Call for entries · 2026
Deadline August 14, 2026 · results
Health & Wellness Design Awards
National recognition for design that makes health and wellness clearer, kinder, and easier to trust.
Entries are results.
Health is where design carries its highest stakes. The work honored here helps a patient understand a diagnosis, a family choose a plan, a clinician move faster, a stranger take the first step toward feeling better. For more than sixty years GDUSA has chronicled American graphic design at its highest level, and the Health & Wellness Design Awards extend that record into the sector where clarity is care: branding for hospitals and health systems, packaging for the pharmacy shelf and the supplement aisle, campaigns for public health, digital experiences for patients and providers, environmental graphics that guide people through their hardest days. Entries are reviewed by GDUSA's editors and judged on creativity, craft, and effectiveness — the same standard the program has kept since 1963. Winners are published by GDUSA, announced to a national audience of clients and peers, and permanently archived in the American Design Gallery.
Why enter
National recognition
A GDUSA award places your work in a sixty-year record of American design excellence — the standard clients recognize.
Published by GDUSA
Winners are showcased in GDUSA's national award coverage, in print and online, before the designers, agencies, and clients who set the market.
A permanent place in the record
Every winner joins the American Design Gallery — a living, searchable archive your clients can visit for years to come.
Credit the whole team
Certificates, plaques, and congratulatory letters put every designer's name on the win.
About the competition
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Entry pricing
| 1 entry | $120.00 |
| 2 entries | $200.00 |
| 3 entries | $260.00 |
| 4 entries | $280.00 |
| 5 entries | $300.00 |
| 6 entries | $320.00 |
| 7 entries | $340.00 |
| 8 entries | $360.00 |
| 9 entries | $380.00 |
| 10–20 entries | $400.00 |
| 20+ entries | $20.00 each |
Volume pricing — your whole cart re-rates to the band for its quantity.