Announcing our 2020 Student Competition Winners!

June 8, 2020 The Editors

After our virtual judging, we’ve picked the top winners in our 2020 Student Design Competition! We’ll be announcing them all week long and updating the list here each day. Thanks to our judges Heather Haggerty, Mallory Roynon, Russ Smith, and Michael Wilson for taking the time to review all of the entries and to our Student Design Competition Chair Mike Schnaidt for organizing.

This year’s judging marked the 22nd year of holding our Annual SPD-U Student Design Competition. After multiple rounds of virtual judging and Zoom meetings, our panel of judges carefully chose their picks from all the great student work submitted. They selected first, second, and third-place winners as well as four runners-up and some additional noteworthy issues. Click their names below to see the winning work.

Congratulations to all our winners and to all the wonderful entries we received!

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First Place and Recipient of the Mitch Shostak Award*
Melissa Ostrander

School: Kean University
Level: Junior
Instructor: Nancy Campbell
Category: News

*Who's Mitch Shostak?
Our top prize is given to honor Mitch Shostak, a dear and dedicated friend of SPD who passed away on June 25, 2014. The former SPD board member had worked at numerous publications before opening Shostak Studios in 1993 where he continued to produce volumes of work for a number of clients. Mitch was widely respected as one of the country's leading publication designers. Committed and passionate in his teaching at the School of Visual Arts and mentoring in his own design studio, Mitch inspired his peers as well as many new generations of designers and art directors. We dedicate our top Student Design Competition prize to him in remembrance of his life and work.

Second Place and Recipient of the B.W. Honeycutt Award*
Thomas Messina

School: Kutztown University
Level: Senior
Instructor: Holly Tienken
Category: Fashion/Lifestyle

*Who's B.W. Honeycutt?
The second-place prize is our B.W. Honeycutt Award, given to honor the life and work of Bruce W. Honeycutt who died on January 12, 1994 at the age of 40. As the former Art Director of Details magazine, his redesign helped it earn accolades such as "Magazine of the Year" from Advertising Age and "Top Hottest Magazine" from Adweek. Honeycutt's work has been recognized by SPD, AIGA, and the Art Directors Club of New York amongst others. He taught publication design at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and attended North Carolina University at Chapel Hill.

The Society of Publication Designers

Announcing our 2020 Student Competition Winners!

First Place and Recipient of the Mitch Shostak Award*
Melissa Ostrander

Second Place and Recipient of the B.W. Honeycutt Award*
Thomas Messina

Third Place
Ollie Turner

Fourth Place
Sam Balmer

Fifth Place
Phoebe Barker

Sixth Place
Carrie Kelb

Seventh Place
Taylor Hill

Noteworthy
(In Alphabetical Order)

Deana Abdou

Logan LeBuis

Noah Morgan

Callan Norton

Payton White