With the ground of our 40th anniversary, we wanted to reissue the Signes Award for Design Students.
The Signes Awards for design students were born in 1995 on the initiative of Signes, aimed to all students enrolled in the final year of design schools in Spain. The juries of those ten editions were of extraordinary quality, unusual for a call born from a medium-sized company: Alan Fletcher, Oscar Tusquets, Ron Arad, Mariscal, Oscar Mariné, Jaime Hayon, Erik Spiekermann, Pepe Cruz Novillo, Carlos Rolando, Lluís Morillas, Juan Gatti, Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Oliviero Toscani or Fernando Amat among many others, evaluated the quality of the works presented.
The Signes Award allowed us to get in touch with the emerging talent of future designers who were being trained at that time. Today, many of them are recognized design professionals.
With the excuse of the 40th anniversary, we wanted to reissue the Signes Award in a special way to reconnect with those who will be the future of this profession and at the same time with a theme that invites us to think about tomorrow: “What will signage be like – or won’t – in 40 years?“.
THE TROPHY
If the trophy is thought of as the final recognition of a great effort, then it is only fair that it should be a special award in itself. Even more so when it is received by young students about to start their professional careers.
Signes has always sought the best for them, and for the first ten editions of the Signes Award, invited established designers to create these unique trophies. Peret, Antoni Morillas, Pepe Cruz Novillo, Javier Mariscal, Carlos Rolando, Daniel Nebot, Óscar Mariné, Alberto Corazón, Isidro Ferrer and Ettore Sottsass. All of them put the best of their creativity to create unique trophies.
The trophy of this special edition of the Signes Award is a reedition of “El flechazo”, designed by the great master of design Alberto Corazón for the 8th edition of the Signes Award “El flechazo”. Alberto left us in 2021 and Signes wanted to pay tribute to his memory.
THE JURY
Once again this year, the jury of the Signes Awards is of luxury. In this 10th edition, the works have been judged by:
– Mario Eskenazi · Graphic Designer
– Malika Favre · Illustrator and Graphic Designer
– Rupert Goddard · Director of Graphic Design and Associate of Foster & Partners
– Marisa Gallén · Graphic Designer
– Javi Royo · Illustrator and Graphic Designer
– Benedetta Tagliabue · Architect
