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Best of the Year
Best Sales & Self Promotion of 2021
The sales and self promotion that won a GDUSA award in 2021, each with the firm and the designers credited.
29 award-winning projects
Self-promotion is a design firm's own brief, with no client to blame, so it tells a buyer more than a portfolio does. The designer has to show a prospective client the firm's range and taste in one object that client would choose to keep, which means leaving most of the portfolio out. The winners here are generous and specific, and they stay on the desk. Leibowitz's Branding A to Z took a full page for turning a vocabulary gap into a glossary clients use, and Design Axl's annual letterpress postcards have become a ritual its clients expect. The best self-promotion designers in the awards are collected here. Open any piece to see it and learn what made it work.
Standouts of 2021
- The Cassandra Reportby ENGINE | Cassandra · 2021
- Monkeying Around Label Designby Wallace Church & Co. · 2021
- Motherbrainby Humanaut · 2021
- Services Look Bookby Symboliq Media Art Department · 2021
- Giant Book of Adult Funby MBI Direct Mail, Inc. · 2021
- An Ongoing Commitment to Pharmacy Excellenceby UPMC Insurance Services Division · 2021
2021
The Cassandra Report
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
ENGINE | Cassandra
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2021
Monkeying Around Label Design
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Wallace Church & Co.
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2021
Motherbrain
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Humanaut
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2021
Services Look Book
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Symboliq Media Art Department
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2021
Giant Book of Adult Fun
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
MBI Direct Mail, Inc.
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2021
An Ongoing Commitment to Pharmacy Excellence
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
UPMC Insurance Services Division
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2021
LCRA Parks Land and Business Development Sales Kit
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)
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2021
AR Metallizing Folder
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
AR Metallizing
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2021
Quarterly Marketing Overview: Q2 2020-Q1 2021
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
The Word & Brown Companies
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2021
Estora Sales Kit
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Invok Brands
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2021
Advocate Journey Series
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
DDC Public Affairs
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2021
Illustration Library
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Bottomline Technologies Creative Team
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2021
Cyber Security Hero Award Certificate
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
The JVP Group
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2021
CI RIGIDBOX Flat Fold Series
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Corporate Image
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2021
SmartMoney Welcome Kit
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
GAF Creative Services
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2021
Employee Promotional Gifts
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Draper and Kramer Mortgage Corp.
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2021
Random Acts of Kindness Cards
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
2k Design
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2021
TheHomeMag 2021 Media Kit
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
TheHomeMag SoCal
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2021
Case Makes Swatch Kit
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Case Paper/Case Makes
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2021
Global Trading Guide and Calendar
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Bank of America, Enterprise Creative Solutions
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2021
GSD Self Promotion Website
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Door No. 3 Design, Inc.
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2021
& series | sketch Nº39, & therefore
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
manughian design
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2021
Art & Sole Holiday Campaign
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Smith Design
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2021
New Adviser Support Campaign
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Waltz Creative
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2021
9+CO Offering Memorandum – Milo + Theo Luxury Apartments
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Walker & Dunlop
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2021
Stephen Gould Company Overview
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Stephen Gould Corporation
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2021
SmartMoney Welcome Kit
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
GAF Creative Services
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2021
Celebrating Gender Inclusivity This Pride Month
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
Burgopak
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2021
Customer Experience Kit
Sales & Self Promotion
Firm
ScreenBroidery
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Common questions
- How many sales and self promotion projects won GDUSA awards in 2021?
- The gallery lists 29 winners from 2021 in this category, out of 300 across all years. Each one appears here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms won the most GDUSA awards for sales and self promotion in 2021?
- GAF Creative Services is the only firm with more than one winner, at 2. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Sales & Self Promotion firms of 2021, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2021 sales and self promotion projects?
- Clients named on this work include CannTrust, Gold Coast Health Plan, Herff Jones Yearbook. 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.