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JAGDA, one of the largest design organizations in Asia, has been introducing outstanding designs in its annual “Graphic Design in Japan” since 1981. Every year its member’s works, selected according to strict criteria, are introduced with over 1,000 plates. It also contains Yusaku Kamekura Design Award as the best work and its creator of the year, JAGDA Awards as especially outstanding works, and JAGDA New Designer Awards as the most promising young graphic designers. This is an unprecedented design almanac presenting the latest world-class graphic designs created by Japanese designers, which also serves as a database.

[Contents]
The 2th Yusaku Kamekura Design Award | JAGDA Awards 2024 | JAGDA New Designer Awards 2024 | Posters | CI, VI, Symbols, Logotypes & Typefaces | Newspaper & Magazine Advertising | General Graphics | Digital Media | Videos | Package Design | Spatial Design | Book & Editorial Design | Integrated Design

[The 26h Yusaku Kamakura Design Award]
The Yusaku Kamekura Design Award was established in 1999 in commemoration of the achievements of the late Yusaku Kamekura, JAGDA’s first president to contribute to the development of graphic design. The award is presented each year to the work judged to be most outstanding among all entries. This year, the Award was given to Mr. Issay Kitagawa for “KAMIZU.”

[JAGDA Awards 2024]
The JAGDA Award was launched in 2008 in reflection of JAGDA’s commitment to commend and record each year’s outstanding works of graphic design – an undertaking JAGDA considers to be among its important activities. The JAGDA Awards are presented to several particularly significant works among those submitted in the Annual that garnered the most number of votes in their specific category. This year, the award was given to the following ten works: poster “The 1st BUG Art Award”, Logotype “Livvera”, newspaper advertising “UNIQLO Mother’s Day / Father’s Day”, general graphics “June Apples”, digital media “No Ha Sho”, video “cup / horse / bottle”, package design “Futsuno Mayonnaise and Futsuno Ketchup”, spatial design “Make The Future Better Than Today”, book design “TANAAMI!! AKATSUKA!! / That’s All Right!!”,  and integrated design “KAMIZU”.

[JAGDA New Designer Awards 2024]
The JAGDA New Designer Award was established in 1983 with the goals of calling attention to outstanding young designers. The past winners have grown to be the most active creators in the industry. As a result of the strict selection with 139 nominees, 2024 awards, the 42nd to date, were presented to Shunta Sakamoto, Mariko Okazaki and Agata Yamaguchi.

[This One!]
“This One!” is a system whereby each jury comments freely on one work among the year’s entries that attracted one’s interest in particular.

[Member Directory]
A list of JAGDA members by prefecture is included.

[Others]
JAGDA International Student Award 2023 Winning Works
Appendix: JAGDA Activities in Fiscal 2023

Published: July 2024
Format: 280mm x 210mm | 468 pages | color
Editor in chief: Norio Nakamura
Book design: Akiko Sekimoto

Juries:
Katsunori Aoki, Katsumi Asaba, Rika Eguchi, Kazunari Hattori, Kenya Hara, Tsuguya Inoue, Yoko Inoue, Yoshiaki Irobe, Masahiro Kakinokihara, Kaoru Kasai, Atsuki Kikuchi, Shin Matsunaga, Haruka Misawa, Manabu Mizuno, Kazufumi Nagai, Hiroaki Nagai, Norio Nakamura, Takuya Onuki, Hitomi Sago, Taku Satoh, Katsuhiko Shibuya, Norito Shinmura, Yui Takada, Ryoji Tanaka, Yuri Uenishi, Ryosuke Uehara, Yoshie Watanabe (29 in total)

Price:
Non-members 16,500 JPY (with tax / without shipping fee)
Members and Friends 13,750 JPY (with tax and shipping fee [in Japan only])

Order/inquiry:
[domestic distribution] Rikuyosha
[overseas distribution] JAGDA Secretariat