The results of the Grafia association’s Best of the Year 2008 competition in advertising and graphic design were announced at a gala event to be held at Telakkastudio in Helsinki on 2 April 2009, and the works will be on show in the Best of the Year 2008 exhibition at Design Forum Finland opening on 3 April.
Representing the elite of Finnish design and marketing communications, the panel of the Best of the Year 2008 competition has once again judged last year’s crop of advertising and graphic design. The 56-member panel selected from among the 1,319 submitted top-level achievements 11 Golden Awards, 29 Silver Awards and 48 honourable mentions. Two entries received the Ladder, the main prize of the Young Creatives series.
Special Award – Doiley
Marika Luoto, PACKLAB – Lahti Institute of Design
“The most comprehensive work in the entire series reaching from the product idea to the package and even to presentation. Innovative thinking from start to finish. The original idea has remained strong, free of runners and high-quality through out the different stages. Outstanding.”
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