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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

The Health & Wellness Design Awards are open to design firms, ad agencies, in-house creative teams, healthcare organizations, and individual designers — anywhere design serves health, wellness, and the people navigating both. Work created for hospitals and health systems, pharmaceutical and medical-device brands, insurers, fitness and nutrition, beauty and personal care, supplements, mental health, public-health causes, and wellness startups all belongs here. Enter across twenty categories — branding and identity, packaging, advertising, websites and apps, annual reports, environmental graphics, motion, social, and more. Every entry is reviewed by GDUSA's editors and judged on creativity, craft, and effectiveness. Winners are announced after entries close, published by GDUSA in print and online, and added to the American Design Gallery — the permanent, searchable record of GDUSA-honored work.

The story

Nobody reads a hospital wayfinding sign for pleasure. They read it scared, tired, or late — and great design meets them there. That is the work this competition honors: design that earns trust at the exact moment it matters most.

Past winners

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.

Categories

Advertising + Ad CampaignsAnimation, Video & MotionAnnouncements & InvitationsAnnual & Corporate ReportsBeauty, Cosmetics & Personal CareBooksBranding + Identity ProgramsBrochures & CollateralCannabis Branding + LogosCatalogsData Visualization & InfographicsDirect Mail & Email MarketingIntegrated Marketing CampaignsOtherP-O-P, Exhibits & DisplaysPostersPublications & NewslettersSigns, Environmental & Experiential GraphicsSocial MediaWebsite & UX/UI Design