CQ40 Winners Announced

Our judges have completed their work and we're ready to announce the winners for Creative Quarterly 40. Winning entries will be featured in Issue 40 coming out this Fall as well as online.

Judging is always tough, we're looking for the best of the best and this show was no exception. We think you'll agree there are many fine examples of art and design and with our runner-ups as well.

View list of winners and runners-up

100 Best for 2014 Out for Judging

Once again a select panel of judges will select the top 100 entries from the year’s entries in fine art, graphic design, illustration and photography.

Judges were selected from those we profiled during 2014, this year’s judges include Vanessa Eckstein, Blok Design, Toronto; Yann Legendre, illustrator, Paris; Bruce Peterson, photographer, Boston and we hope to have Natan Pernick judge our fine art category.

Judging will be complete in early December, winners will be announced at that time and production will begin on the 2014 100 Best Annual, available in print and digital formats.

Creative Quarterly Covers Win in HOW International Design Annual

Once again HOW International Design Annual selects work done for Creative Quarterly, and once again it is a series of covers that are the winners.

Our cover images are provided by our winners as their source for inspiration; this year graphic design student Rachel Kosbab, Tyler School of Art; illustrator Jonny Ruzzo and Avital Manor, illustrator from Israel provided the winning images. Congratulations to them all.

In addition, our sister publication 3x3 Magazine won for their 3x3 Illustration Directory app, cover for Issue 22 by Aad Goudappel and an op-art piece by Harry Campbell.

CQ38 International Call for Entries

It’s harvest time. 

Time to gather the latest fruits of your labor and ship them our way. 

Naturally, we’re looking for your best crop of ideas. 

It’s easy as pie to enter. 

Deadline, midnight October 31, 2014.

No late shipments accepted. 

Creative Quarterly was recently named one of the top 100 art and design publications in the world. CQ accepts professional and student entries from all parts of the globe. Categories include advertising, graphic design, photography, illustration and fine art. Entry fees for Professionals are $30 per single entry, $55 per series—3 to 5 images for all published work, $20/$45 for unpublished work; for recent graduates (from the last three years), $15/$45 and for current undergraduates or post graduate students, $10 per single entry, $20 for a series. Winners will appear in the Winter issue of Creative Quarterly and be exhibited in our online gallery. Check out our current list of winners. 

Deadline: October 31, 2014

Enter Today

Workshop: Art and Science of Label Typography

TypeEd, the Los Angeles-based program of typography and typesetting courses for the creative community, is equipping designers with the skills to create effective visual communications. In an upcoming workshop called “Whisky Type,” students will learn informative and eye-catching label design using typographic hierarchy and effective use of negative space. The eight-hour intensive will take place on August 16 at the Chapman University in Orange, California.

Instructor Michael Stinson will discuss the basic elements and construction of a whisky label, review existing label examples, how to organize information, and approach a label design in both traditional and contemporary styles.

“Typography is a skill of reasoning, knowledge, patience and experience, and one that produces work expressing ideas with more clarity than any other design discipline,” stated Stinson. “This workshop will provide practical skills to help designers learn how to create effective hierarchy and how to think in systems that speak to target audiences from the shelf.”

For more information, or to register for AIGA OC Whisky Type, visit http://orangecounty.aiga.org/event/whisky-type-workshop/

CQ37 International Call for Entries

It’s show time again.

Time to gather your latest and best work. Published or unpublished. In the US or outside the country. Professional or student.

And starting with this show we have new entry fees for recent grads.
 And a brand-new entry system that is faster and easier.
And if you’re a winner you have a chance of being on the cover and you’re automatically in the running for being named one of the 100 best of 2014. 

So don’t hide your work, let us shout about it from the rooftop in the next issue of Creative Quarterly.

Deadline, midnight July 31, 2014.

Miss it and you may scream. 




Creative Quarterly is named one of the top 100 art and design publications in the world. CQ accepts professional and student entries from all parts of the globe. Categories include advertising, graphic design, photography, illustration and fine art. Entry fees for professionals are $30 per single entry, $55 per series—3 to 5 images for all commissioned work; unpublished work is $20 single and $45 series. Recent graduates, $15 single, $45 series and current students are $10 single and $20 series. Winners will appear in the Winter issue of Creative Quarterly and be exhibited in our online gallery. Check out our current list of winners.

Deadline: July 31st

Speaking of the 100 Best, order your copy of the 2013 Annual, hardcover, 112-pages featuring the best of the best. Print and digital editions available.

Illustration by Silvie Muller, fine art winner, Issue 35

100 Best Annual Ready for Pre-Order

The design is complete. The files are done. It’s at the printer now. Time to order your copy of the first-ever Creative Quarterly 100 Best Annual.

We wanted to bring special attention to those artists, designers and photographers who appeared in our four issues in 2013 so we selected a panel of judges whose work was profiled last year.

The judges included Edwin Vollebergh from design firm Studio Boot, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands; Martin Klimas, photographer, Düsseldorf and Jens Bonnke, illustrator, Berlin and London gallery owner Lukas Gimpel, Gimpel Fils gallery who represents our featured artist Hannah Maybank.

Our judges selected the top 25 pieces in each of our four categories for special recognition. Our 100 Best Annual is available as a print or digital edition.

100 Best Annual
ISBN: 978-0-9826346-6-0
Hardcover
112-pages + cover
$55 print, $19.99 digital

We’re proud to be spotlighting the best of the best from last year.

Cover by Laura Hennessy, 100 Best photography winner