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Best of the Year
The publications and newsletters that won a GDUSA award in 2015, each with the firm and the designers credited.
57 award-winning projects
A member magazine is the one piece an association ships on a schedule, and for many organizations it is the main reason the dues get paid. The designer builds a grid and a hierarchy that an editorial team will stress every issue, then sets a cover formula that has to stay fresh for years. The winners here are readable on page one and recognizable on issue fifty. The American Bar Association's design group has won 63 times with publications no other team in the category approaches, and the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV took a full page for its summer 2025 magazine. The best publication designers in the awards are on this page. Open any issue to page through it and learn what makes it hold up.

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Ginnefine

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Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

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John McNeil Studio

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Design Perspective, Inc.

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Moody Nolan, Graphic Design Department

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Dammsavage Studio

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Dammsavage Studio

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Incite Creative

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Experian

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Ideas On Purpose

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Dennis Craighead Design

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Seaberry Design & Communications


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Joseph Caserto Art Direction + Design

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Basement Systems, Inc.

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City of Clearwater

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Content Communicators LLC

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Coyne PR

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Coyne PR

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2k Design

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2k Design

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Burstein/Max Associates

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Capisce Design

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ASD Healthcare

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Karin Krochmal Graphic Design


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Fuszion

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Belacoso Communications

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Forbes Media/Forbes Custom

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2 Fish Company, LLC

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Conair Corporation

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Allegheny College

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Cecilia Hersh Studio LLC

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Hornall Anderson

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Lippincott

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Rule29 Creative

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Rick Febre

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ruzowgraphics


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Web Solutions, Inc.

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What ! Design

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World Book, Inc.

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Anne Arundel Community College

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Gerard

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Hillsborough Transit Authority (HART)

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Ministry of Defence, Singapore

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Ministry of Defence, Singapore

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Ministry of Defence, Singapore

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CSE Identity Design

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Ogline Design

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studio of KUNG PIK LIU


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Aon Hewitt

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Citi

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American Bar Association

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American Bar Association

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Gill Fishman Associates

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Rutgers Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT)

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Taylor Design

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Carnegie Corporation of New York