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Best of the Year
Best Posters of 2016
The posters that won a GDUSA award in 2016, each with the firm and the designers credited.
62 award-winning projects
A poster is graphic design in its purest commercial form: one surface and a wall that owes it nothing. The designer has a passerby's three seconds and a type size that has to read from across a corridor, so the first thing a reader sees has to be the one thing the client needs them to know. The winners here stop you and then tell you where to be. Tarrant County College's graphic services team has won 21 times with campus posters built on type, and Adri Torres's MUWI festival posters took a full page for merging painted texture with digital portraits of the performers. The best poster designers in the awards are collected here. Open any poster to see it full size and learn what makes it work.
Standouts of 2016
- Sauk Valley Community College Event Postersby Sauk Valley Community College · 2016
- EMERGENCEby Sam Houston State University · 2016
- Nothing Into All Posterby James Robert Creative LLC · 2016
- Cell Health Between Life and Death Posterby MilliporeSigma · 2016
- Mass Transmission - TU Choirs Performance Posterby Towson University Creative Services · 2016
- No Child Posterby Towson University Creative Services · 2016
2016
Sauk Valley Community College Event Posters
Posters
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Sauk Valley Community College
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2016
EMERGENCE
Posters
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Sam Houston State University
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2016
Nothing Into All Poster
Posters
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James Robert Creative LLC
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2016
Cell Health Between Life and Death Poster
Posters
Firm
MilliporeSigma
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2016
Mass Transmission - TU Choirs Performance Poster
Posters
Firm
Towson University Creative Services
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2016
No Child Poster
Posters
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Towson University Creative Services
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2016
Wurstfest Regatta 2015 Postcard
Posters
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ROESCHMANNdesign
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2016
Sweeney Todd Poster
Posters
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Towson University Creative Services
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2016
WAMM (Women & Minorities In Media) Festival Poster
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Towson University Creative Services
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2016
Beauty of Letterpress Poster
Posters
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Gee + Chung Design
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2016
One of a Kind Poster
Posters
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Anne Arundel Community College, Creative Services
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2016
Golden Egg Contest Poster
Posters
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Asurion
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2016
PortfolioFest 2016
Posters
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Farmingdale State College, Visual Communications
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2016
Movember Campaign
Posters
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Diplomat
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2016
Drexel University Westphal College of Media Arts & Design Recruitment Poster
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Drexel University, Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design
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2016
TOEFL Go English Poster
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ETS
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2016
One Vision. One Voice. Internal Campaign
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ETS
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2016
Social Media Internal Campaign for Human Resources
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ETS
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2016
I Concur Poster
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Freedom Mortgage Corporation
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2016
Conquering Mt. Everest ECC Team Poster
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American Heart Association
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2016
The United State of DNA
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Seaberry Design & Communications
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2016
Chicago Fire Soccer Club Matchday Posters
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Chicago Fire Soccer Club
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2016
Slapstick, Technology & Contemporary Art
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Christian Morin Studio
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2016
Veterans Moving Forward Poster
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CSE Identity Design
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2016
Branded Art for Holiday Bazaar
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Beam Suntory
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2016
Vote to Build Poster Design
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DPL Jones Design
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2016
#struggles Poster Campaign
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Extra Credit Projects
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I Concur Poster
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Freedom Mortgage Corporation
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2016
3771 Open Borders Poster Design
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Pakaste-Warner Design
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2016
World Peace at Winter’s Eve Poster
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New York Institute of Technology (NYIT)
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2016
Tobias Frere-Jones Event Poster
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Fifth Letter
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2016
Parsons Holiday Potluck Posters
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Parsons’ Core Creative
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2016
Nucleus Launch Posters
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GO2 Advertising
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2016
Fall 2015 Faculty Exhibition Poster
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University of Northern Iowa Department of Art
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2016
Spring 2016 Gallery Schedule
Posters
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University of Northern Iowa Department of Art
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2016
Werner 60th Anniversary Poster Series
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Werner Enterprises
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2016
The Art of Storytelling Speaking Series Posters
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DISH/OneTen DISH Creative
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2016
Vote for Me and I’ll Set You Free Poster Design
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Mark Willie Graphic Design
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2016
Cape Fear New Music Festival Poster
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Methodist University Art Department
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2016
ACC.16 Posters
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American College of Cardiology
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2016
Investing in the Next Generation Poster
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Global Payments Inc.
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2016
Go RED for Women
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NJ Designs
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2016
MATLAB Expo 2016
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MathWorks
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2016
Regarding Collaboration Poster Design
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Penn State University, Graphic Design Program
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2016
Skokie Valley Symphony Orchestra Posters
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BakerHostetler
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2016
Shakespeare Festival Poster
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R-N-R Showprint
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2016
Illustration and Design Awards Poster
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The University of Arizona, School of Art
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2016
Music Posters
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Stan Gellman Graphic Design
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2016
Nestlé Culinary Center Poster Series
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Nestlé ICON Creative Center
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2016
QEP Conference Poster
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2016
Studio and Student Recitals Poster
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2016
Preserve the Earth 2016 Poster Design
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U.S. State Dept., Bureau of International Information Programs
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2016
2015 Film 2 Farm Aid Poster Series
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Vanguard
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2016
DRIFT Poster
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West 7th Design Studio
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2016
TFI Envision, Inc. Pickle Perspectives Summer Promotion Poster 2015
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TFI Envision, Inc.
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2016
Think Salute! Poster Design
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ThinkDesign Group
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2016
4 44 Poster Design
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DAEKI & JUN
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2016
Insu Lee Exhibition Poster
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DAEKI & JUN and Korea National University
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2016
Hankook Coffee Poster Design
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DAEKI & JUN
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2016
Intersection Between Seoul & Hong Kong
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DAEKI & JUN
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Common questions
- How many posters won GDUSA awards in 2016?
- The gallery lists 62 winners from 2016 in this category, out of 479 across all years. Each one appears here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms won the most GDUSA awards for posters in 2016?
- Towson University Creative Services leads with 4 of the 2016 winners, ahead of DAEKI & JUN (3), ETS (3), Freedom Mortgage Corporation (2), Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services (2), Towson University (2). The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Posters firms of 2016, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2016 posters?
- Clients named on this work include 400 Years of Shakespeare Festival, AIGA, AIGA Triad NC Chapter, American Heart Association, Comcast. 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.