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The Applied Arts Awards competition is an international recognition of creative excellence for professional, personal/unpublished and student work. Applied Arts is Canada's leading voice for visual communicators, so being published as a winner is your best opportunity to promote your work across Canada and beyond.
For 30 years the Applied Arts Awards competition have recognized the creative work and set the bar for creative excellence in visual arts, including creative advertising, design photography, illustration, and interactive.
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Turning the table on Antonia V Goga
May 26, 2023
Antonia V Goga, a 2023 Applied Arts Design Awards juror and Creative Director, Design & XD at Momentum Worldwide, shared one of her favourite projects with us - the “Cadillac LYRIQ - The Signature Tour. BE ICONIC.” campaign. She and h ...
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Turning the table: Claudia Mark
May 19, 2023
New York City-based Creative Director and 2023 Applied Arts Design Awards competition juror, Claudia Mark, Agenda, NYC, shares Lumen Learning, a project which she and her team found to be "... an incredibly rewarding process ... seeing it out in the ...
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Everyone is a critic
May 16, 2023
Full Punch launched a new campaign for client Denny's whose goal was to re-shape their large menu with the help of their customers. The campaign was based on the idea that everyone is a critic so why not turn the restaurant into a test kitchen and th ...
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TURNING THE TABLE: MIKE BUTLER
May 12, 2023
A while back we asked Mike Butler, Design Director, Wunderman Thompson, Toronto, to join our 2023 Applied Arts Design Awards jury and we were thrilled when he accepted. He lent us his expert eye and donated his time to score many award worthy entries ...
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Be amazed by this year's 2022 Applied Art Advertising and Student Awards winners. This year's winners have proven that there are no limits to creativity. They continue to test new boundaries and explore new technology.
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