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"This year was a tough year for judging. There were so many excellent submissions, winners and non-winners alike, it was hard to make a final decision. I was honoured to have the privilege of seeing all of your hard work. Everyone who submitted should be proud of their accomplishments and the effort taken. Congratulations to all of you" - Karen Satok RGD
Winning entries will be featured in a printed awards annual to be distributed to 12,000 design professionals across Canada, as well as in an Exhibit that will be on display at DesignThinkers 2015 in Toronto.
Download a PDF of the 2015 RGD Student Awards Catalogue.
Thank you to our generous industry supporters who provide our winners each with prizes of $1,000 and have helped RGD to distrbute over $250,000 since the program launched back in 1998.
Awards of Excellence
Winner of Bureau Award for Northern Ontario:
Brittney Smith, Cambrian College
Honourable Mentions: Caitlin Brooks, Georgian College; Jennica Robinson, Cambrian College; Matthew Urso, Cambrian College
Winner of Quarry Award for Western Ontario:
Emily Leung, Conestoga College
Honourable Mentions: Zak Hannah, Conestoga College; Matthew Piotrowski, Conestoga College; Loretta Thompson, Conestoga College
Winner of Kivuto Award for Eastern Ontario:
Emily Buell, St. Lawrence College
Honourable Mentions: Owen Gabany, St. Lawrence College; Vivienne Kay, Algonquin College; Jared Lebel, Algonquin College
Winner of Tamm + Kit Award for Greater Toronto Area:
Julia Grzeskowiak, York/Sheridan College
Honourable Mentions: Nicole Mannell, York/Sheridan; Lucas Young, York/Sheridan
Winner of MET Award for Western Canada:
Tierney Milne, Capilano U
Honourable Mentions: Wesley Browne, Capilano U; Garret Schauteet, Capilano U
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Winner of BRANDFX Award for Western Canada:
Wesley Browne, Capilano U
Honourable Mentions: Max Fuenzalida, Capilano U; Tierney Milne, Capilano U; Claudia Pasaribu, Emily Carr U of Art & Design; Jocelyn Wong, Capilano U
Awards of Specialty
Winner of Bell Media Award for Motion Graphics:
Lucas Young, York/Sheridan for Design's Identity Crisis
Honourable Mentions: Vanessa Almeida, Centennial College; Devon Ash, Algonquin College; Kristine Buerano, George Brown College; Julia Grzeskowiak, York/Sheridan; Polina Kabakova, OCADU
Winner of Entro Award for Placemaking Design:
Jocelyn Wong, Capilano U for Propeller Oysters
Honourable Mentions: Taekyom Kim, George Brown College; Michelle Lim, Capilano U; Sara Panchaud (with Letitia Calver, Warren Jones & Foad Makki), NSCAD U
Winner of Forge Award for Information Design:
Josh Apostolopoulos, OCADU for Alberta Issues Map
Honourable Mentions: Nicole Mannell, York/Sheridan; Fran Motta, Alberta College of Art + Design; Sara Yong, York/Sheridan
Winner of Parcel Award for Print Design:
Alison Rowan, OCADU for Like Pixel, Like Paper
Honourable Mentions: Tracy Baker, York/Sheridan; Michelle Clement, Emily Carr U of Art + Design; Laurence Pilon, Concordia U
Winner of Milestone Integrated Award for Digital Marketing Design:
Christopher Kohanik (with Jeremiah Alexander Anderson-Ferguson, Tom Kucy and Justin Medoruma), Alberta College of Art + Design for #TIMEOUT
Honourable Mentions: Emily Buell, St. Lawrence College; Samantha Bullis, George Brown College; Anne Lorraine Uy, British Columbia Institute of Technology
Winner of SapientNitro Award for Interaction Design:
Chloe Negrette, York/Sheridan for Wandr
Honourable Mentions: Amanda Furukawa, York/Sheridan; Nathakorn Kittananthawongs, York/Sheridan; Bonnie Yau, OCADU
Winner of Colourphill Award for Typographic Design:
Alison Rowan, OCADU for Like Pixel, Like Paper
Honourable Mentions: Lucas Young, York/Sheridan; Keya Vadgama, York/Sheridan
Winners of q30 design inc. Award for Brand Design:
Matthew Piotrowski, Conestoga College for Southwest
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Alexandria Gagnon (with Jordan Maddox), OCADU for Contour & Co.
Honourable Mentions: Aimee Grimes, Capilano U; Alison Lee, York/Sheridan; Paolo Rinaldi, York/Sheridan
View PDF, Matt Piotrowski
View PDF, Alexandria Gagnon
Winner of 50 Carleton Award for Logo Design:
Brittney Smith, Cambrian College for Vespa Street Kitchen Identity
Honourable Mentions: Marqui Dixon, Conestoga College; Polina Kabakova, OCADU; Kevin Phung, Capilano U
Winner of Shikatani Lacroix Award for Packaging Design:
Joyce Dang, York/Sheridan for Aqua Skins
Honourable Mentions: Zak Hannah, Conestoga College; Keya Vadgama, York/Sheridan
Winner of Cundari Award for Advertising/Promotion Design:
Chelsea Larocque, OCADU for Ride Kind
Honourable Mentions: Tiffany Chin, MacEwan U; Sarah Panchaud, NSCAD U
Judges
Nadine Arseneault RGD, Bakersfield Visual Communications, Toronto
Gary Beelik, Parcel, Toronto
Mary Binsted RGD, Mary Binsted Designs, Whitehorse
Sébastien Bisson, Polygraphe, Montréal
Chad Borlase, SapientNitro, Toronto
Sean Carter, Carter Hales Design Lab Inc., Vancouver
Flavio Carvalho RGD, Method, San Francisco
Frank Chartrand RGD, Bureau, Sudbury
Daniel Choi RGD, Daniel Choi Design, Vancouver
Sarah Cosentino, Cundari, Toronto
Claire Dawson RGD, Underline Studio, Toronto
Melissa Deschenes RGD, Design de Plume, Sudbury
Sandra di Leo RGD, CINDERBLOC, Toronto
Byron Dowler, Coastlines Creative Group, Vancouver
Chris Duchaine, Milestone Integrated, Kitchener
Peter Gabany RGD, Limelight Advertising & Design, Port Hope
Shelley Gainer RGD, Shoppers Drug Mart, Toronto
Benoit Giguere, La Presse, Montreal
Scott Gillam, Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg
Wade Gilpin RGD, Sherpa Creative, Toronto
Marcus Gilroy RGD, Sun Life Financial, Kitchener
Amanda Grant, Bell Media Agency, Toronto
Nicola Hamilton Prov. RGD, Chatelaine, Toronto
Jeff Harrison, 123w, Vancouver
Tony Jurgilas RGD, 50 Carleton, Sudbury
Tim Kelly, BRANDFX, North Vancouver
Irina Khvalova RGD, Colourphill Design, Toronto
Chad Krulicki, Quarry, Kitchener
Jean-Pierre Lacroix RGD, Shikatani Lacroix, Toronto
Audree Lapierre, FFunction, Montreal
Antonio Lennert Prov. RGD, ALSO Collective, Toronto
Gilbert Li RGD, The Office of Gilbert Li, Toronto
Jeremy Linskill RGD, Zync, Toronto
Kathryn Lissack, AldrichPears Associates, Vancouver
Ciabh McEvenue, Tamm + Kit, Toronto
Jeff Malcolm RGD, AdvisorBranding, Toronto
Wayne McCutcheon RGD, Entro, Toronto
Rod McDonald RGD, Rod McDonald Typographic Design, Lake Echo (NS)
Josh McInerney RGD, Modu Design, Toronto
Kim McMullen, Flipside Creative, Vancouver
Wendy Millard RGD, Empire Life, Kingston
Christopher Moorehead, Deloitte, Toronto
Frank Moniz RGD, Mondegro, Toronto
Tara Mundy RGD, Lashbrook Marketing, London
Kelly Nicoll, PwC, Vancouver
Shannon Olliffe, City of Toronto
Laura Piché RGD, The Redpath Group, North Bay
Richard Plantt RGD, schoolBundle Inc., London
Gabriel Poirier-Galarneau, Champagne Club Sandwich, Montreal
Tom Rudman RGD, PATTISON Onestop Sales, Toronto
Lindsay Robertson, WestJet, Calgary
Brent Roth RGD, Perennial Inc., Toronto
Gustavo Sanchez, Kivuto, Ottawa
Karen Satok RGD, Sputnik Design Partners, Toronto
Peter Scott RGD, q30 design, Toronto
Dianne Semark, MEC, Vancouver
Robert Smith RGD, Greenmelon, Ottawa
Johnny Talisman, trigger, Calgary
Paul Tetrault, Tetro Design, Winnipeg
Marie-Hélène Trottier, Jump&Love, Montreal
Stüssy Tschudin RGD, Forge Media + Design, Toronto
Jennifer Van De Vooren RGD, McMillan, Ottawa
Joanna Wiebe RGD, Amazon.com, Seattle
Giles Woodward, Giles Woodward Design, Saskatoon
Click here to download a PDF of the 2015 RGD Student Award Catalog.
If you would like to find out about sponsoring an Award in 2016, please email RGD's Executive Director, Hilary Ashworth, at