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:

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

CA Illustration Annual
(Communications Arts - USA)
Deadline: March 13, 2007
Entry fees charged

CA Photography Annual
(Communications Arts - USA)
Deadline: March 13, 2007
Entry fees charged

American Inhouse Design Awards
(Graphic Design: usa - USA)
Deadline Extended: March 16, 2007
Entry fees charged

The Best of Business Card Design 8
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: March 16, 2007
No entry fees charged

1000 Music Graphics
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: March 31, 2007
No entry fees charged

HOW Promotion Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: April 2, 2007
Entry fees charged

Information Design Workbook
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: April 9, 2007
No entry fees charged

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

PRINT Regional Design Annual
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: April 2, 2007
Entry fees charged

STEP's Best of Web
(STEP Inside Design - USA)
Deadline: April 2, 2007
Entry fees charged

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

Design Matters: Packaging
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline: April 13, 2007
No entry fees charged

Celebrity Logos
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: April 21, 2007
No entry fees charged

Grids: 100 Creative Solutions for Designers
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: April 30, 2007
No entry fees charged

Big Book of Design Ideas 3
(David E. Carter - USA)
Deadline: May 4, 2007
Entry fees charged

European Logo Design Annual
(Eulda - Italy)
Deadline: May 18, 2007
Entry fees charged

The Create Awards
(Create Magazine - USA)
Deadline: June 1, 2007
Entry fees charged

Print & Production Finishes for Packaging
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: June 30, 2007
No entry fees charged

Print & Production Finishes for Sustainable Design
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: June 30, 2007
No entry fees charged

Communicating with Pattern: Signs & Symbols
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: August 31, 2007
No entry fees charged

Squares, checks & grids
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: August 31, 2007
No entry fees charged

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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