The 2023 Print Design Survey, a tradition that began in 1963. Results will be featured in June in print and online.
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Billerud: Sponsor Of The 59th GDUSA Design Annual
Billerud is a leading U.S. manufacturer of coated graphic and specialty papers and one of the only U.S. manufacturers investing significant capital to improve manufacturing efficiencies and product quality in these paper grades.
59th Annual GDUSA Print Design Survey
Our 59th Annual Print Survey, sponsored by Billerud North America, reflects a push back against digital fatigue and an embrace of print and paper’s classic strengths – tactility, permanence, portability and credibility.
Ten Observations
Ten takeaways from the poll, conducted in mid-April 2022.
The Numbers
The Benchmark Results make clear that print remains essential, even in a digital age.
Select Comments: Is Print Important In Your Professional Life?
Is Print Important In Your Professional Life?
Select Comments: Has the Pandemic and Remote Work Undermined Print Communication or Led to Greater Appreciation for It?
Has the Pandemic and Remote Work Undermined Print Communication or Led to Greater Appreciation for It?
Select Comments: Can Digital and Print Can Work Together Effectively in Marketing Campaigns?
Have You Found That Digital and Print Can Work Together Effectively in Marketing Campaigns?
Select Comments: Do You Believe Print is More or Less Sustainable Than Digital/Electronic Delivery?
Do You Believe Print is More or Less Sustainable Than Digital/Electronic Delivery?
Canon: Fluorescents Make A Comeback
A new survey from Canon U.S.A. captures the powerful allure of fluorescent colors and validates consumers’ overwhelming support for the return and use of bright, bold colors in a broad range of graphic arts and business settings.
GDUSA’s 58th Annual Print Design Survey
Sponsored by Verso Corporation, our 58th Annual Print and Paper Design Survey looks at the enduring strengths and ongoing challenges. All filtered through the experience of the pandemic and how that may shape post-pandemic print.
Message from the Sponsor: Verso Corporation
Verso is a leader in the manufacturing of digital papers since digital printing technology first emerged more than two decades ago.
Twelve Observations
Twelve takeaways from the 2021 Print Survey, conducted in May 2021.
The Numbers
2021 Print Survey Numbers
Select Comments: Is Print Important in Your Professional Life?
Select Comments: Is Print Important in Your Professional Life?
Select Comments: Print Design in a Post-Pandemic World
Select Comments: Print Design in a Post-Pandemic World
Select Comments: Will There Be An Economic Recovery and Will It Benefit Creative Businesses?
Select Comments: Will There Be An Economic Recovery?
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.
Designers Resilient In Adversity
A GDUSA reader poll sponsored by Verso Corporation, papermakers extraordinaire, reveals a surprisingly positive can-do attitude among graphic designers in the face of adversity.
Message from the Sponsor: Verso Corporation
We are with you. We are better together. We are ready when you are. We are Verso.
Takeaway #1: Adapting Nimbly to the Challenge
Designers have continued to execute client projects even during the height of the crisis, mostly by setting up home offices.
Takeaway #2: Embracing Remote Working
Designers expect that the pandemic pause will permanently change where and how – and perhaps why – they work.
Takeaway #3: Hopeful About the Future
Designers are hopeful, even confident, about the long term value and viability of the graphic design business.
Takeaway #4: Bright Spots in the Darkness
Readers report a greater appreciation of family, friends, work-life balance, along with passions for creativity and for their chosen profession.
Takeaway #5: Print Means Human Connection
Respondents believe that, once the coronavirus crisis recedes, traditional modes and materials will have a renaissance.
Message from the Sponsor: Verso Corporation
A leading provider of Printing Papers, Specialty Papers, and Pulp, Verso’s distinguished product line, streamlined supply chain and flexible manufacturing capabilities make us ultra-responsive to market demand, extending our ability to get you the products you need, when you need them.
The Numbers
The Numbers from 2019’s Print Design Survey.
Select Comments: Print’s Place In Your Professional Life
Select Comments: Print’s Place In Your Professional Life
Select Comments: Print and Trust
Select Comments: Print and Trust
Select Comments: Print and The Client
Select Comments: Print and The Client
Select Comments: Print and Paper Samples
Select Comments: Print and Paper Samples
56th Annual Print + Paper Survey
Today, print is a choice and an option, and our survey has evolved into an existential probe of the role and purpose of print today.
Print and Trust
Fake news, clickbait, spam, data misuse. Who and what can you trust?
Message from the Sponsor: Verso Corporation
A leading provider of Printing Papers, Specialty Papers, and Pulp, Verso’s distinguished product line, streamlined supply chain and flexible manufacturing capabilities make us ultra-responsive to market demand, extending our ability to get you the products you need, when you need them. Verso offers the best quality printing papers with a broad selection of certified and recycled […]
The Numbers
Our 2018 survey was sent to a random selection of 10,000 GDUSA print magazine and e-subscribers, and generated 1,104 responses. The benchmark results make clear that, even in a digital age, print remains essential to the graphic design profession. The highlights: 98% of GDUSA readers work in print as part of their mix, 68% of […]
Select Comments: Print’s Place in Your Professional and Personal Life
I personally love print. The quality of paper and the feel of it in your hands really elevates the work, and that’s something you can’t get from digital. Many people still want to see and feel a well-designed print piece. It seems to signify that the ‘product’ has permanence and isn’t as fleeting as online […]
Select Comments: Print, Permanence and Credibility
In a way, print seems to have more credibility than digital because it takes a commitment to produce and read, there’s sense of permanence. Digital is fleeting and becomes easy to forget. Digital content can be edited, updated and changed at the click of a mouse or tap of a finger. Printed material offers some […]
Select Comments: The Rise of Facebook and Google as Advertising Vehicles
Get on the bandwagon’ is today’s mantra. You read it everyday. But I need to see research that proves that it actually works. This is a truly disturbing trend. The dominance of these monopolies is warping public understanding and behavior. They need more government controls and media needs to start exposing their worst abuses. Facebook […]
The Numbers
Our 2017 survey was sent to a random selection of 10,000 GDUSA print magazine and e-subscribers, and generated 1,016 responses.
Favorite Logos of the Past Half-Century
CBS, Target, Apple, 3M, IP, I Love NY, Nike, FedEX, UPS, Shell, and so many more.