Communication Design News
Graphis Letterhead 8: Call for Entries
The eight Graphis Letterhead is now open for entries. The competition aims to find the best stationery designs that seamlessly combine art and function to visually represent a client's identity.
A Maker's Field Guide to Texture and Color
Mohawk has released a comprehensive new printed tool designed to serve as a hands-on resource for the creative community.
2016 Graphis Annual Reports Competition
The 2016 Graphis Annual Reports Competition is still open for submissions. The competition features the top annual reports submitted from some of the best international design firms.
AIGA Launches 2016 Get Out The Vote Campaign
AIGA has launched its 2016 "Get Out The Vote" campaign, which mobilizes the communication design profession in support of voter engagement.
iF Design Award 2017
The 2017 iF Design Award is now open for entries. Agencies, architects, designers and companies from all over the world are invited to put their products and services to the test.
2016 UCDA Design Competition
The 46th annual UCDA Design Competition is now open for entries. The competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions (secondary, vocational, or higher education) and supports the exchange of ideas and information relating to the unique role of these designers.
Typographics 2016: A Design Festival for People Who Use Type
Typographics, a typography conference organized by Cooper's Type@Cooper, returns for a second year to The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
Eight Designs Annual Report for Noble
Eight recently designed the Noble Group's 2015 Annual Report, titled "The Business of Essentials."
Communication Arts 57th Design & Advertising Competitions
Communication Arts' 57th Design & Advertising Competitions are now open for entries.
Rack & Pinion Creates Posters Against Cyber Censorship
Rack & Pinion Creative has created a set of digital posters for Psiphon to help spread Internet censorship awareness for World Day Against Cyber Censorship.
2016 SEGD Conference: Experience Seattle
The 2016 SEGD Conference: Experience Seattle will gather the experiential graphic design community to explore topics ranging from media-centric placemaking to design thinking and from public art to waterfront development.
Golden Pin Concept Design Award 2016
The 2016 Golden Pin Concept Design Award is now open for entries. The competition seeks design concepts inspired by philosophies and ideologies from the huaren (Chinese-speaking) world.
ADCE Releases the Annual of Annuals 2015
ADCE has launched the 2015 edition of the Annual of Annuals, showcasing the best in advertising and design from across Europe.
WE ARE LA: Nike Store Mural at The Grove
Denton-Cardew Design (DCD) has created a 48ft tall Mural for an elevator core inside the new Nike Store at The Grove in Los Angeles.
Thankful. Promotional Package by typotherapy
Creative Director Noël Nanton and the team at typotherapy created a holiday promo for all their suppliers and clients that expressed how thankful they are working closely with them.
SEGD Wayfinding Event 2016
SEGD will hold its annual Wayfinding event in Miami this April, hosted by Miami International Airport.
DesignX Event at DSE
SEGD will hold the DesignX event at the Digital Signage Expo this March, hosted by DSE at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2016
The 2016 Red Dot Award: Communication Design is now open for entries. From Corporate Design and Apps to Retail Design, the competition aims to showcase the excellent communication solutions in the design industry.
First Annual Call for Clarity Conference
The first annual Call for Clarity conference will be held March 30, 2016, in New York City. The event is organized by Alan Siegel and Irene Etzkorn, pioneers of bringing simplicity to business and government.
Design Talent 2016
The 7th Design Talent international competition is now open for entries. The competition is open to designers under 30 years of age.
Design Origin: France
With a notion to compare the diverse visual landscapes of different cultures, Design Origin is a brand new design reference collection that examines the creative works of one country at a time.
Graphis Design Annual 2017: Call for Entries
Graphis is currently accepting entries for its 2017 Design Annual. The largest and most anticipated competition, Design Annual 2017 will feature the most visually compelling design work of the year from the world's most renowned in the industry, across forty different categories.
Studio Parr Creates Exciting New Look for UPM Raflatac Wine & Spirits Swatchbook
UPM Raflatac partnered with Studio Parr with a brief to showcase their knowledge, innovation, craftsmanship and sheer passion for the production of self-adhesive wine and spirits label materials.
SPD 51: Editorial Design Competition
The Society of Publication Designers is seeking entries for its 51st Annual Competition. The contest recognizes and promotes the best in editorial design, photography and illustration in print and digital mediums.
Graphis Poster Annual 2017: Call for Entries
The 2017 Graphis Poster Annual Competition is now open for entires. The competition showcases the top designs from the world's most renowned in the industry.
GDC Foundation Fundraiser Celebrates Canadian Values
The GDC Foundation revealed a special hand-screened poster titled "Section 2". Craig Medwyduk and Jacqueline Germin of Odelay Design have designed a limited run, multi-coloured edition of 50 posters.
2016 SEGD Global Design Awards
The 2016 SEGD Global Design Awards are now open for entries. The international awards program honors design work that connects people to place by providing direction, content, and compelling experiences in public spaces.
A Moment of Truth: Environmental Graphics in Truth Initiative's Headquarters
Truth Initiative is the public health organization behind the truth campaign and other initiatives geared towards ending tobacco use in young people.
TDC62 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The 62nd Annual Type Directors Club Communication Design Competition (TDC62) and the 19th Annual TDC Typeface Design Competition (TDC 2016) are now open for entries.
Call for Entries: Joseph Binder Award 2016
The Joseph Binder Award (JBA) is Austria's only international competition for graphic design & illustration.
Best Brand Awards 2015
The third edition of the Best Brand Awards are now open for entries. The Awards reward the high quality brands designed worldwide, recognizing the excellence in visual communication internationally.
Superkül Releases First Monograph to Celebrate First Ten Years in Practice
superkül has launched firm's first book, Rain, Gravity, Heat, Cold. The 160-page, limited-edition volume illustrates the philosophy, thinking and design approach that define the firm's award-winning practice and its role in the dynamic and evolving creative landscape in Canada and abroad.
Leo Burnett is Red Dot: Agency of the Year 2015
Leo Burnett Deutschland has been selected as Red Dot: Agency of the Year 2015. The advertising agency's creative staff secured the title of honour with their extraordinary communication campaigns.
24th ADC Europe Awards
Entries are now open for the 2015 ADC Europe Awards, celebrating the very best in European advertising and design.
thirty: Exhibition Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography
thirty, an exhibition celebrating 30 years of one of the first archives devoted to graphic design, opens at the 41 Cooper Gallery on September 10.
Midas Awards 2015: Call for Entries
The 2015 Midas Awards is open for entries. The competition recognizes excellence in financial marketing and advertising on a global scale.
Behind Collections: Graphic Design and Promotion for Fashion Brands.
The fashion industry has always been a co-existing world for influential figures and fresh young talent, where these two sides relentlessly run into each other with their vision and talent.
Loyalkaspar Rebrands Peabody Awards
Loyalkaspar recently created a bold new strategy and identity for Peabody, a world-renowned institution dedicated to recognizing excellence in electronic media and storytelling.
DesignThinkers 2015
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) will host its 2015 DesignThinkers conference in Toronto on November 12 & 13.
Making Policy Public: Call for Designers
The Center for Urban Pedagogy's (CUP) is calling for applications for its Making Policy Public program.
6th Annual Typography Competition: Call for Entries
Communication Arts is calling for entries for its 6th Annual Typography Competition. The competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering.
Premier's Design Awards 2015
The 2015 Victorian Premier's Design Awards are now open for entries. The Premier's Design Awards celebrate and reward both designers and clients for excellence in the development and use of design and design-led innovation.
SEGD Xlab 2015
The 2015 SEGD Xlab, a design + technology conference focused on the future of user/customer experience, will be held November 5-6 in NYC.
Graphis Annual Reports 2014/2015: Call for Entries
Graphis is calling for entries for its Annual Reports 2014/2015 competition. The competition will feature the top annual reports submitted from some of the best international design firms.
iF Design Award 2016
The 2016 iF Design Award is now open for entries. This year, the awards will be given in seven categories: product, communication, packaging, interior architecture, professional concept, architecture, and service design.
Duffy & Partners Creates New Brand Identity for Meals on Wheels America
Duffy & Partners designed the new brand identity for the Meals on Wheels Association of America, including logo design, typography, iconography, co-branding for other programs and state associations, promotional items and collateral.
Ten Images for Ithaca 2015
This year, the annual Ten Images for Ithaca will be held July 13-17 in the island of Ithaca, Greece.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2015
The 2015 Red Dot Award: Communication Design is now open for entries. Red Dot invites designers, agencies, freelancers and companies to submit their projects to the scrutiny of the international jury.
Graphis Design Annual 2016: Call for Entries
Graphis is currently accepting entries for its 2016 Design Annual. The largest and most anticipated competition, Design Annual 2016 will feature the most visually compelling design work of the year from the world's most renowned in the industry, across forty (40) different categories.
Creative For A Cause
Fiverr and Ad Age have launched a design competition that challenges designers and copywriters to create an NYC subway ad for C/I, a non-profit that helps underserved communities thrive in the Tech industry.
HOW Design Live 2015
HOW Design Live will be held May 4 - 8 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago, bringing together the top minds in graphic design, branding and marketing from around the globe.
Posterheroes 5: Food in the Loop
Posterheroes, an annual social comunication contest that aims to promote and to diffuse, in an international level, issues related to ecologic and social sustainability, is still accepting entries for its fifth edition.
Applied Arts 2015 Design Awards
The 2015 Applied Arts Design Awards is open for submissions. Launched more than 20 years ago, the competition celebrates the very best work produced throughout North America and abroad.
The One Show 2015: Call for Entries
The 2015 One Show has extended its deadline and is still open for entries.
Graphis Poster Annual 2016: Call for Entries
The 2016 Graphis Poster Annual is now open for entries. The competition showcases the top designs from the world's most renowned in the industry.
ED Awards 2015
The 2015 European Design Awards are open for entries through February 20th. The competition celebrates creative brilliance and offers a chance to promote your talent and establish yourself in the design market.
FilmDoo Film Poster Creativity Competition
FilmDoo, the new online film discovery platform for international and independent films, has launched a global design competition whereby three lucky winners will be given the paid opportunity to create artwork for an upcoming film release this year.
AIGA Celebrates 100 Years of Design with Limited Edition Collection by Moo
To commemorate the 100th year of AIGA, 100 designers from across the US were asked to select a year from 1914-2014 and design a social, political or cultural statement about that year.
2015 SEGD Global Design Awards
The Society for Experiential Graphic Design has launched its 2015 Global Design Awards, including new Interactive Experience and Digital Experience Content categories that reflect the shifts that digital technology is creating in design for public spaces.
City of Sydney Christmas Campaign & Branding by Holt
The City of Sydney has begun rolling out this year's Christmas branding, in a six-week campaign that will cover the CBD and surrounds in festive spirit across the spectrum of outdoor, digital and print media.
Life Agency Redesigns Monotype Recorder
Life Agency designer Luke Tonge has revived The Monotype Recorder, an influential typography magazine which relaunches this month as a biannual publication.
Type Directors Club 2014 Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The Type Directors Club's 61st Communication Design Competition and 18th Typeface Design Competition are now open for entries.
Michael Doret to Speak at Typography Meetup in LA
Michael Doret, the designer known for his logos, album covers, and magazine covers and art for major brands such as Wreck-It Ralph, the New York Knicks, MLB, Time Magazine, Playboy, Wired, TV Guide, Kiss, Capitol Records and Universal Studios will be the speaker at the next Los Angeles Is Just My Type Meetup Group event.
Graphis New Talent Annual 2015
Graphis is calling for entries for its 2015 New Talent Annual. The Annual provides a forum to feature the best internationally produced student work of the past year.
SEGD Xlab 2014
Xlab, SEGD's annual technology event on the future of immersive experiences, the collaborative process, and emerging platforms that can be used to activate your projects, will be held on November 6, 2014 at SVA Theatre, Manhattan.
2014 Premier's Design Awards Finalists
Good Design Australia and the Victorian Government have announced the thirty eight finalists across six categories in this year's Premier's Design Awards.
2014 Victorian Premier's Design Awards
The 2014 Victorian Premier's Design Awards are now open for entries. The awards recognise and reward Victorian designers and businesses using exemplar design effectively and sustainably for business success.
iF Design Award 2015
The 2015 iF Design Award is now open for entries. This year, the awards will be given in five categories: product, communication, packaging, interior architecture, and professional concept.
UCDA Design Competition 2014
The 2014 UCDA Design Competition is now open for entries. The competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions.
FiberMark Specifier Awards 2014: Call for Entries
FiberMark has launched its 21st Specifier Awards, presenting designers around the world with a unique opportunity for wide exposure and acknowledgement of their talents and ideas.
Red Dot Award: Communication Design 2014
The Red Dot is now accepting entries for the 2014 Communication Design Award.
Shadow Type: Classic Three-Dimensional Lettering
Designers often look to the past for ways to enliven their projects. Letters with relief and shadow have long been an effective way to add spectacle or intrigue to otherwise mundane words.
64GB: 64 Eminent Creatives from Great Britain
Great Britain has been home to generations of creative talents. Where the world of design is a melting pot of cultures and functions beyond geographical boundaries, British graphics still stand at the forefront, breaking new ground with new perspectives, improvised skills and global vision.
Coley Porter Bell Creates Christmas Identity for the Co-operative Food
Coley Porter Bell has created a Christmas identity for The Co-operative Food as part of an ongoing overhaul of the retailer's own-brand offering.
David Labistour Honoured as Canada's Top DesignThinker of 2013
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) has presented David Labistour with the inaugural "DesignThinker of the Year" award.
InsideOut SF
Featuring over 100 leading designers from all over the world, InsideOut SF is a gallery display of original posters highlighting their personal impressions of San Francisco.
Thomas Manss & Company Designs McLaren - 50 Years of Racing
Thomas Manss & Company has designed the McLaren - 50 Years of Racing, which documents a half-century of Formula 1 with Britain's most famous racing cars.
Anatomy of Ideas: The Life's Work of an Infographics Pioneer
Fritz Kahn was a German doctor, educator, popular science writer, and information graphics pioneer whose brilliant work has all but fallen into oblivion.
Type Directors Club Annual Communication and Typeface Design Competitions
The Type Directors Club's 60th annual Communication Design Competition and 17th annual Typeface Design Competition are now open for entries.
IC Design Makes The Boat Go Faster
IC Design has created the brand platform, website and collateral for coaching company Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?, founded by British Olympic Gold Medallist Ben Hunt-Davis, MBE and Tom Barry.
Mohawk Maker Campaign by Hybrid Design
Hybrid Design conceptualized and designed a new 2013 creative campaign for Mohawk.
Frost* Creates Campaign for OzHarvest's Feeding the 5000 Event
Frost* has recently created a thought provoking campaign to promote OzHarvest's new Feeding the 5000 - a giant free hot lunch at Sydney's Martin Place.
MOO Launches Luxe Family
MOO recently launched its new Luxe Family range of products, including Luxe MiniCards, Luxe Postcards and Luxe Notecards.
MCA Summer Cutaway Map
ODLCO has recently created an illustrated cutaway map for visitors of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.
GDC Releases Internship Reference Guide
The Society of Graphic Designers of Canada (GDC) has released a new reference guide developed to help guide design students, studios and agencies.
Colourful Designs Dynamic Modern Visual Identity for Family and Childcare Trust
Colourful Design Strategy has created the visual identity for Family and Childcare Trust, a new charity created from a merger of the Family and Parenting Institute and the Daycare Trust.
Fjord Wins Red Dot Communication Design Award for SMART Pediatric Growth Chart
Fjord has received a 2013 Red Dot Communication Design Award for its work for the SMART Pediatric Growth Chart.
Eight Inc. Recognized for Design Excellence
Eight Inc. has been awarded for the design excellence of its work for both the Acure Digital Vending Machine and the Jordan Brand Melo M8 Pop-Up Installation.
Graphics Interface 2014: Call for Posters
The 40th Graphics Interface conference, the Canadian annual event devoted to computer graphics, interactive systems, and human-computer interaction, is calling for posters and demos.
Creative Anarchy: Call for Submissions
HOW Books is calling for submissions to be featured in a new book due for release in late 2014.
RGD Launches Bureau to Offer Insights on Design-Related Topics
The Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) has launched an Expert Bureau to provide press with an easily-accessible resource to identify potential columnists, speakers and interviewees on issues surrounding communications, design and innovation.
2013 Victorian Premier's Design Awards
Good Design Australia is calling for entries to the 2013 Victorian Premier's Design Awards.
Xlab 2013: Experience + Interaction in Public Space
Xlab, SEGD's premier innovation event connecting design, technology, and communication in the built environment, returns to New York on October 23 & 24.
Collateral for After the Jump
On June 7, 2013, Sullivan and the Type Directors Club of New York, presented "After the Jump." A one-day symposium that brought together some of today's most inspiring industry leaders to discuss how technology affects human behavior and how those effects impact design and typography.
RGD Social Good Design Awards 2013
The 2013 Social Good Design Awards is calling for submissions of graphic design projects with the power to incite meaningful change in the way we live our lives.
Think. Eat. Save: Reduce Your Foodprint
The United Nations and the Nordic Council of Ministers have launched a Nordic-Baltic Ad Competition to support the fight against food waste.
Top 25 Magazine Designs of the Past 50 Years
As part of GDUSA's year long 50th Anniversary celebration, the magazine has conducted a series of surveys within the design community.
DesignThinkers 2013
The 14th annual DesignThinkers Conference, hosted by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD), will bring together leading visual communicators from across the globe.
Pearlfisher London Creates the Brand Identity, Experience and Communications for The Library
Pearlfisher has created the brand strategy, naming, identity, interior design, brand experience and communications for The Library, an exclusive private members training club and London's first boutique gym, offering unlimited personal training, tailored nutrition and outstanding results.
Pearlfisher London Creates New Brand Strong
Pearlfisher has created the brand strategy, naming, identity, packaging, retail and digital communications for Strong, a range of high quality complex nutrients.