Calls for entries:Upcoming design competition deadlines

All of the following competitions 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:

I.D. Annual Design Review
(I.D. Magazine - USA)
Deadline: Entries accepted until December 15, 2006
Entry fees charged - late fees now apply

American Corporate Identity
(David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: Entries accepted until December 18, 2006
Entry fees charged - late fees now apply

Photoshop User Awards
(National Association of Photoshop Professionals - USA)
Deadline: December 31, 2006
Entry fees charged

Brochures from North to South America
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: No specific date published
No entry fees charged

Hungry Design
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: No specific date published
No entry fees charged

Packaging Identity
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: No specific date published
No entry fees charged

Instant Graphics
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline Extended: January 5, 2007
No entry fees charged

CA Interactive Media Design
(Communications Arts - USA)
Deadline: January 12, 2007
Entry fees charged

TDC53 - Typography
(Type Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: January 12, 2007
Entry fees charged

Letterhead and Logo Design 10
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: January 15, 2007
No entry fees charged

Summit Creative Awards
(Summit Awards - USA)
Deadline: January 29, 2007
Entry fees charged

The Art Directors Club Annual Awards
(The Art Directors Club - USA)
Professional Deadline: January 19, 2007
Student Deadline: January 31, 2007
Entry fees charged

Identity: Best of the Best 2007
(Identity Magazine - Russia)
Deadline: January 31, 2007
No entry fees charged

European Design Awards
(Europe)
Submission period: January 1 - February 28, 2007
Entry fees charged

PRINT Regional Design Annual
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline: March 1, 2007
Entry fees charged

HOW Promotion Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: March 19, 2007
Entry fees charged

HOW InHOWse Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: April 13, 2007
Entry fees charged

LogoLounge 4
(LogoLounge - USA)
Deadline: March 31, 2007
LogoLounge membership required

You may want to read my article about participating in design industry competitions: A Winning Strategy. It has appeared on the Creative Latitude and NO!SPEC web sites. A list of design competition links appears at the end of the article.

Design competition calendars are also available at Icograda and Workbook. DesignTaxi and Dexinger post 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.

Good luck!

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