Creative Quarterly Special Subscription Offer

You’ve entered our shows, seen our magazine on the newsstand or received a complimentary copy—we’d like to suggest a more permanent arrangement.

While other magazines rely on advertising to pay the bills we rely on subscriptions. So we invite you to join us in supporting art and design by becoming a subscriber. We keep entry fees low, you get the best of art and design, quarterly.

Choose either a print or our new digital subscription. A digital subscription is perfect for those on a budget or for those who live outside North America.

Subscribe before November 29th and we’ll send you a free digital copy of our current issue with profiles of Hannah Maybank, fine artist, Dutch design firm Studio Boot, German photographer Martin Klimas and Dutch illustrator Zeloot.

A subscription could be a perfect holiday gift for you or someone you know.

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CQ’s Charles Hively to Judge Taiwan's Epson Design Competition

Taiwan DPI Magazine and Epson are holding the 9th annual Epson Creative Expert Design Competition. Creative Quarterly’s own design director Charles Hively is honored to be one of the judges.

Brand New Category for CQ34

We’re spinning off advertising entries from graphic design starting with CQ34. Open to all art directors, copywriters, creative directories in all countries. Professional or Student. Same tough judges. Same low entry fees. So if you are an art director or copywriter, or a soon-to-be, enter your print, broadcast or outdoor entries by October 25, 2013. And you could have something brand new to talk about.

CQ34: Call for Entries

We are now accepting entries for CQ34. Categories include: Fine Art, Graphic Design, Illustration, Photography, and we’re adding Advertising! Still open to students and professionals. Deadline: October 25
Enter CQ34 now

CQ32: Choosing a Cover

In the process of choosing a cover for CQ32. It usually takes us 4 or 5 rounds to pick the cover and we usually include other recent covers to help us narrow down our choices. Right now we’re mulling over our choices...

CQ33 Winners Announced

Winners and runner-ups for CQ33 have been announced and are listed on our website.
All winners will be exhibited in the next issue of Creative Quarterly, on the newsstand Winter 2013. The winners and runner-ups work will be posted on our Online Gallery in Winter 2013.
Congratulations to all!

Estrada @ the AIGA

Estrada: Sailing Through Design is a fabulous exhibition at the AIGA National Design Center in New York City that ends October 7th. Featured are Spanish designer Manuel Estrada’s myriad book covers, sketchbooks, as well as actual mockups of his concept-driven work.

House Industries at Uniqlo

House Industries has made a series of t-shirts for retailer Uniqlo. Purchase online.

CQ33: Call for Entries: Deadline Today!

We’ve always been one of the most
affordable shows around.
Professional or Student.
Entry fees that won’t break the bank.
Now we're giving students and
recent graduates an extra break on
their entry fees.
A single entry is now $10.
A series, $20—up to five images.
Exposure in print and online that’s worth
it’s weight in gold.
Save up your nickels and dimes and enter
your red-hot entries by July 26th.

Call for Entries No. 33
Deadline: July 26, 2013

Enter here.

CQ 30-31 to the Printer

Our double issue CQ 30 + 31 is off to the printer. The cover photo is by Geoff Ledford.
Featuring winners from CQ competitions 30 and 31, this issue also takes a look at:
Fine Art: Philip Taafe
Graphic Design: Ben Casey, The Chase
Illustration: Jens Bonnke
Photography: Daniel Beltrá

CQ30 + 31 winners and runner-ups and listed on the online Gallery. You can purchase the issue online.

CQ33 Call for Entries - Special Discounts

We’ve always been one of the most
affordable shows around.
Professional or Student.
Entry fees that won’t break the bank.
Now we're giving students and
recent graduates an extra break on
their entry fees.
A single entry is now $10.
A series, $20—up to five images.
Exposure in print and online that’s worth
it’s weight in gold.
Save up your nickels and dimes and enter
your red-hot entries by July 26th.

Call for Entries No. 33
Deadline: July 26, 2013

Enter here.

Support the Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum

The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum has kicked off their next stage of fundraising to raise $200,000 for the purchase and improvements to their new building. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In addition to wood type, the Museum is home to an amazing array of advertising cuts from the 1930s through the 1970s, and all of the equipment necessary to make wood type and print with it, as well as equipment used in the production of hot metal type, tools of the craft and rare type specimen catalogs.
Want to help out? They are accepting monetary donations as well as collection donations. Donate now

Pancake Maestro

Your weekend routine will seem a bit more drab once you see this these amazing pancakes.

Found via Quipsologies

1922 Film Test in Color

This early screen test of Kodachrome film was taken in 1922. Bewitching.
Found via Slate's The Vault

Alexander Isley at the TDC

The Type Director's Club has a new exhibition “Working with Words” of the design work of Alexander Isley.
Isley has designed books, magazines, exhibits, memorial inscriptions, store interiors, packaging, signage, watches, dinner trays, posters, shopping bags, catalogs, restaurants, album covers (remember those?), videos, web sites, billboards, and truck fleets. Most of these incorporate the use of typography in inventive ways. His first real design job was at M&Co. He then went on to art direct Spy magazine. Alex founded his company in 1988.
Found via the TDC.org

Self-Promotion Workshop

A one-day intensive workshop devoted to helping freelancers market themselves more effectively. 

Improve how you develop your prospect list.
Discover who your best prospects are.
Create more effective email blasts.
Develop your individual selling strategy.

Saturday, February 2, Brooklyn, New York 

Learn More