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2025 Categories

This year, RGD presents 17 categories and $17,000 CAD in cash awards for student work in all areas of communication design.

  • 52 Pick-up - Award for Typography: Any project that uses typography to achieve its goals.
  • Artista - First-Year Award: Open to any student who has just finished (as of the deadline) their first year in a 3- or 4-year graphic design program (any type of work may be entered)
  • Creative Currency - Award for Storytelling: Any project that applies accessible design principles in the development of the design solution.
  • Context Creative - Award for UX Design: Any project that communicates and engages with a strong sense of narrative and purpose, combining words, images, graphics and your choice of media.
  • Context Creative - Award for Motion Design: Any project designed to communicate complex data and content in a visually appealing way that is easier to understand and use.

  • Gravity - Award for Social Good Design: Any project that provides value to the community and/or helps to solve a local or global challenge. This could be a poster to promote a cause, a website for a non-profit organization or a design solution to a global challenge.

     

  • Issues Magazine Shop - Award for Editorial Design: Any project designed as an article, magazine, newspaper or publication in print and/or digital formats.
  • Entro - Award for Placemaking Design: Any project that helps build community through design interventions. This might be a poster for an event, a website for a tourist destination, a wayfinding system for a university or the design of a retail space.
  • Jacknife - Award for Logo Design: Any project that creates impactful and memorable logos that effectively communicate brand identity.

  • Pivot Design Group - Award for Information Design: Any project that involves the design of clear, concise and visually attractive materials that enhance how people read, understand and use complex and/or detailed information.

     

  • Q30 Design  - Award for Brand Design: Any project that involves a visual set of associations representing a company, product, service or organization.
  • SLD Design - Award for Packaging Design (Single): Any project designed to enclose, protect and promote a single product for sale.
  • SLD Design - Award for Retail Design: Any project the design for a physical store or as well as a virtual store created in the digital environment.
  • Studio Locale - Award for Colour: Any project that uses colour to achieve its goals.
  • Weaymouth Creative - Award for Packaging Design (Series): Any project designed to enclose, protect and promote a series of products for sale.
  • Works Design - Award for Web Design: Any website that communicates a company or organization's mission, objectives, products and services.
  • Zulu Alpha Kilo - Award for Advertising Design: Any project created to promote a specific business, program, event or special offer.