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Awarded Works
Posters “Rec and Copy Promo Only” by Ryoji Tanaka
General Graphics “Anata” by Yoshie Watanabe
Logotype “Ginza Book Club” by Kazunari Hattori
Book & Editorial Design “University of Creativity M⇄F⇄P” by Yusuke Namito
Package Design “Ogiharaen Grape Jam & Grape Juice” by Mitsuki Kashiwagi
Newspaper Advertising “Suntory’s Moderate Drinking Campaign” by Yohei Shirai
Spatial Design “Hirate Kindergarten” by Shogo Kishino
Digital Media “Shupatto” by Masahiro Yonemichi
Video “Dance of the Earth” by Norio Nakamura
Integrated Design “Elementary School Math Textbooks” by Kohji Robert Yamamoto”

Publication
Graphic Design in Japan 2025 (July 2025)

Award Ceremony
JAGDA General Assembly on 27 June 2023 in Tokyo

Exhibition
Friday 27 June – Thursday 7 August 2025 | Tokyo Midtown Design Hub

Selection Process of the JAGDA Awards 2025

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 2025.”

• 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 the 28 members of the Selection Committee present 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.