For over 35 years, Applied Arts Media has been the go-to destination for creative advice, insight and inspiration. The Applied Arts Awards celebrate innovative creativity, and capture the current visual arts landscape in Canada and beyond.
It's time to be recognized for your hard work
The Applied Arts Awards offer creative individuals, emerging artists and creative firms a place to showcase their outstanding creative work in one of our five awards competitions. All work is judged by a panel of industry experts of renowned designers, art directors and creative professionals from across Canada and beyond.
Show us the exceptional work you have been working on over the past year. Winning an Applied Arts Awards can bolster your career, attract new clients or lead to new career opportunities. Whether you are an art director, designer, illustrator, photographer, emerging artist, or creative firm you can find a competition or category to help you stand-out.
Note: To current students completing their secondary, post-secondary or graduate level - you are ONLY ELIGIBLE to enter the Student Awards Competition where work is judged alongside your peers at a similar level of experience.
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The Robots Are Coming, The Robots Are Coming
September 17, 2024
Mark Rutledge is one of Canada’s design leaders with deep roots and over 30 years of experience designing for Canada’s Indigenous communities and organizations. He is an international speaker/presenter, futurist, and proud Ojibway from Li ...
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Taking the pulse with Handawen Zhang
September 10, 2024
The Show by Young Blood Illustrator Handawen Zhang 2024 Applied Arts Illustration Award. Concept artist, Designer and Illustrator Handawen Zhang can now add Applied arts Young Blood Award winner to his list of credentials. Handawen won a 2024 Appl ...
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Turning the table on Holly Gallacher
September 5, 2024
Holly Gallacher, Senior Designer at Nike and 2024 Applied Arts Student Awards juror, shared, at our request, a favourite project of hers - the task of refreshing Canons visual identity. She dove deep into research to create a beautiful elegant design ...
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Product Placement: In Your Face Or In The Background?
August 29, 2024
It’s not too hard to imagine the hot air balloon in Jules Verne’s ‘Around the World in Eighty Day’s in the shape of the Michelin Man (Image credit: Midjourney) By Aria Novosedlik From 1882, when Édouard Manet painte ...
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DEI Down But Not Out. Will Novosedlik returns as Editor of the summer issue to discuss the whereabouts of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion in the creative industry – was it just lip service, as in merely performative? Dive into the Summer 2024 issue for an assessment of where things stand.
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