2021 winners

Winners of the 2021 Lohmann & Van Sinderen Prizes in Undergraduate Printing and Design have been announced.

Due to the university’s response to Covid-19, this year’s competition was again held entirely online. Categories included Digital Design and Printing, Web/App Design, and a newly created category in Illustration. Judges saw submissions that featured a wide variety of academic, personal, and professional pieces.

All of this year’s participants are to be congratulated on the quality and imagination of their work.

Digital Design and Printing Category

First Prize

Vera Villanueva (JE ’21)
For her body of work “Notes to Self” and “Oil & Water”

Notes to Self book

Second Prize

Melissa Leone (GH ’21) for “Guide to Navigating Women’s Health”

Honorable Mentions

Felicia Chang (PM ’21) for “Only Observations”
Rudd Fawcett (JE ’23) for Yale Literary Magazine
Sunnie Liu (JE ’22) for “Houston AAPI Film Festival 2020 Program Booklet”

Web/App Design Category

First Prize

Sunnie Liu (JE ’22) and Dora Guo (PR ’23)
For their “WeChat Project”

screen shot from the we chat website

Honorable Mention

Sidney Hirschman (JE ’22) for “Thesis Show 2021”

Illustration Category

First Prize

Sophia Zhao (PM ’23)
For her body of work from Yale Scientific Magazine, Poster Explorations (see image gallery), and Design Explorations (see image gallery)

covid 19 illustration

Judges for the 2021 competition

Raleigh D’Adamo (SM ’53)
Molly Dotson
John Gambell (M.F.A. ’81)
Basie Gitlin (DC ’10)
Mar Gonzalez-Palácio
Jesse Marsolais
Rebecca Martz
Miko McGinty (JE ’93, M.F.A. ’98)
Monica Ong

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