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:
88th ADC Awards
(The Art Directors Club - USA)
Professional Deadline Extended: 23 January 2009
Student Deadline: 30 January 2009
Entry fees charged
My Own Business Card
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 31 January 2009
No entry fees charged
The Big Book of Green Design
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 2 February 2009
No entry fees charged
Aspiring Creatives #44
(CMYK Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: 2 February 2009
Entry fees charged
Design Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline Extended: 2 February 2009
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
European Design Awards
(EDAwards - Greece)
Deadline: 14 February 2009
Entry fees charged
Advertising Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 16 February 2009
Entry fees charged
The Mini Book of Great Logos
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 16 February 2009
No entry fees charged
Summit Creative Award
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline Extended: 18 February 2009
Entry fees charged
Best of the Web
(CMYK Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: 23 February 2009
Entry fees charged
Designing for the Greater Good
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 27 February 2009
No entry fees charged
Basics: Logos
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 28 February 2009
No entry fees charged
Wine Labels
(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
Handmade Graphics
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: 2 March 2009
No 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
Best of Business Card Design 9
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline: 9 March 2009
No entry fees charged
Photography Annual 2010
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 16 March 2009
Entry fees charged
APEX Awards for Publication Excellence
(APEX Awards - USA)
Deadline: 17 March 2009
Entry fees charged
HOW Promotion Design Awards 2009
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 20 March 2009
Entry fees charged
Best Bio Packaging, Volume 1
(Design & Design - France)
Deadline: 31 March 2009
Nontry 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
Wolda '09
(Eulda Books - Italy)
Deadline: 30 June 2009 (logos designed in 2008)
Deadline: 31 January 2010 (logos designed in 2009)
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Interactive Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 5 October 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. Dexinger posts 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!
© 2009 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
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