SPONSORED BY BILLERUD
Our 61st GDUSA annual showcase reflects graphic design’s power to shape and service to commerce and culture. The pieces showcased — and their creators — are among the best and brightest. The numbers alone are prodigious: 8,000+ entries leading to a display of nearly 800 pieces reflecting the endless ways in which creative professionals do, in fact, advance and shape business and society. Equally exciting is the sheer breadth. Projects run the gamut from print and packaging and publications to websites and social media and motion graphics. From bread and butter projects to dream assignments. From Fortune 500 clients to non-profits and small businesses and start-ups. From design studios to ad agencies to inhouse departments and surprisingly sophisticated student work. From the great and established to the upcoming and disruptive. More important, this is graphic design harnessed to effectively crystallize and express the essence of organizations, companies, brands, products, services, cultures, causes. Our annual end-of-year best-of-year competition was originally founded as the ‘Desi’ (Design) Awards, is formally the American Graphic Design Awards™, and is colloquially known as the GDUSA Design Awards™. Shown above: The Lone Sailor Plaza project by Karen Skunta & Company.ABOUT BILLERUD
BILLERUD makes high performance packaging materials for a low carbon society. We are a global leader in paper and packaging materials made from cellulose fibers, and we are passionately committed to sustainability, quality and customer value. We serve customers in more than 100 countries through nine production units in Sweden, USA, and Finland and around 5,800 employees in 19 countries. Billerud is listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm. In the United States, Billerud operates out of a regional head office in Miamisburg, Ohio, two mills in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and a converting facility in Wisconsin. We are a leading supplier of high-quality graphic and label papers, packaging materials, and market pulp. At Billerud, we build brands and business results for our customers. To learn more, read the MESAGE FROM THE SPONSOR or contact your Billerud graphic papers sales professional or visit billerud.com
