Award Winners
Yuka Shiramoto, Ryoji Tanaka and Ryosuke Miyashita

Publication: “Graphic Design in Japan 2015” (June 2015)
Award Ceremony: JAGDA General Assembly 2015 on 26 June 2015 at International House of Japan

Exhibitions
Tuesday 26 May to Saturday 27 June 2014 at Creation Gallery G8, Tokyo
Monday 6 July to Thursday 16 July 2014 at Paper Voice Osaka, Osaka
Wednesday 9 September to Wednesday 23 September, 2015 at Gallery Art Site, Seian Art Center, Seian University of Art and Design, Shiga
Thursday 22 October to Tuesday 27 October, 2015 at NID Hall, Nagaoka Institute of Design, Niigata
Monday 2 November to Sunday 15 December, 2015 at 1F, Nippon Designer Gakuin, Fukuoka
Sunday 13 December to Saturday 26 December, 2015 at 2F Gallery, The Center for Creative Communications (CCC), Shizuoka
Friday 18 March to Thursday 24 March, 2016 at 1F Gallery, Nippon Designer Academy of Fine Arts, Aichi

Selection Process of the 2015 JAGDA New Designer Awards
The JAGDA New Designer Award was established in 1983 with the goals of calling attention to outstanding young designers and vitalizing the realm of graphic design. The award winners – normally no more than 3 – are selected each year from among all entrants who have not reached their 40th birthday as of the end of October of the judging year.

This year 198 designers with works featured in the 2015 JAGDA Annual qualified as “new designers” (JAGDA members under age 40 as of October 31, 2014). Among these, a first round of voting was held for the 33 individuals and 2 pairs who had 3 or more featured works in total selected in the 10 categories (2 or more if the Integrated Design category was included). The featured works of each designer (or pair) were grouped together at the judging session; all names were kept anonymous. In this first round, the 28 members of the Selection Committee were permitted to cast up to 5 votes in total, but they were not required to use up their quota. A total of 8 individuals and 1 pair respectively garnered 7 or more votes, thereby becoming finalists.
The final round of voting was then conducted, only this time with each member of the Selection Committee casting 3 votes in total -without the option of not casting all allotted votes. Again, the designers’ names were kept anonymous. In this round each Committee member indicated his or her choices for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places; a 1st-place vote was worth 3 points, 2nd place 2 points, and 3rd place 1 point. The designers who garnered the most votes in this second round, and who thereby won this year’s JAGDA New Designer Awards, were Ryoji Tanaka (36 points/15votes), Yuka Shiramoto (28 points/14 votes) and Ryosuke Miyashita (27 points/12 votes).