The Mohawk Show
Mohawk Show 9
The Winners
 
Mohawk Show 10
The Mohawk Show

The Mohawk Show celebrates both the beauty and brains of design.
The judging for Mohawk Show 9 was held in Lake Placid, New York, in June of 2008. Four judges were chosen based on factors including region, type of practice, experience and point of view. For two days, judges Sam Shelton, Michael Hodgson, Debbie Millman and Bart Crosby reviewed over twelve hundred entries. Five winners and twenty finalists were chosen based on the following criteria: aesthetic value, content, paper usage, appropriateness, production quality and excellence of craft. They are also profiled in the Mohawk Show 9 Catalogue.

Submit your entry to Mohawk Show 10 and the designer of the piece will have a chance to win $5,000. You can enter as many pieces as you like, and there are no entry fees. Please contact your local Mohawk rep, merchant specification representative or download entry forms by clicking the link to the left.
The Mohawk Show
The Mohawk Show celebrates both the beauty and brains of design.
The judging for Mohawk Show 9 was held in Lake Placid, New York, in June of 2008. Four judges were chosen based on factors including region, type of practice, experience and point of view. For two days, judges Sam Shelton, Michael Hodgson, Debbie Millman and Bart Crosby reviewed over twelve hundred entries. Five winners and twenty finalists were chosen based on the following criteria: aesthetic value, content, paper usage, appropriateness, production quality and excellence of craft. They are also profiled in the Mohawk Show 9 Catalogue.

Submit your entry to Mohawk Show 10 and the designer of the piece will have a chance to win $5,000. You can enter as many pieces as you like, and there are no entry fees. Please contact your local Mohawk rep, merchant specification representative or download entry forms by clicking the link to the left.

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Winner Mohawk Show 9
Mohawk Show 9
Interface Folio No.1
* Small Design Firm Best of Show

Client: InterfaceFLOR
Design Firm: Robert Valentine New York
Designers: Robert Valentine, Michael Myers
Design Firm Website: www.valentinegroup.com
Printer: Earth Enterprise, New York, NY
Printer Website: www.earthenterprise.com
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Eggshell, Ultrawhite, 130 dtc/352 gsm, 100 text/148 gsm
Mohawk Via Smooth, Light Gray, 70 text/104 gsm
Mohawk Via Linen, Scarlet, 65 cover/176 gsm
Finished Size: 6"x9"
Print Production: 4 color process + match beige + match red + overall satin aqueous coating; white silkscreen on Via Linen

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Winner Mohawk Show 9
Mohawk Show 9
The Drawing Papers 2007-2008

Client: The Drawing Center
Design Firm: design:mw
Designers: JP Williams (Creative Director), Andrea Hyde (Senior Designer), Jeremy Bowen, Anthony Romano
Design Firm Website: www.designmw.com
Printer: Prestone Printing, Long Island City, NY
Printer Website: www.prestoneprinting.com
Paper: Strathmore Elements, Solids, Ultimate White, 80 cover/216 gsm, 100 text/148 gsm
Finished Size: 8.5"x 11"
Print Production: black ink

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Winner Mohawk Show 9
Mohawk Show 9
Impact 2008 High School Campaign

Client: Impact Teen Drivers
Design Firm: Hybrid-Design
Designers: Dora Drimalas (Creative Director), Brian Flynn (Creative Director), Ed O’Brien
Design Firm Website: www.hybrid-design.com
Printer: Hatcher Press Inc. San Carlos, CA
Printer Website: www.hatcher.com
Production: Allen Strohmeier Print, Half Moon Bay, CA
Paper: Mohawk Via Smooth, 100% PC Cool White, 100 cover/270 gsm, 80 cover/216 gsm, 80 text/118 gsm
Finished Size: 18"x 24" (posters)
Print Production: match sea blue + match gold + match pink + match bright red + match sage + overall satin aqueous (+ extra hit of one match color varies per piece)

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Winner Mohawk Show 9
Mohawk Show 9
HERE No. 3 The Cooper Carry Magazine

Client: Cooper Carry
Design Firm: Iconologic
Designers: Lea Friedman, Gabe Benzur, Matt Rollins
Design Firm Website: www.iconologic.com
Printer: Geographics, Atlanta, GA
Printer Website: www.geographicsinc.com
Paper: Beckett Concept, Vellum, Glacier, 100 cover/270 gsm; Beckett Expression, Super Smooth, Snow, 70 text/104 gsm
Finished Size: 7.5"x 10"
Print Production: hexachrome cyan, hexachrome magenta, match yellow, black; printed UV

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Winner Mohawk Show 9
Mohawk Show 9
Plain English

Client: Plain English
Design Firm: Ziggurat Brand Consultants
Designer: Kate Shaw
Design Firm Website: www.zigguratbrands.com
Printer: Beacon Press, East Sussex, UK
Printer Website: www.beaconpress.co.uk
Paper: Mohawk Options, Smooth, 100% PC White, 100 dtc/270 gsm, 100 text/148 gsm
Finished Size: 11"x 13.5"
Print Production: 4 color process + match metallic copper + match slate

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Mohawk Show 9
The Winners Link
Mohawk Show 10
Winners
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We talk with each other. We make our marks. We print our ideas, desires, inspirations and words.

Mohawk Fine Papers celebrates the designers who make concrete the complex communications of our culture, who go beyond the expected and make visuals extraordinary.

Mohawk invites you to show the best of your work in Mohawk Show 10. Five winners will receive $5000 each. And finalists will be awarded $500 each. This year's show offers the “Specialty Finishes Award” for work featuring special embellishments such as embossing, engraving, foil stamping, thermography and more. Entries are being accepted from now until May 31, 2009. A jury of four distinguished designers will act as judges to choose five best-of-show winners. Enter as many projects as you like. There are no entry fees.

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Ellen Lupton (chair) is a designer, writer, curator, and educator. She is the author of numerous books on design, including Thinking with Type, D.I.Y.: Design It Yourself, and Graphic Design: The New Basics (with Jennifer Cole Phillips). She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She is curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, where her exhibitions have included “Skin: Surface, Substance + Design,” “Mixing Messages: Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture,” and the National Design Triennial series.

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Alice Chung is founding partner, creative director, and designer at Omnivore in New York City. She studied at Johns Hopkins University and Harvard University, where she received an undergraduate degree in biology and a masters degree in health and social behavior. Her graduate work led her to pursue design studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received a B.F.A. and a B.G.D.. Before founding Omnivore in 2002, she worked at 2x4 in New York City. She is Critic in Graphic Design at Yale University School of Art, where she teaches typography and intermediate design.

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Laurie DeMartino is principal and creative director of Laurie DeMartino Design,based in Minneapolis. Clients have included Anthropologie, Gap, American Eagle, Lancome, Penguin Books, and Target. DeMartino’s work has received hundreds of awards and has been widely recognized in numerous publications, competitions, and exhibitions, including Communication Arts, I.D., Print, Graphis, Novum Gebrauchs-Grafik, American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and the Type Directors Club. Her work was featured in the 2003 Triennial exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.

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William Drenttel is a designer at Winterhouse, co-founded in Connecticut with Jessica Helfand. The studio focuses on online editorial clients, magazine and book publishing, and cultural and educational institutions. Drenttel is a founding editor of Design Observer, a trustee of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Susan Sontag Foundation, and a senior faculty fellow at the Yale School of Management. In 2005, Drenttel and Helfand created the Winterhouse Institute, which publishes the journal Below the Fold:, founded the Polling Place Photo Project, and established the Winterhouse Awards for Design Writing & Criticism.

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