Creative Quarterly (CQ) 85th International Juried Competition is now open for entries!
Creative Quarterly (CQ) magazine opens its 85th international juried competition and like every year seeking for the best art, advertising, design, illustration and photography done in the past six months inviting both professionals and students to participate with they best works.
Short description
Creative Quarterly (CQ) magazine opens its Creative Quarterly (CQ) 85th International Juried Competition and both professionals and students are invited to participate.
CQ seeks for the best art, advertising, design, illustration and photography done in the past six months.
The Creative Quarterly juried exhibition competition includes the following five categories:
➜ Advertising (AD)
➜ Fine Arts (FA)
➜ Graphic Design (GD)
➜ Illustration (IL)
➜ Photography (PH)
➜ Portfolio — Work from your portfolio, personal or published
➜ Theme:Water — Work that exemplifies the quarterly theme
Commissioned and personal works by all art directors, graphic designers, photographers, illustrators and fine artists in all countries, can be submitted.
Results is expected to be announced on September 2026.
Eligibility
This competition is open to all art directors, designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists in all countries. Professional and student entries are judged separately.
Benefits
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 2026 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.
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.
