On November 18, 2020, the Rhineland-Palatinate Design Award in the field of visual communication was presented by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economic Affairs. A seven-member expert jury selected the top 20 entries from a total of 289 submissions. The award was presented by the Rhineland-Palatinate Design Forum.
Seven of the 20 honorees received the “Design Award” designation for outstanding work, and 13 received “Honorable Mentions” in recognition of other remarkable works. Among the winners are “Moholy-Nagy and New Typography” by Prof. Dr. Isabel Naegele, Prof. Dr. Petra Eisele, and Julia Neller, as well as student Lucie Langston, who received the Design Prize Talents for her illustrations “Through the Dunes – The Trauma of the COVID-19 Pandemic,” supervised by Prof. Monika Aichele.
The Design Award catalog and the 20 best works can be found at www.designpreis-rlp.de.
Listed below are all professors at Mainz University of Applied Sciences and students from the Department of Design who received a design award or distinction:
Design Awards:
“Through the Dunes – The Trauma of the COVID-19 Pandemic” (Illustration category)
Lucie Langston / Advisor: Prof. Monika Aichele
“Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography” (Editorial Design category)
Gutenberg Design Lab / Mainz University of Applied Sciences: Prof. Dr. Petra Eisele, Prof. Dr. Isabel Naegele [Eds.]
Awards:
“The Poem Lab. A Machine Made of Books.”
Isabela Dimarco / Advisors: Prof. Dr. Petra Eisele, Prof. Florian Jenett, Prof. Dr. Isabel Naegele
“Play Type – An Interactive Typography Assembly Table”
Anna Weirich / Advisors: Prof. Dr. Petra Eisele, Prof. Florian Jenett, Prof. Dr. Isabel Naegele
“typester – Microtypography. Click. Done.” (Category: Studies & Research)
Lisa Schmidt / Advisors: Prof. Philipp Pape
“Call for Creatives” (Category: Digital Design)
Lucas Hesse / Advisor: Prof. Florian Jenett
“PIONEER” (Category: Moving Image)
Felix Janz / Advisor: Prof. Katja Davar
“Monomythos” (Moving Image category)
Andrés Acosta Blaschitz / Advisor: Prof. Anja Stöffler
“The Administration of the Internet” (Moving Image category)
Simon Schares / Advisor: Prof. Egon Bunne
