Best in Show2025
Top of the ladder
Bear Rabbit Taproom
Elements of Advertising · Logo Design
The Bear Rabbit Taproom identity, a logo carried across a poster, coasters, and glassware.
Student work, judged by industry
Awards & Recognition
Students in the Graphic & Web Design program enter their work in the American Advertising Awards, where it is judged by working designers and agency staff from outside the college. Students here have won 24 ADDYs since 2020, all of them through AAF Spokane. One of them, Gracie Duncan’s Bear Rabbit Taproom, took Best in Show. The judging is run by AAF Spokane, and the college has no part in it.
- Best in Show
- 1
- Gold
- 2
- Silver
- 12
- Bronze
- 3
- Cobalt
- 6
Cobalt is awarded beside Best in Show, Gold, Silver and Bronze rather than below them.
Every Award on Record
Every award on record, newest first. Each one is shown on the winner card the competition made for it, so the piece is the first thing you see.
2025
1 Best in Show · 1 Gold · 5 Silver · 2 Cobalt
Gold2025
Barkershop
Elements of Advertising · Logo Design
The Barkershop identity, a dog grooming brand carried across signage, packaging, and an app concept.
Silver2025
Branded Portfolio Booklet
Sales & Marketing · Publication Design Series
Her own branded portfolio booklet, a publication series presenting her work.
Silver2025
Breathe Matches
Sales & Marketing · Packaging
The Breathe matchbox packaging.
Silver2025
Drift Shoe Box
Print Advertising · Magazine Campaign
The Drift shoe box magazine campaign.
Silver2025
Iceburg Icecream
Cross Platform · Consumer Campaign
The Iceburg Icecream campaign, a consumer brand carried across packaging and platforms.
Silver2025
The Festival at Sandpoint
Sales & Marketing · Special Event Materials
Magdalena Mormon won a Silver ADDY for Festival at Sandpoint event materials.
CobaltAwarded beside the ladder, not below it2025
Dizzi Margarita
Elements of Advertising · Logo Design
The Dizzi Margarita logo, designed for a canned seltzer.
CobaltAwarded beside the ladder, not below it2025
Pastability
Sales & Marketing · Packaging
The Pastability packaging.
2024
1 Gold · 4 Silver · 4 Cobalt
Gold2024
Indie Blues (Illustration)
Elements of Advertising · Illustration · Single
The illustration behind her Indie Blues poster, an art nouveau treatment for a local musicians music festival. The same poster took a second ADDY in the poster category.
Silver2024
Indie Blues (Poster)
Out-of-Home & Ambient Media · Out-of-Home · Single Poster
The Indie Blues poster itself, the second ADDY the piece earned that year.
Silver2024
Kaplin Matcha Tea
Sales & Marketing · Sales Promotion · Product or Service · Packaging
The Kaplin Matcha Tea packaging system.
Silver2024
The Festival at Sandpoint (Poster)
Out-of-Home & Ambient Media · Out-of-Home · Single Poster
The Festival at Sandpoint poster, the second ADDY that campaign earned.
Silver2024
Wildroot Campgrounds
Elements of Advertising · Visual · Logo Design
The Wildroot Campgrounds logo.
CobaltAwarded beside the ladder, not below it2024
Inlander Summer Camps
Print Advertising · Magazine · Single · Full Page or Less
A full page ad in the Inlander's summer camps issue.
CobaltAwarded beside the ladder, not below it2024
NIC Recollections Website
Online & Interactive · Websites · Desktop or Mobile
The North Idaho College design class of 2023 won a Cobalt ADDY for Recollections, the portfolio show website they built together at recollections.welearndesign.com.
CobaltAwarded beside the ladder, not below it2024
Sassy Toast
Elements of Advertising · Visual · Logo Design
The Sassy Toast logo.
CobaltAwarded beside the ladder, not below it2024
The Festival at Sandpoint (Collateral)
Sales & Marketing · Collateral Material · Special Event Materials
The event collateral in his Festival at Sandpoint campaign. The poster from the same campaign took a Silver.
2022
1 Silver · 3 Bronze
Silver2022
Tossed Pizzeria
Sales & Marketing · Packaging
Mya Crisanto won a Silver ADDY for Tossed Pizzeria, a packaging system for a pizza brand.
Bronze2022
Explore VizComm Poster
Out-of-Home & Ambient · Poster
A recruiting poster for explorevizcomm.org.
Bronze2022
Infinity Locks
Elements of Advertising · Logo Design
The Infinity Locks identity, a logo carried across stationery, business cards, and customer correspondence for a home security company.
Bronze2022
Sweetheart's Ball
Sales & Marketing · Special Event Materials
North Idaho College won a Bronze ADDY for the Sweetheart's Ball campaign, a Greased Lightning themed event promoted across social posts, a brochure, and online ticketing.
2020
2 Silver
Silver2020
Bunji Honey
Elements of Advertising · Logo Design
Aidan Oliverio won a Silver ADDY for Bunji Honey, a logo for a raw manuka honey brand built around a hand-print mark. The card credits North Idaho College as advisor rather than a named faculty member.
Silver2020
The Inlander Summer Camps Cover
Print Advertising · Newspaper Advertising
The Inlander's summer camps cover, made in GDES 233 with Derek Harrison of the Inlander as art director.
The Students Who Won Them
Each name has a profile with the rest of their work on it. The number is how many awards they won. 5 of the 24 were entered without a named designer on record, so they are not counted here.
What We Take Part In
The awards above come from competitions the program enters deliberately. Here is what they are and why we put student work into them.
AAF Spokane
American Advertising Awards
Usually just called the ADDYs.
The American Advertising Awards, still widely called the ADDYs, are the American Advertising Federation's annual competition for advertising and design work. It is judged in three tiers. Entries are first judged by a local AAF club, work that wins there advances to one of the federation's district competitions, and district winners advance to the national show.
AAF Spokane runs the local tier for the Inland Northwest, so that is where North Idaho College entries are judged. Entries are scored by a panel of creative professionals, and student work is judged in its own division of the same show the region's agencies enter.
Why we enter
Our students enter the same regional show as the agencies and in-house teams they will be applying to. The judges are working professionals from outside the college. They have not met the students, they are not grading a class, and they score the work on what it is.
That outside read is the reason we take part. It tells a student where their work stands in the market they are about to enter, and a win gives them something real to put in a portfolio and talk about in an interview. Getting an entry ready teaches the rest of the job too: picking your strongest piece, writing about it so a stranger understands it, and hitting a deadline you did not set.
How it is ranked
- Best in Show
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
An honour awarded outside that order, such as a chapter’s own student prize, sits beside the ladder rather than below it.
See the Work Behind the Awards
Most of these pieces started as class assignments. The full set of student work and the portfolio show archive are both here.