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PGSF Announces Winner of Fall Box Design Contest

March 25, 2025 (Pittsburgh, PA) – The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) proudly announces Audrey Walch as the 2024 Fall Student Box Design Contest winner. Audrey is in her second year studying Graphic Communications at California Polytechnic State University, minoring in Packaging. Audrey’s winning design was one of over 70 submitted for the PGSF Fall Box Contest.

PGSF has hosted two box design
contests for the 2024-25 academic year.
The Spring Box Contest is open until April 30^th, and university and high school students can submit a design.The Box Design Contest is just one of the design contests PGSF organizes annually.

Students can submit design entries for Posters and T-Shirts in addition to boxes using one of three themes:

Print is Authentic
Print is Sustainable
Print is Innovative

The deadline to submit designs for posters and t-shirts is March 28. The Spring box contest closes on April 30, with winners announced by May 31.

The PGSF Design Contests demonstrate to students the many career markets available in graphic communications by illustrating with the designs ink transfer to different substrates.

Posters are printed and displayed in schools across the U.S., T-shirts are produced and made available for purchase as a fundraiser, and boxes are being used to send promotional information. Winners of each design contest receive a check for $500.

Media Contact Dianne Bullas,
PGSF www.pgsf.org.

About PGSF

The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation is a not-for-profit, private, industry-directed organization that assists talented youth interested in graphic communications careers and pursuing education at technical colleges and universities. The mission of PGSF is to promote the graphics industry as a career choice for young people and support them through their education process. Each year the foundation grants over $600,000 in scholarships and educational grants. For information on how you or your organization can contribute to the future of the graphic arts industry, please get in touch with Jeff White at jeff.white@pgsf.org. or visit the site at www.pgsf.org

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