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Best of the Year
Best Direct Mail & Email Marketing of 2021
The direct mail and email marketing that won a GDUSA award in 2021, each with the firm and the designers credited.
12 award-winning projects
Direct mail and email are the only design that gets measured to the penny, so a piece that wins here also had to perform. The designer has three seconds at the mailbox or in the inbox to win the next three, and the craft is in the first fold or the first line. The winners here get opened and then get acted on. Bank of America's in-house group has won 12 times with rewards mailers built for response, and Leibowitz's email template systems for SBG Funding and Ares turned a daily send into a brand. The best direct mail and email designers in the awards are shown here. Open any piece to see it and learn what made it work.
Standouts of 2021
- Critical Response Fund Direct Response Campaignby Acenda Integrated Health · 2021
- INSP’s B2B Client Mailerby INSP · 2021
- Poly Window Surprise Mailerby Quad, Design Innovation Team · 2021
- Realistic Wallet Mailerby Quad, Design Innovation Team · 2021
- “In Their Own Words” Direct Mail Appealby Phillips Academy · 2021
- Ma'ayan 2021 Annual Campaign Brochure + Mailingby Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (CESJDS) · 2021
2021
Critical Response Fund Direct Response Campaign
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Acenda Integrated Health
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2021
INSP’s B2B Client Mailer
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
INSP
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2021
Poly Window Surprise Mailer
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Quad, Design Innovation Team
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2021
Realistic Wallet Mailer
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Quad, Design Innovation Team
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2021
“In Their Own Words” Direct Mail Appeal
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Phillips Academy
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2021
Ma'ayan 2021 Annual Campaign Brochure + Mailing
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Charles E. Smith Jewish Day School (CESJDS)
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2021
2020 Mighty Big Harvest Direct Mail Series
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Applied Design
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2021
CheckUP Summer 2021 Direct Mailer
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Tufts Medical Center
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2021
Prima Direct Mail + AR Experience
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Norwegian Cruise Line Inhouse Agency
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2021
Word & Brown ‘&’ Greeting Cards
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
The Word & Brown Companies
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2021
Customer Acquisition Mailer
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
WORX Branding | Digital | Marketing
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2021
A Different Way To Bank
Direct Mail & Email Marketing
Firm
Burgopak
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Common questions
- How many direct mail and email marketing projects won GDUSA awards in 2021?
- The gallery lists 12 winners from 2021 in this category, out of 263 across all years. Each one appears here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms won the most GDUSA awards for direct mail and email marketing in 2021?
- Quad, Design Innovation Team is the only firm with more than one winner, at 2. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Direct Mail & Email Marketing firms of 2021, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2021 direct mail and email marketing projects?
- Clients named on this work include Knab and North Easton Savings Bank. The credit comes from the firm that entered the work.
- How do I enter next year's awards?
- Entries go through the GDUSA entry platform. A single entry costs $120 as of October 2026, and packages bring the price per piece down to $400 for ten to twenty entries. Winners who publish get a project page here with full credits, and publication is the paid step. How the awards work.