Congrats to our 2016 Student Competition 1st-Place Winner!

We're excited to wrap up our announcement of our 2016 Student Design Competition winners today with our 1st-place winner Angela Kilburg! (Check out the runners-up here, 3rd place here, and 2nd place here).

As our top winner, Angela's prizes include $2,500, an internship at an NYC magazine, inclusion in our Pub 51 SPD Annual and an invitation to our SPD Awards Gala.

Congrats to Angela and all our winners! And thanks to everyone who entered and made our judges' decision a tough one ... we loved looking at your work and commend you all on your great pieces. If you entered and didn't win, you are elgible to enter your designs in our SPD-U Spotlight later this month, so keep an eye out for that information soon.


FIRST PLACE and Recipient of the Mitch Shostak Award*
Angela Kilburg
SCHOOL: Moravian College
LEVEL: Sophomore
INSTRUCTOR: Camille Murphy
CATEGORY: How-To Magazine
























*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.