The 2025 winners are announced!
This year’s Pele Award Winners have been selected. Take a look at who our 2025 Judges chose as this year’s best in advertising and design in the State of Hawaii for 2024. Mahalo to all the entrants for entering and congratulations to all this year’s 2025 Pele Award Winners.
A Message from Larry & Lindsay, and Paul
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 2025 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:
PANCHO GONZÁLEZ Co-Founder & Chief Creative Officer, Inbrax Santiago, Chile
ANGELA KING Group Creative Director, Trailer Park Group Los Angeles, California
GARY PASCOE EVP & Executive Creative Director, Doner Advertising Detroit
NOK SANGDEE VP/Creative Director, FCB-Chicago Chicago, Illinois
FIEL VALDEZ VP Creative, Ritual Culver City, California
PETER VATTANATHAM Creative Director, ServiceNow Los Angeles, California
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.