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Best of the Year
Best Posters of 2019
The posters that won a GDUSA award in 2019, each with the firm and the designers credited.
40 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 2019
- SHOW Posterby Eleven19 for AIGA Nebraska · 2019
- Regional Field Team Parade Banners for National Meetingby Novartis · 2019
- Film Scoring Poster Designby Berklee College of Music · 2019
- Americana Fest Letterpress Posterby R-N-R Showprint for North Shore Point House Concerts · 2019
- Beyond Barriers Key Art Posterby Renée Windman for Alpha Films · 2019
- IRFM Creative Poster Seriesby School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), IRFM Creative · 2019
2019
SHOW Poster
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Eleven19
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2019
Regional Field Team Parade Banners for National Meeting
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Novartis
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2019
Film Scoring Poster Design
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Berklee College of Music
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2019
Americana Fest Letterpress Poster
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R-N-R Showprint
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2019
Beyond Barriers Key Art Poster
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Renée Windman
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2019
IRFM Creative Poster Series
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School of the Art Institute Chicago (SAIC), IRFM Creative
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2019
HR Recruitment Support Poster
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TIAA
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2019
Hebei: Beauty & Words
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Michael Mann Design
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2019
AARP Headquarters Health Clinic Posters
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AARP Brand Creative Services
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2019
2018-19 Performance Season Art
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L.S. Boldsmith
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2019
EveryDayMatters Family Jamboree
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Netsmart
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2019
Scholarship Poster
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Kennesaw State University, School of Art and Design
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2019
Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Poster
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Frederick Douglass-Isaac Myers Maritime Park Museum
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2019
Out of Paradise Exhibition Poster
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Coker University
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2019
2019 Graphic Design Juried Student Show Poster
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Courtney Windham Design
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2019
Diet for Grownups Poster
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AARP Publications
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2019
Mass Incarceration
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2019
Merge Dance Concert
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2019
Spring 2019 Club Crawl
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2019
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Poster
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ETS
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2019
2019 Faculty Exhibition Poster
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University of Northern Iowa Department of Art
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2019
Educational Poster Series
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NIH Medical Arts Branch
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2019
Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion 2019 Symposium Poster
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NIH Medical Arts Branch
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2019
Absolut Midtown Takeover Posters
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Shiraz Creative
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2019
Protectors of Health Poster
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WebMD Health Services
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2019
Shutterstock 2019 Oscar Pop Poster Series Senior
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Shutterstock
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2019
TEP Pink + Purple Party Poster
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Donna Huff Design
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2019
NFFG 2018 Conference Poster
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Navy Federal Credit Union
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2019
2019 Oscar Pop Poster Series
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Shutterstock
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2019
AARP Health Clinic Posters
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AARP Brand Creative Services
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2019
AARP Talent Acquisition Posters
Posters
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AARP Brand Creative Services
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2019
David E. Barmes Global Health Lecture Poster
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Uncommon Design, LLC
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2019
2018 Black History Month Poster
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TECO Energy, Inc.
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2019
MAKE a Difference Poster
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University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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2019
Wanda 3.0: Beyond The Screen
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Landor
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2019
26th Annual Alive At The Bluebird Event Poster
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Alive Hospice
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2019
HART Pioneers & Innovators of Transportation Poster
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Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART)
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2019
Alpha Systems Poster
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GAF Creative Services
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2019
2019 Student Exhibition Poster
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University of Northern Iowa Department of Art
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2019
Recognition of Specificity of Representation
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Symbiotic Solutions
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Common questions
- How many posters won GDUSA awards in 2019?
- The gallery lists 40 winners from 2019 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 2019?
- AARP Brand Creative Services and Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services share the top spot with 3 of the 2019 winners each. NIH Medical Arts Branch (2), Shutterstock (2), University of Northern Iowa Department of Art (2) follow. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Posters firms of 2019, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2019 posters?
- Clients named on this work include Absolut Vodka, AIGA Nebraska, Alpha Films, Auburn University School of Industrial + Graphic Design, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health. 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.