The Mohawk Show
Mohawk Show 8
The Winners
 
Mohawk Show 10
The Mohawk Show

The Mohawk Show celebrates both the beauty and brains of design.
The judging for Mohawk Show 8 was held in Lake George, New York, in June of 2007. Four judges were chosen based on factors including region, type of practice, experience and point of view. For two days, judges Paula Scher, Dana Arnett, Luke Hayman and Jessica Helfand reviewed over fourteen 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 8 Catalogue.

Submit your entry to Mohawk Show 9 and you will have a chance to win $5000. 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 8 was held in Lake George, New York, in June of 2007. Four judges were chosen based on factors including region, type of practice, experience and point of view. For two days, judges Paula Scher, Dana Arnett, Luke Hayman and Jessica Helfand reviewed over fourteen 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 8 Catalogue.

Submit your entry to Mohawk Show 9 and you will have a chance to win $5000. 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 8
Mohawk Show 8
MICA Undergraduate Admissions Prospectus
Client: Maryland Institute College of Art
Design Firm: Rutka Weadock Design
Designer: Anthony Rutka; Bora Shin
Primary Photographer: Bruce Weller
Map Illustration: Susan Hunt Yule
Design Firm Website: www.rutkaweadock.com
Paper: Mohawk Superfine, Smooth, Ultrawhite, 65 cover (176 gsm) and 160 dtc (432 gsm)
Printer: The Hennegan Company, (A Consolidated Graphics Company), Florence, KY
Print Production:
Cover: black, match warm gray, match turquoise, match chartreuse, match warm red, and spot satin varnish (outside); black, match warm red, and spot satin varnish (inside)
Text: 4 color process Hennegan Microtone®

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Winner Mohawk Show 8
Mohawk Show 8
See 5 & 6

Client: Herman Miller
Design Firm: Cahan & Associates
Designer: Todd Richards
Design Firm Website: www.cahanassociates.com
Printer: The Hennegan Company (A Consolidated Graphics Company), Florence, KY
Paper: Mohawk Via, Smooth, Bright White, 70 text (104 gsm), and 80 cover (216 gsm)
Print Production:
Cover: 4 color process and overall dull aqueous (outside); 4 color process, match dark gray, and overall dull aqueous (inside)
Text: 4 color process match dark gray, match orange (run and spike), and spot dull varnish Hennegan Microtone® Screening

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Winner Mohawk Show 8
Mohawk Show 8
Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting

Client: Museum of Arts & Design
Design Firm: Florio Design
Designer: Linda Florio
Design Firm Website: www.floriodesign.com
Printer: The Studley Press, Dalton, MA
Paper: Mohawk Options, Smooth, True White 96, 60 text (89 gsm), and 100 dtc (270 gsm)
Print Production: 4 color process, match silver, overall laminate, and spot UV

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Winner Mohawk Show 8
Mohawk Show 8
Why?/Price WaterhouseCoopers Australia 2006 Annual Report

Client: Price WaterhouseCoopers Australia
Design Firm: Yello Enterprise IG
Designer: Adam Trunk
Design Firm Website: www.yelloeig.com
Printer: GEON, Banksmeadow, NSW, Australia
Paper: Beckett Expression, Radiance, 70 text (104 gsm), and 100 cover (270 gsm)
Print Production: Cover: 3 match colors, overall matte varnish, and clear foil stamp (outside); 4 color process, 2 match colors, and overall matte varnish (inside)
Text: 4 color process, 4 match colors, and overall matte varnish

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Winner Mohawk Show 8
Mohawk Show 8
Reverb*
*In-house winner

Client: Tricycle, Inc.
Design Firm: Tricycle, Inc.
Designers: Michael Hendrix, Caleb Ludwick, Ben Horner, Ingrid Dysinger, Nick DuPey
Design Firm Website: www.tricycleinc.com
Printer: LP Thebault, Parsippany, NJ
Paper: Mohawk Options, Smooth, 100% PC White, 100 text (148 gsm), and 65 cover (176 gsm)
Print Production: 4 color process, 2 match colors, and satin aqueous

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Mohawk Show 8
The Winners Link
Mohawk Show 10
Winners
Download entry form (pdf)
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 29, 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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