Design Competitions

The European Parliament is seeking to engage a communications and/or design agency to produce a range of PR items.

The Italian Cultural Association MoCA, in cooperation with Arte Laguna, organizes the Fourth International Art Prize "Arte Laguna", directed to the promotion and valorization of the contemporary art.

Artech aims at promoting contacts between Iberian and International contributors concerned with the concept, production and dissemination of Digital and Electronic Art.

Transform 2010 will celebrate the best in brand rebuilding and is open to all companies or agencies that have launched a rebrand between January 2008 and September 2009.

Australian International Design Awards recognizes product design and innovation excellence.

Creativity + Commerce showcases outstanding print and interactive design from around the world.

The Re:Vision Design Awards challenges emerging designers of all stripes to revisit, rethink and reimagine how we live in our homes.

Better Place announced the commencement of a global design competition, targeting the top design and engineering schools to create the winning design for hands-free charging for electric vehicles.

The Edison Awards, recognized as one of America's leading innovation awards, is accepting nominations through Dec. 11, 2009 for the 2010 Edison Best New Product Awards and Edison Green Award.

Selected is not an award, but rather, as its name suggests, it is a selection of interesting projects completed during the past year - chosen by a selection team which is annually designated by the publisher - Index Book.

Exhibitor Magazine's Exhibit Design Awards honor the world's best trade show exhibit designs.

I.D. is now accepting entries into the prestigious Annual Design Review. Since 1954, the Annual Design Review has recognized the best in product, furniture, graphic, and environment design, from the iconic to the obscure.

Print in Motion is Print magazine's new competition dedicated to motion graphics.

Project 2009: Lakefront Station is an international, single-stage ideas competition for a new multi-modal transportation center in Downtown Cleveland between the historic Mall and Lake Erie.

The Dieline, the world's leading package design website, launched the Dieline Awards, an international design competition recognizing the world's best package design.

The Art Interview - 19th International Online Artist Competition is a quarterly, international, juried exhibition of paintings, drawings and sculptures in any medium.

2010 marks the 15th anniversary of the HUGO Man Fragrance. To commemorate this important milestone, HUGO Fragrances is inviting designers, illustrators and photographers to participate in a special edition of the HUGO Create contest.

The purpose of the ZEROprize is to stimulate market-disrupting improvements in the design and development of retrofitting and re-skinning technologies.

On 17, 18 & 19 June 2010 the Department of Design & Multimedia of the University of Nicosia will be hosting the 4th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication (ICTVC) with the general theme "Lending Grace to Language".

eVolvo invites students and professional architects, engineers, and designers to take part in the 2010 Skyscraper Competition.

ICFF Studio invites submissions of product prototypes from designers working on any and all the product categories exhibited at the ICFF: furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath.

The purpose of the competition is to solicit explorations and illustrations of a variety of development concepts made possible by the planned covering of the Ville-Marie expressway and the potential reconfiguration of its exit ramps.

The Emerging New York Architects Committee (ENYA), AIA NY Chapter, announced its fourth biennial international ideas competition.

EcoTopia is a juried group exhibition devoted to new ideas and potential breakthroughs in environmentally friendly product design.

IAHH announced its Eighth International Student Design Competition on the theme of "Affordable Housing in Sustainable Humane Habitats."

The aim of the competition is to stimulate and reward innovative thinking about how people can live in a more sustainable way in the future - picking up key characteristics of what might be recognised today as a 'suburban' lifestyle.

The ADC-Nissan Student Brief competition is open globally to students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate-level programs in advertising, graphic design, photography, illustration and new media.

2010 Metropolis Next Generation Design Competition is looking for one small (but utterly brilliant!) design fix that can be made now, and that will have a lasting postive impact on the designed environment.

The iF material award is presented every year. For the upcoming competition, manufacturers, designers, developers, constructors and architects are invited to compete in the categories of materials, products and processes.

The APLD International Landscape Design Awards recognizes excellence in the field of landscape design.

Red Dot is once again calling designers and companies from all over the world to register their products for the "red dot award: product design."

The International Design & Emotion Conference invites practitioners and researchers to submit research papers and design cases.

The challenge for the 2010 competition requires students to creatively use a line of highly conceptualised accessories, for Nooka, a New York City-based fashion accessories brand.

The Dulux Colour Awards are Australia's premier showcase for the creative use of colour in Architecture and Interior Design.

The competition, now in its 17th year, recognizes the exceptional work of North American architects and designers who feature Italian ceramic tiles in their institutional, residential or commercial / hospitality spaces.

This competition is aimed at students from a range of disciplines, both undergraduate and postgraduate, in interaction design, product design, industrial design, communications design, architecture, fashion, multimedia, HCI, and related fields.

PDP Award: Andrea Pininfarina is an international design competition for students designed to encourage originality, creativity and new ideas.