MUSE ILLUSTRATION AWARDS CATEGORIES
17 Disciplines.
A World of Creative Possibilities.
The Advertising Illustration category recognizes outstanding illustration created to promote brands, products, services, campaigns, causes, and commercial ideas across traditional and digital platforms.
Advertising Illustration
The Editorial Illustration category honors illustration that interprets, communicates, and brings perspective to news, ideas, opinions, culture, politics, lifestyle, and contemporary issues.
Editorial Illustration
The Publishing Illustration category celebrates illustration created for books, literary works, comics, graphic novels, educational materials, reference publications, and independent publishing.
Publishing Illustration
The Children’s Illustration category recognizes imaginative and engaging illustration created for young audiences across publishing, education, learning, and visual storytelling.
Children’s Illustration
The Animation & Motion Illustration category honors illustration transformed through movement, sequence, timing, and digital experience.
Animation & Motion Illustration
The Book Cover Illustration category celebrates illustrated covers that capture attention, interpret content, communicate genre, and create memorable identities for published works.
Book Cover Illustration
The Product & Packaging Illustration category recognizes outstanding illustration created for packaging, labels, merchandise, physical products, collectibles, and consumer experiences.
Product & Packaging Illustration
The Science & Technology Illustration category honors illustration that explains, visualizes, interprets, and communicates scientific, medical, environmental, engineering, technical, and technological subjects.
Science & Technology Illustration
The Experimental & Personal Illustration category celebrates self-initiated, conceptual, cross-disciplinary, and exploratory work that expands the possibilities of illustration.
Experimental & Personal Illustration
The Site-Specific & Environmental Illustration category recognizes illustration created for physical spaces, public environments, cultural settings, exhibitions, installations, and spatial experiences.
Site-Specific & Environmental Illustration
The Entertainment Illustration category honors illustration created across music, games, live entertainment, television, streaming, performing arts, and visual development.
Entertainment Illustration
The Fashion & Beauty Illustration category celebrates illustration across fashion, beauty, cosmetics, accessories, footwear, jewelry, watches, couture, and contemporary style.
Fashion & Beauty Illustration
The Portrait Illustration category recognizes illustrated portraits that capture, interpret, and reimagine identity, personality, culture, history, performance, memory, and human experience.
Portrait Illustration
The Poster Illustration category honors illustrated posters that communicate ideas, promote experiences, express perspectives, and create lasting visual impact.
Poster Illustration
The Surface & Pattern Illustration category celebrates illustration created for textiles, patterns, decorative surfaces, stationery, interiors, home and lifestyle products, tableware, and wallcoverings.
Surface & Pattern Illustration
The Character & IP Illustration category recognizes original characters, mascots, creatures, brand characters, game characters, fantasy and science-fiction characters, and collectible concepts.
Character & IP Illustration
The Student Illustration category recognizes outstanding student illustrations across a wide range of disciplines, celebrating original ideas, distinctive visual voices, and creative exploration.
Student Illustration
Choose the category that best reflects the primary purpose, application, audience, or creative context of your illustration.
Why was the illustration created?
Where and how was it used?
Who was the intended audience?
What aspect should the jury evaluate most?
One work. More than one relevant context. Enter your work in multiple relevant categories where appropriate.
Separate entries evaluated independently
Each category entry is a separate submission
Separate entry fees may apply
Each main discipline includes an Other subcategory for eligible work that does not fit an existing fixed subcategory.
For an Other entry, specify the type of illustration so jurors understand its context and application.
2027 CALL FOR ENTRIES
Honoring Illustration That Inspires the World.
From commissioned campaigns and published stories to experimental practice, animated worlds, scientific visualization, cultural expression, and original characters, the MUSE Illustration Awards celebrates the extraordinary breadth of contemporary illustration.
Find the category that best represents your work and present your creative vision on an international stage.