Adobe announced the 2013 Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA), a global design competition that recognizes the best work of student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists. Individual and group projects created with Adobe creative software are eligible for submission and will be judged by an international panel of design experts. The ADAA competition has attracted more than 27,000 student participants from a total of 75 countries since the program was introduced in 2001.

The ADAA 2013 competition features 12 entry categories in three segments: Interactive Experience, Motion and Video, and Traditional Media.

• Interactive Experience segment includes: Information Design, Game Art and Development, Installation Design, and Digital Publishing
• Motion and Video includes: Animation, Audio Design, Motion Graphics, and Post-Production Editing
• Traditional Media includes: Illustration, Packaging (including Fashion), Print Communications, and Photograph

Students are encouraged to enter into either, or both, of the two submission sessions, allowing for more flexibility in their schedule. Submission deadlines are April 12 and June 21, 2013. All entries must be received by Adobe no later than 5:00 p.m. (PST) on June 21, 2013. Students can view complete contest guidelines and submit projects at www.adobeawards.com.

Semifinalists will be announced shortly after each judging phase and featured in the ADAA Facebook community. Three finalists per each of the 12 entry categories will be revealed in September while winners will be announced in October during an online awards ceremony and awarded Adobe software and cash prizes.

For more information, visit the ADAA website. Also, check out our Facebook page or follow us @AdobeEDU for the latest news and updates.

Please join me in congratulating this year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) winners, whose talent and hard work is undeniable. I have been attending ADAA awards ceremony for the past 12 years and each time, I come back inspired and humbled by the dedication, hard work and creativity displayed by the next generation of designers. And this year was no different.

At the ceremony, design industry celebrities, such as Noreen Morioka and Mickael Kanfi of Twist Image,  and Stefan Sagmeister of Sagmeister & Walsh to name a few, presented the awards to 13 student and three faculty winners. During the festivities finalists and honorable mention recipients also had a chance to meet each other, network with industry experts, and explore the limitless possibilities of the world of design. And, as Mitchell Brien, Game Design and Development winner summed up: “The volume and range of creativity at the event was mind blowing.”  

This is a proud moment for the talented students and educators whose work was chosen from nearly 5000 entries by an international judging panel. Dan Jones, winner of the Installation Design category, remarked: “Being nominated as a finalist for ADAA 2012 filled me with great pride as it was an opportunity to have my work compared on an international level.” Another winner, Pablo Jimenez, shared his perspective that “the moment you have Stefan Sagmeister handing you a trophy, you realize it is not just an award, it is a life experience!”

On behalf of Adobe, I would like to thank our partner Icograda (International Council of Communication Design) for collaborating and co-hosting this event with us.  I’d also like to express our appreciation for the dedicated work of our judges and the support of Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka who served as the masters of ceremonies.

More information on the ADAA ceremony can be found here. All winning, finalist and honorable mention entries from 2012 can be viewed at ADAA Gallery, along with entries from prior years. There’s also a digital program guide that I hope you’ll check out.  It was created using Adobe Digital Publishing Single Edition (which is part of the Adobe Creative Cloud) and can be downloaded by iPad users.  Search for the application on the Apple App Store with the keyword: ADAA12. Enjoy!

Are you one of the 4000+ education professionals headed to Denver for EDUCAUSE 2012? If you are, I hope you’ll stop by Adobe’s booth — #701 – to join our presentations on IT deployment tools for Adobe Creative Suite 6, cross campus use cases, web analytics, digital publishing ideas for your campus, and much more. By visiting our booth Nov. 5-9, you’ll also have a chance to enter the Adobe Twitter challenge. All you have to do is watch a presentation, shoot a photo, tweet the photo, and you will be entered to win an Apple iPad (please see sweepstakes rules). And that’s not all: for every tweet, Adobe will donate $100 to the Kuali Foundation*, a non-profit organization that provides software for higher education institutions.

From Denver, the Adobe Education team will journey to Toronto, Canada, where we’ll announce the winners of our 12^th annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). We’ll be  holding a special ceremony on November 9 at 5:00 p.m. ET as part of the DesignThinkers 2012 conference, with distinguished designers Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka serving as the Masters of Ceremonies. A total of 41 student and teacher finalists from all over the world are coming together to be recognized for their originality, educational innovation and skill in applying Adobe products. For those of you who can’t attend in person, the ceremony will be streamed live. Register to attend here.

We are so proud of the student and faculty achievements and feel privileged to be able to honor them through ADAAs. We are also looking forward to EDUCAUSE and a chance to talk and collaborate with all of you in an effort to create the next-generation educational environment. I hope to see and hear from you all!

*Adobe will donate a maximum of $10,000 USD

It gives me great pleasure to announce this year’s Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) finalists and honorable mention recipients. These talented individuals were selected during an intensive two-day judging process that brings together a diverse group of design educators and professionals. More than thirty preliminary and eleven official judges, hailing from sixteen different countries, contributed their unique cultural perspectives and wealth of design insight to the task of selecting the finalists. Let me tell you, the judges had their work cut out for them!

Every year, we receive thousands of amazing submissions, making this a really challenging competition. During the 2012 open call-for-entries, the ADAA received 4,979 submissions from more than 70 countries. The student entries were judged on originality, effectiveness in meeting the communication objective and skill in applying Adobe products. Faculty submissions were scored on educational innovation and the development of applications to better an overall educational experience. Based on this criteria, the judges narrowed the field to 1,200 semifinalists, and from that group, 41 finalists and 20 honorable mention recipients were selected. Entries from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Korea, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan and United States make up the finalists and honorable mention recipients.

Winners will be selected from among the 41 finalist entries and announced on November 9, 2012, at the Adobe Design Achievement Awards ceremony in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as part of the DesignThinkers 2012 convention.

On behalf of Adobe, I congratulate our 2012 finalists and encourage all of you to give a big shout out to these talented students and educators (listed alphabetically by category below; also available here):

Animation: Group leader Christopher DeVito, School of Visual Arts, United States

Animation: Ainslie Henderson, Edinburgh College of Art, Great Britain

Animation: Brett Underhill, New York University, United States

Application Development: Benoît Boucart, Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (HOWEST), Belgium

Application Development: Bram Monstrey, Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen (HOWEST), Belgium

Browser Based Design: Group leader Sanghun Heo, Hongik University, Korea

Browser Based Design: Vanessa Li, Sheridan College, Canada

Browser Based Design: Group leader Won-young So, Kookmin University, Korea

Game Design and Development: Group leader Mitchell Brien, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Game Design and Development: Kamonwit Sirithananonsakul, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand

Illustration: Yeni Kim, Royal College of Art, Great Britain

Illustration: Jung Hee Lim, Kookmin University, Korea

Illustration: Zhongxuan (Sam) Liu, Guangxi Arts Institute of China, China

Innovation in Interactive Media in Education: Group leader Carlos Amaral, Centro Universitário Augusto Motta, Brazil

Innovation in Interactive Media in Education: Anna Zyrianova, St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design, Russia

Innovation in Motion and Video in Education: Hector Herrera, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada

Innovation in Traditional Media in Education: Dan Bittman, AIC College of Design, United States

Innovation in Traditional Media in Education: Kyuha Shim, Rhode Island School of Design, United States

Innovation in Traditional Media in Education: Mengyi Xie, East China Normal University School of Communication, China

Installation Design: Group leader James Coltman, University of the Arts London, Great Britain

Installation Design: Group leader Dongseop Lee, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Installation Design: Group leader Amanda Rezza, Iuav University of Venice, Italy

Live Action: Group leader Zhen Wei Cheong, Tunku Abdul Rahman College, Malaysia

Live Action: Christopher Lavelle, Sunderland University, Great Britain

Live Action: Marc Rühl, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Germany

Mobile Design: Minzhe Chen Cheng, Ringling College of Art and Design, United States

Mobile Design: Group leader Ornella Giau, Iuav University of Venice, Italy

Mobile Design: Kirsten Southwell, North Carolina State University, United States

Motion Graphics: Group leader Andrej Balaz, collaboration between the University of the Arts Bremen, Germany and the University of Monterey, Mexico

Motion Graphics: Michael Rigley, California College of the Arts, United States

Motion Graphics: Matan Yaniv, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel

Non-Browser Based Design: Group leader Lee Soyoung, Hongik University, Korea

Packaging: Group leader Seungkwan Kang, collaboration between the Sungkyunkwan University and Kookmin University, Korea

Packaging: Mark O’Brien, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland

Packaging: Richelle Rogers, York University/Sheridan College, Canada

Photography: Wade Hudson, Humber College, Canada

Photography: Pablo Jimenez, Academy Of Art University, United States

Photography: Hyunjin Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea

Print Communications: Jeff Han, Art Center College of Design, United States

Print Communications: Jerod Rivera, Art Center College of Design, United States

Print Communications: Nada Seet, Saudi Arabia, School of Visual Arts, United States

For more information on Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2012, please go to www.adobeawards.com. You can also follow our journey by checking out our Facebook or Twitter channels.

We’ve had the privilege of working with the best of the best when it comes to judging entries to the Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). Our judging panel for 2012 is no exception!

The ADAA program partnered with Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations) to identify design luminaries from all around the globe and invited them to lend their expertise to the ADAA judging panel.

ADAA judges for 2012 include:

• Daniel Biasatti, Design Director, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
• Gregoire Cliquet, Professor and Department Head of Experimental Applied Researches in interaction Design (READi), L’Ecole de design Nantes Atlantique
• Nancy Juliber, Strategic Creative Media Marketing Executive
• Mikael Kanfi, Partner and Chief Product Officer, Twist Image
• Richard Loveless, President, Global Connections: Art and Technology Consulting Services; Visiting Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
• Susan Metros, Professor of Visual Design, The University of Southern California
• Tetsuya Mizuguchi, Game Design, Interactive Media, Synesthesia, Q Entertainment
• Ravi Naidoo, Founder and Managing Director, Interactive Africa / Design Indaba
• Hephzibah Pathak, President, Ogilvy & Mather Advertising Mumbai, India
• Fernanda Saboia, Creative Director, Tatil Design
• Tina Shaw, Video Production Manager / Creative Director, NBCUniversal Digital Entertainment and Liquid Filmworks

ADAA 2012 judges’ biographies can be viewed at:  www.adobeawards.com/us/about/judges/.

This summer, our esteemed judges will review thousands of innovative award submissions by students and faculty from higher education institutions around the world. Work will be judged across 13 student media categories and 3 faculty categories, and three finalists and honorable mention recipients will be named in each category. Judges will ultimately select one winner in each category. Winners will be announced at the ADAA Awards Ceremony at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles, this October.

Tina Shaw, one of this year’s judges, shared with me how energizing it is for her to join design peers from around the world and be inspired by the work of future creative leaders in traditional and experimental media.  She added, “I take great honor in supporting the students and educators that rise to the challenges of their projects with remarkable/innovative/keen visual solutions.”

The ADAA is accepting entries until 5:00pm Pacific Time on June 22, 2012. Participants may enter each category three times.  Recent student graduates are also eligible if their entry was created after May 1, 2011, and they were a student at that time. Finalists and winners will receive Adobe software and travel to Adobe MAX. In addition, winners in each category will receive $3000US cash. For more information on Adobe Design Achievement Awards and the various categories visit: http://www.adobeawards.com/us/. Stay informed and inspired by fellow designers by connecting to our ADAA Facebook and Twitter channels.

After 12 years, I hope many of you are familiar with Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA), a prestigious competition open to all individuals 18 years of age or older who are students or faculty in an accredited institution of higher education. While the qualification parameters for the ADAA are specific, we recognize that there are many budding designers who would welcome the opportunity to be creative and participate in some way.  So this year, we’re adding something new — the Adobe Awards Wings mobile application.  Anyone can download this new app, show some creativity, and have some fun while supporting the ADAA.

It’s simple — just download the Adobe Awards Wings app from Google Play and/or the App Store.  Once you’ve downloaded the app, sign in to Facebook, and wings will appear on your photo screen.  Use an existing photo or take a new photo and adjust the wings to fit the image. 

The photo will appear on your personal Facebook wall as well as the ADAA Facebook Wings Gallery tab.  Well-liked photos will also appear in special tweets @adobeawards and the most outstanding will be displayed on the ADAA Facebook Timeline cover. 

If the wings app inspires you,  don’t be shy! Entries for the 12^th annual ADAA are being accepted until  5pm (PDT) on June 22, 2012. For more information on submitting entries, ADAA prizes and competition rules, visit adobeawards.com.

What are you waiting for?  Unleash your creativity!  Let it fly!

Adobe has announced the call for entries for the twelfth annual Adobe® Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). Each year we look forward to this prestigious competition, which recognizes the incredible work of students from around the globe — work that is produced using Adobe software, and advances creativity through digital technology. The competition attracts the best and brightest among student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers, and computer artists.  For 2012, we will also continue to recognize teaching excellence through three categories of competition designed specifically for instructors in higher education.

The ADAA competition is free to enter and open to students, faculty and staff of higher education institutions worldwide. Students are invited to compete in 13 categories that include Game Design and Development as well as Application Development and Mobile Design. Almost 25,000 students from 73 countries have participated in the ADAA competition since it began in 2001 and the number of submissions just keeps rising. Last year we received a record-breaking 4,600 entries from students. They have told us they believe “design is about making this a better world for all of us.”

2012 submission deadlines are January 27, April 27, and June 22. Entries will be judged by a panel of international design experts.   In October finalists will be invited to attend the ADAA awards ceremony in Los Angeles, California where winners will be announced and awarded Adobe software and cash prizes.

For more information, check out the press release or visit the ADAA website. Visit the 2011 ADAA Yearbook for a look at the 2011 ADAA ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan. Also, don’t forget to check out our Facebook page or follow us @AdobeEDU for the latest updates about the awards.

After just a few weeks into my new job at Adobe, I have already had the opportunity to travel to Taipei to attend the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) ceremony. It’s an amazing event – educators and student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists came together from around the world to compete in the “world cup” of design.  Simply put, I was just amazed by the creativity, quality, and design of the showcased work.  Since this competition began in 2001, nearly 25,000 students across 73 countries have been involved. This year, for the first time in ADAA history, we also had the privilege of recognizing faculty in categories honoring teaching excellence.

A few things really stand out for me from the experience. First off, the winner from Taiwan, Sean Chang, is a gifted designer who won the Print Communications category. When asked about his message to other students around the world on using technology and design, his advice was, “Think big and outside the box. Have a positive impact on the world. And make sure that your design tells a story.”  Secondly, almost all of the students spent time talking about the role of design — in their words, “design is about making this a better world for all of us, people and environment.” We could all learn from the terrific insights and pure passion displayed by the students and educators – I know I certainly did.

The winners and finalist projects will be showcased during the Taipei World Design Expo from October 22 through October 30 for the world’s creative and technical luminaries to enjoy.  Join us in congratulating the talented winners in each of the competition’s 15 categories. We encourage you to check out the ADAA Gallery, a digital collection of not only this year’s winners and finalists, but also projects from winners and finalists over the past 10 years. Click here for a recap of the winners and the evening’s events.

We want to thank our partner for the third consecutive year, Icograda, as well as our prestigious judges and Master of Ceremonies, Lita Talarico, School of Visual Arts co-chair of the MFA program for continuing to help us recognize the best student and faculty creative leaders around the world. To view judges’ commentary on the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards click here.

We feel privileged and proud to honor such incredible work through the Adobe Design Achievement Awards!

Adobe is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). This premier competition honors the best student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from accredited higher education institutions worldwide. The ADAA judges, who are industry and educational luminaries from universities and top design companies, selected 42 finalists from the more than 4600 entries received. Finalists were selected in 13 student categories and two faculty categories, based on originality and effectiveness in communicating project objectives. A picture is worth 1000 words, so please check out the ADAA Gallery to view their amazing work!

In October, these talented students and educators will travel to the International Design Alliance Congress in Taipei, Taiwan. Their work will be showcased to the international design community in an awards ceremony in Taipei on Sunday, Oct. 23, where the 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Award winners will be announced.  All 42 finalists will have their work on display in a special gallery as part of the Taipei World Design Expo from Oct. 22 through Oct. 30.

For more details about the ADAAs, please see our announcements in December and March and visit the ADAA website. Be sure to follow @AdobeEDU for the latest updates about the awards.

This year marks the first time that the Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAAs) are offering higher education students around the world the opportunity to submit early and be recognized – with three semifinalist judging sessions for entries submitted by Jan. 28, April 29 and June 24. Students can submit twice within a category, and for the first time, can participate in as many categories as they would like. The 2011 awards also introduce three new categories for faculty: Innovation of Interactive Media in Education, Innovation in Video and Motion in Education, and Innovation in Traditional Media in Education.

Check out the first round semifinalists from 2011 ADAAs.

As in years past, industry luminaries from universities and top design companies worldwide serve as the ADAA judges, volunteering their time to recognize emerging talent in the technical and creative arts. For some background about the judges, check out their bios here.

The ADAAs honor the best student and faculty graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from higher education institutions around the world. Finalists will be invited to attend the awards ceremony in Taipei, Taiwan in October 2011.

For more details about the ADAAs, please see our announcement in December and visit the ADAA website. Be sure to follow @AdobeEDU for the latest updates about the awards.