Creativity+Commerce, PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize

Creativity + Commerce: PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize

A still from the "Hands" campaign for Hewlett-Packard, the 2007 first-place winner. AGENCY: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; DESIGN FIRM: Motion Theory.

Deadline

The deadline for next year's competition is November 1, 2008. Click here to enter. Our October 2008 issue (on newstands September 2) will also have an entry form and the complete rules.

Do you have what it takes?

Creativity + Commerce: PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize is PRINT’s newest competitive design review—and the stakes are high: We’re awarding $9,000 in prize money!

Creativity + Commerce showcases outstanding print and interactive design from around the world. This highly selective competition features the best branding campaigns, websites, advertising, corporate brochures, annual reports, identity systems, packaging, catalogs, motion graphics, and signage produced to communicate with a company’s audience, investors, employees, or the public at large.

Enter now, and your work could be displayed in a special section in the October 2009 issue of PRINT. It’s an investment that could have spectacular returns.

Decisions, Decisions

Every year, we assemble a star panel of judges to come to the PRINT offices and select winning entries for Creativity + Commerce. With hundreds of pieces to look at, there are always a lot of tough choices to make—and our 2008 group was up to the task.

We had a dedicated and eclectic team this year: Cooper Union professor, and cofounder of the studio Chopping Block, Mike Essl, (and—it must be mentioned—owner of what may well be the world’s largest collection of Mr. T paraphernalia); Richard Christiansen, founder of Chandelier Creative (check out his amazing office); Christine Mau, associate director of packaging graphics at Kimberly-Clark; and Gail Anderson, a creative director at the design studio and agency SpotCo, and one of the 2008 winners of the AIGA Lifetime Achievement Award. Together, they spent the day exchanging opinions, arguing for theirfavorites, and commenting on design trends.

They also selected our top three winners, and an honorable mention, for 2008.The four pieces they chose are all stunning, and vastly different from one another. We’ll be showcasing those projects here in October. Stay tuned to find out who made the cut—and won the top prize!

Winners from past competitions

* Read about the winners of the 2007 and the 2006 competitions.

* Buy our 2007 Business Graphics issue or our 2006 Business Graphics issue.

* Buy our 2007 Retrospective CD, which has all of the text and images from all six of our award-winning 2007 issues.