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Agency
Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
Creatures in Embroidery
Agency: Xiong Qiong + 成继 马
Client: Huashan Literature and Art Press Category: Innovation
Alaska Native-led suicide prevention program
Agency: Brandon Kapelow + KYUK Public Media / Bethel + National Public Radio / Washington DC
Client: National Public Radio Category: Photojournalism
SKATEBOARD CULTURE
Agency: BUREAU BERGER / Paris + CHÊNE + Benoit Berger
Client: HACHETTE / Éditions du Chêne Category: Image-Driven Books
The Wonderland of Artist’s Books
Agency: Yanrong Pan
Client: Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House Category: Image-Driven Books
MY BE LOVED
Agency: Hayashi Takuma Design Office
Client: Rei Foundation Limited Category: Image-Driven Books
The 20th Anniversary Atlas of The Beauty of ...
Agency: Guoliang ZHANG + Wei DONG
Client: Committee of “The Beauty of Books in China” Category: Image-Driven Books
Food Voyages
Agency: The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Digital Publications / Magazine
An Illustrated Treasury of Dragon Tales
Agency: Kate Leiper
Client: Floris Books Category: Book / Series
Die Froschprinzessin - Märchen aus aller Welt
Agency: Julia Plath + Fischer Sauerländer / Frankfurt
Client: Fischer Sauerländer Publishing Category: Book / Series
Sting Theory
Agency: The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Cover
Reasons to Love New York Issue
Agency: New York Magazine
Client: New York Magazine Category: Magazines / Full Issue
Yesteryear Issue: Who Ate Where
Agency: New York Magazine
Client: New York Magazine Category: Magazines / Full Issue
FEW Magazine Vol 2
Agency: FEW Magazine / Helsinki
Client: FEW Magazine Category: Magazines / Full Issue
Footnote Issue 1
Agency: Alex Hunting Studio / London
Client: Footnote Category: Magazines / Full Issue
Alice in Wonderland Art Novel
Agency: Bond & Grace + Bond & Grace Creative
Client: Bond & Grace Category: Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format Books
La Divina Commedia
Agency: Chuantao Zhu + Lingqi Kong + Shuguang Gu
Client: Macau University of Science and Technology Category: Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format Books
The Ozempic Effect
Agency: Lisa Sheehan + Which? UK
Client: Which? Magazine Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
The handful of people and places
Agency: Frank Augugliaro + Rebecca Chew
Client: The New York Times Opinion Category: Newspapers / Front Page
America Needs to Remember How to Forget
Agency: The New York Times + The New York Times Opinion + Frank Augugliaro
Client: The New York Times Opinion Category: Newspapers / Front Page
To the Vast, to the Subtle
Agency: Zhou Chen + sun ningning
Client: Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
Dare me to be the Girl - The art of poetry
Agency: Susan Milchman + Thomas Kane
Client: Susan Milchman Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
I Love It. What Is It?
Agency: Turner Duckworth / New York + Phaidon / New York
Client: Turner Duckworth Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
Edges of Ailey
Agency: Garrick Gott + The Production Department + Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Client: Whitney Museum of American Art Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
Creatures in Embroidery
Agency: Ma ChengJi + 成继 马
Client: Huashan Literature and Art Press Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
The Next Stage 2
Agency: KwokHo Yiu
Client: JOINT PUBLISHING (H.K.) Co. Ltd. Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
Paper Colors and Ink Fragrance
Agency: Qingmenyin
Client: Liaoning fine arts publishing house Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
Are We All Bad Pet Parents?
Agency: New York Magazine + Charlie Engman
Client: New York Magazine Category: Fine Art / Conceptual
The $12,000 Eye Color Changing Surgery
Agency: Emma Rose Milligan + The Wall Street Journal
Client: The Wall Street Journal Category: Photojournalism
Lifting Ukraine
Agency: Long Lead + Decimal Studios
Client: Long Lead & Decimal Studios Category: Photojournalism
COLLECTION PERSONNELLE
Agency: BUREAU BERGER / Paris + CHÊNE + Benoit Berger
Client: HACHETTE / Éditions du Chêne Category: Image-Driven Books
PINI
Agency: Matteo Berton + Inuit Editions / Bologna
Client: Inuit Editions Category: Image-Driven Books
Home of the Brave
Agency: Long Lead + Decimal Studios
Client: Long Lead & Decimal Studios Category: Digital Publications / Magazine
The Weirdest, Wildest Performances of the Year
Agency: The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Digital Publications / Magazine
SFT Schrifted Serif
Agency: Schrifteria Foundry / Belgrade + Yulia Gonina + Alena Linnask + Kirill Maslov
Client: Schrifteria Foundry Category: Typeface
I Love It. What Is It?
Agency: Turner Duckworth / New York + Phaidon / New York
Client: Turner Duckworth Category: Book Jackets
14 James Bond Hardback book covers
Agency: Michael Gillette
Client: Ian Fleming Publications Ltd Category: Book Jackets
Award:
2025 Book Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Xiong Qiong + 成继 马
Client:
Huashan Literature and Art Press
Title:
Creatures in Embroidery
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD015B
Award:
2025 Photography Bronze Cube
Agency:
Jacqueline Bates
Client:
The New York Times Opinion
Title:
The Price
Category:
Photojournalism
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO020B
Award:
2025 Photography Bronze Cube
Agency:
Brandon Kapelow + KYUK Public Media / Bethel + National Public Radio / Washington DC
Client:
National Public Radio
Title:
Alaska Native-led suicide prevention program
Category:
Photojournalism
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO021B
Award:
2025 Book Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
BUREAU BERGER / Paris + CHÊNE + Benoit Berger
Client:
HACHETTE / Éditions du Chêne
Title:
SKATEBOARD CULTURE
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD011B
Award:
2025 Book Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Yanrong Pan
Client:
Jiangsu Phoenix Fine Arts Publishing House
Title:
The Wonderland of Artist’s Books
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD012B
Award:
2025 Book Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Hayashi Takuma Design Office
Client:
Rei Foundation Limited
Title:
MY BE LOVED
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD013B
Award:
2025 Book Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Guoliang ZHANG + Wei DONG
Client:
Committee of “The Beauty of Books in China”
Title:
The 20th Anniversary Atlas of The Beauty of ...
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD014B
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Food Voyages
Category:
Digital Publications / Magazine
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND008B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Vikki Zhang
Client:
Yeehoo Press
Title:
If A Bumblebee Lands on Your Toe
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT029B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Kate Leiper
Client:
Floris Books
Title:
An Illustrated Treasury of Dragon Tales
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT030B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Matteo Berton
Client:
Inuit Editions
Title:
PINI
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT031B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Julia Plath + Fischer Sauerländer / Frankfurt
Client:
Fischer Sauerländer Publishing
Title:
Die Froschprinzessin - Märchen aus aller Welt
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT032B
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Sting Theory
Category:
Magazines / Cover
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND010B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Yan Long
Client:
sell oneself
Title:
Verbal Violence
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT036B
Award:
2025 Photography Bronze Cube
Agency:
New York Magazine
Client:
New York Magazine
Title:
Our Campus. Our Crisis.
Category:
Live Event
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO015B
Award:
2025 Photography Bronze Cube
Agency:
New York Magazine + HUGO YU
Client:
New York Magazine
Title:
Where to Eat
Category:
Food
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO013B
Award:
2025 Photography Bronze Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Food Voyages
Category:
Food
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO014B
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
New York Magazine
Client:
New York Magazine
Title:
Reasons to Love New York Issue
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND019M
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
New York Magazine
Client:
New York Magazine
Title:
Yesteryear Issue: Who Ate Where
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND020M
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
FEW Magazine / Helsinki
Client:
FEW Magazine
Title:
FEW Magazine Vol 2
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND022M
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Alex Hunting Studio / London
Client:
Footnote
Title:
Footnote Issue 1
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND023M
Award:
2025 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Ben Hickey
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
The Interviews Issue
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT058M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Bond & Grace + Bond & Grace Creative
Client:
Bond & Grace
Title:
Alice in Wonderland Art Novel
Category:
Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD032M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Chuantao Zhu + Lingqi Kong + Shuguang Gu
Client:
Macau University of Science and Technology
Title:
La Divina Commedia
Category:
Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD033M
Award:
2025 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Lisa Sheehan + Which? UK
Client:
Which? Magazine
Title:
The Ozempic Effect
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT061M
Award:
2025 Artificial Intelligence Merit Honor
Agency:
BigTime Creative Shop / Riyadh
Client:
the ring magazine
Title:
4th Judge
Category:
AI / Idea
Annual ID:
ADC104_ART023M
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Frank Augugliaro + Rebecca Chew
Client:
The New York Times Opinion
Title:
The handful of people and places
Category:
Newspapers / Front Page
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND026M
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
The New York Times + The New York Times Opinion + Frank Augugliaro
Client:
The New York Times Opinion
Title:
America Needs to Remember How to Forget
Category:
Newspapers / Front Page
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND027M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Zhou Chen + sun ningning
Client:
Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd
Title:
To the Vast, to the Subtle
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD034M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Susan Milchman + Thomas Kane
Client:
Susan Milchman
Title:
Dare me to be the Girl - The art of poetry
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD035M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Turner Duckworth / New York + Phaidon / New York
Client:
Turner Duckworth
Title:
I Love It. What Is It?
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD036M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Garrick Gott + The Production Department + Whitney Museum of American Art / New York
Client:
Whitney Museum of American Art
Title:
Edges of Ailey
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD038M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Seher Anand
Client:
Self Promotion
Title:
Migrant Landscape
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD039M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Ma ChengJi + 成继 马
Client:
Huashan Literature and Art Press
Title:
Creatures in Embroidery
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD041M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
KwokHo Yiu
Client:
JOINT PUBLISHING (H.K.) Co. Ltd.
Title:
The Next Stage 2
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD042M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Qingmenyin
Client:
Liaoning fine arts publishing house
Title:
Paper Colors and Ink Fragrance
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD043M
Award:
2025 Photography Merit Honor
Agency:
New York Magazine + Charlie Engman
Client:
New York Magazine
Title:
Are We All Bad Pet Parents?
Category:
Fine Art / Conceptual
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO025M
Award:
2025 Photography Merit Honor
Agency:
Emma Rose Milligan + The Wall Street Journal
Client:
The Wall Street Journal
Title:
The $12,000 Eye Color Changing Surgery
Category:
Photojournalism
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO030M
Award:
2025 Photography Merit Honor
Agency:
Long Lead + Decimal Studios
Client:
Long Lead & Decimal Studios
Title:
Lifting Ukraine
Category:
Photojournalism
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO031M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
BUREAU BERGER / Paris + CHÊNE + Benoit Berger
Client:
HACHETTE / Éditions du Chêne
Title:
COLLECTION PERSONNELLE
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD021M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Matteo Berton + Inuit Editions / Bologna
Client:
Inuit Editions
Title:
PINI
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD022M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Joyce Shi
Client:
G Axis Press
Title:
Typography In NYC 2
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD023M
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Long Lead + Decimal Studios
Client:
Long Lead & Decimal Studios
Title:
Home of the Brave
Category:
Digital Publications / Magazine
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND014M
Award:
2025 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Weirdest, Wildest Performances of the Year
Category:
Digital Publications / Magazine
Annual ID:
ADC104_MND015M
Award:
2025 Typography / Lettering Merit Honor
Agency:
Schrifteria Foundry / Belgrade + Yulia Gonina + Alena Linnask + Kirill Maslov
Client:
Schrifteria Foundry
Title:
SFT Schrifted Serif
Category:
Typeface
Annual ID:
ADC104_TYP038M
Award:
2025 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Jun Cen
Client:
Xiron Publishing
Title:
Heigo Higashino Book Cover Series
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT057M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
WW Norton & Co. / New York
Client:
W.W. Norton & Co.
Title:
Ghostroots
Category:
Book Jackets
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD024M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Turner Duckworth / New York + Phaidon / New York
Client:
Turner Duckworth
Title:
I Love It. What Is It?
Category:
Book Jackets
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD026M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Michael Gillette
Client:
Ian Fleming Publications Ltd
Title:
14 James Bond Hardback book covers
Category:
Book Jackets
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD027M
Award:
2025 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
for&st / Hong Kong
Client:
Shum Kwan yi
Title:
Dust & Cicada Chirping
Category:
Book Jackets
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD028M