The 2025
Dyers Choice Awards
The 2025
Dyers Choice Awards
The 2025 Dyers Choice Awards celebrate the best dyed discs of the year as chosen by the community. From technical mastery to absolute chaos, these awards highlight the creativity, experimentation, and talent within the disc dyeing community.
Dyers from around the world have submitted their work across multiple award categories, and now it’s up to the community to decide the winners. Submissions and voting both close on December 31st at 5:00 PM CST, so be sure to get your entries in and cast your votes before the deadline.
Before submitting, take a moment to check out the different award categories below and decide where your dye fits best. Each category highlights a different style, technique, or approach to disc dyeing, so choose the one that best represents your work.
This is a community-voted awards event, so if you’ve entered a disc, don’t be shy about sharing it. Get your work out there, post it on social media, and encourage people to vote. Voting is open once per day and is limited by IP address, so every vote counts.
Winners will be announced live during the New Year’s Dye Party livestream, so tune in to see who takes home the top honors and help celebrate the best dyed discs of 2025.
Celebrate the dye, support fellow artists, and help crown the best dyed discs of 2025.
What this award is: This award celebrates dyes that throw the rulebook out the window. Wild color counts, unexpected layouts, unconventional tools, or designs that look like they shouldn’t work but somehow do.
What to submit:
• Discs with lots of colors or bold, chaotic layouts
• Unusual concepts or high-risk designs
• Anything that made you say “ehhh… let’s see what happens”
What this award is: For dyers who love precision, layering, and flexing their skill set. This award goes to the disc that shows off complexity, control, and technical mastery.
What to submit:
• Intricate stencil work
• Multiple techniques used on one disc
• Complex layering, fades, or advanced masking
What this award is: This one’s for pushing boundaries. New ratios, weird additives, untested ideas, or happy accidents that turned into something special.
What to submit:
• Experimental techniques or materials
• First-time or never-been-done attempts
• Accidental discoveries that actually worked
What this award is: Because not every dye goes to plan… and that’s part of the fun. This award honors the most memorable dye mishap of the year.
What to submit:
• Major bleeds
• Colors that went rogue
• Designs that completely missed the mark
What this award is: This award focuses on overall visual harmony. Color choice, shading, balance, and composition all working together.
What to submit:
• Thoughtful color palettes
• Strong shading and depth
• Discs that feel intentionally designed
What this award is: Proof that restraint can be powerful. This award goes to dyes that use minimal color, minimal techniques, or limited complexity and still look incredibly clean.
What to submit:
• Limited color palettes
• Simple designs executed perfectly
• Clean results with minimal dye usage
What this award is: This one’s all about humor. Whether it’s visual comedy, clever concepts, or something so unexpected it makes people laugh out loud.
What to submit:
• Funny imagery or designs
• Joke discs, parody discs, or memes
• Anything that made you laugh while dyeing it
What this award is: A celebration of dye beds in all their forms. This award focuses purely on the bed technique and final pattern created by it.
What to submit:
• Clear glue beds
• Floetrol beds
• Lotion, shaving cream, or other bed methods
• No stencils, just beds
What this award is: This award celebrates dyes that intentionally incorporate the disc’s original foil stamp into the overall design. Instead of wiping or ignoring it, the stamp is used as a focal point, accent, or integrated element of the artwork.
What to submit:
• Discs where the foil stamp is clearly visible and purposeful
• Designs that work with the stamp rather than around it
• Creative use of the stamp’s shape, color, or placement
What this award is: This award celebrates dyes that shine both day and night. The winning disc should look visually strong in normal lighting and transform when the glow activates, creating a second layer of impact after dark.
What to submit:
• Dyed glow discs only
• Designs that work in daylight and with the glow activated
• Creative use of contrast, negative space, or layering that enhances the glow effect
Submissions must include:
• One photo in daylight
• One photo in darkness with the glow active