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The jury has now completed its judging of all projects and categories for the 2026 International Creative Awards. With 2683 entries spanning 20 categories representing 77 countries worldwide, it has been an inspiring experience to explore such a diverse range of creative work. Entries were carefully reviewed by the jury and evaluated on the quality, originality and innovation of the work.
All work which will be awarded or recognised has been concluded and the shortlist is outlined below, alongside all finalists in the Ultimate Categories.
Congratulations to everybody who has been shortlisted or is a finalist – this is a significant achievement.
We look forward to welcoming all shortlisted entrants to the 2026 International Creative Awards Ceremony at Rowallan Castle in Scotland on Friday 13 November 2026 during International Assembly.
You can also download social media assets below to celebrate being shortlisted.
Congratulations to everyone below who has made the shortlist in our Open and Defined Categories.
At the Awards Ceremony shortlisted participants will discover if their project is Awarded or Recognised.
Awarded – The jury unanimously agree that your project merits an International Creative Award, highlighting them as works of the highest standard in creativity and design. Awarded projects will receive a bespoke hand crafted trophy at the Awards Ceremony.
Recognised – The majority of the jury acknowledges your project as worthy of celebration. While your project does not receive an International Creative Award, it is recognised as having some standout qualities. Recognised projects will receive a physical certificate at the Awards Ceremony.
For a project to be awarded or recognised, unanimous agreement among the category’s jury members was required – highlighting the high standard required to earn a place on the shortlist.
If you have been shortlisted in the Open and Defined Categories, you are invited to attend the Awards Ceremony and celebrate your achievement.
12 Matcha
Base Design
AGI 2025 ĐÂY
Base Design
GDC Award 2025
BY-ENJOY
Alemagna Milano - Rebranding an icon
Ey Studio
Metamorphoses
Hangzhou Relative State Design Co., Ltd
Bodega César Velasco
Pifarré-Vallejo Studio
Taktil Bakery Branding
Plusminus Studio
Echo Music Party
Weiran Liang
6b Visual Identity
Albert Colosio, Virgile Pajot, Éléna Huet, Kalista Chevallier-Lesage
de Doelen - Campaign 2025
75B Rotterdam
Jan Juc Studio
Bec Stawell Wilson
La Ronde du Temps
Gaspard Dubois
You Will Never See This Clock Again
Grace Francine Tanuwijaya
SAINER. KOLORYTM
Krystian Berlak
Headlines
Lava
Clockwise and Otherwise
Non-Objective
To Verb
Yunxi Ye
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026
75B Rotterdam
Magical Athlete
Angela Kirkwood
Joy Soldiers
Black Childish
Like a Mad Gardener
Charlotte Winkler
BIG POOL
Chris Harnan
One day, Two weeks, three months...
Daniel Torrent
All The Games We Could Have Played
Dayeon Auh
The Boy
Gong Chen
Au creux de l'oreille (In the Hollow of the Ear)
Lucie Penaud
HEIM-WEG-FREMD-WEG 2025
Yitong Feng
A Sense of Getting Closer
Conner Griffith
There's Node Place Like Home
Dirty Puppet
The North Face "Never just a hike."
ffforum
Asclepius – Off the Air
Filip Ugrin
Year of the rabbit
Jesseter Wang, Hannah Sun
Canva Affinity - Zero Bucks Given
ManvsMachine
Moncler x Gilga Farm
ManvsMachine
Squarespace - Blueprint AI
ManvsMachine
DEMO 2025 — Design in Motion Festival
Studio Dumbar / DEPT®
OpenAI — DevDay 2025
Studio Dumbar / DEPT®
Utah Jazz — Mountain basketball
Studio Dumbar / DEPT®
Human Resonance
Vincent van Lieshout, Stephanie Specht, Karolien Polenus
Giobatta
Andrea Ricciarini
Tiffany & Co. Blue Book 2026
Commission Studio
Alemagna Milano - Rebranding an icon
Ey Studio
Remuage
Marios Karystios
Bodega César Velasco
Pifarré-Vallejo Studio
Module
Standard Format
Memory Palace
Studio Another Day
Per Calvaria
A Practice for Everyday Life
AC Plastik
AllCaps
Tuer’s Caslon
Carl Kurtz
Peignew Roman for Matthias Gschwendtner
CTP. TP. P.
Hawleya Revival
Diego Steiner
GD Bauer
Gärde Design Studio
Ladder
Gintarė Razmaitė
HAL Gap
HAL Typefaces
Draft
Jahn Koutrios
Háptica®
Laura Quiñonero
Segmentor
Mălin Neamțu
New New Typography
Matter Of
Alphabetical Playground
Nigel Cottier
Studio 96
Non-Objective
Panorama Naskh Typeface
Ntsal Cairo
The Face Custom
Outline Online
Ashcroft Typeface
Peregrin Studio
Garnier
Proof of Words
Are.na
Are.na
CO-ORDINATES
air-condition.ing (Enno Pötschke)
agrshch.com
Anatolii Grashchenko
Kunumi
Aparelho Studio
NTGent
Base Design
Digital community garden
Dariga Kashkinbayeva
Quest
Green Antarctica
Neuwerk Magazine #12
Gue Hyun Lee
✨Toki✨Meki✨Film Festival
Happening Studio
Draft
Jahn Koutrios
Reinventing the Wheel
Jonathan Körner
You Can't See Speed
Lloyd Mst
anaiis
OB Studio
Cactus
OB Studio
Nicole Brannen
Play Grounds Studio
Play Grounds Studio
Play Grounds Studio
Ben Hagari
Siri Lee
Temperature Check
Sirui Liao
Center for Planetary Pedagogies
Studio OBV
Cooking in Progress
Xingshan He
Tools of Us
Yang Liu
Lossy Greetings
Yufan Wang
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2026 Campaign
75B Rotterdam
Klootviolen in het Publieke Domein, 2024
75B Rotterdam
Alt-Berliner
Ampersand Type Foundry
Ban Wang Hma (Dogs' Palatial Castle)
Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook x MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum
AGI 2025 ĐÂY
Base Design
Kanal Centre Pompidou
Base Design
NTGent
Base Design
Objects d'Uchronie
Camila Rivero-Lake
Hyperculture – Cultural practices across East and West
Dabin Kim
L'eco del tempo (Echoes of Time)
Francesco Maria Fettucciari, Simone Cherchi
Typography In NYC 3
Function Lab Design
Pearl Jam
G.U.D. (Good Urban Design)
Tappeti, cani, macerie e mille altre cose (Carpets, Dogs, Rubble and a Thousand Other Things)
Glorian Shtini
Animation from Gaza
Haneen Koraz
No Concrete Lost
Ivan Iarovoi
LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Kris De Decker
最後のCD (The Last CD)
Lee Kan Kyo
Rituals of Return
Majdina Widodo and Meutia Widodo
Large Variety Of Meat, Poultry & Fish
Mick Chen
12:12, a visual exporation about time
mire·studio
Notes al Marge (Footnotes)
Paula A. Roca
MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives
Pentagram (Hudson-Powell)
Thing in Itself
Ping Chen
Birthday
Roy Brunner & Fernando Villavicencio
Dancing in Utopia
Selina Kehuan Wu
Anitya
Sona Kharel
Literally Anything
Studio Ward Goes
Resonate - Igusa&Japan
UESATSU
Barra Slow Festival
Untitled Macao
Grand Scheme Brewing
Benjamin Haselhurst
Alemagna Milano - Rebranding an icon
Ey Studio
HEYDOH: So Good You Can Sip
Herefor Studio
Flaky!
Jess Joy, Holly Atherton
Remuage
Marios Karystios
Bodega César Velasco
Pifarré-Vallejo Studio
Taktil Bakery Branding
Plusminus Studio
Module
Standard Format
Dr Tamed Cloud
Arp is Arp
For A Safer Quang Tri
Behalf Studio
The Hoop
BOL Creative Production House
Zohran Mamdani’s Mayoral Campaign
Forge, Aneesh Bhoopathy, Tyler Evan
QUERENCIA
Irina Kavtaradze
Háptica®
Laura Quiñonero
Zir_Under
Romi Calamaro
La.Leggibile n°13
Simone Allevi
ASAHISONOMA
TETSUYA GOTO
Augi: Toy Design For Neurodiversity Inclusion
Toymo
Street Vendors
Xin Cheng
Reinventing the Wheel
Jonathan Körner
Instagram Pride Sticker
Josh McKenna
The Key's Under the Mat
Mike Hewson
Before 16
OMSE
The Al-Arfaj Flower Badge Campaign
Sharaf Studio
La.Leggibile n°13
Simone Allevi, Elio Ferrario, Atelier Tatanka
Gor-Hor
Studio 150
LEKA Lighting
Studio Fitore Syla
128KB
Tim Rodenbröker
Augi: Toy Design For Neurodiversity Inclusion
Toymo
Regen
Udem
every other day
Yasmina Khalil
de Doelen - Campaign 2025
75B Rotterdam
3HD Festival
Firpal Jawanda
Segmentor
Mălin Neamțu
Studio 96
Non-Objective
anaiis
OB Studio
the skin surfing
Oval-Graphic/Yeh Chungyi
visual identity for Poolbar Festival 2026
Peter Kikl
David Byrne — Who Is The Sky?
Shira Inbar
Memoir of a Sparklemuffin by Suki Waterhouse Packaging
SKS Studios
ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER : TRANQUILIZER
Elliott Elder, Julien Gobled, Abner Hershberger, Daniel Lopatin, Dominic Flannigan, Ruth Morris
Tones by Paradiso
Sylvan Hillebrand
Klootviolen in het Publieke Domein, 2024
75B Rotterdam
Building Under Pressure
Arthur Boniface
Hamburgerfonts. A mix-and-match type specimen for better font pairings
Contrast Foundry
Interface Tools
Gaetano Sferrazza
Re-Coding Everyday Technology
Alexander Roidl
Gradientor 2.0
Anatolii Grashchenko
Manual
Darius Ou
You Will Never See This Clock Again
Grace Francine Tanuwijaya
Draft
Jahn Koutrios
Drawn by Abstraction
Karthik Mourougane
Unweaving the Rainbow: A color lab
Meredith Binnette
12:12, a visual exporation about time
mire·studio
Between echo and resonance
Nina Stürner
Human Out the Loop
Tanisha Shaw
128KB
Tim Rodenbröker
Building Under Pressure
Arthur Boniface
UP, NOT NORTH
Jiaqi Tong
Drawn by Abstraction
Karthik Mourougane
laba!
Laba
Puppet grids
Likitha Ailone
*****2025
Carles Castaño Oliveros, Servicios Inmersivos
ZYME
Stewart Bird
Symbiotic Systems
StudioCone
Earning a place on this year’s shortlist is a significant achievement, and we look forward to celebrating with you. You can organise your place at the ceremony below. In the meantime feel free to download your social media assets and share your achievement.
Congratulations to all the Finalists in the Ultimate Categories below.
The Ultimate Categories recognise outstanding creative achievement, celebrating individuals and organisations whose overall body of work, contribution and achievements stand out in the creative world this year.
All Finalists are invited to attend the Awards Ceremony, where one winner in each category will be revealed.
To be honoured with an Ultimate Award is the highest achievement at the International Creative Awards.
Base Design
Matter Of
Studio150
Alex Valentina
Alva Skog
Ardhira Putra
Evi O.
Daniel Torrent Riba
Tetsuya Goto
Angelia Hilda
Satsuki Ueda
Sofía Porto Iannuzzi
Yiyang Li
Yuan Xu
Albert Colosio
Nikko Zixuan Zhou
Noel Grueter
Chloe Doyle
Dennis Moya Razafimandimby
Martin Boath
Richard Longmuir
Congratulations once again to everyone who has made the 2026 International Creative Awards shortlist.
Earning a place in this year’s finalists is a significant achievement, and we look forward to meeting you. You can organise your place at the ceremony below. In the meantime feel free to download your social media assets and share your achievement.
Not included above?
You may feel disappointed by the results. As designers ourselves, we understand.
Not being selected this time does not diminish the value, creativity or ambition behind your work. It simply reflects the considerations of this year’s jury.
Keep creating, keep pushing boundaries, and consider entering the International Creative Awards again next year.
As a gesture of support if you did not make the shortlist we would like to offer you a discounted entry fee to enter the 2027 International Creative Awards. You will receive this via email in 2027.
International Assembly
You are invited to attend this year’s International Assembly live in Glasgow, 12 – 22 November 2026 for an unmissable gathering of designers and creatives.
Join for an inspiring global conference, innovative workshops, intimate talks, a live project, award celebrations and the International Poster Exhibition.
Be inspired by Bráulio Amado, COLLINS, Harriett Richardson, FISK, Shamma Buhazza, Vlad Boyko, Coding Systems, Eva Cremers, GF Smith, Readymag and more.