Fancy gaining industry recognition for your best branding projects of the last year? Then hurry, because there's not much time lift to submit your work to the Brand Impact Awards 2022. The extended deadline for entries closes on Thursday, 23 June, so submit your application soon.
The Brand Impact Awards has been celebrating creative excellence and consistency in branding design for nine years and this year there are awards across 28 categories, all judged by a panel of experts featuring people from some of the world's top creative agencies
So if you've worked on a groundbreaking design project over the past year that pushes the envelope and shows consistency in branding, make sure you enter your work on the Brand Impact Awards site today.
Run by Creative Bloq in association with Wallpaper*, the BIAs celebrate the very best branding from all around the world, recognising creative excellence and consistency. Winning a BIA award offers major recognition for your work – a glance at the names of previous winners reveals a who’s who of creative talent, including COLLINS, Turner Duckworth, Wolff Olins, NB Studio, Johnson Banks and more.
This year the BIAs covers 24 sector categories, from Culture, Fashion and Bars and Restaurants to Public sector and Non-profits and also four craft in branding categories covering Motion, Copywriting, Illustration and Typography. There are Gold, Silver and Bronze awards in each category, plus two special awards: Social Impact and Best of Show.
There's no limit on the number of projects you can enter, so visit the official Brand Impact Awards site by 23 June to enter your best branding, packaging and campaign work.
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at the BIA 2021, COLLINS won Best in Show with its work for San Francisco Symphony(Image credit: COLLINS)
For The People's Story Espresso was shortlisted for Best of Show: (Image credit: For the People)
Pencil Box by Studio Sutherl& won a Gold Award for Self-Branding in 2021(Image credit: Studio Sutherl&)
The Kraken Rum by NB Studio was a Gold Award winner for Wine, Beer & Spirits(Image credit: NB Studio)
The Kraken Rum by NB Studio was a Gold Award winner for Wine, Beer & Spirits in 2022
Who should enter the Brand Impact Awards?
Entries to the Brand Impact Awards 2022 are welcome from design studios, consultancies, branding agencies, ad agencies, in-house design teams and brand owners. Entrants can submit projects and branded campaigns that were commissioned nationally or internationally. And unlike many award schemes, campaigns that extend or enhance existing brands are also accepted.
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It doesn’t matter if you're a massive agency or a small studio, just as long as the work impresses the judges with its creativity and consistency. The BIAs has long attracted the best talent in the design world. They offer major industry recognition and extensive PR coverage among a wide audience of digital and print creatives, with the guarantee of bespoke marketing collateral.
Categories include Craft awards in Copywriting, Illustration and Typography and Motion, and there are sector-specific categories covering almost any branding campaign possible, from Artisan and Automotive to Utilities and Wine, Beer and Spirits. Self-Branding and Artisan. As ever the BIAs 2022 will also be giving two special awards: Social Impact and Best of Show. This gives you a huge range of entry points for different branding work.
How are the BIAs judged?
The Brand Impact Awards 2022 will be judged by a panel of 33 experts featuring names from major creative agencies, such as DesignStudio, COLLINS, Johnson Banks and Pearlfisher, branding experts who've worked client-side for top brands such as Disney, Mailchimp, Virgin and Ben & Jerry's and our very own acting editor, Rosie Hilder.
Entries will be judged on their originality, how well they serve their original brief and consistency – specifically consistent quality of idea and execution across two or more brand touchpoints. They are also judged in context of their market sector – product design is not lumped in with sports, just as self-branding is judged exclusively from fashion.
To find out more about this year’s Brand Impact Awards, plus all the categories, how to enter, and to see last year’s winners, head over to the Brand Impact Awards 2022 website. And best of luck!
Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.
