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In a world built to help us do more, faster, designer and thought leader Justin Ahrens suggests the deeper work is still ours: paying attention, choosing how we show up, and deciding who we are becoming while we build, lead, and create. His new book is entitled Being HumanKind.
Welcome to the 63rd Anniversary Package Design Awards™ showcase. This competition celebrates the power of design to tell the story, advance the brand, amplify the experience, make the sale — to forge a connection at the moment of truth. All the more challenging — and triumphant — given today’s extremely complex packaging ecosystem to find compelling solutions. NEENAH is the exclusive sponsor. Click the link below to see all 150 designs.
GDUSA’s favorite graphic design schools and programs preparing the next generation for a dream career in the real world. Our selections are informed, but not formulaic. They reflect years of conversation and collaboration with creative leaders, educators, administrators, hiring managers, recruiters and feedback from the community. The result is a curated, alphabetical roster encompassing the good and great traditional design schools, as well as a strategic selection of first-rate public and private university departments, and carefully chosen online-first programs for undergrads, grad students, and continuing education.
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OCTOBER 2026
Your words, your ideas, your solutions. We are inviting our community to chime in on an issue impacting designers. We’ll be curating responses and adding it as an article the following month.
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