GDUSA’s American Package Design Awards™ – sponsored by Neenah – celebrates the power of packaging to engage the audience, advance the brand, tell the story, make the sale. This year we introduce a Neenah Gold Award for excellence in the use of paper for packaging.
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59th GDUSA Design Showcase
Our annual showcase captures the power of creative professionals to serve and shape commerce, culture and causes. Billerud North America, a leading manufacturer of coated graphic and specialty papers, is sponsor. A new ‘Designing For Good’ category is inspired by talent solutions firm Robert Half.
DesignStudio Pilots ‘Going’ Rebrand
DesignStudio has rebranded Scott’s Cheap Flights as Going. The new approach focuses less on cost and destination, and more on the excitement and spontaneity of travel.
ThoughtMatter Rethinks ‘Ugly’ Produce
Online grocer Misfits Market looks to continue the brand’s mission of breaking the cycle of food waste with a new private label brand, Odds & Ends.
VSA Celebrates 40 With Video Series
To mark the milestone of its 40th year, VSA sought to do something different from the typical approach. The firm created a video series exploring the power of human-centered design in all forms.
OLI Enters Bejing’s Forbidden City
Mirroring the Heart of Heaven and Earth: Ideals and Images in the Chinese Study, an exhibition designed by New York-based firm OLI Architecture, has opened in the Palace Museum in Beijing’s Forbidden City.
Best State To Be A Graphic Designer?
It is only one survey, but new research has revealed that Nebraska is the best state in the US to work as a graphic designer. The study by Pixlr.com, a leading web-based photo editor, analyzed US Census Bureau data to make the discovery.
Warner Bros. Studio Celebrates Centennial
Chermayeff + Geismar + Haviv has developed the logo for Warner Bros. Discovery’s global centennial campaign, Celebrating Every Story, ahead of the studio’s 100th anniversary this coming April.
Pantone Color of Year: Viva Magenta
Pantone Color of the Year is Viva Magenta, a nuanced crimson red tone that presents a balance between warm and cool, a hybrid color said to commfortably straddle the physical and virtual, a carmine red “capable of driving design to create a more positive future.”
Audi Flattens Logo
Audi has redesigned its four-ring logo, giving it a new two-dimensional appearance. The new-look emblem also trades the old chrome-colored rings for new black and white ones.
2022 GDUSA Responsible Designers
GDUSA highlights creative and thought leaders who use design principles, talents and skills to make the world a better place as they see it.
George Lois Was ‘Most Influential’
The prolific and often bombastic George Lois has died at 91. A decade ago, GDUSA celebrated its 50th anniversary with a national survey in which readers declared Lois “the most influential Art Director of the past 50 years.”
Pentagram Keeps Shakespeare Relevant
Pentagram revitalized Shakespeare Theatre Company’s identity, expressing its contemporary spin on Shakespeare’s classic plays.
2022 GDUSA Health+Wellness Showcase
The annual GDUSA Health+Wellness Design Awards™ competition honors graphic excellence in this fast-growing, hugely important and high-profile segment of the economy.
Olympics Sport Vibrant Brand Identity
Canadian agency Hulse & Durrell has helped redesign the overarching Olympic branding, as part of the IOC’s ongoing process to evolve the design system and bring the legacy of the Games into the modern era.
Alterna Logo Signals Sustainable Steel
To signal the company’s commitment to reducing the environmental impact of the steel industry, Blacksmith Materials has rebranded as Alterna. Ad agency Common Good developed the name, logo, and identity.
Wine Label Collages Say Welcome
Drinks design specialist Denomination has created an evocative package for the latest wine varietal from House of Brown, the new second label from Brown Estate, Napa Valley’s first Black-owned estate winery.
Mucca Elects Suffragette Typeface
Mucca’s rebrand for The Hermitage Hotel inaugurates a new era for the landmark. Pairing a custom typeface with a bold yellow, the new identity promises a playful luxury experience while celebrating the hotel’s suffragette history.
2022 GDUSA Inhouse Award Showcase
Sponsored by Robert Half, GDUSA’s American Inhouse Design Awards™ is the original and premier showcase for outstanding work by inhouse designers and their departments.
Corel Is Now Alludo
Corel is undergoing a full rebrand including a new name: Alludo. The rebranding is part of Alludo’s commitment to reimagining the future of work — not just where people work, but also how, when, and even why they work.
COLLINS Rebrands Girl Scouts
COLLINS has reimagined the Girl Scouts of the USA, featuring a fresh take on their iconic Trefoil logo, a refreshed site design, and a brand system that implements a common language across all organization and council communications.
Building a Career In Art and Design
This Q&A with educator Eric Rosenfeld and designer Camdon Wilde explores how Full Sail University successfully prepares its students with the tools to embark on their professional career.
AIGA Promotes The Vote
In the lead-up to the 2022 midterm elections, AIGA has created resources to encourage all voting-age populations to exercise their civic rights.
Tabasco Identity Brings The Spice
Tabasco enlisted New York creative agency Mrs&Mr to build its global visual identity, with ‘Light Things Up’ as its theme and new tagline. Bold colors and artwork, rather than insinuations of heat, create the energy.
Demystifying Traditional Chinese Medicine
Hoping to remove the mystery of TCM for western audiences, NOOCI partnered with branding and marketing agency SMAKK to create an identity based in transparency and science while fostering accessibility.
Niedermeier Visualizes Decarbonization
For GFTD, a World Bank fund that focuses on sustainable mobility and all things transport, Niedermeier Design creates an identity that captures the interplay of infrastructure when roads, bridges, paths, railways and waterways intersect.
20th Annual LogoLounge Trend Report
For the 20th straight year, GDUSA publishes Bill Gardner’s LogoLounge trend report, the first and last word on logo trends and the cultural context within which they are conceived. As Bill says: “Only when you grasp the trends… can you transcend.”
2022 GDUSA Digital Design Showcase
A showcase of selected winners of our 22nd Annual American Digital Design Awards.™
Pentagram Updates Iconic 92nd Street ‘Y’
Pentagram has updated New York’s iconic 92nd Street Y with a new brand identity and name that eliminates confusion, opens possibilities and reintroduces the NYC institution to a global audience.
IKEA Furnishes AI Design Experience
IKEA has launched IKEA Kreativ, a design experience meant to bridge the e-commerce and in-store customer journeys, powered by recent AI developments in spatial computing, machine learning and 3D mixed reality technologies.
GSK Identity Signals New Purpose
GSK has unveiled an updated brand identity that symbolizes how, through the unity of science, technology and talent, we can all work together to get ahead of disease. The identity was redesigned by Wolff Olins.
Kraft Mac & Cheese Gets Comfortable
Kraft Mac & Cheese has swapped out its logo, noodle smile, colors and even its name for updated versions designed to better reflect the brand’s identity as a classic comfort food. Jones Knowles Ritchie is the design firm.
PEBBLES Teams With Nike and LeBron
east|west marketing group teamed with Post to create artwork for Magic Fruity PEBBLES Sneakers and Cereal. It is part of a co-promotion with NBA star LeBron James and Nike.
Madwell Identity Shields Parks
Madwell has created a new brand identity for Trust for Public Land (TPL), a US nonprofit dedicated to connecting everyone to the joys and benefits of the outdoors. The logo is based on the concept of a shield.
Common Good Rebrands For New Era
LRXD has rebranded itself as Common Good to better communicate its area of expertise: uniting people around brands that believe in the betterment of people, their communities and the planet.
AIGA Medals: Oberman, Blauvelt, Sandhaus
AIGA announces recipients of the AIGA Medal, Steven Heller Prize for Cultural Commentary, and AIGA Corporate Leadership Award. The recognition takes place during the AIGA Design Conference, in person for the first time since 2019.
Schick Celebrates Men’s Individuality
New branding for Schick is informed by national research which finds that 81% of men would prefer brands to celebrate them for who they are instead of asking them to change. Design is minimalist and spots are unscripted.
Noom Logo Navigates To Better Health
Working with the internal team at Noom, Gretel developed a new brand identity. The logo is a modern interpretation of the compass, and underscores Noom’s role as a guide to weight loss and better health
Pentagram Co-Founder Colin Forbes Passes
The celebrated designer and co-founder of Pentagram has passed away at age 94. During his career Colin designed graphics and visual identities for a wide range of clients and industries.
Culinary Institute Preps New Identity
Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv have redesigned the logo for the Culinary Institute of America. The updated identity is intended to help support the CIA’s expanded mission to promote food’s relationship to culture, economic quality, health and the environment.