All of the following competition or book submission 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:
Identity Essentials
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline Extended: Better late than never - it appears entries are still being accepted
No entry fees charged
The Dieline Awards - Best in Package Design
(The Dieline - USA)
Late deadline: 11 January 2010
Entry fees charged - No discounts
The Big Book of Packaging
(Crescent Hill Books - USA)
Deadline: 15 January 2010
No entry fees charged
PUB 45: Rare Specimens
(Society of Publication Designers - USA)
Extended Deadline: 15 January 2010 (with late fees)
Entry fees charged
Creative Review Annual 2010
(Creative Review - UK)
Extended Deadline: 15 January 2010
Entry fees charged
ABC Dimensional
(Laurence King - UK)
Extended Deadline: 18 January 2010
No entry fees charged
Graphis Design Annual 2011
(Graphis - USA)
Extended Deadline: 18 January 2010
Entry fees charged
Communication Arts Illustration Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Late Deadline: 22 January 2010 (with late fees)
Entry fees charged
ADC Design (includes Photography & Illustration)
(Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline Extended: 29 January 2010
Entry fees charged
Font Aid IV
(SOTA - USA)
Deadline: 29 January 2010
No entry fees charged
Top 100 New Creatives 47
(CMYK Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 31 January 2010
Entry fees charged
American Photography 26
(American Photography - USA)
Deadline Extended: 2 February 2010
Entry fees charged
ADC Advertising
(Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: 5 February 2010
Entry fees charged
ADC Interactive
(Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline Extended: 5 February 2010
Entry fees charged
ADC Student Awards
(Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline Extended: 5 Februry 2010
Entry fees charged
D&AD Awards 2010
(D&AD - UK)
Deadline Extended: 5 February 2010 (with late fee)
Entry fees charged
Wolda '09
(Eulda Books - Italy)
Deadline Extended: 10 February 2010 (logos designed in 2009)
Entry fees charged
LogoLounge 6
(LogoLounge - USA)
Deadline: 15 February 2010
LogoLounge membership required
Green Graphics
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 15 February 2010
No entry fees charged
Common Interest
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 15 February 2010
No entry fees charged
Graphis Advertising Annual 2011
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 15 February 2010
Entry fees charged
American Illustration 29
(American Illustration - USA)
Deadline: 19 February 2010
Entry fees charged
European Design Awards
(ED Awards - Europe)
Deadline: 15 February 2010
Entry fees charged
Project Never
(Project Never - US)
Deadline: 19 February 2010
No entry fees charged
Summit Creative Award
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline Extended: 22 February 2010
Entry fees charged
ADC Hybrid
(Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: 26 February 2010
Entry fees charged
ADC Design Sphere
(Art Directors Club - USA)
Deadline: 26 February 2010
Entry fees charged
My Own Business Card, Volume Two
(Design and Design - France)
Deadline Extended: 28 February 2010
No entry fees charged
Just Sit! Chairs and Stools Design
(Design and Design - France)
Deadline Extended: 28 February 2010
No entry fees charged
Best Organic Packaging, Volume One
(Design and Design - France)
Deadline Extended: 28 February 2010
No entry fees charged
Identity: Best of the Best 2010
(Identity - Russia)
Deadline Extended: 28 February 2010
No entry fees charged
FAB (Food and Beverage) Awards
(FAB Awards - UK)
Deadline: 28 February 2010
Entry fees charged
PRINT Regional Design Annual
(PRINT Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 1 March 2010
Entry fees charged
AIGA 365 Annual Competition
(AIGA - USA)
Deadline: 5 March 2010
Entry fees charged
AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers
(AIGA - USA)
Deadline: 5 March 2010
Entry fees charged
HOW Promotion Design Awards
(HOW Magazine - USA)
Deadline: 5 March 2010
Late Deadline: 22 March 2010 (with late fees)
Entry fees charged
SPD Student Design Competition
(Society of Publication Designers - USA)
Deadline: 8 March 2010
Entry fees charged (3 free entries for SPD Student members)
Creativity 40 Media Competition
(Creativity International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 12 March 2010
Entry fees charged
Basic Identity
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 15 March 2010
No entry fees charged
Typoshirt One
(Index Book - Spain)
Deadline: 15 March 2010
No 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
Mediabistro Logo Awards
(Mediabistro - USA)
Deadline: 31 March 2010
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
Golden Bee 9: Moscow International Biennale of Graphic Design
(Golden Bee - Russia)
Deadline: 15 April 2010
No 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
iheartlogos
(iheartlogos.com - USA)
Season One Deadline: 31 August 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
Logo Nest
(Logo Nest - International)
Deadline: 31 December 2010
No entry fees charged
PAPERWORKS Letterhead Contest
(Neenah Paper - USA)
Deadline: Ongoing - judged quarterly
No entry fees charged
PAPERWORKS Text And Cover Contest
(Neenah Paper - USA)
Deadline: Ongoing - judged quarterly
No 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 over 130 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!
© 2010 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives
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