The winners of the ISTD International Typographic Awards 2011 have been announced at a ceremony at the Museum of Brands in London. The awards are ‘the only international design awards that specifically recognise typographic excellence across a broad range of design disciplines’ and were judged by Robert Boon (Inventory Studio), Simon Dixon (DixonBaxi), Tom Hingston (Tom Hingston Studio), Lynda Relph-Knight (design writer and consultant) and Astrid Stavro (Astrid Stavro Design).

As usual, the standard was impressive and a total of fifty awards were handed out on the evening; thirty-six Certificates of Excellence, and fourteen Premier Awards, which went to the following studios and designers. Congratulations everyone…

Newspapers/Magazines
Elephant Magazine Issue — Studio8 Design

VIEW Magazine – Issue 2,3,4,5 — Purpose

Books
No Name Station — Fabio Ongarato Design

Promotional brochures/Catalogues
Typescape — Golden Tree

Corporate identity/Logotypes/Brandmarks
Look Mum No Hands! — Studio OPX

Typeface design/Calligraphy/Hand lettering
Pollen Studio — TypeTogether

Planeta Studio — Dani Klauser Grafik Design

ThreeSix Typefaces — MuirMcNeil

Posters/Calendars
Storm Thorgerson Poster — The Brand Union

Falmouth Butterfly — Andy Neal

Information design/Educational literature
Everyone Ever in the World — The Luxury of Protest

Advertising/Direct mail
2×2 Meter Typografie — 804© Büro für visuelle Kommunikation

Exhibition design/Signage systems
House of Tales — R2 Design

V&A Ceramics Galleries – Gallery Identity, Interpretative Graphics — Cartlidge Levene

istd.org.uk