Tilka Design

We share our success with our clients.

Over the past 25 years, our creative ideas earned us local and national recognition from the design industry.

Advertising Federation of Minnesota “The Show”, 1991

American Corporate Identity
7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19

AIGA Graphic Design USA: 14, 1992

AIGA “One-Color and Two-Color” Competition, 1992

AIGA Minnesota Design Show of Excellence
1992, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004 (Green Leaf Award), 2008, 2010

AXIOM Business Book Awards, 2010

DESI 16 Awards, 1993

Format Magazine, July 2005
(cover feature article)

Graphis
“Letterhead 5”, 2001

HarperCollins
“The Big Book of New Design Ideas”, 2003

Hearst Books International
“Letterheads Gone Digital”, 1998
“The Big Book of Corporate Identity Design”, 2001

HOW Magazine’s International Design Competition
1992, 1996, 1998

HOW’s Self-Promotion Annual, 1995

International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)

International Engraved Graphics Association
2000, 2007

Logos 2002

Minnesota Magazine & Publications Association (MMPA)
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 (Overall Excellence Gold Award)

NAIOP Award
“Best Overall Campaign”, 1994

North Light Books
“How to Break into Product Design”, 1998

Print Magazine
“Best Letterhead & Business Cards 3”, 1994
"Best T-Shirt Promotions", 1992
"Best T-Shirt Promotions 2", 1995

Print Magazine's Regional Design Annual
1989, 1991, 1994, 2005

Printing Industries of America Inc.
1999 (National Gold Award)

Rockport Publishers
“1000 Bags, Tags, and Labels”, 2006
“Best of Business Card Design 2”, 1996
“Great T-Shirt Graphics”, 1993
“Letterhead & Logo Design 9”, 2005
“Shopping Bag Design”, 1994
“The Best of Brochure Design II”, 1994

Twin Cities Business Magazine
“Misunderstanding Branding” (article), April 2006

University of Chicago Press
“Fashion and its Social Agendas”, 2000

University of Minnesota Press
“Here by Design”, 2001

Women in Communications (WIC)