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.
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Taking the pulse with Shannon Glassford
July 4, 2024
Young Blood awards winner Shannon Glassford came to Berlin Communications after graduating from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communications. Shannon’s been recognized as a two-time Young Blood winner and helped ...
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Is 2024 The New 1984?
June 27, 2024
If Steve were alive today, the Apple Vision Pro is what he’d be wearing. By Aria Novosedlik Remember the ‘1984’ Superbowl ad, the heavy-handed Orwellian parody that cast Apple as the rebel, the non-conformist, the challe ...
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New work by Design Army
June 24, 2024
Hong Kong Ballet's 45th Anniversary “TUTU ACADEMY” campaign by Design Army and directed by Dean Alexander oozes creative excellence - it inspires one to run to the ticket office for a seat at the next performance. See for yourself... ...
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Remembering Félix Renaud
June 20, 2024
Félix Renaud's, The Brooks, a 2024 Photography Winner. The creative world lost a shining star with the passing of Félix Renaud (1987-2024), a Montreal-based photographer and perennial winner at the Applied Arts Awards. Félix was bes ...
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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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