joseph binder award 2024

From 02.09.2024 to 31.10.2024 Call for submissions

ICoD is pleased to announce the Member Event, Joseph Binder Award 2024 organised by Design Austria. The call for submissions is open from 02 September to 18 November 2024.

ABOUT 

The Joseph Binder Award is an international competition in the disciplines of graphic design & illustration held every two years by designaustria, Austrian interest association and knowledge center. The competition is named after one of the major graphic designers and illustrators active in Austria between the two World Wars, who subsequently also revolutionized visual communication in the United States.

The Joseph Binder Award aims at recognising and defining current benchmarks, highlighting leading social, cultural, and economic markers, encouraging the improvement of standards in graphic design, and raising the general awareness of superior design quality. It is meant to honour the merit of existing work that exhibits design excellence.

In 2022, the international jury of experts assessed a record number of 908 submissions from 32 countries. 12 gold, 14 silver, and 10 bronze trophies, as well as 5 special prizes in the Design Fiction category and as many as 15 distinctions were assigned to projects from Austria. The exhibition and the catalogue “JBA24 – LET’S CELEBRATE THE CREATIVE PROCESS” document the Joseph Binder Award 2022 competition and present the prize-winning and shortlisted projects.

ELIGIBILITY

Graphic designers, illustrators, advertising agencies, and students enrolled in relevant courses from all over the world are invited to enter their works realized in 2022 and after from September 2, 2024 to October 31, 2024 (early bird discount till September 22, 2024)

CATEGORIES

GRAPHIC DESIGN

1. Corporate Design
   Corporate identity programmes, logotypes, office stationary, etc.
2. Communication Design
   Ads, mailings, leaflets, brochures, annual reports, small-sized printed matter, etc.
3. Information Design
   User instructions, signage systems, forms, diagrams, exhibitions etc.
4. Type Design
   Fonts, lettering, etc.
5. Poster Design
   Indoor and outdoor posters of all formats and genres
6. Editorial Design
   Books (fiction and non-fiction), art and exhibition catalogues, annual reports, magazines, newspapers, etc.
7. Packaging Design
   Packaging graphics, labels, etc.
8. Interface Design
   Websites, microsites, apps, interface design, newsletter, software design, etc.
9. Social Media Design
   Design of posts, reels and filters for various social media platforms

ILLUSTRATION

1. Book Illustration
   Illustrations for children’s books, fiction, poetry, non-fiction, graphic novels, etc.
2. Media Illustration
   Illustrations for periodicals, newspapers, etc.
3. Commercial Illustration
   Illustrations for advertising media, etc.
4. Animated Illustration
   animated illustration for digital media, social media, game design, movies, websites or interactive platforms
5. Illustration in Miscellaneous Applications
   Illustrations for diverse communication media, storyboards, etc.

DESIGN FICTION (SPECIAL CATEGORY)
Unpublished works, independent/non-commercial projects, unrealized concepts, student projects, etc. in all disciplines

HENRY STEINER PRIZE (SPECIAL CATEGORY)
Among all submissions in the category ‘Design Fiction,’ one project that supports the idea and mission of fostering connections between diverse cultural perspectives will be selected for the Henry Steiner Prize.

AUDIENCE AWARD (SPECIAL CATEGORY)
Be your own juror! Ten projects from the Design Fiction category, which are also convincing and forward-looking on a social level, are open to the public for selection at the JBA Audience Award. The voting will be open throughout February 2025.

*Works to be entered in several categories must be registered separately for each category. This competition assesses exclusively works in the field of graphic design and illustration.

SELECTION PROCESS

Two-stage jury (1. online jury, 2. offline jury)
In the first round, the jury will rate all of the projects entered online. Those projects scoring highest will subsequently have to be sent in the form of printed examples (if available) and be assessed physically at designforum Wien in January 2025.

ENTRY 

The entrants have to register online at www.josephbinderaward.com

FEES AND PAYMENT

FIRST ENTRY
Regular: 105 euros
Members*: 78,75 euros
Students: 55 euros

FOR EACH FURTHER ENTRY
Regular: 78,75 euros
Members*: 59,09 euros
Students: 41,25 euros

All fees excl. 20% VAT.
*Members of designaustria and the partner organisations
Additional fees for returning the entries and production fees (for catalogue and exhibition) may apply. Please read more on JBA website.

AWARDS

In each category, a Joseph Binder Award in gold, silver, and bronze will be awarded in the form of trophies: the ball of crumpled paper encased in glass is a symbol for the creative process.

In order to support independent, conceptual, and scientific activities in the fields of graphic design and illustration, money prizes will be awarded in the Design Fiction category in addition to the trophies:

First prize: 2,500 euros

Second prize: 2,000 euros

Third prize: 1,500 euros

Additionally, the jury may choose up to five Merit Awards per category. All of the entries selected by the jury will be published in a catalogue. The jury may withhold or reallocate awards and money prizes.

Entrants will be notified of the results after the jury process (January 2025). Entrants whose works have been selected agree to supply high-resolution images of the respective work(s) for reproduction in the catalogue free of charge.

JURY

The works entered will be evaluated by an international jury of experts. Members of the jury (and their family members and employees) are excluded from participation in the competition. The international jury of experts will assess the projects entered in two rounds: first in the online selection process and, as a next step, in the original.

The following jury members have been nominated for 2024:
Birgit Palma, Austria
Brent David Freaney, USA
Christiane Schäffner, Germany
Jinping He, China
Kelley Cheng, Singapore
Leonie Altendorf, Germany
Nadine Kamber, Switzerland
Paolo Rui, Italy
Silvano Vidale, Luxembourg
Susan Verba, USA
Verena Panholzer, Austria
Wendt Gilmar, UK