GDUSA September 2024 Newsletter

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September 2024 Newsletter

In this month’s enews, you can find links to lots of graphic design news and commentary; pithy career advice; our 2024 Top Schools listing and Inhouse Design Awards Showcase; and information about entering our popular 61st Annual GDUSA Awards competition open to the entire community. Hope you enjoy the mix.

— Sasha Kaye–Walsh,
Website & Social Media Editor

Brooklyn Museum Exhibits New Logo

This year, on the occasion of its bicentennial, the Brooklyn Museum is undergoing an evolution to help better connect with the varied audiences and bring the institution forward two centuries…

McFlurry Package Gets Makeover

The McFlurry is getting a makeover including a new size and updated packaging. Starting in early September, McDonald’s is rolling out the Mini McFlurry to restaurants across the US…

Digital Design:
Competing for Tech-Savvy Talent in the Creative Field

Competing for Tech-Savvy Talent in the Field

Stop us if this sounds familiar: in a competitive labor market, the talent you most urgently need often seems the farthest from your reach. Let’s take a look at some prevalent hiring trends and discuss how to up your hiring strategy game to find the best talent. Robert Half is the world’s first and largest specialized talent solutions firm. Find your next marketing and creative hire or career opportunity at roberthalf.com.

Span Helps Create Chicago Sanctuary

Founded by The Nascent Group, Chicago’s new public park - South Side Sanctuary - is set in a previously unused parcel of land in the historic Bronzeville neighborhood…

Enter Our 61st Annual GDUSA Awards

2024 American Graphic Design Awards™
End-of-Year… Best-of-Year… The American Graphic Design Awards™ is our flagship contest open to everyone in the community: design firms and studios, ad and creative agencies, inhouse departments, freelancers, students and more. It honors outstanding work of all kinds in two dozen categories across all print, digital and interactive media. Sponsored by Billerud, this is our 61st Anniversary.

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Tavern Puts Sizzle Back In Sizzler

Sizzler Family Steak House is sizzling back to life with a new visual and verbal identity. In partnership with Brooklyn NY-based design agency Tavern, Sizzler has undergone a rebrand…

2024 GDUSA Inhouse Award Showcase
Sponsored By Robert Half

We present our 61st anniversary inhouse awards showcase — the original and premier celebration of inhouse excellence — winnowed from a competition that saw a notable 5,000+ entries. The projects and campaigns touch every region of the country and every segment of the private, public and non-profit sectors. This is graphic design for commerce and culture at its best executed by creative professionals who ably advance their clients objectives and build meaningful value for their organizations, products, services, causes, ideas. The value proposition of inhouse designers is their intimate knowledge of their companies, institutions and brands; the ability to crystallize the message down to its essence and its truth; and doing so within the context and constraints of this moment of cultural, political and economic change. Our 2024 showcase provides many excellent examples.

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2024 GDUSA Top Design Schools

It is time once again time for our annual list of favorite graphic design schools and programs that excel in teaching the hard and soft skills necessary for success…

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Color Intelligence For Designers From The Experts

Five Tips For Successful Package Design

…With Full Sail University

Package design is where creativity meets problem-solving. To make an eye-catching package, you must apply your artistic skills to strict size and shape requirements.

Striking the right balance can be tricky, but learning to successfully design packages can help you develop a creative resourcefulness for tackling projects across the larger design industry.

How Graphic Designers Get Most Out of Adobe MAX

October 14-16 Miami Beach and Online
October 12-13 Pre-Conference

For the first time ever MAX is coming to the East Coast, to the vibrant, creative city of Miami Beach. Thousands of designers, artists, art and creative directors, agency leaders, and industry rock stars will come together to reignite the passion that drives careers and shapes the future. This year, MAX has so much to offer Graphic Designers.

Sasha Kaye-Walsh
Editor,
Website & Social Media