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The Applied Arts Awards competition is an international recognition of creative excellence for professional, personal/unpublished and student work.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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Zulu Alpha Kilo's "Unpaid is unfair"

Zulu Alpha Kilo's "Unpaid is unfair"

September 20, 2023

Zulu Alpha Kilo and 19 Humber College students came together to tackle the unacceptable unpaid internships permeating the job market at large.    The campaign resulted in a 2019 internship that sent 19 Humber College Advertising students ...

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Q&A - With Cossette's Creative Lead on their multi-winning spot for nabs

Q&A - With Cossette's Creative Lead on their multi-winning spot for nabs

September 11, 2023

Nicole Ellerton, group creative director at Cossette Toronto shares her and her team's inspiration while effecting positive change in their seven-time multiple category-winning video "This job can break you" for nabs. This is an industry historic ...

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NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS

August 24, 2023

John Heartfield’s famous 1930s critique of press censorship in Nazi Germany By Will Novosedlik In a recent interview on CBC radio, science fiction writer and digital activist Cory Doctorow defined the internet as “5 giant websites f ...

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Into the Spotlight

Into the Spotlight

August 3, 2023

Applied Arts spoke with Aanvik Singh, a recent graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design's Motion Media and Design program, to share his process for creating projects that create a lasting impression.  Projects like Comotion 2023, Into th ...

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Inspiration found here. The Summer 2023 issue of Applied Arts is boasts over 200 pages of beauty, wit, insight, opinions and technological experimentation.

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