UPDATE: deadline extended to March 20, 2015.

Now in it's 25th year, the Applied Arts Design Awards celebrate the very best work produced throughout North America and abroad.

Entries can be submitted in nine main categories:

• Design
• Promotional Design
• Editorial Design
• Packaging Design
• Broadcast Graphics
• Typography Design
• Typeface Design
• Craft
• Young Blood (open to entrants who have been out of school for five years or less)

Maximum entry size is 22 x 26 inches. Each entry is judged by an independent panel of highly regarded industry professionals and experts, based on creative merit, technical excellence and suitability for end use.

Entry fee:

• Single: $70
• Series: $100 (total for three pieces)
• Complete: $150
• Young Blood Single: $50
• Young Blood Series: $60 (total for three pieces)
• Young Blood Complete: $90 (total for five to nine pieces)

Eligibility

All professional work from any country, first completed or published between February 2014 and February 2015 (but not entries that have been submitted into last year’s competition) are eligible for entry.

Prize

Winners and their winning work receive extensive media exposure:

• In the highly-anticipated annual July/August Design Awards issue, complete with full credits. This gorgeous reference is kept and read by the Applied Arts readership of 46,000.

• On the very popular Design Winners gallery, which attracts more than 300,000 visitors annually, as well as the Applied Arts Awards Archive, featuring 10+ years of winning work.

• At the well-attended Winners’ Exhibit in Toronto, where winners will be announced in an evening of suspense and celebration.