About Us
Creative Quarterly asks the question: Where does your inspiration come from? What person, place or thing inspires your work?
¶ By launching our new redesign we’ve become a much more interactive journal.
¶ We search the web for interesting projects in art and design to share with our readers. We ask our readers to share what inspires them.The purpose, not to copy but to inspire.
¶ Inspiration can come from an innovative chair design or an unusual ring or from an interview with a well-known designer or artist or something from ones past. We bring together the creative community like no one else.
Creative Quarterly. The best of art and design, quarterly.
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How to Enter Online
You can now enter CQ online for Students or for Professionals. Below are instructions on how to prepare your entries for upload. If you prefer to pay by check or to mail your entries to us, please download our call for entries form.
Entry Fees
Single entries
- One entry = $10
- There is no maximum number of entries
Series Entry Fee (Three to five images with a similar theme including books and magazines. Stationery systems are a single entry)
- Each piece within a series is $10.
- For example, if you submit a cover and 3 spreads of a magazine, that series would be $40.
Please note your credit card payment will be processed by 3x3 Magazine.
Eligible Work
All entries must have been completed during the last twelve months. Submission of entries acknowledges the right of Creative Quarterly to use them for publication, exhibition and promotion.
Categories: Fine Arts (FA), Graphic Design (GD), Illustration (IL) and Photography (PH)
Preparation of Entries
You must create files for each entry following the steps below. Once you have created your individual files and included a scan of your student ID you must create a folder and then stuff the folder before you upload it. You CAN NOT upload individual files.
Create Your Files
Each entry must be submitted as:
- 300 dpi, RGB, Jpeg
- Vertical images must be 8" wide.
- Horizontal images must be 10" wide.
Name Your Entries
File names for each entry must include the category and last name. Entries that are incorrectly named will not be judged.
- Single Entries:
Example: Robert Smith has 2 single entries for Fine Arts he would label his entries as: FA_SmithR_1.jpg and FA_SmithR_2.jpg
- Series Entries:
Example: Roberta Jones is submitting a series of 3 for Illustration, her jpgs would look like this:
- IL_JonesR_1a.jpg
- IL_JonesR_1b.jpg
- IL_JonesR_1c.jpg
If Roberta had another series to enter, her second series would be written out as:
- IL_JonesR_2a.jpg
- IL_JonesR_2b.jpg
- IL_JonesR_2c.jpg
- If you are a student, you must include a scan of your student ID.
Create Your Folder
All jpgs must be put in a folder labeled with your last name, followed by your first initial (ex. Smith_R)
If your folder is incorrectly labeled, your work will not be judged.
To stuff your folder
Once you have named all your files, you must stuff your folder. If you do not stuff your folder, your work will not upload.
To stuff your folder you may download Stuffit application. Please go here for a free demo of Stuffit.
Or, if you have a Mac OS X, you may simply select your folder and choose File > Create Archive. Your folder will become a zip file.
If you are using a PC, you may right-click your folder, choose Send To > Compress. Your folder will become a zip file.
Proceed to upload your Student entries or upload your Professional entries.
Notification of Selection
Winners will be notified by email and listed online after judging is completed. Judging takes six to eight weeks.
