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Creative Quarterly (CQ) 80th International Juried Competition

Creative Quarterly (CQ) magazine has opened its 80th international juried competition, inviting participation by professionals, as well as students.

CQ seeks for the best art, advertising, design, illustration and photography done in the past six months.

Winners work will now featured in Creative Quarterly’s online gallery and will become a part of their year-end published Annual. This year, instead of quarterly magazines, CQ have opted to include all winning entries from this year in their 2025 Creative Quarterly Annual, a hardbound book exhibiting all winners as well as listing all runners-up.

All winners and runner-ups are entitled to a complimentary award certificate in a digital form and options are available for ordering a printed certificate.

The 80th Creative Quarterly juried exhibition competition includes the following five (5) categories:

  • Advertising (AD)
  • Fine Arts (FA)
  • Graphic Design (GD)
  • Illustration (IL)
  • Photography (PH)

Commissioned and personal works by all art directors, graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and fine artists in all countries, can be submitted.

Creative Quarterly magazine was founded in 2005 and has received numerous international awards and recognition for its design.

Creative Quarterly (CQ) 80th International Juried Competition – Entry Fees

Single entries (with up to three images) start at $35 per entry for professional work and $20 per entry for work done by Students.