Design Competitions

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 competition proposes the transformation of a car parking space into a place to connect people, but also useful to the city and its inhabitants.

The 37th Annual Interior Design Competition serves to recognize and reward outstanding interior design, and to encourage new ideas and techniques in the design and furnishing of interior spaces.

Submit your best logos designed in 2009 and seize the opportunity for international exposure through Wolda's network of over 100 endorsing design associations and schools.

SEGD's annual design competition honors the best in environmental graphic design.

Each year, the ASLA Professional Awards honor the best in landscape architecture from around the globe.

Forgotten Spaces is intended to provoke discussion amongst landowners, local authorities and investors across the London boroughs. It will unearth places not previously regarded as profitable or worthy of development.

The Architectural Lighting Design Competition 2010 offers 'young professional lighting designers' the chance to demonstrate their lighting design skills and creativity and to have their work reviewed by a respected international jury.

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

Index Book announced call for entries for the new book title Common Interest by EMMI studio, on good cause-related graphic design.

All logos that are submitted to LogoLounge website between June 30th, 2008, and February 15, 2010, will be judged for the publication of LogoLounge Book 6, to be published by Rockport Publications.

Green Graphics will compile all sorts of graphic communication designed to promote a more sustainable lifestyle and alert about the risks of environmental pollution, the loss of biodiversity, the dangers of climate change.

The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and digital design in Europe.

Graphis Advertising Annual 2011 presents the best advertising campaigns of the year, selected from thousands of international entries.

The City of Dreams Pavilion is an international design competition to design and build a pavilion as a central gathering place on Governors Island.

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.

American Photography 26 and American Illustration 29 will be published in hard-cover and distributed world-wide in November 2010.

RIBA Awards are given for buildings that have made a substantial contribution to the local environment.

Microsoft and The Webby Awards kicked off the Microsoft PhizzPop Boys & Girls Clubs of America Design Challenge, giving interactive design agencies of all sizes a chance to showcase their ingenuity and expertise to help Boys & Girls Clubs of America redesign its Website for the new decade.

Entries in the new AICE Awards Design category should demonstrate excellence in overall design accomplished primarily in post production.

The Center for Architecture is seeking innovative designs for curtain wall systems by AIA New York members.

USA by Designers is an international artistic project whose aim is to unveil a multitude of images of USA from the inside and from the outside.

The Grand Designs Awards, tied to the hit Channel 4 TV series, celebrate the most innovative and beautiful domestic architecture and product design.

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

The Summit International Awards (SIA), being one of the world's most prestigious industry recognition organizations, is now open for submissions in its 2010 Summit Creative Award (SCA), recognizing and honoring advertising, design and web creation for contestants with billings under $30 million.

This annual signature real estate industry event recognizes recently completed new and renovation construction projects that have had a positive impact on the borough's economy and quality of life.

Safety Products Student Design Challenge encourages training of designers for function, not just fashion, and the use of textiles in protective and safety applications.

Bentley's Student Design Competition program awards technically advanced projects created by middle school, high school, and university students around the world as well as recognizes the achievements of their educators and mentors.

ADC 89th Annual Awards call for entries is now open. The program is open globally to members and non-members alike.

CultureLabel and Tate announced Release, the product design competition that will bring the two best product design ideas into Tate Shops.

The competition invites designers to send in their design for a new symbol for Europe. 12 submissions will be selected by an international jury and printed on flags.

UCDA's annual Engagement Project offers ways for you to make an impact in someone's life. Your words, video or design could make the difference-participate in the 2010 Suicide Prevention Project.

USGBC's Natural Talent Design Competition, presented by Salvation Army's EnviRenew Initiative, challenges students and professionals to design small, affordable, green homes for elderly occupants of the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans.

Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP) announced a National Green Design Competition for a $10+ million LEED Green Affordable Housing Project supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

The award recognizes and honors those companies that design and manufacture goods that, at the end of their useful life, can be recycled safely and efficiently.

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.

The selections in AIGA's annual juried competition represent the best work across all disciplines of communication design created in the past year.

The RIBA ICE Bursary exists to support architectural and engineering students, graduates and newly-qualified architects and engineers committed to the progress of community and environmental issues in economically deprived areas in the UK or abroad.

Students are asked to create a video, up to four minutes long, on the topic of genuine design and why furniture designers deserve the right to protect their work against knockoffs.

Project Never, a design competition that celebrates the best designs never produced, announced today that award submissions will be accepted until March 8, 2010.

Cristalplant in partnership with Zanotta announced the 2010 edition of the Cristalplant Design Contest.

Yele Haiti and RIBA announced the launch of an International Student Open Design Competition.

Creativity International Awards is open for entries.

Index Book announced call for entries for the new book title Basic Identity.

Pandora Park Community Garden Society invites student and professional architects, landscape architects, builders, engineers, gardeners and designers of all kinds to take part in Green Shed: Pandora Park Community Garden Design Competition.

TypoShirt One is a book about the typography t-shirt compendium by Florian Gaertner, Lars Harmsen, Ulrich Weiss, and MAGMA Brand Design.

Interisland Terminal is launching an annual architecture competition for architects living and practicing in Hawaii.

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.

Mediabistro announced the first annual Logo Awards Contest, designed to celebrate and promote the best in logo design.

The spirit of this competition is to prompt the industrialized world to dialogue about product designs for environmentally responsible green computing and entertainment.

The AIA LA's Restaurant Design Awards (RDA) honor excellence in restaurant design.

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

The "Concrete Geometries" Research Cluster at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London is seeking submissions of work from the fields of art, architecture, sciences and humanities that explore the relationship between spatial form and social or aesthetic processes.

Golden Bee collects the best world achievements in graphic design.

SEAMLab's inaugural Scholarship Competition encourages students to thoughtfully consider contemporary challenges and opportunities that exist in material design, architecture, engineering, science, and the built and natural environments.

Building on the BBC's work with universities and colleges in the North, two design challenges are being launched to give students an exciting opportunity to see their design skills come to life in the BBC's new home.

The competition is open to all students and young professionals with up to five years of experience - working in the fields of industrial design, urban planning, environmental design, engineering, architecture and landscape architecture.

The Schindler Award challenges young architects to think beyond form, light and materials and to focus on the needs of the people who will eventually inhabit the structures and spaces that they design.

Electrolux Design Lab 2010 is inviting global undergraduate and graduate industrial design students to create home appliances that consider shrinking domestic spaces.

Marie Claire & IED Barcelona announced Fashion Illustration Contest.

This year's theme, "Minimum/Maximum," embraces the idea that smart design can both preserve natural resources and amplify human delight.

RIBA President's Awards for Research are presented annually to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture.

Open Source House, an an international design competition for young architects, aims provide sustainable and affordable housing in urban areas.

This premier competition honors the best student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from accredited higher education institutions worldwide.

Developers, material manufacturers, designers, product managers and construction engineers are invited to enter Materialica Design + Technology Award 2010.