Adobe Design Achievement Awards

About ADAA

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition — which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software — honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.

Official rules

Open to students around the world.

ADAA Live!

See students around the world submit their competition entries in real-time on ADAA Live!

Prizes

Win a trip to Beijing and cash.

Finalist will attend the Icograda World Design Congress in Beijing, China and be honored in an awards ceremony!

Judges

Seven distinguished industry professionals.

Board members

Meet the board members who help keep the awards the world's premier design, film, and interactive competition for higher education students.

ADAA experience

Hear and see the experience of 2008 and 2007 ADAA winners.

Have questions about the contest?

Read the frequently asked questions to learn more about the ADAA.

Faculty information

Faculty - Register here and receive print materials for promoting the 2009 Adobe Design Achievements Awards on your campus (or download the package)

Sarah Cooper & Nina Gorfer
ADAA Finalist, Print Design Multi-Page 2007

The spotlight that had been cast on us by being nominated for the highly acclaimed international design competition ADAA, created an instantaneous platform of confidence and pride. It gave us a seal of success, and through press and international recognition it gave us bursts of well needed strength and support. It is priceless to realize the many talented people you are surrounded by and competing with. To see opportunities, networks, contacts, creativity, inspiration, collaborations, ... its endless.

Since being a finalist for the 2007 ADAA we have launched our own fusion design firm, SEEK. Today we act as directors, writers, adventurers, researchers, photographers, designers, and artists creating everything from supremely conceptual and anthropological visual novels and exhibitions known as the SEEK Volumes, to enigmatic fashion shoots and graphic corporate branding. In the end, the ADAA nomination gave us the guts to dare our vision!

SEEK is actual with the release of their first visual novel: SEEK Volume 01: Iceland (www.gestalten.com)
as well as a collaborative public mural project for Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar - to be unveiled in late February 2009.
www.studioseek.se
studio@studioseek.se

Win a trip to Beijing and cash!