Top Hat Wins Best in Show, Judge’s Choice & 3 Gold Awards for Design Excellence at 2019 AIGA PGH365
Every Spring, PGH365 showcases design work submitted by talented professionals across the Pittsburgh region.
This year, five Top Hat projects were selected by the jury to be featured in the show, and three took home additional awards — including Best in Show, Judge’s Choice and 3 Gold Awards for Design Excellence.
The Winning Work
Check out the projects awarded and featured at this year’s show.
1. 16oz HopFly Can Designs (See the work)
* Best in Show & Gold Winner
Featuring typography by Bobby Baker, illustrations by Ian George and creative direction from Aaron Easler.
2. Resurrecting Iron City Beer (See the work)
* Judge’s Choice & Gold Winner
Complete brand refresh, packaging design, and website design and development for Iron City Beer featuring work by the full Top Hat team.
3. Website for Leaf (See the work)
* Gold Winner
Featuring illustration and design by Aaron Easler, development by Ben Butler and photography by Joseph Brown.
4. Motion Graphics for Excel4apps (See the work)
* Featured
Graphics by Ian George, script and direction from Aaron Easler.
5. Brand & Web for The Motherhood (See the work)
* Featured
Featuring design and illustrations by Ian George and development by Ben Butler, direction from Aaron Easler.
Plus, Some Context
This year’s event showcased the winning projects from Context, AIGA Pittsburgh’s 2019 student competition. The exhibition featured web design work by the newest member of the Top hat team, Katherine Burgess, who joins us as Junior Graphic Designer. Congrats, Katherine!
Courtesy: AIGA Pittsburgh
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Many thanks to AIGA Pittsburgh for hosting yet another a great event, and to this year’s judges — Joe Carter-Brown, Sucha Becky and Jason Kernevich. Congratulations to our fellow agencies and designers!
What’s Ahead
This June, we’re heading back to New York City for the Silver Anvil Awards — colloquially known as the “Oscars of PR.”
Check out the recap from last year, where we took home not one, but two Silver Anvils for our Will Work for Beer campaign. And wish us luck this year — we’re thrilled to be nominated for resurrecting Iron City Beer.