Calls for entries: Upcoming graphic design competition and book submission deadlines

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:

Design: Portfolios & Self-Promotions
(Rockport Publishers - USA)
Deadline: 29 June 2012
No entry fees charged

HOW Interactive Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 2 July 2012
Entry fees charged

FPO Awards
(UnderConsideration - USA)
Deadline: 2 July 2012
Entry fees charged

Summit Marketing Effectiveness Awards
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 6 July 2012
Entry fees charged

HOW Logo Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 9 July 2012
Entry fees charged

American Graphic Design Awards
(Graphic Design USA - USA)
Deadline: 13 July 2012

Entry fees charged
UCDA Design Competition
(UCDA - USA)
Deadline: 13 July 2012
Entry fees charged

London International Awards
(LIA - UK)
Deadline Extended: 13 July 2012
Entry fees charged

Social/Political Posters
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 17 July 2012
Entry fees charged

Hiiibrand Awards 2012
(Hiiibrand - China)
Early Deadline: 31 July 2012
Deadline: 31 December 2012
Entry fees charged

2012 Print Awards
(The Creativity Awards - USA)
Deadline: 10 August 2012
Entry fees charged

100 Best in Photography 2013
(Graphis - USA)
Deadline: 14 August 2012
Entry fees charged

HOW International Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 15 August 2012
Entry fees charged

iheartlogos season three
(iheartlogos.com - USA)
Early Deadline: 31 August 2012
Late Deadline: 15 September 2012 (late fees apply)
Entry fees charged

Communication Arts Typography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 9 September 2012
Entry fees charged

Summit Emerging Media Awards
(Summit International Awards - USA)
Deadline: 19 September 2012
Entry fees charged

Communication Arts Interactive Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 5 October 2012
Entry fees charged

Your Best Work Design Awards
(HOW - USA)
Deadline: 15 November 2012
Entry fees charged

Communication Arts Illustration Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 4 January 2013
Entry fees charged

Communication Arts Photography Competition
(Communication Arts - USA)
Deadline: 15 March 2013
Entry fees charged

LogoLounge
(LogoLounge - USA)
Deadline: Ongoing
Annual membership fee charged

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You may want to read my article about participating in design industry competitions and calls for book submissions: A collection of design competition - and book submission request - tips, tricks and observations.

A design competition calendar is also available at Icograda. Lürzer's ARCHIVE 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 160 graphic design books. Many of those inclusions are the result of design competitions, or requests for submissions, like those listed above.

© 2012 Jeff Fisher LogoMotives