Student Competition

From the Student Competition Archives: The Inaugural Year of 1994

As you may have noticed over on the SPD homepage, we're celebrating our 50th Anniversary this year as an organization! And while SPD has been honoring professional editorial design work since its inception, the first Student Competition wasn't held until 1994 with the winning pieces published in the Pub 30 annual. In the beginning, the Student Competition was more like our current SPD-U Spotlight Online Gallery Show, where it highlighted the best work being done by students over the past year.

Today, we're taking a look back at those original winners and each week we'll showcase the following year's Student Competition winners until we're caught up with this past year's winning designs. And along the way, we'll also be adding interviews and profiles with some of these award-winning student designers to see where they ended up.

And of course, we'll be announcing the official rules and Call for Entries for THIS year's competition in the weeks to come. But for now, click through to see the winning student work of 1994...

Gold Medal / B.W. Honeycutt Award Winner :: Soo Jung Lee, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: biG:the magazine of NY city :: Category: Publication Design
Gold Medal / B.W. Honeycutt Award Winner (continued) :: Soo Jung Lee, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: biG:the magazine of NY city :: Category: Publication Design
Gold Medal / B.W. Honeycutt Award Winner (continued) :: Soo Jung Lee, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: biG:the magazine of NY city :: Category: Publication Design
Gold Medal / B.W. Honeycutt Award Winner (continued) :: Soo Jung Lee, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: biG:the magazine of NY city :: Category: Publication Design
Gold Medal / B.W. Honeycutt Award Winner (continued) :: Soo Jung Lee, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: biG:the magazine of NY city :: Category: Publication Design
Silver Medal 1 :: Michael A. Petersen, Northern Illinois University :: Entry title: Towers Art & Literature Annual :: Category: Redesign
Silver Medal 1 (continued) :: Michael A. Petersen, Northern Illinois University :: Entry title: Towers Art & Literature Annual :: Category: Redesign
Silver Medal 1 (continued) :: Michael A. Petersen, Northern Illinois University :: Entry title: Towers Art & Literature Annual :: Category: Redesign
Silver Medal 2 :: So Takahashi, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: Shaft :: Category: Publication Design
Silver Medal 2 (continued) :: So Takahashi, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: Shaft :: Category: Publication Design
Silver Medal 2 (continued) :: So Takahashi, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: Shaft :: Category: Publication Design
Silver Medal 3 :: David Byun, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: A-Z :: Category: Publication Design
Silver Medal 3 (continued) :: David Byun, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: A-Z :: Category: Publication Design
Silver Medal 3 (continued) :: David Byun, School of Visual Arts :: Entry title: A-Z :: Category: Publication Design
Silver Medal 4 :: Byeong-hye Lee, Heekung Kim, and Nam-Yun Jean, Pratt Institute :: Entry title: + - = 0 :: Category: Design/Spreads
Silver Medal 4 (continued) :: Byeong-hye Lee, Heekung Kim, and Nam-Yun Jean, Pratt Institute :: Entry title: + - = 0 :: Category: Design/Spreads
Silver Medal 4 (continued) :: Byeong-hye Lee, Heekung Kim, and Nam-Yun Jean, Pratt Institute :: Entry title: + - = 0 :: Category: Design/Spreads
Silver Medal 5 :: Jody Haneke and Michael Long, Ringling School of Art & Design :: Entry title: RIngling BFA in Photography Catalogue :: Category: Publication Design AND Photography
Silver Medal 5 (continued) :: Jody Haneke and Michael Long, Ringling School of Art & Design :: Entry title: RIngling BFA in Photography Catalogue :: Category: Publication Design AND Photography
Silver Medal 5 (continued) :: Jody Haneke and Michael Long, Ringling School of Art & Design :: Entry title: RIngling BFA in Photography Catalogue :: Category: Publication Design AND Photography
Silver Medal 6 :: Sophie Casson, Universite du Quebec a Montreal :: Entry title: Fathers & Child-rearing AND Step Families :: Category: Illustration
Silver Medal 6 :: Sophie Casson, Universite du Quebec a Montreal :: Entry title: Fathers & Child-rearing AND Step Families :: Category: Illustration