The Applied Arts Awards
Now, more than ever before, getting business is all about credibility – what work you've already done, and who's given it the nod. Applied Arts Awards have been a reliable source for showcasing the best of the best for 30 years. A nod from one of our juries – always different, always independent – gives you bragging rights, exposure, more confidence, and, above all, a portfolio showpiece.
We remain committed to celebrating the amazing published, unpublished, personal, and student work from the advertising, design, illustration, and photography spectrum. So show us – and the creative world – what you've poured your heart and soul into over the past year.
For eligibility or to enter, click on the competition of interest.
2022 Photography Awards
Now Open
Final Deadline: February 4, 2022
2022 Illustration Awards
Now Open
Final Deadline: February 4, 2022
2022 Design Awards
Now Open
Final Deadline: March 11, 2022
2022 Student Awards
Now Open
Final Deadline: May 20, 2022
2022 Advertising Awards
Launch: May 30, 2022
Final Deadline: September 2, 2022
Entering work to an Applied Arts Awards competition is easy thanks to a streamlined awards management system.
- You can stop and restart at any time during the entry process.
- All submissions are digital, with a simple upload process and clearly defined entry material requirements.
- Easy to use Awards interface that allows entrants to enter multiple competitions.
- Simple processes for entering creative credit roles – once creative credit roles are input; they can be reused for subsequent entries.
- If you work with smaller, local clients, a small business or projects with a shoestring budget you may be eligible to compete with like-sized entrants in the Community categories.
- If you are a recent graduate with a limited number of years in the industry you are eligible to enter the Young Blood categories to help you establish your creative talent with like-minded peers. Visit each Awards competition for eligibility.
- If you are a current high school, post-secondary, graduate studies student, or an individual who graduated up to 1 year ago, our Student Awards competition is the best way to kickstart your creative career.
Juries of senior-level creative professionals review the submissions and judge entries based on creative merit, technical excellence and suitability for end use. Those that meet a pre-determined cut-off score are published in their corresponding awards Annual and online within the interactive Winners Gallery, equally and without prejudice.
Great work needs to be recognized.
What Winners receive:
- Their work published in one the corresponding Awards Annuals
- A complimentary copy of the Awards Annual their work appears in
- Their work published online in our Winners Gallery and our social media channels.
- A personalized, awards certificate for every winning entry signed by noted designer Georges Haroutiun, the founder and art director of Applied Arts
- The opportunity to order a personalized, engraved awards trophy. The AACE cube original stopper showstopper piece.
