Awarded Works

Posters: “The 1st BUG Art Award” by KIKUCHI Atsuki

General Graphics: “ JUNE APPLES” by INOUE Yoko

Logotype: “LIVVERA” by UEHARA Ryosuke

Book & Editorial Design: “ TANAAMI!! AKATSUKA!! / That’s All Right!!” by KAKINOKIHARA Masahiro

Package Design: “Futsuno Mayonnaise and Futsuno Ketchup” by KATO Ryosuke & KATO Chihiro

Newspaper Advertising: “UNIQLO Mother’s Day / Father’s Day” by TAMAKI Taichi

Spatial Design: “Make The Future Better Than Today” by HARA Kenya

Digital Media: “No Ha Sho” by SAKAMOTO Shunta

Video: “cup / horse / bottle” by OKAZAKI Tomohiro

Integrated Design: “KAMIZU” by KITAGAWA Issay

Publication

“Graphic Design in Japan 2024” (July 2024)

Award Ceremony

JAGDA General Assembly on 22 June 2024 in Okayama

Exhibition
Monday 1 July – Sunday 25 August 2024 | Tokyo Midtown Design Hub

Selection Process of the JAGDA Awards 2024

The “JAGDA Awards” (initially known as the “JAGDA Category Awards”) were inaugurated in 2008 in line with JAGDA’s conviction that selecting and recording the outstanding graphic design works of the year is one of its most important activities. This year, a JAGDA Award was bestowed on one particularly outstanding work in each category from among the entries featured in the JAGDA yearbook, Graphic Design in Japan 2024.

In most categories, the 15 works garnering the highest number of votes in the initial round of voting were nominated for a JAGDA Award. The following categories were exceptions: Posters, 20 nominations (owing to the large number of entries); Newspaper & Magazine Advertising, Digital Media, Videos, and Spatial Design, 7 nominations each (due to the relatively small number of entries).

Voting was carried out separately for each category, with 29 members of the Selection Committee allowed to cast up to 3 votes per category (with the option of casting fewer than 3). During the voting process, printed voting sheets were used, the names of the designers were concealed, and judges who themselves had an entry among nominated works were excluded from voting within the particular category. Ultimately, the works placing in the top 3 in each category were designated as finalists.

The final round of voting was then conducted, again using printed voting sheets, with each judge required to cast 1 vote per category. Again, the designers’ names were concealed, and when a judge’s own work was included among the finalists in a given category, he or she did not participate in the voting. In the end, the works attracting the largest number of votes in each category were designated the winners of this year’s JAGDA Awards. Only in the Book Design category, this year two works received the identical number of votes in the final round, and a special run-off vote was conducted to reach a single winner.