The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement that reflects the powerful convergence of technology and creative arts. Students from schools in the United States, Canada, the U.K., Ireland, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, and New Zealand submitted more than 1,500 entries to this year's competition. Winners were chosen in nine categories, representing work by some of the most talented and promising student graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from leading art and design schools.

The student winners were honored by Adobe and the design community at a special event held on July 21, 2005, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City.