From posters to packaging to print advertising, HOW is looking for the top design from around the globe. Submit your best work to find out if it stands up to international scrutiny!

You could win a free trip to the 2011 HOW Design Conference, a 2-page spread in the HOW Design Annual, and more!

Deadline: September 1, 2010

Think your work is the best in the world? Click here to prove it!

The Fun Begins Oct 1 With Contest For Side-splitting Videos Featuring ColorMunki On YouTube – Up To 500USD Monthly Cash Awards Plus 2,500USD Grand Prize

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–X-Rite (NASDAQ: XRIT), Incorporated, the world leader in color management and measurement technologies, launches a Show Us Your Munki contest, featuring its award-winning ColorMunki, (www.xritephoto.com) a product designed to deliver color perfection in digital imaging.

“X-Rite invites anyone to create a ColorMunki video, make us laugh, and submit it on our YouTube channel. The grand prize is 2,500USD, so the funnier, the better,” says X-Rite Sr. VP of Sales and Marketing Iris Mangelschots.

The Show Us Your Munki contest (www.ShowUsYourMunki.com ), which runs October 1, 2009–March 31, 2010, is simple. Make a side-splitting video with ColorMunki as a prominent “character”, and submit it on the X-Rite YouTube channel. Then the real fun begins. Read the rest of this entry »

Contest Offers Grand Prize Winner $10,000 and Trip to Webby Awards in NYC

New York (PRWEB) April 2, 2008 — The Webby Awards (www.webbyawards.com/adobe) today kicked off their second annual “Webby In Motion” contest, giving visual artists worldwide a chance to create a video introduction and have it showcased at this year’s Webby Awards Gala ceremony.

Webby In Motion is sponsored by Adobe Systems Incorporated because of the contest’s ability to inspire creative and talented Web designers and developers to produce new engaging, interactive experiences. The grand prize winner will receive $10,000 and a trip to New York City to see their work presented during The 12th Annual Webby Awards on June 10, 2008.

Hailed as the “Oscars of the Internet” by the New York Times, The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet, including Websites, online film and video, interactive advertising, and mobile content. Previous years’ attendees have included Vice President Al Gore, music legend David Bowie, Prince, Arianna Huffington, and the founders of MySpace, Craigslist, and YouTube.

The Webby In Motion contest gives anyone equipped with Adobe® software and a unique vision the opportunity to produce the twenty-second videos that will be used to introduce category clusters during The 12th Annual Webby Awards ceremony. Each entry must be inspired by one of the following ten topics, with a premium placed on creative interpretation:

• Connections (Blogs, Social Networking, etc.)
• Entertainment (Art, Games, etc.)
• Features (Best Visual Design, Best Home Page, etc.)
• Living (Lifestyle, Health, etc.)
• Marketplace (Automotive, Retail, etc.)
• Media (Music, Film, etc.)
• Services (Banking, Bill Paying, Travel, etc.)
• Society (Activism, Politics, etc.)
• Interactive Advertising
• Mobile

A winning video will be selected for at least three of the ten category clusters. From these finalists, a grand prize winner will be selected to receive the special honor of attending the awards gala in New York City, including airfare and accommodations for two. The winner will also receive $10,000 cash; a copy of the Adobe Creative Suite® 3 Master Collection, a comprehensive creative environment that includes Adobe’s award-winning design and development tools; and a one-year subscription to Stash DVD magazine – which will also interview the winner for a feature article.

To enter a video in the competition, designers can visit: www.webbyawards.com/adobe. Deadline for entries is May 10, 2008.

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Create Magazine is officially accepting entries for its 2008 Create Awards – one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting.

The 2008 Create Awards (www.thecreateawards.com) has once again doubled its prize pool from last year. More than $125K worth of the latest in software and hardware from leading creative industry manufacturers is up for grabs, not to mention national print and online exposure in Create Magazine.

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Ft. Lauderdale, FL, February 27, 2008 –(PR.com)– Quark Inc. and The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale announces that graphic design student at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale Lina Herrera, of Coconut Creek, was the grand prize winner of a poster design contest to create an original design in QuarkXPress® that addresses typography in an informative, historical or humorous way. She won full entry to the upcoming Graphics of the Americas conference in Miami, along with software, and international notoriety from Quark.

Herrera’s compelling poster demonstrated the capabilities of QuarkXPress while staying within the parameters of the competition. “Out of a field of impressive entries, the judges selected Herrera’s as the winning poster. Her design stands out visually and her skill in QuarkXPress is apparent,” said Chris Edwards, business development specialist in education for Quark.

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The American Design Awards is inviting graphic and web designers from around the world to participate in its 2008 Winter Semi-Annual Design Contest.

San Diego, CA (PRWEB) January 15, 2008 — The American Design Awards are calling on all graphic and web designers to submit their best design creations to the 2008 Winter Semi Annual Design Contest, for a chance to win top honors in their world-renound competition. The Winter and Summer Semi-Annual Design Contests, which are now in their sixth year, are the flagship of the American Design Awards which attract an average of five thousand participants annually.

Deadline to submit entries for the 2008 Winter Semi-Annual Design Contest is February 15, 2008. Applications must be submitted online through the American Design Awards website.

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The first contest in 2008 for Flash authors is being sponsored by FlashComponents.net. This December’s theme for the competition is “The Flash Components Winners Contest – Twenty of the best authors to lead the most ambitious Flash products competition.”

New York, NY (PRWEB) December 5, 2007 — The first contest in 2008 for Flash authors is being sponsored by FlashComponents.net. This December’s theme for the competition is “The Flash Components Winners Contest — Twenty of the best authors to lead the most ambitious Flash products competition.”

Prizes will be awarded to winners at the end of the competition’s period, after 31 January 2008, so there is time for everybody to participate and make a sensational challenge. Authors wishing to enter the contest should subscribe at least one Flash product on www.flashcomponents.net until the end of December 2007. Full terms and conditions can be found on the FCN website.

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Entry Deadline: December 1, 2007

I.D. is now accepting entries into the 2008 Annual Design Review. Winners will appear in the August 2008 issue of I.D.

Click here to download the guidelines and an entry form.

Since 1954, the Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, furniture, graphic and environment design, from the iconic to the obscure. Throughout the years, this annual showcase has chronicled the evolution of design, and highlighted its impact on our material and visual culture.

Each year, the featured work is chosen by a jury of leading practitioners, who, along with I.D.’s editorial team, focus the abundance of submissions into a clear survey of the state of design. The resulting overview is published in the August issue of I.D. magazine — the Annual Design Review issue.

Deadline: Postmarked December 1, 2007

Past Love Your Body Poster Contest Winners

The National Organization for Women Foundation is hosting a poster contest to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the Love Your Body Campaign.

The grand prize winning poster will be used as part of a national campaign to challenge the violent, drug-addicted, starved, surgically-enhanced images of women and to fight against industries that profit from women’s dissatisfaction with their bodies. Read the rest of this entry »

To facilitate a broad range of disciplines and artists, the American Design Awards has established an ongoing Monthly Design Contest, two Semi-Annual Design Competitions, as well as the newly established Student Design Contest in hopes of reaching out to thousands of graphic and web designers with varying levels of experience.

All competitions (except for the Student Design Contest) are open to students, freelancers, design studios, as well as corporate art departments and advertising agencies – domestic and international.

Each design competition is designed to provide everyone with a fair and equally accessible design competition, graded based on our fair judging criteria.

 Click here for more info.

Interactive Design Drives Expanded Award Categories
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nov. 13, 2007 — Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the call for entries for the eighth annual Adobe® Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). The awards honor talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.Reflecting the growth in the interactive design field and the importance of the integration between design and development, Adobe has added several new categories in three media areas: Interactive Media, Motion Media, and Traditional Media.

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Deadline: Entries received before Dec. 31 are judged in January of the following year

Be distinctive. Be creative. Be recognized when you enter your best work in Fox River’s juried competition of today’s outstanding design. Entries must be printed on Fox River and/or Gilbert paper (a combination with coated stocks is acceptable). The Best of Show winner will be featured in the following year’s call for entries and shared with designers everywhere.

For more information, go to: www.foxriverpaper.com.

Deadline: April 30, 2008

The grand-prize winner in Gruppo Cordenons 2^nd Annual Design Contest will be rewarded with business class airfare and five days/4 nights’ accommodations for two at either the Portofino Hotel in Universal City, Florida or The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The contest is open to all design professionals.

The winning entry will demonstrate outstanding use of Gruppo Cordenons impressive papers in any printed format. For complete details and to download an entry form, please log on to www.gruppocordenons-usa.com/newsEvents.php.

HOW InHOWse Design Awards

Deadline: April 14, 2008

Enter your best corporate work in HOW’s second annual InHOWse Design Awards. This is an exclusive opportunity to have your creative projects judged alongside the work of other in-house designers.

Among other things, the Best Of Show winner receives a two-page spread in HOW’s February 2009 issue; three HOW Design Conference registrations for the 2009 event; and $500 HOW Books gift certificate to be redeemed at the 2009 HOW Design Conference Bookstore.

Complete contest details can be found at www.howdesign.com/competitions.

HOW Promotion Design Awards

Deadline: March 21, 2008

HOW is now accepting entries for the 21st annual HOW Promotion Design Awards. Eligible promotion categories include design projects galore: annual reports, brochures, catalogs, direct mail, invitations, announcements, greeting cards, letterhead, logos, packaging and more.

Best of Show winner receives a free trip to the 2009 HOW Design Conference and an award to be presented at the conference.

All winners will see their work in HOW’s October 2008 Self-Promotion Design Annual, get a $100 discount to the 2009 HOW Design Conference and receive a nifty certificate.

Full contest rules and regs can be found at www.howdesign.com/competitions.

U B the Judge

Deadline: January 4, 2008

U B the Judge is a design competition unlike other competitions. Entries are exhibited at events throughout North America and those in attendance judge the work of their peers. All winners will be featured on the Appleton Coated Web site and in press releases. They will also be recognized in a nationally distributed show book and become part of a touring exhibit for 2008. Entries must be printed all, or in part, on Utopia or Curious Collection products between January 1 and December 31, 2007. Five samples must accompany each entry to be eligible.

For complete details, log on to www.appletoncoated.com/promotions/judge,
where you’ll also find a downloadable entry form.

Deadline: December 31, 2007

The new Domtar ENVY Awards contest has six categories and a grand prize of $3,000. Best of Show winner will be profiled in selected design magazines. Submitted designs must be printed on Domtar EarthChoice’s line of papers between November 2006 and December 2007. Participation is free. Find complete details and entry form at www.domtardesignercorner.com.

Strathmore Letterhead Contest

Deadline: December 31, 2007; March 31, June 30, 2007 and September 30, 2008

Mohawk Fine Papers continues to celebrate the designers who shape our world and invites you to show your best identity work on Strathmore Writing papers. Enter the new Strathmore Letterhead Contest, which accepts submissions of letterheads alone or complete identity systems, and win great incentives and cash prizes awarded quarterly.

For more information and a contest entry form to download, call 1-800-the-mill or visit www.strathmore.com.

FiberMark’s Inspiration at Work Award

Deadline: December 31, 2007

FiberMark invites you to enter your work in their Inspiration at Work 15th Annual Specifier Awards program which honors projects incorporating FiberMark’s specialty Cover materials. The winning projects will be displayed on FiberMark’s Web site Showcase and will be featured in the annual award winners brochure. 

For more information and entry forms along with a collection of previous award winners, go to www.fibermark.com.

 AMERICAN PACKAGE DESIGN AWARDS
Packaging, POP and the Instore Graphics Experience
 
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 10, 2007

The newest of our competitions puts the spotlight on increasingly critical elements — packaging and instore graphics — that make the difference in how, when and where consumers make the purchasing decision. The competition arises from the backdrop of a cluttered and competitive communications environment in which manufacturers, marketers and retailers are challenged as never before to convey their message, to differentiate themselves and their products. In the inaugural 2006 competition, we had hundreds of exceptional entries running the gamut from packaging to point-of-sale to posters to shopping bags to store signage and branding.

Winners will receive an embossed Certificate of Excellence for each piece selected and become eligible for reproduction in our new Package and Instore Design Awards Annual to be published in March and which will be seen by more than 100,000 at ad agencies, graphic design firms, inhouse departments and more during the course of the year.
Deadline is 20 November 2007. Visit the site to learn more.