Enter a GDUSA competition to have your work showcased across Projects, Firms, and Designers.
Sponsorship
Sponsoring GDUSA puts you inside the juried record of American design, not beside it. Published prices, labeled placements, and a reader who is here to study the work.
The gallery’s readers are the trade: working designers, in-house teams, and firms researching award-winning work and the tools, papers, and presses behind it. They arrive to study what wins, and they leave with names: the studio, the printer, the software.
Audience report available on request.
$500 to $1,500/mo per category
"Packaging, presented by you." Your name sits on the discipline hubs your buyers already browse: the category landing pages where designers study the winning work in packaging, digital, in-house, and the rest. Every placement is labeled as sponsorship and measured, with impressions, clicks, and engagement reported to you.
$1,000
A how-to or trend piece on your area of expertise, written in GDUSA’s editorial voice, clearly labeled as sponsored, and published at a permanent URL you can link and share for as long as you like.
$1,000
An editorial series carrying your name as presenter: think "Five AI tools that accelerate design." GDUSA picks the subject and writes the piece, clearly labeled. The writing stays independent; you get the association with editorial that readers choose to read.
$500 to $50,000 per pool
Fund award entries for your customers or your community. You receive a grant code, and every redemption links back to your vendor profile. Pools start at $500 (7 sponsored entries) and run to $50,000 (250 entries plus 125 publication fees).
The funnel, stated plainly: sponsored entries are judged blind, exactly like every other entry, and most entries do not win. Work you sponsor is featured in the gallery, credited, and linked back to your vendor profile only when it wins and the winner publishes. Publication is $280 per piece and is included only in the larger pools.
The sponsored article, the bundled editorial, and the starter entry pool are fixed-price: you can buy them right now by card. Category sponsorship and larger pools are scoped to you, so those start with a conversation.
Sponsored surfaces are always labeled. Readers can always tell editorial from advertising, on every page, every time.
Judging is blind to payment source. Jurors never know whether an entry was sponsored. No sponsorship, ad, or entry pool changes a score.
The award record is never for sale. Winner pages, credits, and badges are computed from results alone. Spend never enters the math.