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:
Feedback: Direct and Interactive Marketing
(Index Book - Spain)
No specific deadline posted
No entry fees charged
Symbols: Silhouettes - Icons - Pictograms
(Index Book - Spain)
No specific deadline posted
No entry fees charged
HOW Interactive Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: Entries postmarked after July 16 require a late fee of $25 per entry. Entries postmarked after Aug. 1, 2007, will not be accepted.
Entry fees charged
1,000 Package Designs
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: August 15, 2007
No entry fees charged
Dynamic Graphics Re:Design Competition
(Dynamic Graphics - USA)
Extended Deadline: August 27, 2007
Entry fees charged
Creativity 37
(Creativity Annual Awards - USA)
Deadline Extended: August 31, 2007
Entry fees charged (Late fees apply)
The Pixel Awards
(Pixel Awards - USA)
Deadline: August 24, 2007
Entry fees charged
Communicating with Pattern: Signs & Symbols
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: August 31, 2007
No entry fees charged
HOW International Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: September 4, 2007
Entry fees charged
Print & Production Finishes for Sustainable Design
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: October 31, 2007
No entry fees charged
The Design Green Project
(Area of Design - USA)
Deadline: November 30, 2007
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.
For the perspecctive from the other side of design competitions, I wrote a recent bLog-oMotives entry about judging the 2007 Summit Creative Awards.
Good luck!
© 2007 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
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