The Squirrels of JE; Julie Hedges (SM ’20) for Towards Roadside Attractions; Kanyinsola Anifowoshe (ES ’23) for A World Without Prison; Melissa Leone (GH’21) for her Body of Work; and Geovanni Barrios (PM ’23) for “Working: A Musical” Poster Advertising.
Letterpress Category saw the following winners:
First place was awarded to JoJi Baratelli (JE ’23) for her Body of Work. Pictured below a booklet Apocalypse Soup, along with a broadside, and coaster.
Giovanna Truong (BF ’23) was awarded second place for Famous Bow Tie Wearers,
And third place was awarded to Anh Dang (BK ’23) for Verbaffle.
Joseph Ribaudo (PR ’21), Annli Nakayama (PR ’22), Nicholas Ruiz-Huidobro (TR ’21), and Roba Sabawi (DP ’21) were all recognized with Honorable Mention for their impressive work.
This year saw two new categories. First Place in Web/App Design went to Josh Chough (BR ’23) for his body of work. Below are images of his web and app designs. Second place was awarded to Alexi Christakis (PR ’20) for a mobile app called Paint Party.
Honorable Mentions were awarded to Felicia Chang (PM ’21), Farid Djamalov (PR ’21), Sophia Durney (GH ’22), Ariana Habibi (SY ’22), and Audrey Steinkamp (PM ’22).
Sarim Abbas (PM ’20) was awarded first place for Echoes in the new Altered Book Category,
And Isabelle Top (JE ’22) received an Honorable Mention for The Dragon Rider.
Judges for this year’s competition were Raleigh D’Adamo, Molly Dotson, John Gambell, Basie Gitlin, Mar Gonzales-Palácio, Rebecca Martz, Miko McGinty, Richard Rose, and Anton Sovetov.