The 2008 Pen­guin Design Award results are out and all of the designs are outstanding.

Choice quotes from The Pen­guin Blog:

‘Good design costs no more than bad design’, said Pen­guin founder Sir Allen Lane.

Some­thing in the way visual com­mu­ni­ca­tion courses are struc­tured and deliv­ered has fun­da­men­tally changed. We’re see­ing a cer­tain type of stu­dent […] shrewder and far more professional.

Per­haps, like our award, the art stu­dent has come of age. I’m nev­er­the­less rec­om­mend­ing Goncharov’s Oblo­mov as one of the options on next year’s brief – another kind of hero for a dif­fer­ent kind of student.

via kot­tke