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Enter a GDUSA competition to have your work showcased across Projects, Firms, and Designers.
The Awards
What it costs to enter, when each program runs, how the work is judged, and what a win gets you. Everything in one place, in plain numbers.
A single entry is $120. Two cost $200, and the price per piece keeps falling from there: ten to twenty entries together are $400, and each one past twenty is $20. The schedule is from the entry platform as of October 2026 and is shown again at checkout.
| Entries | Fee |
|---|---|
| 1 | $120 |
| 2 | $200 |
| 3 | $260 |
| 4 | $280 |
| 5 | $300 |
| 6 | $320 |
| 7 | $340 |
| 8 | $360 |
| 9 | $380 |
| 10 to 20 | $400 |
| Each entry past 20 | $20 |
Winning earns the award. Publication is a separate paid step: a quarter page costs $280 and a full page costs $650 in the GDUSA annual for your program, and a published winner also gets a project page here with its credits. Full-page winners carry the Featured Winner mark and lead the home page rotation. Claiming a published page afterward is free.
See current fees at the entry platform →Open now
American Graphic Design Awards 2026
Entries close Friday, November 6, 2026. Winners hear in mid-November 2026 and appear in the December 2026 issue of GDUSA, arriving in early January 2027.
Each program runs once a year in a predictable window. Windows shift a little from season to season, so treat these as typical months; the exact open and close dates for the current season live on the entry platform.
Digital Design
Winter
January to March
In-House Design
Spring
April to June
Package Design
Early summer
May to July
Health & Wellness Design
Summer
July to September
American Graphic Design
Fall · The flagship
August to October
Sports Design and Cannabis Design are newer programs; their seasonal windows are announced on the entry platform.
Every entry is reviewed by a jury of the GDUSA editors and invited practitioners, working designers and creative directors who know the discipline at hand. Work is judged on craft and effectiveness in its category, against the other work in that category. The entry fee pays for the program. It buys no influence over the result.
Winning earns the award. Publishing puts the work in the GDUSA annual and here in the gallery, where the team gets a permanent home.
The award and a certificate. Every winner receives both, and a plaque can be ordered.
Publication, if you choose it. A quarter page or a full page in the GDUSA annual for your program, priced separately ($280 or $650 as of October 2026).
A page in the GDUSA Design Gallery. Published winners get a public, crawlable project page here, alongside every published winner since 2015.
Named credits for the whole team. Every designer on a published entry is credited by name and linked to a profile.
Computed achievement badges. Milestones, streaks and category honors are derived from the published archive itself; they cannot be bought.
A free claim. Verify a published page is yours and you control it, with a followed link to your own site and an embeddable winner badge.