Awards

Questions

What are the GDUSA Design Awards?

Seven annual programs from Graphic Design USA, the magazine covering American graphic design since 1963. The American Graphic Design Awards are the flagship and take every discipline. The others are the American Inhouse Design Awards, the American Package Design Awards, the Digital Design Awards, the Health & Wellness Design Awards, the Sports Design Awards and the Cannabis Design Awards. Winners are published in the magazine and here in the gallery.

Which program is open right now?

Each program opens once a year. Package Design runs in winter, Digital Design in spring, In-House in late spring, Health & Wellness in summer and the American Graphic Design Awards in the fall; the exact dates for the current season are on the entry platform. Enter on the awards platform.

How do I enter?

Upload the work on the GDUSA entry platform, choose a category and pay the fee. A single entry costs $120 as of October 2026, and packages bring the price per piece down to $400 for ten to twenty entries. A jury reviews every entry against the other work in its category, and winners are notified by email. How the awards work.

Where do the winners appear?

Winners who publish appear in the GDUSA annual for that program and here in the gallery, where each published project gets a page that credits the firm and every designer named on the entry. Publication is the paid step after a win. Winners can claim the page for free and link it to their own site.

How far back does the gallery go?

62 award editions across 12 years, the earliest from 2015. Every project on those pages is a published GDUSA award winner, with its credits.