PGDA 2011 has 13 categories. To be eligible, each entry must abide by PGDA’s definition of graphic design:
The art and discipline of combining symbols, design, and words to represent and communicate ideas or messages.
All Filipino graphic designers, professionals and students alike, may send in as many entries in as many categories as they wish.
Category 1 | Identity and Self-Promotion
Logo • Stationery • Self-Promotion
Category 1 includes logos representing a company, organization, association, brand, or product, as well as its application to letterheads, calling cards, or other similar identity pieces.
The category also includes printed flat, folded, or three-dimensional (“3D”) design pieces used for self-promotion by a graphic designer, or similarly, pieces done by a graphic designer to promote a design agency.
Student entries may be logos done as schoolwork for a fictitious or an already existing company, organization, association, brand, or product as well as logos created for any school-based activity and its equivalent identity applications.
Category 2 | Direct Print
Postcard • Invitation • Announcement • Mailer • Insert • Leaflet • Flyer • Sticker
Category 2 includes printed flat, folded, or 3D pieces typically used for direct marketing communication to increase awareness of a company, organization, association, brand or product or to announce a special activity, event, or occasion.
Student entries may be direct print materials done as schoolwork for a fictitious event or an existing school-based activity.
Category 3 | Poster
Advertising • Advocacy • Communication • Education • Entertainment
Category 3 includes handmade or machine-printed graphic design pieces used for purposes of advertising, advocacy, communications, education, or entertainment.
Student entries may be posters done as schoolwork for a fictitious purpose or an existing school-based activity.
Category 4 | Publication
Annual Report • Book Cover Design • Book Design • Brochure • Calendar • Catalogue • Magazine
Category 4 includes design works intended to be bound pieces such as annual reports, books, brochures, catalogs, calendars, or magazines.
Student entries may be bound pieces done as schoolwork for a fictitious publication or an existing school-based activity.
Category 5 | Packaging
Box • Bottle • Label • Holder • Paper Bag
Category 5 includes functional, 3D food- or non-food packaging pieces such as product boxes, bottles, bags, labels, holders, or similar.
Student entries may be packaging done as schoolwork for a fictitious product or a product for an existing school-based activity.
Category 6 | Retail and Point of Sale
Banner • Display Stand • Mobile • Poster • Shelf Talker • Standee • Sticker • Wobbler
Category 6 includes printed flat, folded, or 3D pieces typically found near, on, or next to checkout areas in the retail space scenario intended to draw the customers’ attention to new products, offers, events, sales, or similar.
Student entries may be point of sale materials done as schoolwork for a fictitious retail space.
Category 7 | Environmental Graphics
Ambient • Directional Signage • Installation
Category 7 includes printed, flat, or 3D forms of graphic design created within built or natural environments, which primarily deals with providing information, direction, or ornamentation.
Student entries may be environmental graphics done as schoolwork for a fictitious environment or space or an existing school-based environment or space.
Category 8 | Applied Graphics
Bag • Cap • Skateboard • Sticker • T-Shirt • Watch
Category 8 includes 3D design pieces that do not fall in previously-defined categories such as caps, t-shirts, bags, skateboards, watches, or similar.
Student entries may be pieces done as schoolwork for a fictitious organization’s cap, t-shirt, or bag, or a similar piece for an existing school-based activity.
Category 9 | Outdoor Graphics
Billboard • Light Box • Street Banner • Transit Ad • Vehicle Wrap
Category 9 includes pieces used as fixed or semi-permanent outdoor installations such as billboards, bus stops, light boxes, or street banners as well as mobile outdoor installations such as vehicle wraps or transit ads.
Student entries may be outdoor graphics done as schoolwork for a fictitious company, organization, association, brand, or product, or for an existing school-based activity.
Category 10 | Print Advertising
Insert • Magazine Ad • Print Ad
Category 10 includes advertising materials which appear within any form of printed media, such as magazine or newspaper ads as well as magazine or newspaper inserts.
Student entries may be advertising materials done as schoolwork for a fictitious company, organization, association, brand, or product, or an advertising material for an existing school-based activity.
Category 11 | Typography, Illustration, and Digital Artwork
Typography • Illustration • Digital Art Manipulation
Category 11 includes works which use any of these three disciplines—typography design; handmade or digital illustration, and, digital art manipulation—as an integral element to the graphic design piece, and intended for promotional, marketing, or communication purposes.
Student entries may be works done as schoolwork for a fictitious company, organization, association, brand, or product, or a material for an existing school-based activity.
Category 12 | Online
Website • Microsite • Online Banner • Electronic Mailer • Electronic Newsletter
Category 12 includes online pieces such as static, dynamic, database-driven, or software-based websites used for personal, commercial, or non-commercial purposes as well as online or electronic banners, mailers or newsletters.
Student entries may be online pieces done as schoolwork for a fictitious company, organization, association, brand, or product, or for an existing school-based activity.
Category 13 | Motion Graphics
OBB • Movie or TV Title
Category 13 includes animated graphic design pieces for movie or television OBBs, movie and television titles or similar.
Student entries may be motion graphics done as schoolwork for a fictitious company, organization, association, brand, or product, or for an existing school-based activity.
