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Best of the Year
The publications and newsletters that won a GDUSA award in 2019, each with the firm and the designers credited.
90 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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I-CAR InHouse

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INFORMS

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Pella Corporation, Technical Publications

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Greater San Antonio Builders Association

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Northeastern Retail Lumber Association (NRLA)

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Thomas Jefferson University

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Ventiv Technology

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Rule29 Creative

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TIAA

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Odgis + Company

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Aegis Dental Network

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Howard County Library System


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Realogy Visual Communications

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Martha Chiplis and Cathie Ruggie Saunders

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Southern Poverty Law Center

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Southern Poverty Law Center

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Southern Poverty Law Center

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Southern Poverty Law Center

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Pella Corporation, Technical Publications

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Langton Creative Group, Ltd.

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AARP Brand Creative Services

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AARP Brand Creative Services

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Morley Companies, Inc.

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STO Building Group


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Cox Enterprises Creative Studio

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RISD Design Guild

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80east Design

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American Bar Association

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American Bar Association

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American Bar Association

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American Bar Association

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American Bar Association

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American Bar Association

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American Bar Association

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Ringling College Design Center

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Greater San Antonio Builders Association


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Baltimore City Recreation and Parks, Marketing and Communications

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Krystal Pratt Designs

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Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Marketing & Engagement

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AB Media, Inc.

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AB Media, Inc.

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Emergency Nurses Association

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Utah State University, Huntsman School of Business

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Farm Progress

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Farm Progress

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2k Design

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ARTISA LLC

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Topco Associates, LLC


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Georgia System Operations Corporation (GSOC)

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Bottomline Technologies

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Kettering Health Network Marketing & Communications

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Perkins Eastman

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AARP Publications

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AARP Publications

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Tarrant County College District/Graphic Services

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Joseph Caserto Art Direction + Design

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ETS

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World Book, Inc.

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ICOR@Acorda

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2 Fish Company, LLC
