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:
Tokyo TDC Annual Awards 2010
(Tokyo Type Directors Club - Japan)
Deadline: 10 October 2009
No entry fees charged for overseas entries
Emerging Media Award
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline Extended: 12 October 2009
Entry fees charged
Graphic Design for Less: Cost-Cutting Solutions for Tight Budgets
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline: 15 October 2009
No entry fees charged
Do Good Fight Bad
(Do Good Fight Bad - USA)
Deadline: 15 October 2009
Entry fees charged
Design DNA: Logos
(Rotovision - UK)
Deadline Extended: 15 October 2009
No entry fees charged
GDC 09 Awards (Graphic Design in China)
(SGDA - China)
Deadline for registration: 16 October 2009
Deadline for entries: 22 October 2009
Entry fees charged
Top 100 New Creatives
(CMYK Magazine - USA)
Deadline Extended: 18 October 2009
Entry fees charged
REBRAND 100 Global Awards
(REBRAND - USA)
Late Deadline Extended: 21 October 2009
Entry fees charged
1000 Product Designs
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: 22 October 2009
No entry fees charged
The Faces of Design Awards 2010
(Faces of Design - Germany)
Early-Bird Registration Deadline: 31 October 2009
Portfolio Submission Deadline: 15 December 2009
Entry fees charged
1000 More Greetings
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline: 1 November 2009
No entry fees charged
PRINT Creativity + Commerce
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 1 November 2009
Entry fees charged
Identity Essentials
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: 1 November 2009
No entry fees charged
Fingerprint 2 (PDF of CFE)
(HOW Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 5 November 2009
No entry fees charged
PRINT in Motion
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 15 November 2009
Entry fees charged
Basic Pack
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 15 November 2009
No entry fees charged
D&AD Awards 2010
(D&AD - UK)
Early Deadline: 18 November 2009 (10% entry fee discount)
Final Deadline: 27 January 2010
Entry fees charged
The Best of Sports Marketing & Design
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 1 December 2009
No entry fees charged
The Best of Sin Design (Naughty Products. Great Advertising.)
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline Extended: 1 December 2009
No entry fees charged
HOW Logo Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 1 December 2009
Final Deadline: 15 December 2009 (with late fees)
Entry fees charged
HOW Poster Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 1 December 2009
Final Deadline: 15 December 2009 (with late fees)
Entry fees charged
I.D. Annual Design Review
(I.D. Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 1 December 2009
Entry fees charged
2009 American Package Design Awards
(Graphic Design USA - USA)
Deadline: 10 December 2009
Entry fees charged
Selected A: Graphic Design From Europe
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 11 December 2009
Entry fees charged
Select I: Graphic Design Annual
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 11 December 2009
Entry fees charged
The Dieline Awards - Best in Package Design
(The Dieline - USA)
Deadline: 21 December 2009
Entry fees charged
My Own Business Card, Volume Two
(Design and Design - France)
Deadline: 31 December 2009
No entry fees charged
Just Sit! Chairs and Stools Design
(Design and Design - France)
Deadline: 31 December 2009
No entry fees charged
Communication Arts Illustration Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 11 January 2010
Entry fees chargedThe Big Book of Packaging
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline: 15 January 2010
No entry fees charged
Summit Creative Award
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 25 January 2010
Entry fees charged
Wolda '09
(Eulda Books - Italy)
Deadline: 31 January 2010 (logos designed in 2009)
Entry fees charged
LogoLounge 6
(LogoLounge - USA)
Deadline: 15 February 2010
LogoLounge membership required
HOW Promotion Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 5 March 2010
Late Deadline: 22 March 2010 (with late fees)
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Photography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 29 March 2010
Entry fees charged
Mail Me Art 2
(Mail Me Art - UK)
Deadline: 31 March 2010
No entry fees charged
HOW In-HOWse Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 15 April 2010
Late Deadline: 10 May 2010 (with late fees)
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Design Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 14 May 2010
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Advertising Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 14 May 2010
Entry fees charged
Book of the Year, Volume 3
(Design & Design - France)
Deadline: 30 September 2010
No entry fees charged
Communication Arts Interactive Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 8 October 2010
Entry fees charged
Graphis Poster Annual 2011
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 30 November 2010
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.
A design competition calendar is also available at Icograda. 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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