2015-2020 winners

Due to the university’s response to Covid-19, this year’s competition was held entirely online and two additional categories (Web/App Design and Echoes in the new Altered Book) were created to broaden the competition. Judges saw more than eighty submissions that featured a wide variety of academic, personal, and professional pieces.

This year the committee awarded an additional $2,000 in prize money in honor of the class of 2020 and all the students who will be missing their summer opportunities.

Digital Design and Printing Category

First Prize
Sophia Zhao (PM ’23) for her body of work and selected pieces, including posters entitled “Chaos,” “After Dark,” and “19Q4.”

Second Prizes

• Rudd Fawcett (JE ’22) was awarded second prize for his pieces “Chernobyl Disaster” and “Chernobyl Files 1986.”
• Soledad Tejada (DP ’20) was also awarded second prize for her body of work of five submissions, including posters entitled “Sargasso,” “Routine Descents,” “Reverberating Routes,” and “A Cartographic Redesign of Rebecca Solnit’s ‘City of Women.’”

Third Prizes

• Josh Chough (BR ’23) for a body of work, including posters entitled “Y Pop Up,” “Playfest,” and “Tacos Tacos Tacos”
• Lauren Gatta (GH ’21) was awarded third place for a body of work, including posters entitled “When the Ink Will Not Fade” and “32 Stamps.”
• Sidney Hirschman (ES ’22) was also awarded third place for her body of work.

Honorable Mentions

• Ivy Li (TD ’21) for her YUNA 2020 logo and T-shirt design
• Sunnie Liu (JE ’21) for “TV Dinner” and “The Squirrels of JE”
• Julie Hedges (SM ’20) for “Towards Roadside Attractions”
• Kanyinsola Anifowoshe (ES ’23) for “A World Without Prison”
• Melissa Leone (GH’21) for her body of work
• Geovanni Barrios (PM ’23) for “Working: A Musical” 

Letterpress Category

First Prize
JoJi Baratelli (JE ’23) for his body of work

Second Prize
Giovanna Truong (BF ’23) for “Famous Bow Tie Wearers”

Third Prize
Anh Dang (BK ’23) for “Verbaffle”

Honorable Mentions

• Joseph Ribaudo (PR ’21)
• Annli Nakayama (PR ’22)
• Nicholas Ruiz-Huidobro (TR ’21)
• Roba Sabawi (DP ’21)

Web/App Design Category

First Prize
Josh Chough (BR ’23) for his body of work

Second Prize
Alexi Christakis (PR ’20) for a mobile app called “Paint Party”

Honorable Mentions

• Felicia Chang (PM ’21)
• Farid Djamalov (PR ’21)
• Sophia Durney (GH ’22)
• Ariana Habibi (SY ’22)
• Audrey Steinkamp (PM ’22)

Echoes in the New Altered Book Category

First Prize
Sarim Abbas (PM ’20)

Honorable Mention
Isabelle Top (JE ’22) for “The Dragon Rider”

Judges for the 2020 competition

Raleigh D’Adamo (SM  ’53)
Molly Dotson
John Gambell (M.F.A. ’81)
Basie Gitlin (DC  ’10)
Mar Gonzales-Palácio
Rebecca Martz
Miko McGinty (JE ’93, M.F.A. ’98)
Richard Rose
Anton Sovetov (M.F.A. ’16)

Letterpress Category

First Prize
Sidney Hirschman (JE ’22) for her body of work

Honorable Mentions

• Julia Ma and Tommy Huang (both JE ’19) for their joint body of work entry
• Sunnie Liu (JE ’21) for “Angel Island Voices”

Digital Design and Printing Category

First Prize
Julia Ma (JE ’19) for her body of work

Second Prizes

• Tommy Huang (JE ’19) for his body of work
• Will Kortum (GH ’19) for his body of work
• Sunnie Liu (JE ’21) for “Chinoiserie Town”

Judges for the 2021 competition

Charles Biada (PC  ’13)
Raleigh D’Adamo (SM  ’53)
Molly Dotson
John Gambell (M.F.A. ’81)
Maura Gianakos
Basie Gitlin (DC ’10)
Jessica Helfand (BR ’82, M.F.A. ’89)
Rebecca Martz
Richard Rose

Letterpress Category

First Prize
Jessica Kong (BF ’21) for her book “Kong Rong Gives Away Pears”

Second Prize 
Julia Ma and Tommy Huang (both JE ’19) for their joint body of work entry, which included a variety of posters, cards, and printed bags

Honorable Mentions

• Bix Archer (BK ’19) for her silkscreened book “Oceanic Feeling / Traumatic Brain Injury”
• Noah Parnes (DC ’21) for his poster “Gaga”

Digital Design and Printing Category

First Prize
Julia Ma (JE ’19) for her body of work, including New Leaf, The Yale Literary Magazine, Irma Boom, and Vowels and Consonants

Second Prize
Tommy Huang (JE ’19) for his piece “Dada Chapbook”

Honorable Mention
Jacob Brussel Faria (DC ’18) for Seltzer Magazine

Judges for the 2018 competition

Raleigh D’Adamo (SM  ’53)
Molly Dotson
John Gambell (M.F.A. ’81)
Maura Gianakos
Basie Gitlin (DC ’10)
Rebecca Martz
Miko McGinty (JE ’93, M.F.A. ’98)
Richard Rose

Letterpress Category

First Prize
Soledad Tejada (DC  ’20) for “the lighthouse,” a stylized setting of a quotation from Virginia Woolf

Honorable Mention
Julia Ma (JE  ’19) for her letterpress piece “je Suds,” packaging for a soap bar themed on her residential college

Digital Design and Printing Category

First Prize
Kiran Van Lengen-Welty (SY  ’17) for her body of work, including “Boats Against the Current,” a typeset “Great Gatsby” excerpt with hand-crafted cover

Second Prize
Isaac Morrier (BR  ’17) for his body of work, which included an extensive collection of posters for campus events

Honorable Mentions

• Julia Ma (JE  ’16) for “Black Men and Public Space”
• Christopher Paolini (TD  ’17) for “Jolt 4”

Judges for the 2017 competition

Jo Ellen Ackerman
Charles Biada (PC  ’13)
Raleigh D’Adamo (SM  ’53)
Molly Dotson
John Gambell (M.F.A. ’81)
Basie Gitlin (JE  ’10)
Andrea MacAdam
Rebecca Martz
Jae Rossman

Digital Category

First Prize
Mariah Xu (ES  ’16) for her body of work, including three large poster series, two student publications — “Dimensions” and “Kalliope” — and a personal portfolio catalog

Second Prize
Oliver Preston (JE  ’16) for the Yale Literary Magazine and his broadsheet interpretation of “This is Living,” an essay by Charles D’Ambrosio

Honorable Mentions

• Katie Colford (CC  ’16) for her accordion-style artist’s book, “The Playbook,” and “Small Worlds” performance poster
• Chloe Siamof (BK  ’16) for her Doors of New Haven zine
• Kai Takahashi (BK  ’16) for “Meet the Marks,” a collection of pamphlets about punctuation marks

Letterpress Category

First Prize
Julia Ma (JE  ’19) for her body of work, including a letterpress poster and two artist’s books, entitled “Snow Day” and “Fire Escape”

Honorable Mentions

• Heather Harrington (ES  ’19) for her letterpress piece entitled “The Serenity of Solitude”
• Juan Pablo Ponce de León (JE  ’16) for his “Omnibus et Singulis” letterpress certificate

Judges for the 2016 competition

Molly Dotson
John Gambell (M.F.A. ’81)
Basie Gitlin (DC ’10)
Cindy Hwang (BK ’15)
Rebecca Martz
Richard Rose
Jae Rossman

First Prize
Cindy Hwang (BK ’15) for her body of work, including a reversible poster for WYBC Radio’s Ante-Fling, books for campus publications Dimensions and The Yale Literary Magazine, and a pamphlet for Berkeley College’s Commonplace Society

Second Prize
Mariah Xu (ES ’16) for her body of work, consisting of an art book of photographed intersections, a fold-out timeline documenting the life and work of designer Max Huber, and a series of Yale-branded pieces for the Yale Map Collection, in addition to her professional pieces

Honorable Mentions

• David Shatan-Pardo (MC ’15 ) for his log of early explorations in automated flag design
• Grant Laster (JE ’18) for his traditionally printed work, “Small broadside”
• Katherine Rosenberg (ES ’18) for her Catulli flag book
• Sara Cho (BR ’18) for her accordion-style book, “The Chair that No One Sits On” 

Judges for the 2015 competition

John Gambell (M.F.A. ’81)
Basie Gitlin (DC ’10)
Rebecca Martz
Emily Monjaraz (SY ’14)
Wynne Patterson
Richard Rose
Jae Rossman