AIGA design competitions

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AIGA’s design competitions celebrate exemplary design and demonstrate the power of effective design.

Live competitions

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Held at the AIGA Design Conference, this live design reality show allows up-and-coming designers to step into the spotlight—giving them the chance to break into the industry in front of peers, heroes and potential employers.

Juried design competitions

	50 Books \| 50 Covers competition This time-honored competition celebrates the year’s 50 best-designed books and book covers, as selected by a distinguished jury. The call for entries for books published in 2017 opened on December 4, 2017. Deadlines are in February 2018. Learn more!
	Worldstudio AIGA Scholarships Each year, Worldstudio AIGA Scholarships allow college students from disadvantaged backgrounds to realize their artistic dreams.
	AIGA (Re)design Awards This biennial design competition was open to design professionals, students, educators, businesses and organizations whose design solutions have a positive impact on our society and environment.
	Cased AIGA’s design competition in 2015 was “Cased: Case Studies for the AIGA Design Archives.” It continued the legacy built by “Justified,” this discerning competition honored case studies of great design as evaluated on concept, process, outcomes, impact, and aesthetics.
	Justified AIGA’s annual design competition from 2012–2014 collected and showcased the stories behind the best contemporary design to demonstrate the collective success of the profession. (see “Cased”)
	Design Ignites Change \| AIGA Fellowship The Design Ignites Change \| AIGA Fellowship program was geared towards creative professionals with a concept that has potential to ignite positive change. Fellowship recipients received seed funding to get their project started along with professional guidance and mentoring to help turn their concept into reality.
	365 \| Design Effectiveness Competition AIGA awarded design work that’s both aesthetically pleasing and effective at solving client challenges. The selections in this juried competition represented the most effective work across all disciplines of communication design. (see “Justified”).