We present our 61st anniversary end-of-year best-of-year awards showcase — a celebration of the value to business, culture, society that creative professionals bring to the table. The pieces showcased — and their creators — stand out from the information clutter and make a difference.
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Welcome To Our 2024 GDUSA Inhouse Awards Showcase
We present our 61st anniversary inhouse awards showcase — the original and premier celebration of inhouse excellence — and a celebration of the value that inhouse communicators bring to the table.
Two Things Can Be True At The Same Time
Gordon Kaye has been editor and publisher of GDUSA for more than three decades, and Sasha Kaye-Walsh is website and social media editor. This comment, connected to our 61st annual Print Design Survey and our 2024 Digital Design Awards competition and showcase, first appeared in our June 2024 print and digital magazines.
Message From The Editors | People To Watch 2024
For the 61st time, GDUSA presents ‘People To Watch’. The annual edition highlights leaders in the creative community who have something important to say and back up their words with deeds — talent, achievement, leadership, service, newsworthiness.
Gordon Kaye: Making Sense of 60 Years
‘The more things change, the more they remain insane.’ As GDUSA winds up its sixth decade, a few thoughts about the evolution of graphic design as a discipline and profession, how it has morphed and changed over time, and how to make some sense of it all.
Gordon Kaye: Our 2023 Inhouse Design Awards
GDUSA Editor and Publisher Gordon Kaye on the magazine’s 2023 Inhouse Design Awards showcase, and the potential role of inhouse designers going forward in helping to rebuild social trust and usher in an era of communications truth and transparency.
Work That Feels (And Is) Meaningful
Gordon Kaye and Sasha Kaye-Walsh are editors at Graphic Design USA/GDUSA. These comments first ran in October 2022. They deal with GDUSA’s 2022 Health+Wellness Design Awards, the annual Responsible Designers feature, and more news and ideas.
Gordon Kaye: Breaking The Cycle Of Distrust
GDUSA’s Gordon Kaye with thoughts on our 59th Annual Inhouse Design Awards showcase and why inhouse designers are in a position to create an upcycle of effective, authentic and trustworthy communications. Just when we need it the most.
Gordon Kaye: Our 2022 Package Design Awards
Our 59th anniversary package design awards program is among the largest – and is certainly the most selective – we have organized. This is all the more significant as it comes against the backdrop of a boom in the packaging industry.
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.
Gordon Kaye On Our 2022 GDUSA People To Watch
Since 1963, GDUSA has selected a group of newsmakers and influencers, our People To Watch, to profile. It’s an inspiring way to jump start each year, and serves as a reminder of how big and broad and talented is our creative community.
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.
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: Inhouse Designers And The Infodemic
Publisher Gordon Kaye on our 2021 American Inhouse Design Awards showcase, the core value proposition for inhouse design departments, and why it all matters in the wake of the pandemic and the great polarization.
Gordon Kaye: Thoughts On The 2021 Package Design Showcase
Publisher Gordon Kaye welcomes readers to GDUSA’s 58th anniversary American Package Design Awards™ for a celebration of packaging’s importance at the moment of truth.
A Piercing Moment of Clarity
Gordon Kaye, editor and publisher, with thoughts on the 2021 GDUSA People To Watch and Students To Watch special edition.
Gordon Kaye: Thoughts On Our 57th Design Annual
As we try to cope with pandemics, politics and protests, our 57th Design Annual suggests that out of the crucible we can expect an even more influential graphic design profession to emerge.
Gordon Kaye: We Keep Getting Back Up
The participants in GDUSA’s Socially Responsible Designers editorial feature – an annual look at creative and thought leaders who are designing for good – choose to see a silver lining to the annus horribilis that is 2020.
Gordon Kaye: What GDUSA’s 2020 Inhouse Awards Showcase Tells Us
GDUSA Publisher Gordon Kaye on our 57th anniversary American Inhouse Design Awards edition, which features a showcase of winners of the original and premier competition for inhouse design departments.
Gordon Kaye On GDUSA’s Pandemic Poll
In the face of uncertainty and adversity, designers are proving adaptable and ingenious — and hopeful.
Gordon Kaye On The Pandemic Pause
A first cut on how graphic designers are dealing with the coronavirus crisis in real time. Send your thoughts and experiences for publication to editorial@gdusa.com
Gordon Kaye: The Best Way To Predict The Future…
Editor and Publisher Gordon Kaye with thoughts on our 2020 People To Watch feature. This column – The Best Way To Predict The Future Is To Create It – was originally published in our Jan/Feb 2020 print edition. GK
Gordon Kaye: Thoughts On The 2019 Design Annual
Gordon Kaye a publisher and lawyer. Here are some thoughts on vision and values as reflected in the 56th anniversary GDUSA Design Annual.
Gordon Kaye: The More Things Change…
Publisher Gordon Kaye on GDUSA’s 2019 People To Watch. And why, in this dumb and divisive time, he is feeling a bit better about where we are and where we are going.
The GDUSA Podcast #6: Diane Domeyer of The Creative Group
Gordon talks to Diane Domeyer, Executive Director of The Creative Group, about in-demand design skills, the need women and minorities in creative leadership positions,, and why it’s a job seeker’s market.
The GDUSA Podcast #5: Robin Colangelo of White & Case
Gordon talks to Robin Colangelo, Global Director of Creative Services at law firm White & Case, about creative leadership, design education, and the challenges of working inhouse.
The GDUSA Podcast #3: Megan Flood of Marine Lane
Gordon talks with Megan Flood of boutique design studio Marine Lane about design school, bipartisan politics and her love of Serendipity ice cream.
Introducing The GDUSA Podcast Coming January 2019
Introducing The GDUSA Podcast series coming January 2019.
Gordon Kaye: Thank The Lord For Experts
GDUSA publisher Gordon Kaye on Marco Rubio, wearing black, and why it is helpful to have experts around when you are forecasting graphic design trends.
Gordon Kaye: Where Have You Gone Kelly Clarkson?
Publisher Gordon Kaye is worried about the lack of shared experiences in our fragmented media world, and what it means to a society.
Gordon Kaye: The Meaning of Life In Short Form
GDUSA Publisher Gordon Kaye’s thoughts on our People To Watch edition, the meaning of life, and the importance of personal pizzas.