Raise Your Voice. Because the Future Won’t Design Itself.

UNMUTED: Designers for Humanity is a call to every creative — designer, illustrator, art director, photographer, and motion artist — to speak through your craft, to move hearts, and to remind us all that beauty, justice, peace, humanity, and our planet are worth speaking up for.
Join Us.

✦ More Than a Competition

The world doesn’t change on its own. It changes because people believe it can — and dare to rise above the noise to create what comes next.

• This is more than a call for entries. It’s a collective platform — a promise to design a better tomorrow.
  
• An international jury will review submissions and select 100 works to be featured in a traveling exhibition launching in 2026. All submissions will be presented on the Graphis website.

✦ Categories

Each category is a call to action — guiding your submission while inspiring work rooted in empathy and addressing the urgent challenges shaping our world.

• War & Conflict — responses to war and calls for peace
• Guns & Violence — confronting gun culture and systemic violence
• Climate & Environment — spotlighting the climate crisis and sustainability
• Human Rights & Equality — advocating for equity and inclusion
• Freedom & Democracy — defending liberty, speech, and civil rights
• Truth & Disinformation — exposing fake news and distortions of reality
• Politics & Propaganda — critiquing political manipulation and ideology
• Migration & Displacement — stories of refugees and displaced people
• Disease & Famine — addressing health crises and hunger
• Hope & the Future — envisioning peace, empathy and a just world
  
  
  

✦ Key Dates

• Launch: October 2, 2025
• Final Deadline: December 31, 2025
• Extended Deadline: January 15, 2026
• Announcement: Early 2026
• Opening Exhibition: TBD — Anticipated Spring/Summer 2026

✦ Global Jury

A global jury of design pioneers and cultural voices, united to champion creativity as a force for change.

• Jury Chair: Kit Hinrichs — USA
• Balbusso Twins — Italy
• David Carson — USA
• Steff Geissbuhler — USA / Switzerland
• Huang Hai — China
• Carmit Haller — USA
• Fons Hickmann — Germany
• Anita Kunz — Canada
• Jean-Benoît Levy — Switzerland / USA
• Hugh Miller — England
• Ahn Sang-soo — South Korea
• Ariane Spanier — Germany

✦ Special thank you to Studio Hinrichs

Thank you, Kit Hinrichs & Hannah Lehmkuhl at Studio Hinrichs, for your creativity and helping us raise voices that inspire unity and hope.

✦ About Graphis

With over 80 years honoring global creative excellence, Graphis is the international platform celebrating the world’s most visionary work in Visual Arts through its prestigious awards in Design, Advertising, Photography, Art/Illustration, Motion, and New Talent.