News: One Design Honored with Six Awards from Graphis
CHICAGO, AUGUST 8, 2024 — It's an honor to announce that five recent One Design projects have been recognized by Graphis with six awards as part of their 2025 Design and Poster Annuals.
THE DETAILS
Our work for Kinetic, Truth Be Told, DVLP Medicines, and Confronting Design won silver awards in the 2025 Graphis Design Annual. Our You Create Tomorrow project won a gold award in the 2025 Graphis Design Annual and a silver award in the 2025 Poster Annual.
Truth Be Told,
Silver Award, 2025 Design Annual
Truth be Told, is a new tavern on the University of Chicago campus—blending old-world English pub atmosphere with the sophistication and elegance of Chicago‘s seminal academic institution.
DVLP Medicines
Silver Award, 2025 Design Annual
DVLP Medicines (pronounced “Develop Medicines”) has a radically progressive solution to the high cost and high failure rate of drug development: their platform digitizes, de-enterprises, and automates the entire drug development process. One Design collaborated closely with the team to bring this industry-changing company out of stealth with a complete brand package, from positioning and naming through visual identity and messaging strategy.
Much of our efforts involved defining a new vocabulary and flexible design language to create a seamless brand experience across DVLP’s entire ecosystem, from communications to the user interfaces in its platform.
Kinetic
Silver Award, 2025 Design Annual
Kinetic is creating an infrastructure-as-a-service solution to eliminate the friction associated with providing maintenance to today’s modern digitized vehicles. Their solutions promise effortless speed, effortless accuracy, and effortless precision.
The Kinetic logo and its accompanying monogram are symbolic of their comprehensive, self-contained, ever-expanding solution. The bespoke letterforms within the wordmark nod to engineering, precision, and cutting-edge digital technology, with a sense of visual strength that keeps them grounded in the industrial sector.
Confronting Design
Silver Award, 2025 Design Annual
In collaboration with the Chicago Graphic Design Club, we crafted a brand identity for Confronting Design, a series of workshops, panel discussions, forums, and debates focused on pressing issues facing the field of design. The first sold-out event took place in April of 2023, and focused on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on design.
The design system is a typographic manifestation of dialogue and the point-counterpoint dynamic of debate. An ever-evolving, dynamic design language, the system is built on a constantly shifting visual power dynamic between the words in the series’ title to communicate the energy—and potential volatility—of the topics at hand.
You Create Tomorrow
Gold Award, 2025 Design Annual
Silver Award, 2025 Poster Annual
You Create Tomorrow is a typographic poster series designed to spur action within communities, prompting viewers to engage and share perspectives regarding how their individual actions and observations can benefit the improvement of their surroundings.
Custom type was drawn to maximize the white space on each poster, creating a blank canvas that invites viewers to contribute their thoughts and ideas in response to a series of prompts presented within each letterform.
ABOUT GRAPHIS
For 80 years, Graphis has been committed to celebrating global visual communication excellence by championing the most influential work across Design, Advertising, Photography, and Illustration.
From Graphis.com:
As a chronicler of creative excellence spanning eight decades since our founding in 1944, our mission is to inspire professionals and emerging talents across the globe by providing a platform that showcases their groundbreaking work. Through our comprehensive collections, prestigious competitions, unparalleled publications, and diverse educational initiatives, we aim to foster a rich dialogue within the creative community, ensuring that the evolution of visual communication is both recognized and preserved.
Explore the full set of our award winning projects here.
See all of the 2025 Design Annual winners here.
See all of the 2025 Poster Annual winners here
