Call for participation

The 31th Annual Graph Drawing Contest shall be held in conjunction with the 34st International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2026).

Creative Topic

The creative topic is provided a year in advance and focuses on free-form visualization of a specific graph. Participants are invited to submit a creative drawing of this graph that evokes exploration and understanding the graph. The submissions will be judged by the contest committee. This year’s topic is the Eurovision contest.

Read the details on the Creative Topic

Live Challenge

More details soon!

Awards

Awards will be given to the top submissions in each of the contests — the award constitutes a small sum of money.

Contest Committee

Sara Di Bartolomeo
(chair, TU Wien, since 2023)

Henry Förster
(John Cabot University, since 2026)

Fabian Klute
(Polytechnic University of Catalonia, since 2022)

Debajyoti Mondal
(University of Saskatchewan, since 2023)

Soeren Terziadis
(TU München, since 2026)

Jules Wulms
(chair, Technical University of Eindhoven, since 2023)

Contact

gdnvcontest@gmail.com