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/.
2009 Quarterly Deadlines: March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31
This prestigious design competition is for letterheads and identity systems produced on Strathmore’s premium writing grades. Entries may be submitted by designers, printers, merchants and Mohawk representatives on behalf of their customers. Each quarter, the first 25 designers who enter the letterhead contest receive a special gift.
Deadline: March 15, 2010
All submissions for this Graphic Arts Association competition must have been produced between February 1, 2009 and January 31st 2010. The judging guidelines separate criteria for each of the three award levels. The winning companies will be celebrated during the award exhibition, ceremony and dinner on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at the Union League, Philadelphia, PA.
Deadline: March 26, 2010 5:00 p.m. EST
WhatTheyThink in partnership with Unisource and the Unisource Respect Printers’ Program are back for the 2nd annual honors. The awards recognize companies that are making real and concrete contributions to innovation, implementation and communication of environmental solutions. The object is to provoke, encourage and celebrate creative thinking and innovative solutions. Download applications for the categories.
Deadline: March 26, 2010
The Binding Industries Association (BIA) announced its call for entries to the nation’s only binding and custom loose-leaf competition. All winners will be listed in a special section of The Binding Edge, which has a distribution of over 12,000 readers. For complete details, please visit www.bindingawards.com.
Deadline: March 26, 2010
Any photograph first printed or produced within the last twelve months prior to the deadline is eligible. Selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and photographers, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Photography Annual and on commarts.com. Go to www.commarts.com/competitions/photography for complete details.
Deadline: Monthly until March 31, 2010
Make a sidesplitting video with ColorMunki as a prominent “character” and submit it on the X-Rite YouTube channel. Every month, prizes will be awarded to videos with the most views: $50 (to buy your Munki a drink or two), $150 (to take your favorite Munki to dinner), and $500 (to take your Munki away for the weekend). All monthly winners are eligible for the grand prize of $2,500 awarded at the end of the contest in March.
Deadline: March 31, 2010
This year marks the fifth year for GPA’s Printed Sample Contest continuing a tradition that recognizes excellence and creativity in printing. Eligible pieces must be from an actual job or promotion that was printed by a GPA customer on a qualified GPA substrate within the past year. Winners receive a framed copy of the winning piece, a monetary or grand prize and industry recognition. This year’s winners will be announced in April 2010. For complete details and to download an entry form, visit samplecontest.com.
Deadline: April 15, 2010
Enter your best corporate work in the third annual In-HOWse Design Awards. If you win, they’ll highlight your work and your name in the February 2011 issue of HOW magazine. Plus, you’ll get three HOW 2011 Design Conference registrations, $500 HOW Books gift certificate to be redeemed at the 2011 conference bookstore, and more.
Deadline: April 30, 2010
Three winners will be chosen by an independent panel of distinguished industry professionals. A fourth Designer’s Choice winner will be chosen via separate online voting. The Wally Awards program is open to all projects created on YUPO Synthetic Papers that have not been previously submitted.
Deadline: May 14, 2010
The Communication Arts Advertising Competition is one of the most prestigious competitions for creativity in advertising. Any advertising project printed, published or aired for the first time within the last twelve months prior to the deadline is eligible. Selected by leading creative directors, art directors and writers, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Advertising Annual and on commarts.com.
Deadline: May 30, 2010
The American Graphic Design Awards is GDUSA’s four-decade old flagship competition and is open to everyone in the graphic arts community – graphic design firms, advertising agencies, in-house corporate and institutional designers, publishers and other media. It honors outstanding new work of all kinds in 24 categories from print and packaging to Internet and interactive design. Entry forms will be available April 20.
Deadline: May 31, 2010
Mohawk Fine Papers, Inc. has released the Mohawk Show 11 call for entries in the form of an oversized collectable poster. Posters can be ordered online. Every year, the company receives hundreds of submissions from all over the world. Four Best of Show winners and one special category winner will each take home $5,000.
Deadline: June 4, 2010
The Adobe Design Achievement Awards, which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software, honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.
Deadline: June 15, 2010
The Graphic Arts Education and Research Foundation (GAERF) has launched its second annual student design competition, which this year challenges students to create marketing materials designed to promote GRAPH EXPO 2011 – the largest and most comprehensive trade show and conference for the graphic communications industry in the Americas. The GAERF 2010 Student Design Competition invites students to be creative by taking their original design from concept to finished product. Three cash prizes to be awarded plus a trip to the show for the first place student winner and instructor.
Deadline: June 30, 2010
Starting March 15, 2010, Print will be accepting submissions for the 2011 Student Cover Competition. This year, they’re asking students to tackle an essential question for designers (and magazines) head on: What is the future of print design? How will the tangible, ink-on-paper pieces that designers love coexist with design on digital platforms in the years to come? For the first time, they will only be accepting submissions that are sent as digital files.
