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:
FONT: Classic typefaces for contemporary graphic design
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline Extended: 14 November 2008
No entry fees charged
Toilets - PictoSigns
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline Extended: 15 November 2008
No entry fees charged
Sign Graphics: Walk This Way
(maomao publications - Spain)
Deadline: 15 November 2008
No entry fees charged
Really Good Packaging, Explained
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 24 November 2008
No entry fees charged
Poster Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline Extended: 24 November 2008
Entry fees charged
Box. Bottle. Bag.
(The Dieline and HOW Books - USA)
Deadline: 30 November 2008
No entry fees charged
Best of the Web #1
(CMYK Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: 3 December 2008
Entry fees charged
Creativity + Commerce: PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize
(PRINT - USA)
Deadline Extended: 3 December 2008 - with late fees
Entry fees charged
American Advertising & Design 25
(formerly American Corporate Identity)
(Graphics Books - USA)
Deadline: 8 December 2008
Late Entry Deadline: 22 December 2008 (Late fees)
Entry fees charged
American Package Design Awards
(Graphic Design USA - USA)
Deadline: 12 December 2008
Entry fees charged
H2O
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline Extended: 15 December 2008
No entry fees charged
HOW Poster Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: 15 December 2008 - with late fees
Entry fees charged
I.D. Annual Design Review
(I.D. Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: 15 December 2008 - with late fees
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Interactive Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 15 December 2008
Entry fees charged
Creative Offices
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline: 30 December 2008
No entry fees charged
The Big Book of Green Design
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 30 December 2008
No entry fees charged
My Own Business Card
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 31 December 2008
No entry fees charged
Charts & Diagrams
(maomao publications - Spain)
Deadline: 2 January 2009
No entry fees charged
Free Fonts
(maomao publications - Spain)
Deadline: 2 January 2009
No entry fees charged
1 & 2 Colors
(maomao publications - Spain)
Deadline: 5 January 2009
No entry fees charged
Chaos & Order: Innovative Grid Systems
(maomao publications - Spain)
Deadline: 5 January 2009
No entry fees charged
1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline: 9 January 2009
No entry fees charged
Designing for the Greater Good
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 9 January 2009
No entry fees charged
Communication Arts Interactive Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 16 January 2009
Entry fees charged
88th ADC Awards
(The Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: 16 January 2009
Entry fees charged
Project Never
Deadline: 16 January 2009
No entry fees charged
Design Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 19 January 2009
Entry fees charged
Interactive Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 19 January 2009
Entry fees charged
Summit Creative Award
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 26 January 2009
Entry fees charged
The Mini Book of Great Logos
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline: 1 February 2009
No entry fees charged
New Styles in Graphic Design
(maomao publications - Spain)
Deadline: 2 February 2009
No entry fees charged
Press Kits: Design & Packaging
(maomao publications - Spain)
Deadline: 2 February 2009
No entry fees charged
Point of Purchase Design
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline: 9 February 2009
No entry fees charged
Advertising Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 16 February 2009
Entry fees charged
Basics: Logos
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 28 February 2009
No entry fees charged
PRINT's Regional Design Annual
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 2 March 2009
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Illustration Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 6 March 2009
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Photography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 6 March 2009
Entry fees charged
Photography Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 16 March 2009
Entry fees charged
HOW Promotion Design Awards 2009
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 20 March 2009
Entry fees charged
New Talent Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2009
Entry fees charged
Annual Reports Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 11 May 2009
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Design Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 1 June 2009
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Advertising Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 9 June 2009
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: A Winning Strategy. It has appeared on the Creative Latitude and NO!SPEC web sites.
Design competition calendars are also available at Icograda and Workbook. Lürzer's ARCHIVE also has an impressive online list of competitions sponsored by international magazines and organizations. 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.
My own work appears in nearly 100 graphic design books. Many of those inclusions are the result of design competitions, or requests for submissions, like those listed above.
For the perspective from the other side of design competitions, I wrote a bLog-oMotives entry about judging the 2007 Summit Creative Awards.
Good luck!
© 2008 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
1 comment:
Thanks SO much for the list Jeff!! I really appreciate it.
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