Clifford Stoltze of Boston’s Stoltze Design was the judge for HOW’s inaugural Poster Design Awards. As principal of his eponymous design firm, Stoltze has worked with clients like MIT, the Boston Philharmonic, Arista Records, Harvard and Sony Music, among many others. Stoltze Design compiled, edited and produced 1000 Music Graphics for Rockport Publishers.
From about 1,600 entries, Stoltze chose 10 winners, using a judging system that involved several rounds to narrow the field. He says choosing just 10 winners was tough:
“There were many great posters submitted…so many that I could have chosen 50 submissions and been happy with the selection. I was happy to see that plenty of gig posters were submitted…there were 10 from Hammerpress alone that I would have loved to include. But there was great range to the work that was entered so I made an effort to choose examples that represented the diversity of the submissions. Once I had narrowed it down to about 20, it was very difficult to make the final cut. In the end, the winners all seemed to work for me on a number of levels, both conceptually and formally.”
Click the page numbers below to view the 10 winners in HOW’s 2009 Poster Design Awards.
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