2025 GDUSA People To Watch
For the 62nd year, GDUSA recognizes people who embody the spirit of the creative community. Newsmakers, influencers, thought-leaders with insights into the past, present and future of the graphic design and creative professions. Also see our list of six decades of ‘People’ watching.
2025 GDUSA Students To Watch
With the help of several of America’s leading art and design schools, we once again identify top students ready to burst on the design scene in 2025.
2024 GDUSA Responsible Designers
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.
2024 GDUSA Responsible Designers To Watch
Our annual ‘Responsible Designers’ feature, sponsored by DOMTAR, recognizes creative professionals who are embracing responsibility as to how, when, why and for whom they work — using design principles, talents and skills to make the world a better place for people and nature.
GDUSA’s 61st Print Design Survey
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.
LogoLounge: 2024 Annual Trend Report
For the 22nd straight year, GDUSA publishes Bill Gardner’s LogoLounge report, the first and last word on logo trends and cultural context. As Bill has said: “Only when you grasp the trends… can you transcend.”
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.
GDUSA’s 61st Annual Print + Paper Survey
GDUSA’s 61st print design benchmark survey.
2024 GDUSA People To Watch
For 61 years, GDUSA has recognized people who embody the spirit of the creative community. This year we overweighted with people engaged in package design because of the opportunities it presents. Mohawk is exclusive sponsor.
2024 GDUSA Students To Watch
With the help of several of America’s leading art and design schools, we once again identify top students ready to burst on the design scene.
2023 GDUSA Responsible Designers
Each year, GDUSA highlights creative and thought leaders who use design principles, talents and skills to help make the world a better and more sustainable place as they see it. DOMTAR is the exclusive sponsor.
2023 LogoLounge Trend Report
This 21st annual study by founder Bill Gardner provides a sweeping overview of logo trends gleaned from over 30,000 examples reviewed this year, as well as insights and musings on the cultural and commercial contexts from which they arise.
GDUSA’s 60th Print + Paper Survey
Yogi Berra said ‘you can observe a lot by watching.’ For six decades, we have been ‘on watch’ – tracking, noting, celebrating the vital and evolving role of print and paper in service of graphic communications. Sponsor of our 60th annual reader survey is BILLERUD.
2023 GDUSA Top Design Schools
GDUSA presents our 60 favorite institutions or programs that prepare students to work in professional graphic design.
GDUSA’s 60th Annual Print + Paper Survey
The 2023 Print Design Survey, a tradition that began in 1963. Results will be featured in June in print and online.
2023 GDUSA People To Watch
For 60 years, the first edition of Graphic Design USA has recognized ‘People to Watch’ who embody the spirit of the creative community. Individuals we know and respect for a combination of talent, success, leadership, newsworthiness, influence, and community service writ large.
2023 GDUSA Students To Watch
It’s a long tradition here at GDUSA and it’s back for 2023. With the help of several of America’s leading art and design schools and programs, we once again identify top students ready to burst on the graphic design scene.
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.
2022 GDUSA Top Design Schools
A list of our favorite institutions that prepare students to work in professional graphic design, based on a mix of objective and subjective factors, including our own decades long relationships. The list is alphabetical and the reach is national.
GDUSA’s 59th Annual Print + Paper Survey
GDUSA’s 2022 Print + Paper Survey
2022 GDUSA People To Watch
Our 2022 GDUSA People To Watch spotlight on creative professionals who embody the spirit of the creative community. It is a tradition that reaches back to 1963.
2022 GDUSA Students To Watch
With the help of several of America’s leading art and design schools, we once again identify top students ready to burst on the design scene.
GDUSA’s 2021 Responsible Designers
Responsible Designers To Watch recognizes that creative professionals are embracing responsibility writ large in terms of how, when, why, and for whom they work.
LogoLounge 2021 Trend Report
LogoLounge 2021: Designers as Scouts and Guides in Alien Territory
GDUSA’s 58th Annual Print + Paper Survey
Our 58th Annual Print + Paper Survey. Results will be featured in the June magazine and on our website.
2021 GDUSA Top Graphic Design Schools
A list of 50 of our favorite institutions that prepare students to work in professional graphic design, factoring in decades long relationships with designers, students, recruiters, educators.
2021 GDUSA People to Watch
Our 2021 / 58th anniversary GDUSA People To Watch spotlight on designers who embody the spirit of the creative community.
2021 GDUSA Students to Watch
For 2021, GDUSA’s annual top students to watch, selected with the help of leading art and design schools and programs.
2020 Responsible Designers to Watch
Exclusively sponsored by Domtar, GDUSA presents it annual selection of leading creatives who exemplify the ‘designing for good’ movement.
2020 GDUSA Top Graphic Design Schools
The 2020 list of GDUSA’s favorite programs and institutions that prepare students to work in professional graphic design; it’s a mix of objective, subjective and our own decades of being in the fray.
2020 GDUSA People To Watch
GDUSA starts each year by choosing a group of People To Watch who embody the spirit of the creative community.
2020 GDUSA Students to Watch
Our annual Students To Watch feature has become a tradition that resonates and renews: the students get recognized and the professional creative community gets refreshed.
2019 Responsible Designers to Watch
Exclusively sponsored by Domtar, GDUSA presents it annual selection of leading creatives who exemplify the ‘designing for good’ movement.
Our 33rd Annual Stock Visual Survey
GDUSA 33rd Annual Stock Visual Reader Survey continues our documentation of this important and evolving designer resource
LogoLounge 2019 Trend Report
2019 marks the 17th year of this one-of-a-kind report from LogoLounge. Each year, founder Bill Gardner offers the opportunity to review thousands of logos one at a time, looking for emerging trends.
GDUSA’s 2019 Top Graphic Design Schools
The 2019 list of our favorite programs and institutions that prepare students to work in professional graphic design.
GDUSA People to Watch 2019
GDUSA starts each year by choosing a group of People To Watch who embody the spirit of the creative community.
GDUSA Names 2019 Students to Watch
GDUSA identifies top students in 2019 ready to burst onto the design scene.
2018 Responsible Designers to Watch
GDUSA spotlights designers who embrace responsibility writ large in terms of how sustainably they create and produce, as well as how, when, why and for whom they work. A special thanks to exclusive sponsor Domtar.
GDUSA 32nd Annual Stock Visual Reader Survey
Our 32nd annual Stock Visual Reader Survey reaffirms that almost everyone uses stock imagery, is using more of it, and is mostly satisfied with its quality, quantity and direction.
