beauty innovator awards}
Refinery29’s annual beauty awards celebrate the most innovative products, people, and brands of the past year. Awarding the best in the game from low to high – everyone is invited. For 2020, we sought to take it a step further to break through the year’s monotony to celebrate beauty itself and uncover joy through vivid strokes of color and playful photography. We took 2020’s direction in a positive light as a call to action for self-care and prioritizing wellness through 6 main categories (makeup, skin, body, hair, under $25, and unbothered: which focuses on the black community) and two articles highlighting top brand and innovator of the year. The end result combines hand-painted swatches, retro video, and film photography for a tactile finish.
Role: Lead Design + Art Direction
Junior Designer: Hannah Minn
Design Direction: Idil Gozde
Editor: Rachel Krause
Photo Producer: Mary Fletcher
Photographer: Zhamak Fullad
Product Design: Lee Misenheimer
01. branding
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a57edba8462223e09eb676c4a87b73462e14055aaa4395cac45b64fc45713f8a/BIA_LANDING.gif)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aeacdd1caeca7c6992607fa8ce15640cceafae8300d3e5c8b3e834fa539cf8fd/05_BIA_Template_Landing-06.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a5a708a1e5157633d02a5d4c3743247e6dd64058445ba6783178773b47f900aa/05_BIA_Template_Landing-05.jpg)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f0697662d68ec4d56824bfc3ce8f9eaa0c7edb776acd8cdfa965831e6f2e16b/05_BIA_Template_Landing-04.jpg)
02. site design: landing + category pages
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42a28aec16a2ec8b8f5637e1c764c839caa9245238fd87cc7eabf04ed2e8066a/BIA-FULL-MOCK-2.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17e4e6dbc45e0218eed7394c1f3ca25a25a1a7929a3f43a2d4aab76c07ee91da/Gen-MOCK_BIA.png)
03. homepage takeover
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3de3ed442efa3ec4b4bc45aff8947720046dd40e468ed7e96f882b4bd79d84b4/hpto_2_BIA.gif)
04. feature artwork + social content
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bfb8659b82f0d33efa8c36754236d49cf88671596c98ee197c00587d33997ff/Opener-mocks.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c241f41ef396383f2f345d681ae39958cb3f163d7b51545111c34daab26dc9b9/social-mocks.jpg)