The Cartography and Geographic Information Society is pleased to announce our Annual Map Design Competition. The competition is open to all map-makers in the United States and Canada for maps completed or published during the past calendar year. Students are particularly encouraged to apply for the awards sponsored by the National Geographic Society and Avenza (makers of Mapublisher).
The purpose of the competition is to promote interest in map design and to recognize significant design advances in cartography. The focus of this competition is design; therefore, judging is based on cartographic design criteria, such as creativity, text (spelling and grammar, too), balance, unity, clarity, use of color, and subject matter.