Joseph Binder Award 2014

designaustria, the interest organization and knowledge centre for design in Austria, first launched the Joseph Binder Award – an international competition with a focus on graphic design and illustration – in 1996. It is named after one of the most outstanding graphic designers and illustrators active in Austria between the two World Wars, who subsequently also revolutionized visual communication in the United States.

Joseph Binder’s motto was: »In design, everything has a function. Design has a representational function. Design has a communicational function. Design has a motivational function.«

Graphic designers, illustrators, and students enrolled in relevant courses from all over the world are invited to enter their works realized in 2012 and after by 31 March (early bird) or 31 May 2014. Please note: the submission deadline got extended to 13 June 2014! Please note that after online registration your entries also have to be sent by post, together with the printed registration forms.

The Joseph Binder Award is held every two years. The entries are assessed by an international jury of experts. Previous jury panels included such recognized authorities as Cordula Alessandri, Lo Breier, Gerd Dumbar, Fons Hickmann, Freda Sack, Stefan Sagmeister, Niklaus Troxler, and Lars Müller.

This year’s motif of the Joseph Binder Award was designed by the Typejockeys, a Vienna-based design agency, and quotes Joseph Binder’s tourism and advertising posters from the 1930s.