All of the following competition or book submission deadlines present great opportunities to showcase your design efforts, market your work on an international scale through the published books, and "toot!" your own horn to clients, peers and the media:
Core77 Design Awards
(Core77 - USA)
Deadline: 13 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Photography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 16 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Brand New Awards
(UnderConsideration - USA)
Deadline Extended: 16 March 2012
Entry fees charged
HOW Promotion Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Final Deadline: 19 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Top 100 New Creatives #53
(CMYK - USA)
Deadline Extended: 19 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Poster Annual 2013
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline Extended: 19 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Communicator Awards
(IAVA - USA)
Final Deadline: 30 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Neenah UnShow Competition
(Neenah Paper, HOW and PRINT - USA)
Deadline Extended: 30 March 2012
No entry fees charged
Best of Brochure Design 12
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline: 1 April 2012
No entry fees charged
In-HOWse Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 2 April 2012
Entry fees charged
PRINT Regional Design Annual
(PRINT - USA)
Final Deadline: 2 April 2012
Entry fees charged
The Dieline Package Design Awards
(The Dieline - USA)
Final Deadline: 2 April 2012
Entry fees charged
2012 Media and Interactive Awards
(The Creativity Awards - USA)
Deadline: 6 April 2012
Entry fees charged
33rd Annual Telly Awards
(The Telly Awards - USA)
Deadline Extended: 22 April 2012
Entry fees charged
Social/Political Posters
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 23 April 2012
Entry fees charged
Win A Classic
(Neenah CLASSIC® Papers - USA)
Deadline: 30 April 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Design Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Advertising Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2012
Entry fees charged
Typography 1: Bright Ideas in Type
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Layouts 1
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Black & White
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
Color 1
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Logo Design 3
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Brochures 1
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
All-Type Logos
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Big and Bold
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
HOW Logo Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 1 June 2012
Entry fees charged
Summit Marketing Effectiveness Awards
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 20 June 2012
Entry fees charged
HOW Interactive Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 2 July 2012
Entry fees charged
iheartlogos season three
(iheartlogos.com - USA)
Early Deadline: 31 August 2012
Late Deadline: 15 September 2012 (late fees apply)
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Typography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 9 September 2012
Entry fees charged
Summit Emerging Media Awards
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 19 September 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Interactive Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 5 October 2012
Entry fees charged
(To make sure you are reading the latest bLog-oMotives design competition update click here.)
You may want to read my article about participating in design industry competitions and calls for book submissions: A collection of design competition - and book submission request - tips, tricks and observations.
A design competition calendar is also available at Icograda. Lürzer's ARCHIVE has an impressive online list of competitions sponsored by international magazines and organizations. Dexinger posts competitions of great value to industry professionals - however designers need to be aware that some of the listings are for "spec" work as a requirement for submission. Requests for new, or speculative, work as a condition of entering a "contest" are much different than legitimate design competition "calls for entries," in which previously created works are judged for possible awards, exhibition, or publication in an annual or other book.
My own work appears in over 160 graphic design books. Many of those inclusions are the result of design competitions, or requests for submissions, like those listed above.
© 2012 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
Calls for entries: Upcoming graphic design competition and book submission deadlines
Were these clients expecting original logo designs?
Quite often these days I am receiving emails, tweets, Facebook messages and direct messages, from design professionals around the world, expressing concern that they have come across a logo design that was much more than inspired by one of my own original identity creations. I really appreciate the vigilance of the design community.
In February 2012, one copyright infringement situation was brought to my attention by way of a personal email from a designer in Denmark, a tweet with the offending page link and a direct message from another designer on Twitter. Much of the concern shared by other professionals has been the result of the design industry's recent experience with LogoGarden and the large number of copyright violations of my own work found via Google reverse image searches.
Recently I received an email from a design peer in Texas, expressing his concern that he'd come across a rip-off of one of my designs in the online portfolio of an Austin designer (above). In viewing the example, I immediately knew that he was referring to the Neighborhood Service Center logo I designed for the City of Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement - an image that evolved from an earlier local government agency identity I created in 1999. In responding to my online design pal, I explained that I would suspect that the Austin image had somehow been inspired by my design, but it didn't appear to be a literal rip-off.
Still, my curiosity was piqued - and I did a Google reverse image search using the logo image from Austin. Initially, I found a Shutterstock graphic (above) that was being sold by the company until at least 10.12.10. I suppose it could have been "inspired" by my design, as there are some obvious similarities. I then came across numerous sites around the world offering the image for sale or as a free clipart download. The search then resulted in finding many logo designs making use of the image, or variations of the graphic.
Here are some of the examples I discovered:
• Logos for a real estate investment concern; a Chinese company marketing first aid kits; a television show in Argentina, student housing accommodations in Syria, home medical services in Illinois, and a Michigan county program (with watermark lines from a clipart site still in place when enlarged).
• Symbols representing a glass and window business in Bangladesh, a real estate firm in Andora, a nonprofit organization in Scotland, a Chinese real estate representative, a website in China and an insurance company in British Columbia.
• Images including those for a "design contest" in China (with the contributor being called out on the site for not submitting an original design), a business selling Turkish products in Russia, a window manufacturer in the Ukraine, a Pakistani student organization, a health care program in Michigan and an architecture firm in the Czech Republic.
• Identities for a Canadian community grants program, a Chinese job placement firm, a real estate broker concern in Brazil, a Russian news-related website and an in-home health care business.
I also found the image being used as an illustrative element on many websites, the cover graphic for a National Household Education Survey Report book in China and in many other applications.
With the image found in use all over the world, I wonder how many of the owners of these businesses, and organization administrators, think they are represented by a truly original design - and how many designers represented their work as such.
© 2012 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
Jeffism #12
"As you leave design school the final day, that door hitting you in the ass is notice your real education is about to begin."
- Jeff Fisher
© 2012 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
Calls for entries: Upcoming graphic design competition and book submission deadlines
All of the following competition or book submission deadlines present great opportunities to showcase your design efforts, market your work on an international scale through the published books, and "toot!" your own horn to clients, peers and the media:
International Design Awards
(IDA - USA)
Deadline Extended: 15 February 2012 (late fees apply)
Entry fees charged
Design School Wisdom [book]
(Chronicle Books - USA)
Deadline: 17 February 2012
No entry fees charged
ADC Advertising & Intergrated Awards
(Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline Extended: 24 February 2012
Entry fees charged
Poster Annual 2013
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 27 February 2012
Entry fees charged
Core77 Design Awards
(Core77 - USA)
Deadline: 27 February 2012
Entry fees charged
Logo Design 3
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
Poster Design 2
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
Magazine & Book Design
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
Illustration 2
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
Jewelry Design
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
Inkarnation Tattoo & Lifestyle
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
Best of Caricature
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
XXX Graphic Design
(zeixs - Germany)
Deadline Extended: 29 February 2012
No entry fees charged
PRINT Regional Design Annual
(PRINT - USA)
Deadline Extended: 1 March 2012
Entry fees charged
HOW Promotion Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 1 March 2012
Late Deadline: 19 March 2012 (late fees apply)
Entry fees charged
Brand New Awards
(UnderConsideration - USA)
Deadline: 2 March 2012
Entry fees charged
33rd Annual Telly Awards
(The Telly Awards - USA)
Final Deadline: 2 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Summit Creative Awards
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline Extended: 7 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Communicator Awards
(IAVA - USA)
Final Deadline: 9 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Social/Political Posters
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 9 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Neenah UnShow Competition
(Neenah Paper, HOW and PRINT - USA)
Deadline: 12 March 2012
No entry fees charged
Top 100 New Creatives #53
(CMYK - USA)
Deadline Extended: 12 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Photography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 16 March 2012
Entry fees charged
In-HOWse Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 2 April 2012
Entry fees charged
The Dieline Package Design Awards
(The Dieline - USA)
Final Deadline: 2 April 2012
Entry fees charged
2012 Media and Interactive Awards
(The Creativity Awards - USA)
Deadline: 6 April 2012
Entry fees charged
Win A Classic
(Neenah CLASSIC® Papers - USA)
Deadline: 30 April 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Design Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Advertising Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2012
Entry fees charged
Typography 1: Bright Ideas in Type
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Layouts 1
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Black & White
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
Color 1
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Logo Design 3
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Brochures 1
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
All-Type Logos
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
Big and Bold
(Bright Books|David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: 15 May 2012
No entry fees charged
HOW Interactive Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 2 July 2012
Entry fees charged
iheartlogos season three
(iheartlogos.com - USA)
Early Deadline: 31 August 2012
Late Deadline: 15 September 2012 (late fees apply)
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Typography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 9 September 2012
Entry fees charged
(To make sure you are reading the latest bLog-oMotives design competition update click here.)
You may want to read my article about participating in design industry competitions and calls for book submissions: A collection of design competition - and book submission request - tips, tricks and observations.
A design competition calendar is also available at Icograda. Lürzer's ARCHIVE has an impressive online list of competitions sponsored by international magazines and organizations. Dexinger posts competitions of great value to industry professionals - however designers need to be aware that some of the listings are for "spec" work as a requirement for submission. Requests for new, or speculative, work as a condition of entering a "contest" are much different than legitimate design competition "calls for entries," in which previously created works are judged for possible awards, exhibition, or publication in an annual or other book.
My own work appears in over 160 graphic design books. Many of those inclusions are the result of design competitions, or requests for submissions, like those listed above.
© 2012 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
Toot! Toot!*: 'iheartlogos' second volume gives logo love to Jeff Fisher LogoMotives identity design
The newly released book iheartlogos season two includes the work of Jeff Fisher, the Engineer of Creative Identity for the Portland-based firm Jeff Fisher LogoMotives.. The inspiration-filled volume, published through the iheartlogos website, features 450 logos created by 170 designers from 31 countries around the world.
The Jeff Fisher LogoMotives design included (above) is a pro-bono effort for the Historic Kenton Firehouse Committee, representing the group maintaining and operating the landmark community space in the designer's own North Portland neighborhood. The identity was also short-listed in the Russian design competition Identity: Best of the Best 2010, and appears in the books Logo Nest 01 (Australia) and Logo Design Vol. 3 (Germany).
Identities included in the book were judged and voted on by other designers submitting logos, and individuals registered to vote, at the website iheartlogos.com. The limited edition book is currently available exclusively on the site, for $25 - which includes free shipping in the continental United States. Season three of the iheartlogos competition is currently underway.
Fisher, a 35 year design industry veteran, is the author of Identity Crisis!: 50 redesigns that transformed stale identities into successful brands and The Savvy Designer's Guide to Success: Ideas and tactics for a killer career. Other book projects are currently in the works.
The designer has received over 600 design awards and his work has been published in more than 160 books on identity design, self-promotion and the marketing of small businesses. He often travels – nationally and internationally – to present courses, seminars and workshops on design, branding, marketing and social networking. In addition, Fisher is a nationally-recognized speaker, making numerous presentations each year to design organizations, design schools, universities and business groups.
More information about Jeff Fisher, and his design and writing efforts, may be found on the Jeff Fisher LogoMotives blogfolio.
(* If I don’t "toot!" my own horn, no one else will.)
© 2012 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
Calls for entries: Upcoming graphic design competition and book submission deadlines
All of the following competition or book submission deadlines present great opportunities to showcase your design efforts, market your work on an international scale through the published books, and "toot!" your own horn to clients, peers and the media:
TDC Type Communication
(Type Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: 16 December 2011
Entry fees charged
TDC Typeface Design
(Type Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: 16 December 2011
Entry fees charged
TDC Title Design
(Type Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: 16 December 2011
Entry fees charged
33rd Annual Telly Awards
(The Telly Awards - USA)
Early Deadline: 16 December 2011
Entry fees charged
Branding 6
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline Extended: 21 December 2011
Entry fees charged
Hiiibrand Logo Design Awards 2011
(Hiiibrand - China)
Deadline: 31 December 2011
Entry fees charged - payment though coins purchased on site
LogoNest 02
(LogoNest - Australia)
Deadline: 31 December 2011
Paid site membership required
Brands of the World Logo Awards
(Brands of the World - USA)
Deadline: 31 December 2011
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Illustration Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 6 January 2012
Entry fees charged
Bright Ideas in Use of Color
(Bright Books - USA)
Deadline: 6 January 2012
No entry fees charged
Bright Ideas in Business Cards
(Bright Books - USA)
Deadline: 6 January 2012
No entry fees charged
Bright Ideas in Brochures
(Bright Books - USA)
Deadline: 6 January 2012
No entry fees charged
Bright Ideas in Layouts
(Bright Books - USA)
Deadline: 6 January 2012
No entry fees charged
Top 100 New Creatives #53
(CMYK - USA)
Deadline: 9 January 2011
Entry fees charged
American Package Design Awards
(GDUSA - USA)
Deadline Extended: 10 January 2012
Entry fees charged
Communicator Awards
(IAVA - USA)
Final Deadline: 13 January 2012
Entry fees charged
Creative Review Annual 2012
(Creative Review - UK)
Deadline Extended: 13 January 2012
Entry fees charged
Summit Creative Awards
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 13 February 2012
Entry fees charged
Social/Political Posters
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 31 January 2012
Entry fees charged
Bright Ideas in Logo Design 2
(Bright Books - USA)
Deadline: 2 March 2012
No entry fees charged
Communication Arts Photography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 16 March 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Design Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2012
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Advertising Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2012
Entry fees charged
PAPERWORKS Letterhead Contest
(Neenah Paper - USA)
Deadline: Ongoing - judged quarterly
No entry fees charged
PAPERWORKS Text And Cover Contest
(Neenah Paper - USA)
Deadline: Ongoing - judged quarterly
No entry fees charged
(To make sure you are reading the latest bLog-oMotives design competition update click here.)
You may want to read my article about participating in design industry competitions and calls for book submissions: A collection of design competition - and book submission request - tips, tricks and observations.
A design competition calendar is also available at Icograda. Lürzer's ARCHIVE has an impressive online list of competitions sponsored by international magazines and organizations. Dexinger posts competitions of great value to industry professionals - however designers need to be aware that some of the listings are for "spec" work as a requirement for submission. Requests for new, or speculative, work as a condition of entering a "contest" are much different than legitimate design competition "calls for entries," in which previously created works are judged for possible awards, exhibition, or publication in an annual or other book.
My own work appears in over 160 graphic design books. Many of those inclusions are the result of design competitions, or requests for submissions, like those listed above.
© 2011 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
Toot! Toot!*: Jeff Fisher LogoMotives design for Portland law firm published in 'Relogo" book
The identity design work of Jeff Fisher, the Engineer of Creative Identity for the firm Jeff Fisher LogoMotives, is represented in the recently released book Relogo: Re-designing the Brand. The volume, from Chinese book company Sandu Publishing, features logo re-design examples from around the world.
Earlier this year, an editor from Sandu contacted the designer requesting the submission of any recent Jeff Fisher LogoMotives rebranding efforts for possible inclusion in the book. Fisher had just completed the implementation of his new identity for Portland law firm Samuels Yoelin Kantor LLP (above, lower right). The new logo is an update of the logo he originally created for business in early 1997 (above, upper right).
Over the years, the graphic representation of two heavy law books, forming an S letterform, has become a very recognizable icon for the business. The original identity was honored with a Bronze in the Summit Creative Awards. It has also appeared in the 1997 PRINT Regional Design Annual and the books International Logos & Trademarks IV, New Logo & Trademark Design (Japan), The Big Book of Logos, Global Corporate Identity and The Best of Letterhead and Logo Design.
Fisher, a 33-year design industry veteran, is the author of Identity Crisis!: 50 redesigns that transformed stale identities into successful brands and The Savvy Designer's Guide to Success: Ideas and tactics for a killer career. Other book projects are currently in the works. The designer has received over 600 design awards and his work has been published in more than 160 books on identity design, self-promotion and the marketing of small businesses.
More information about Jeff Fisher, and his design and writing efforts, may be found on the Jeff Fisher LogoMotives blogfolio.
(* If I don’t "toot!" my own horn, no one else will.)
© 2011 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
