The 2024 Pele Awards Winners Have Been Announced!

This year’s Pele Award Winners have been selected. Take a look at who our 2024 Judges chose as this year’s best in advertising and design in the State of Hawaii for 2023. Mahalo to all the entrants for entering and congratulations to all this year’s 2024 Pele Award Winners.

A Message from Ryan & Paul

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Congratulations to all of the 2024 Pele Award winners—both professional and student! We’re in awe of the creativity, heart, and hustle behind this year’s work. Your ideas inspire us and continue to elevate the standard of advertising and design across Hawai‘i and beyond. As co-presidents, it’s been our honor to celebrate the talent in our community and support the next generation of creatives. We hope you feel proud of what you’ve accomplished—you’ve earned it. With gratitude and aloha,

Larry Ganiron & Lindsay Schedler Co-Presidents, AAF Hawai‘i

Larry Ganiron Founder & Creative Director, Lifted Creative Studio Lindsay Schedler Managing Director – West Coast, MVNP

Aloha! The 2025 Pele Awards judges have completed their review of Hawaii's Best Advertising and Design work from 2024.  The exceptional talent and innovation within our community were evident in the outstanding quality of submissions.  A big Mahalo to all our judges and everyone who participated!

Paul Lam

Pele Awards Chair 2010 to present

Judges Choice winners

Check out this year’s 2024 esteemed judges. This year over 500 submissions, and judging was held online/virtually.

And we had judges from all over the U.S. which included:

Beth Hambly Creative Director, McCann - Detroit Detroit, Michigan

Kelly McGuckin Creative Director, FCB-Chicago Chicago, Illinois

Rodrigo Butori Creative Director & Founder, Plastic Fisherman Miami, FL/ Los Angeles, CA

Will Chau Global VP of Creative & Design, Whole Foods Market Austin, Texas

Dan Marvin Creative Director, Hart Toledo, Ohio

Read their bios

2024 National Winners

Hawai‘i had 5 Professional & 1 College Division National winners!  National Winners will be announced in Salt Lake City on May 31, 2024.

View National Winners

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