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Best of the Year
Best Posters of 2021
The posters that won a GDUSA award in 2021, each with the firm and the designers credited.
32 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 2021
- River Cruise Event Posterby Mark Duebner Design for Momentous Events · 2021
- Employee Family Assistance Program Brain Posterby Bruce Power Creative Strategy · 2021
- B5 Commemorative Racing Postersby Eleven19 for B5 Racing · 2021
- Black Lives Matter Posterby Warkulwiz Design Associates · 2021
- Zoobilation: Emerge Gala Poster Seriesby Initial Here Creative Services for Seneca Park Zoo Society · 2021
- Electric Light Pelzman - L.A. City & Water Posterby JSP Graphic Design · 2021
2021
River Cruise Event Poster
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Mark Duebner Design
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2021
Employee Family Assistance Program Brain Poster
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Bruce Power Creative Strategy
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2021
B5 Commemorative Racing Posters
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Eleven19
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2021
Black Lives Matter Poster
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Warkulwiz Design Associates
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2021
Zoobilation: Emerge Gala Poster Series
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Initial Here Creative Services
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2021
Electric Light Pelzman - L.A. City & Water Poster
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JSP Graphic Design
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2021
Jim Bolen Math Competition Flyer 2021
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2021
Student Election Art Exhibit Poster
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2021
Jazz Concert Poster
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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services
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2021
Seattle Queer Film Festival Poster
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Quesinberry and Associates
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2021
The World Confucius Foundation Poster Series
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Yingbo Qiao Design Lab
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2021
A Brief History of David Weekley Homes
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David Weekley Homes
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2021
Michael Bierut Lecture Series Poster
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Kent State University
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2021
City Posters for Kathmandu, Napoli, Menorca
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80east Design
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2021
Your Planet Needs You Poster
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80east Design
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2021
Captive Market Poster
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Amanda Lenig Design
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2021
Immunohematology & Blood Transfusion 2021 Symposium Poster
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NIH Medical Arts Branch
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2021
NIMH Director’s Innovation Speaker Series Poster
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NIH Medical Arts Branch
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2021
Three (Formerly) Blind Mice
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NIH Medical Arts Branch
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2021
Together We’re Stronger - UNITE Initiative
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NIH Medical Arts Branch
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2021
Reimagine 2020 Accomplishments Poster
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Children’s Hospital Colorado
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2021
Design Your Life Poster
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Vermont College of Fine Arts
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No Match For Climate Change Poster
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David Copestakes/Cabrini University
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2021
Comstock Distillers Banner
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NJ Designs
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2021
IRA vs. Black Lives/IRA vs. Black Lives II
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Ongoing Matter: Democracy, Design, and the Mueller Report
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2020 Green Business Challenge Awards
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Stan Gellman Graphic Design
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Endangered Animal Posters
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Studio 165+ | Ball State University School of Art
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2021
Matthew Rushin Is Finally Free
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John O'Neill
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2021 Schedule Posters
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Seattle Seahawks
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2021
Andrés. My Cosmic Angel.
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Yasmina Garcia Estudillo
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Employee Appreciation & Corporate Nostalgia
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Black Bear Design
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Masking Identities Poster
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Ditto! Design!
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Common questions
- How many posters won GDUSA awards in 2021?
- The gallery lists 32 winners from 2021 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 2021?
- NIH Medical Arts Branch leads with 4 of the 2021 winners. Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services (3) and 80east Design (2) are next. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Posters firms of 2021, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2021 posters?
- Clients named on this work include American Public, B5 Racing, Comstock Distillery, EarthLink, Kingston Midtown Arts District. 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.