Spark Awards is now open for entries for the 2011 edition.
This year Spark Awards have two segments; SparkPro, for work that is in production or pre-production, produced or built, and Spark:Concept, for conceptual work.
Deadline for SparkPro is September 15, with a late registration period through September 26.
The Museum of Arts and Design in New York City in partnership with the Victor J. Papanek Foundation at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Austrian Cultural Forum New York announced: Design for the Real World Redux, an international design competition, and the launch of the Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award.
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Open to all students in creative advertising, graphic design, interactive media, photography and illustration, the Applied Arts Student Awards is the largest and most respected show of its kind in North America. Winning an Applied Arts Student Award is a great way to launch your career! Your submissions will be judged by respected senior communications professionals, so you’ll know how your work stands up according to the highest standards in the industry.
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The Society of Typographic Aficionados is happy to announce the second annual SOTA Catalyst Award for young people who have created original work in type design, type history, or other areas related to typography. The award recognizes a person 30 years of age or younger who shows both achievement and future promise in the field of typography.
The recipient will be awarded up to $1,500 USD in reimbursement for transportation and lodging expenses to attend the TypeCon2011 conference in New Orleans, July 5th – 10th. They will also have their registration fee for the main conference paid for and will give a 20-minute presentation to the main conference. The SOTA Board of Directors hopes that this introduction to a large audience of typographic aficionados will be a catalyst in the career of the recipient.
Submission Deadline
April 1, 2011
Notification of Award
April 25, 2011
Judging Committee
Mark Jamra
John Hudson
Tiffany Wardle de Sousa
Requirements
You must be 30 years of age or younger on July 7th, 2011. You must also attend TypeCon2011 in New Orleans, July 7th – 10th, 2011 and make a presentation during the conference.
The following materials must be emailed to catalyst@typesociety.org by the submission deadline. A single PDF file (may be multiple pages) containing the following information is preferred:
Include your name, date of birth, postal address, organization or university affiliation (if applicable), email, and phone number with area code. Applicants from outside the U.S. or Canada should include their country dialing code as well.
Communication Arts Typography Competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering.
Chosen by a jury of leading design professionals, the selected entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Typography Annual.
Any project printed, published or aired for the first time within the two years prior to the deadline is eligible.
Deadline for entries is September 9, 2011.
Good Design Awards 2011 is open for entries for the most innovative and cutting-edge industrial, product, and graphic designs produced around the world.
Now in its 60th year, Good Design is the oldest and the most prestigious Awards Program organized worldwide. The emphasis of the program is on quality design of the highest form, function, and aesthetic – a standard beyond ordinary consumer products and graphics.
The Chicago Athenaeum’s Good Design program forwards the ideals of a design process that embodies product excellence and endurance and strong public identity.
Deadline for entries is July 1, 2011.
The 5th edition of the Pentawards, the world’s major competition devoted exclusively to packaging design is open for entries from April 4 to May 20, 2011.
Packaging designers, brand owners, packaging suppliers from the world over are invited to enter their best creations in more than 44 categories divided into 5 major sectors: food, beverages, body, other markets, and luxury.
The winners will be exhibited in January 2012 at The DesignPack Gallery in Paris and will be published by Taschen in the second volume of “The Package Design Book.”
Highly sought after by both women and men, the Clarions, named for the medieval trumpet known for its clarity, symbolize excellence in clear, concise communications. Clarion winners represent media companies large and small, leading corporations, small businesses, and nonprofit associations and institutions.
Started in 1972, the Clarions honor excellence in more than 100 categories across all communications disciplines, including advertising & marketing, audiovisual productions, books & CDs, brochures, custom & special publications, education, fund development, magazines, major news events, newsletters, newspapers, online media, photography, graphics & design communications, public relations, radio, and television. Check out the outstanding list of past winners, including the International Crystal Clarion Winner.
Entries are judged against the work of their peers in size and budget to ensure that everyone from the largest ad agency to the smallest newspaper is fairly considered. Please review the updated categories and entry requirements as there have been changes.
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Early bird Deadline – March 12, 2011
Final Deadline – April 23, 2011
The call for entries for Poster for Tomorrow 2011 is now open.
This year’s theme is the the right to education for all – irrespective of gender, religion or handicap.
Incredibly 121 million children worldwide are not in primary school, despite universal primary education being a right “guaranteed” in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and being Goal 2 of the UN Millennium Development Goals; while illiteracy rates are still staggeringly high even in countries where a child’s right to education is guaranteed.
In France illiteracy has become a “cause nationale” (with 3.1 million people unable to read, write or count), the rate of illiteracy in the United Kingdom is “unacceptably” high according to MP’s, while according to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans can’t read (and current estimates have the number of functionally illiterate adults in the United States increasing by approximately 2 500 000 persons each year).
This is truly a problem that affects us all. Poster for Tomorrow has chosen to fight for the right to education for all, believing that education gives people across the whole world the chance to break the cycle of poverty; to live in a more equal world, without discrimination, where everybody has the same chance to learn the same skills and enjoy the same success.
The call for entries opens on March 10, 2011. Deadline for entries is July 10, 2011.
