Deadline: Ongoing
CTI asks creatives, “What saved your creativity?” for their competition in conjunction with their new whimsical promotional piece, Our deepest sympathies for the death of your creativity. You are invited to tell your own unique tale of stubborn clients, unreasonable budgets and tapped-out creativity that led to your creative death and resurrection.
For more information and registration for the competition, go to www.thepapermill.com/death.
Deadline: Quarterly
Neenah knows you’ve done the work and now they want to reward designers, printer representatives and their paper distributors in their PAPERWORKS Letterhead and Text and Cover Contests. Added July 1, 2009, there’s a new category for digitally printed work – a national winner will be selected from the year’s entries who receives $1000. For more information and registration forms for both competitions, go to www.neenahpaper.com/contestforms/.
Deadline: September 1, 2010
Enter your work in the HOW International Design Awards. All winners will see their work in HOW’s April 2011 International Design Annual and get a $100 discount to the 2011 HOW Design Conference. One Best of Show winner will get a FREE trip to the 2011 HOW Design Conference.
Deadline: October 15, 2010
Architects and designers of interiors, products, graphics and fashion are invited to submit their work for the awards consideration. Prizes include the International Design Awards trophy for the winning design in each discipline, certificates and inclusion in the IDA annual book of design for all the first and second place winners.
Deadline: December 10, 2010
Appleton Coated’s U360 competition will honor the beginning, middle and end of the design process. Entries will be judged by a panel of design experts in strategy, design and print production, providing a full-circle view on what makes great print. There is no cost to enter. Submissions must be printed all, or in part, on Utopia and/or Curious Collection.


