The 2022 showcase stands among our largest ever and against the backdrop of accelerating packaging industry growth. More than 330 winning projects and campaigns from talented design firms, agencies, inhouse departments and more.
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Cooper Hewitt Explores ‘Designing Peace’
Commencing June 10, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum will present “Designing Peace,” an exhibition exploring the unique role design can play in pursuing peace.
Parsons’ Core Creative Agency At 50
Parsons’ Core Creative Agency is celebrating its 50th anniversary. This in-house design department looks back and looks forward as it continues to express and protect the essence of the brand, product, and mission.
Grady: Motion Is Branding’s Future
Kevin Grady is a Senior Partner in design at Lippincott, a global creative consultancy, where he spearheads programs out of the San Francisco office. He contends that motion design is the future of branding.
Univenture Invites General Public To Invest
Investors have the ability to join growing Biotech & Eco Packaging sectors with the announcement of Univenture’s funding round on investment platform WeFunder.
Gwen O’Brien: Crypto, NFTs and Design
An interview with Gwen O’Brien, an award-winning designer, currently working on her latest project, Design X Collective, a decentralized design studio in the metaverse. She specializes in NFTs, the blockchain, and the future of graphic design.
Barcelona Campaign Encourages A Greener City
Cuidem Barcelona is a new brand for Barcelona’s maintenance and cleaning service created by the agency Folch. The branding appeals to concepts including inclusiveness, empathy and citizen responsibility for a greener city.
How Modern Tools Are Reshaping Creative Workflows
Alan Reuter of MCD Partners on three ways the creative workflow is making the design and development process more team-oriented and collaborative.
Dockendorf: Ego Has No Seat At Table
Taja Dockendorf of Pulp+Wire on why ego has no place at the table when you aim to empower those around you.
Lippincott Unfurls NYC Pride Brand
Heritage of Pride, a nonprofit that plans and produces NYC’s official LGBTQIA+ Pride events, reveals a new brand identity by Lippincott that reinforces a commitment to uplift the community.
Maria Nicanor To Lead Cooper Hewitt
Maria Nicanor, executive director of the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) at Rice University’s School of Architecture, has been named the director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, effective March 21.
AIGA Scholarship Now Accepting Applications
AIGA has announced that applications are now being accepted for the 2022/2023 academic year for the AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships program.
Comment: It’s OK To ‘Sell Out’
Why is there still a certain snobbishness about ‘commercial work’ and a squeamishness about the business side of the industry?
Debbie Millman’s Love Letter To Creativity
Debbie Millman has written a new book based on her award-winning podcast. ‘WHY DESIGN MATTERS: Conversations with the World’s Most Creative People’ is available for pre-order now.
Colossus Cultivates Feel Good Greens
Boston design and creative agency Colossus has created its first campaign and branding exercise for Bowery Farming, the largest indoor, vertical farming company in the United States.
Jeff Hale Is First Head of Design for Walrus
Independent creative agency Walrus has named Jeff Hale its first Head of Design. In his new role, Hale will oversee Walrus’s design output across both the agency’s full-service and design-only clients.
Prophet Brews Purpose-Driven Identity
Anheuser-Busch recently introduced a new global company purpose and, with it, a new visual identity developed by Prophet.
Making Crypto Human
Blond has created a brand identity and strategy for cryptocurrency funding platform Vent. It seeks to simplify and humanize the concept of cryptocurrency for a broad audience.
Coca-Cola Rolls Out New Cans
Natalie Suarez, senior brand manager, Coke Choice Portfolio: ‘We wanted to modernize and simplify the look of our packaging to help consumers find the flavor they’re looking for on the shelf through a colorful but clean packaging design.’
2021 GDUSA Annual Awards Showcase
Our 58th annual showcase – sponsored by Verso Corporation – presents 700+ projects that reflect the many ways in which graphic design and visual communication shapes commerce and culture.
Gordon Kaye: Our 58th GDUSA Design Annual
We present our 58th American Graphic Design Awards Annual. The 700+ pieces showcased — and their creators — are among the best and brightest – and most resilient – of our community.
Mucho Rebrands VISA Two-Bar Symbol
Global design studio Mucho launched a new brand identity for VISA. Aiming to shift perceptions of the company as all about credit cards, the designers position the brand as “infrastructure that moves a payment from point A to point B.”
Using Code To Empower
Elephant, an IPG creative agency, has produced a new brand identity and website for All-Star Code, an organization that empowers young men of color to achieve financial independence and social mobility via the power of code.
Ksenya Samarskaya Is TDC Managing Director
The Type Directors Club appoints designer, strategist, and educator Ksenya Samarskaya to serve as the first managing director in the club’s 75-year history. Her vision runs from branding and vision to diversity and inclusion.
Rachel Zorel: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too!
Thoughts from Rachel Zorel of 7 Layer Studio on how business leaders must redefine the ‘Work/Life Balance’ in the pandemic landscape. ‘Have your cake and eat it too!’ is about taking control of your schedules and respecting the precious resource of time.
Zero Launches Cannabis Company
Zero has partnered with two of the cannabis industry’s founders, Dosist’s Matt Seashols and Sunday Goods’ Randy Smith, to launch cannabis company Studio. After years of serving cannabis companies, Studio marks Zero’s transition to becoming equity partners in a cannabis venture – offering a family of creative cannabis brands that prioritize education, accessibility and reliability. […]
Cooper Hewitt On Creative Responses To Epidemics
“Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics” Exhibition will open in December at Cooper Hewitt. It documents how, in response to COVID-19 and other health crises, designers, doctors and others collaborate to innovate.
New Role With the Company? Here’s How to Ace the Transition
Paul Flaharty of Robert Half on how to ace an internal transfer, be it a move to a new department or managerial position. Paul is executive director of the marketing and creative practice at the global talent solutions firm.
Serenity Key To Shutterstock Color Trends
Shutterstock has released its annual Color Trends Report. By analyzing millions of image downloads and pixel data, the report identifies the three most rapidly-growing colors, as well as trending favorites in twenty countries around the globe.
Free Demo of FunctionFox In-House Tool
See a free demo and get deep discounts on FunctionFox In-House, an all-in-one project management tool that allows creative teams to spend less time fielding requests and more time doing what they love: creating.
Creative Talent In Short Supply. Here’s How To Find It
Diane Domeyer of Robert Half explains why, while you can’t control the red hot hiring market, you can tailor your recruitment strategy to the current landscpae and make your firm attractive to talented candidates.
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.
Gordon Kaye: Our 2021 Responsible Designers Story
Our annual Responsible Designers To Watch story — aka “designing for good” — recognizes that creative professionals are taking control and ownership of how, why, where and for whom they work.
Gordon Kaye: A Happy Convergence
Welcome to our 21st annual American Web Design Awards winners showcase.
San Francisco 49ers Draft Latinx Artist
The San Francisco 49ers are engaged in a campaign to celebrate Latinx Heritage Month. The celebration includes Latinx fan feature videos, new Spotify playlists with Bay Area Latinx artists – and artwork by a 49ers employee Emilio Cortez from outside the team’s inhouse creative team.
Five Factors That Help Fuel the Creative Economy
Located in Winter Park FL, Full Sail University supplies students with the knowledge and tools to establish a career path within the global creative economy. Here are 5 factors that give students career and job search advantages.
VSA Prescribes ‘Curiosity To Cure’ Campaign
VSA Partners has led the brand transformation of AMRI, a leading contract drug manufacturing organization, emphasizing its ability to take drug development “from curiosity to cure.”
LogoLounge 13 Open For Submissions
LogoLounge.com is currently accepting submissions for LogoLounge Book 13, which will feature 3,000 of the best and brightest logos from around the world.
Ruffin: Where Are All The Black People?
Amber Ruffin will give the keynote address at the 11th edition of the One Club’s Where Are All The Black People (WAATBP) diversity conference and career fair, taking place virtually September 29-30.
Planting A Seed For A More Diverse Graphic Design Industry
Summer Studio is a pilot program to introduce inner-city students to graphic design as a profession. DJ Haddad led the course in an effort to spotlight that there is a whole world of high-paying careers that exist for the creatively inclined.