Competitions & Campaigns
AIGA’s design competitions celebrate exemplary design and demonstrate the power of effective design.
Scholarships
Call for Applications
AIGA Wordstudio Scholarships
AIGA Worldstudio Scholarships benefit underrepresented and economically disadvantaged students who are studying photography, illustration, and design disciplines in colleges and universities in the United States. Scholarships are awarded annually to encourage social and environmental responsibility and cultural awareness in the next generation of artists and designers.
Application Deadline: April 7, 2023
Awards
Call for Nominations
AIGA Awards
Through national and regional peer nominations, AIGA honors design leaders, forward-thinking companies, and those who have inspired engaging commentary about design and culture. Each year, committees and panels assemble to review nominations from the design community and identify individuals and companies doing excellent work now.
The call for nominations are open year-round. Nominate someone today!
Competitions
Call for Entries
50 Books | 50 Covers
This survey of book design represents perhaps the longest-standing legacy in American graphic design. Beginning in 1923, the AIGA Fifty Books of the Year competition was a yearly mainstay. A time-honored tradition, this celebration of books design aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and the 50-best designed book covers of the year.
Plan now to enter your best work in AIGA's 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2023. The call for entries for the 100-year anniversary of this time-honored competition will open later this year. Watch this space for updates.
Call for Entries
365: AIGA Year in Design
A famed competition, redefined for today's designer. Announcing the return of 365: AIGA Year in Design–celebrating your passion, hard work, and dedication. For agencies big and small as well as those going it alone, we're recognizing excellence and representing innovation across all categories of communication design, from print to web to service to spaces—both physical and virtual.
The call for entries is closed. Plan now to enter your best work from calendar year 2023 into next year's competition. Watch this space for updates.
Get Out the Vote
Call for Posters
AIGA Design For Democracy
Design for Democracy is based on the premise that good design makes your choices clear. Join us in 2022 to help get out the vote in your community for crucial midterm elections. We invite you to join us by submitting your poster to our Creative Commons gallery to help educate and promote participation in 2022 Midterm Elections.
Portfolio Opportunities
July 19–22, 2022
AIGA Portfolio Festival
In July 2021, AIGA hosted its second annual Portfolio Festival—a week-long virtual festival supporting students, recent graduates, and those looking to refresh their portfolio as they look for new jobs—at home.
July 19–22, 2022 (virtual)
Volunteer to serve on an AIGA Review Panel
AIGA assembles panels of jurors and committees for its annual awards and competitions. Panels are composed of AIGA members and nonmembers and are key to reviewing competition entries, scholarship applications, and award nominations. Most panels are composed of design professionals and/or design educators who are qualified by their training, skills, and experience to represent the design profession and the greater design community today. AIGA considers geographic location, discipline/specialization, race and ethnic diversity, gender, age, and other factors that shape creative perspective and professional experience. As individuals and as a group, each panel provides guidance about the work submitted and recommends finalists.
AIGA maintains a database to help us identify and select panelists for annual awards and competitions. Information collected may be shared with our 70+ AIGA local chapter leaders who have access to and share our resources. AIGA does not share this database or its information with third parties.
Responding to some of the profile questions is voluntary. By completing this process you improve your chances of being invited to serve based on our needs, but does not guarantee an invitation to serve on a panel in the current year or in the future.
To avoid a conflict of interest, jurors who have already submitted work to a competition/program they are invited to judge/review will be asked to withdraw their work (encouraged) or recuse themselves from voting on and advocating on behalf of their work. Through special dispensation, jurors will be eligible to enter work into the next year's call for entries/submissions.
Panelists may also be recommended by AIGA board, committee, and staff members.
All panelists must have an my.aiga.org account with AIGA to be eligible to serve.
- Login to update your AIGA profile account info, including: Career Information, Current Skills, Skills Interested in Developing, and Directory Information. Don't have an AIGA account? Create an account for free.
- Email awards@aiga.org and include your name, title, company, city and state/country. Candidates who are a good fit for an AIGA panel will receive an invitation from AIGA by email. Please whitelist emails from @aiga.org.
