GDUSA Health & Wellness Design Awards 2026
2026 National Design Competition

GDUSA Health & Wellness Design Awards

National recognition for design that makes health and wellness clearer, kinder, and easier to trust. Open to studios, agencies, in-house teams, healthcare organizations, and independent designers.

Entries Open July 19, 2026
Deadline August 28, 2026
About the Competition

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.

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 and the people navigating it. Work from across the sector belongs here: hospitals and health systems, pharmaceutical and medical-device brands, insurers, fitness and nutrition, beauty and personal care, supplements, mental health, public-health causes, wellness startups.

Every entry is reviewed by GDUSA's editors and judged on creativity, craft, and effectiveness, the standard the program has kept since 1963. Winners are published by GDUSA in print and online, announced to a national audience of clients and peers, then permanently archived in the American Design Gallery.

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How to Enter
  1. Create a free account, or log in if you already have one.
  2. Click Enter Now above and complete the entry form: project title, category, credits, and images.
  3. Repeat for as many projects as you would like. Your entries collect in your cart.
  4. Check out once when everything is in. Fees scale with the number of entries.
  5. For questions, contact: awards@gdusa.com
Categories

Branding + Identity Programs

Logos + Symbols

Advertising + Ad Campaigns

Animation, Video & Motion

Announcements & Invitations

Annual & Corporate Reports

Beauty, Cosmetics & Personal Care

Books

Brochures & Collateral

Cannabis Branding + Logos

Catalogs

Data Visualization & Infographics

Direct Mail & Email Marketing

Integrated Marketing Campaigns

Packaging + POP

Exhibits + Displays

Posters

Publications & Newsletters

Signs, Environmental & Experiential Graphics

Social Media

Website & UX/UI Design

Other

What Winners Receive

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 at gallery.gdusa.com, a searchable public archive your clients can visit for years.

Credit the Whole Team

Certificates, plaques, and congratulatory letters put every designer's name on the win.

Entry Fees
Number of EntriesFee
1 Entry$120
2 Entries$200
3 Entries$260
4 Entries$280
5 Entries$300
6 Entries$320
7 Entries$340
8 Entries$360
9 Entries$380
10–20 Entries$400
20+ Entries$20 each

One checkout covers all of your entries.

Design that earns trust deserves recognition.

“Nobody reads a hospital wayfinding sign for pleasure. They read it scared, tired, or late, and great design meets them there.”

Enter the 2026 GDUSA Health & Wellness Design Awards. Deadline August 28, 2026.

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