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Best of the Year
Best Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics of 2021
The signs, environmental and experiential graphics that won a GDUSA award in 2021, each with the firm and the designers credited.
32 award-winning projects
Signage is the design a visitor uses without choosing to, and when it fails the building fails with it. The designer decides what a visitor reads from fifty feet and what they read up close, and the drawing specifies the materials and the mounting as well as the letterforms. The winners here get people where they're going and make the place feel like itself. Mass General Brigham's Springboard Studio took a full page for a mobility speedometer that lets a patient and a care team talk about the same goal, and CoorsTek's training academy graphics made a factory floor legible to new hires. The best signage and environmental designers in the awards are on this page. Open any project to see the space and learn how it was built.
Standouts of 2021
- VIP Village Preschool Color + Graphicsby Visual Asylum for South Bay Union School District | Westberg+White Architects · 2021
- Morse High School Signage Systemby Visual Asylum for San Diego Unified School District/Architects Mosher Drew · 2021
- Military Heroes Golf Classicby PenFed Credit Union · 2021
- Morro Bay Street Banner Seriesby HB Design for City of Morro Bay · 2021
- MathWorks Apple Hill 2 Environmental Graphicsby MathWorks · 2021
- Sender One Climbing Graphicsby Shook Kelley for Sender One Climbing · 2021
2021
VIP Village Preschool Color + Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Visual Asylum
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2021
Morse High School Signage System
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Visual Asylum
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2021
Military Heroes Golf Classic
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
PenFed Credit Union
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2021
Morro Bay Street Banner Series
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
HB Design
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2021
MathWorks Apple Hill 2 Environmental Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
MathWorks
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2021
Sender One Climbing Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Shook Kelley
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2021
Point of View
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
HMC Architects
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2021
Quilted Landscape
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
HMC Architects
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2021
Rutgers University, Rodkin Academic Success Center
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
EwingCole
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2021
Bank of Colorado McGregor Square Branch Environmental Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Adrenaline
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2021
UMe Credit Union Gas Station Toppers
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Adrenaline
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2021
Equifax 2x to 2B Signage
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Equifax Workforce Solutions
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2021
Grounded, Growing, Acting Welcome Banners
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Reynolds Design & Management
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2021
Honor Wall
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
T-Mobile
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2021
75th Anniversary Campaign
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Karen Skunta & Company
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2021
Advancing the Legacy Donor Wall
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Karen Skunta & Company
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2021
Yosemite National Park Curry Village Concessions Environmental Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Multistudio
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2021
Signage and Wayfinding System
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
ArtHouse Design
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2021
Constellation Center for Critical Care Design and Environmental Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
ArtHouse Design
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2021
NHLBI Environmental Graphics & Office Art
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
NIH Medical Arts Branch
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2021
RentPath LIVE | NAA Apartmentalize Exhibit
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
RentPath
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2021
Earth Day Campaign
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Vanguard/Corporate Design
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2021
11611 San Vicente Signage and Environmental Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Altitude Design Office
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2021
Native New York Exhibit Design
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
C&G Partners
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2021
WOW! Children’s Museum Kid’s Clinic
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Children’s Hospital Colorado
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2021
Gaslight Village Environmental Signage
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Sepia Studio, a division of Cushing & Co.
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2021
Campus Reimagined Signage and Map
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Leibowitz
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2021
Interior Design
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Burns Design Group
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2021
Les Assises Booth
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Lookout, Inc.
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2021
Founders Row Mural
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Streetsense
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2021
OC Transpo Signage and Wayfinding
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
ENTRO and Terry Heard Designers
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2021
Shine Student Center Environmental Graphics
Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics
Firm
Entro
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Common questions
- How many signs, environmental and experiential graphics projects won GDUSA awards in 2021?
- The gallery lists 32 winners from 2021 in this category, out of 378 across all years. Each one appears here with its firm and designer credits.
- Which firms won the most GDUSA awards for signs, environmental and experiential graphics in 2021?
- Adrenaline and ArtHouse Design share the top spot with 2 of the 2021 winners each. HMC Architects (2), Karen Skunta & Company (2), Visual Asylum (2) follow. The ranking for the year lists every firm with its winning work. Best Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics firms of 2021, by award wins.
- Who are the clients on the 2021 signs, environmental and experiential graphics projects?
- Clients named on this work include Ancillae-Assumpta Academy, Aramark, Bank of Colorado, BrightStar Communities, City of Morro Bay. 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.