Archive for Design Competitions/Events

For the past two years, we’ve compiled a list of Design competitions and Events and published dates here in this blog. This year, we added a Design Calendar to the main website. In addition to the list, updated for 2007, you’ll also find a calendar, showing all the events/deadlines month by month.

We’d really appreciate your help with this project. Send urls and details of design competitions and events, and we’ll add them to the calendar. Help us make this calendar better and better.

Last year I compiled a list of design competition links without their respective deadlines. So, when I thought to compile a similar list this year, I didn’t realize that many of the competitons have deadlines in December and January. Next year I’ll try to compile my list in November or December. Listings without dates indicate that the deadlines have already past or have not yet been announced.

Design association competitions:

• Society for News Design Best of Newspaper Design Awards deadline January 18 2006,
• Webby Awards deadline January 27, 2006,
• Society of Publication Designers (SPD) student competition deadline February 1, 2006,
• Art Directors Club (ADC) 85th Annual Student Awards deadline February 8, 2006,
• Society of Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD) deadline January 31 with a late deadline February 14, 2006,
• Association Typographique Internationale (atypi),
• American Design Awards Semi Annual Design Competitions deadlines February 15, 2006 and August 15, 2006
• AIGA 365: Annual Design Competition and 50 Books/50 Covers deadlines March 3, 2006,
• Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington Annual Show deadline April 1, 2006,
• Australian Graphic Design Association deadline June 2006,
• Design Council UK,
• Society of Typographic Aficionados organizes Type Gallery deadline July 2006,
• International Society of Typographic Designers,
• Society of Graphic Designers of Canada Graphex 06: GDC National Design Awards deadline November 10, 2006.

Design magazine competitions:

• Graphis entries closed for 2006,
• Metropolis Magazine Next Generation deadline January 20, 2006,
• Communication Arts Interactive Design deadline January 27, 2006,
• Graphic Design USA American InHouse Design Awards deadline January 30, 2006,
• ID Student Design Review February 1, 2006,
• Print Regional Design Annual deadline March 1, 2006,
• CMYK Magazine Interactive Media and Call for Aspiring Creatives deadlines March 10, 2006,
• HOW Self-Promotion Awards deadline March 20, 2006, Perfect 10 Awards deadline April 14, 2006,
• eye with a deadline of August 10, 2006, International Design deadline September 15, 2006,
• Folio sponsors the Folio Show.

Corporate competitions:

• Adobe Design Achievement Awards deadline April 28, 2006,
• Mohawk Show 7 deadline May 31, 2006.

Industry association competitions:

• Magazine Design Awards,
• Bookbuilders West,
• Bookbuilders of Boston,
• Western Publications Association,
• International Association of Business Communicators,
• Magazine Publishers Association,
• American Society of Magazine Editors,
• American Society of Business Publication Editors,
• Writing that Works Apex Awards deadline March 15, 2006.

Extensive calendars:

• The Workbook resource calendar including advertising, photography, illustration as well as design.
• Taxi Design Network Awards and Competitions Calendar includes a broad range of design disciplines.

Whew!

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