For over 35 years, Applied Arts Media has been the go-to destination for creative advice, insight and inspiration. The Applied Arts Awards celebrate innovative creativity, and capture the current visual arts landscape in Canada and beyond.
It's time to be recognized for your hard work
The Applied Arts Awards offer creative individuals, emerging artists and creative firms a place to showcase their outstanding creative work in one of our five awards competitions. All work is judged by a panel of industry experts of renowned designers, art directors and creative professionals from across Canada and beyond.
Show us the exceptional work you have been working on over the past year. Winning an Applied Arts Awards can bolster your career, attract new clients or lead to new career opportunities. Whether you are an art director, designer, illustrator, photographer, emerging artist, or creative firm you can find a competition or category to help you stand-out.
Note: To current students completing their secondary, post-secondary or graduate level - you are ONLY ELIGIBLE to enter the Student Awards Competition where work is judged alongside your peers at a similar level of experience.
News
AI Goes to School
May 30, 2024
By Aria Novosedlik AI is everywhere these days. Annoyingly so. Like climate change, its ubiquity as a topic of conversation has become exhausting. Yet, like climate change, it must be discussed – thoroughly – by everyone, not jus ...
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Announcing the 2024 Student Awards Winners
May 30, 2024
Hayley Hinkley, 2024 Applied Arts Student Awards judge and Creative at Mother, Los Angels, CA, said of this year's winning entries: "I was very very impressed by the range and quality of entries I went through. So many creative, thoughtful and well p ...
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Turning the Table on Bryony Merick
May 29, 2024
Bryony Meyrick, Partner and Creative Director, Together Design London, London, UK and 2024 Applied Arts Design Awards judge, when asked to share one of her most prized design campaign with us she presented Haws Watering Cans, Redefining a Gar ...
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2024 Design Awards Gallery now live
May 29, 2024
The 2024 Applied Arts Design Awards online gallery is now live! This year's award earned rave reviews such as "Beautiful", "Great execution", "Insightful", "Refreshing" amongst others from our jury panel. One juror, Amanda Blackwood, Digital Art Dir ...
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Splashed on the pages of our Winter Issue are the nearly 400 awe-inspiring winners from the 2023 Advertising and Student Awards competitions.
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