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:
Graphex 2008
(GDC - Canada)
Deadline: 23 November 2007
Entry fees charged
ADI Design Award: Graphic Design Annual
(Art Design Institute of China Academy of Art)
Deadline: 30 November 2007
No entry fees to foreign entrants
The Design Green Project
(Area of Design - USA)
Deadline Extended: 15 December 2007
Entry fees charged
Best of Brochure Design 10
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: 30 November 2007
No entry fees charged
A Tribute to Typography
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 1 December 2007
No entry fees charged
I.D. Annual Design Review
(I.D. Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: 15 December 2007
Entry fees charged
Creativity+Commerce
PRINT’s International Art and Commerce Design Review
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 3 December 2007
Entry fees charged
American Corporate Identity 24
(David E. Carter - USA)
"Blue Plate" Deadline: 7 December 2007
"Last Call" Deadline: 21 December 2007
Entry fees charged
American Package Design Awards
(Graphic design:usa - USA)
Deadline Extended: 10 December 2007
Entry fees charged
Just For You - Designs Made By The Heart
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: January 2008
No entry fees charged
Identity - Best of the Best 2008
(Identity Magazine - Russia)
Deadline: January 15, 2008
No Entry Fees
D&AD Awards 08
(D&AD - UK)
Deadline: January 16, 2008
Entry fees charged
The Art Director's Club 87th Annual Awards
(The Art Director's Club - USA)
Deadline: 18 January 2008
Entry fees charged
Summit Creative Awards
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 28 January 2008
Entry fees charged
I.D. Student Design Review
(I.D. Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 1 February 2008
Entry fees charged
2008 Gold Quill Awards
(International Association of Business Communicators - IABC)
Early-bird deadline: 5 February 2008
Final deadline: 12 February 2008
Entry fees charged
PRINT’s Regional Design Annual 2008
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 3 March 2008
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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