Our annual ‘Responsible Designers’ feature, sponsored by DOMTAR, recognizes creative professionals embracing responsibility and using design principles to make the world a better place for people and nature. The range of issues at play are encyclopedic but the common denominator is to shape change.
Author: Gordon Kaye
2024 GDUSA Health + Wellness Showcase
The annual GDUSA Health+Wellness Design Awards™ competition honors graphic excellence in this fast-growing, hugely important and high-profile arena.
Jiayan He + Shangning Wang
Shangning Wang and Jiayan He are socially responsible designers who focus on Sustainable Development Goals and work within United Nations organizations.
Holly Wheeler
Holly Wheeler is an experienced Creative Director and Designer specializing in strategic creativity across print, digital, environmental, and experiential design.
Alberto Rigau
Alberto Rigau was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is a seasoned designer based in San Juan.
Mikell Fine Iles
Mikell is an award-winning design director exploring where technology and art converge, currently serving as Executive Design Director at Hook.
Jack Watson
Jack Watson has had a 15 year career centered around education as a multidisciplinary designer.
Diana Rose Smith
Diana Rose Smith leads an extremely talented pair of designers and collaborate with a full team of creative minds.
Colleen Gratzer
Colleen Gratzer has been in the design industry for almost 30 years – Gratzer Graphics provides design and accessibility services to clients.
Hilary Lentini
Lentini Design & Marketing, Inc., (LDM) founded in 1990, is a WBENC-certified woman-owned branding and marketing firm based in Los Angeles.
Jasmine Raziuddin
Jasmine Raziuddin is a program manager in the Creative Communications department at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Neeta Verma
Neeta Verma is a designer, researcher, and educator within the evolving discipline of visual communication design.
Richard A. Hooper
Richard Hooper has served as Vice President of Marketing and Communications for the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) for the past five years.
Roanne Adams
Entrepreneur and visionary, Roanne Adams is the founder and Chief Creative Director of RoAndCo Studio.
Rochelle Ratkaj Moser
Rochelle has always held steadfast to her mission: change the world with the power of design.
Sai Shruthi Chivukula + Colin M. Gray
Colin M. Gray and Sai Shruthi Chivukula are leaders in the field of Human-Computer Interaction and design ethics.
Kaitlyn Barclay + Willow Hill
At Scout Lab, co-founders Willow Hill and Kaitlyn Barclay lead a purpose-driven agency with a focus on human and planetary health.
Nick Adam, John Pobojewski + Bud Rodecker
Span specializes in crossing the boundaries of communication design and is driven by collaboration, experimentation, and a commitment to making our work socially conscious.
Summer Coleman
Summer has cultivated a strong track record of collaborating with a wide range of organizations and businesses across the city of Chicago.
Ashley Argese
Ashley Argese is an award-winning designer and marketing professional.
Rachel B. Van Gorden
Rachel B. Van Gorden is an artist and designer born and raised in Greenville SC.
Johnny Selman
Johnny Selman, founder and Executive Creative Director at Selman, leads a talented team of designers and brand thinkers.
Michelle Garside + Alison Leipzig
Soul Camp Creative is a Sacred Strategy House dedicated to fostering ideas that change the world.
Danielle Kauffman
Danielle Kauffman works for TPD, an ENR 500 Top Design Firm that delivers transportation engineering projects throughout the eastern United States.
Ting Zhou
Ting Zhou is a mother, designer, and educator, currently serving as an assistant professor of Digital Media Design at the University of Connecticut.
Alex Paine
Alex Paine is a partner in brand strategy at Lippincott, a global brand consultancy, based in the London office.
Lidia Varesco Racoma
Lidia Varesco Racoma of Lidia Varesco Design in Chicago empowers organizations and entrepreneurs to make a change through strategic branding and marketing design.
People People
People People is a Seattle-based, woman-owned branding and interactive firm specializing in brand thinking, brand identity, websites, print, and packaging design since 1998.
2024 GDUSA Inhouse Award Showcase | Sponsored By Robert Half
GDUSA’s American Inhouse Design Awards™ is the original and premier showcase for inhouse graphic design excellence. Robert Half is the exclusive corporate sponsor. This is GDUSA’s 61st anniversary as a news and ideas source for graphic designers and the related creative community.
GDUSA’s 61st Print Design Survey Sponsored by Billerud
In this 61st year of polling the creative community, we find both a profound respect for print and deep thought about how print fits in the digital era. Two things are clear: print and paper remains crucial to how graphic designers earn a living and they create a connection because of their classic strengths.
2024 GDUSA Digital Design Showcase Sponsored by Robert Half
Welcome to our annual American Digital Design Awards™ winners gallery sponsored by ROBERT HALF Talent Solutions. The competition honors the power of design to enhance and amplify online and interactive experiences, and our showcase is selected from a record number of entries.
Ten Takeaways
Ten bits of wisdom of the 2024 Print Design Survey
The Numbers (Part 1)
The Numbers – infographics regarding the 2024 Print Design Survey (1/2)
The Numbers (Part 2)
The Numbers – infographics regarding the 2024 Print Design Survey (2/2)
Select Comments: Is Print Important In Your Professional Life?
Print Survey 2024: Is Print Important In Your Professional Life?
Select Comments: How and Where is Print an Especially Effective Solution?
Print Survey 2024: How and Where is Print an Especially Effective Solution?
Select Comments: Do You See Package Design As A Growth Area Within Print?
Print Survey 2024: Do You See Package Design As A Growth Area Within Print?
2024 GDUSA Top Design Schools
GDUSA presents our favorite institutions or programs that prepare students to work in professional graphic design. The mix is unique: it includes venerable institutions dedicated to art and design; several notable university departments, programs and majors; and select innovative and flexible online programs.
2024 GDUSA Package Awards Showcase
Our 61st anniversary package design showcase celebrates those select creative and marketing professionals who have successfully harnessed the power of effective and strategic design to forge a connection at the moment of truth.
GDUSA’s 61st Annual Print + Paper Survey
GDUSA’s 61st print design benchmark survey.