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The PRINT Awards have long been a beacon of excellence in the world of design, recognizing creativity across a wide array of categories. As we embrace the expanding experience of the creative community, we’ve added two new categories for 2025: Title Sequence Design and Graphic Novels, celebrating the intersection of storytelling and design.
The Title Sequence Design category acknowledges the artistry of creating compelling intros for films, TV, and digital media, where motion graphics, typography, and visual storytelling merge to captivate audiences in seconds. Meanwhile, the Graphic Novels category honors the blending of illustration, narrative, and design, spotlighting print and digital works that push boundaries in visual storytelling, often tackling complicated and challenging themes.
A title sequence is often the audience’s first real interaction with the coming story, priming viewers emotionally and visually, offering a taste of the narrative’s mood, themes, and aesthetic. Think of the eerie sophistication of Se7en, Mad Men‘s nostalgic noir, the fantastical dry garden landscape of Shōgun, White Lotus’ metaphor-rich botanicals, and Saltburn‘s gilded-yet-maddening beauty. These sequences immediately draw viewers into the story’s universe, often creating anticipation before a single line of dialogue is uttered. We can’t wait to see what your work evokes.
Karin Fong and Imaginary Forces’ credit sequence for the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians
We’re also excited to add Graphic Novels as a category this year. Graphic novels have carved out a unique space in visual storytelling. They combine the allure of illustration and design with the narrative depth of prose, creating an immersive medium that we’re eager to explore this year.
There’s no denying the magnetic pull of a well-crafted graphic novel. Whether it’s the neo-noir of Sin City or the pointed history of Maus, the visuals pull readers into the story’s world’s deeper context, making it tangible and vivid.
One of our recent favorites is Worm: A Cuban American Odyssey by Edel Rodriguez. At the PRINT Book Club with Rodriguez, the artist and illustrator talked about why he chose the highly visual medium to tell his story of fleeing Castro’s Cuba and his American experience through the insurrection of January 6, 2021:
The Cuban dictatorship was great about sending the ‘right’ kind of propaganda out into the world. I hope my book dispels some of this.
Edel Rodriguez
Excerpts from Worm by Edel Rodriguez
Our jury for Title Sequence Design, Motion Design & Video includes the Emmy-award-winning director and designer Karin Fong, creative director and a founding member of Imaginary Forces, and Justin Sottile, director of motion at Pearlfisher. And in the Graphic Novels category, we’re excited to welcome Miller McCormick, graphic designer at General Purpose Spacesuit. We’ll have more information about the remaining jury members in these new categories as well as their killer work when we announce our full jury for this year.
Miller McCormick and Karin Fong, two members of our 2025 PRINT Awards jury.
With 28 categories, the PRINT Awards offer a wide range of opportunities to submit your work. And if you’ve created compelling title designs or engaging graphic novels, we welcome you to join this festival of creativity this year!