The National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) has organized a contest. Contestants are asked to submit logos and branding designs that both inspire interest and represent the mission of the museum. The winning design will be used on stationery, the website, and in brochures and PowerPoint presentations. The winner will be recognized in NWHM’s publications and on the museum’s website.

Contestants may submit multiple entries.

The deadline is October 26, 2007.

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LicensArt.com needs a new logo, and they want you to design it! They’re looking for a graphic symbol or icon that elegantly captures and communicates the essence of their unique business model, connecting creativity with commerce. The contest is open to all artists and designers (both professional and non-professional), as well as art students from anywhere in the world. The logo should be vector graphics, not a bitmap image, should be usable in monochrome and color media, including limited colors (say 2 or 3 colors). The logo must be the original work of the submitter. $1,000 (USD) will be awarded to the submitter of the winning design.

Deadline: November 30, 2007
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Spreadshirt is looking for a new logo and is inviting you all to design their logo which will be seen by millions of people every year. The overall prize bounty is worth over $19k (€15k), some of the prizes include cash, new laptops, adobe design software, and more.

Submit your logo designs every week to the entries blog.
From there they pick their winners and allocate all the other prizes.

Deadline: October 14, 2007
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Collab will hold its Fifteenth Annual Student Design Competition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Monday, November 12, 2007. This year’s competition is being held in conjunction with the celebration of Collab’s new gallery in the Ruth and Raymond G. Perelman Building–the first gallery in the Museum’s history to be dedicated permanently to modern and contemporary design. The opening exhibition, Designing Modern: 1920 to the Present, takes a chronological look at the Museum’s collections of modern and contemporary decorative art.

As always, the theme of the Student Design Competition is linked to Collab’s largest annual event. This year, students are asked to consider the scope of the Modern Design dialogue. The challenge is for students to design a “map” that links associations between people, things, or events within the context of revolutionary ideas and trends in art, architecture, and design. The map should communicate the the interpretation of the forces which flowed into, through and around modern design.

First Prize - $1000
Second Prize - $750
Third Prize - $500

Deadline: November 12, 2007
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EXHIBITOR Magazine’s 22nd Annual Exhibit Design Awards, honoring the world’s best trade show exhibit designs, is accepting entries. The 2008 competition highlights include world-renowned judges, two new categories, and a prestigious awards ceremony.

Trade show exhibit designs launched between December 1, 2005, and December 1, 2007, can be entered.

The 2008 competition will offer one EDGE Award (for Exhibit Design and Graphic Excellence) and multiple Gold, Silver, and Special Merit Awards. Winners will be featured in the May issue of EXHIBITOR magazine, read by 30,000 marketing professionals in the trade show, corporate event, and meetings industries.

Finally, winners will be honored during an awards ceremony at GRAVITY FREE, the third annual design conference offered by Exhibitor Magazine Group.

Deadline: Early-bird - November 30, 2007
Regular - Dec 14, 2007
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To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica™ typeface, Linotype™ invites designers worldwide to take part in the Helvetica NOW poster contest. Designers are called to submit their poster design work that has been published between 2000 and 2007 and that uses Helvetica as a primary or secondary typeface.

This contest also invites participants to submit posters (published, unpublished, or new designs) that revolve around the role of type in modern day life, and the way that typography – and Helvetica – affects our perception of the environment. The winners will be selected by popular vote. The format is open but the overall dimensions should be contained within a maximum of 1600×1600 pixels. Only digital files in JPEG format will be accepted. You are free to submit more than 1 entry.

- Linotype will offer prizes to the first three winners, together the prizes will be worth more than €15,000.
- There are no application fees.
- Deadline: October 24, 2007
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The Brno Biennale showcases the very best of graphic design. Established in 1963, it is the oldest exhibition of graphic design in the world. The 23rd year will be dedicated to graphic design, illustration and type in books, magazines, newspapers and the digital media.

Apart from the main competition show, the Brno Biennale features a specialist symposium and a number of accompanying events.
Each participant may enter a maximum of 8 submissions from one or several books or magazines. Endorsed by ICOGRADA.

Deadline: November 30, 2007

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Kaikai Kiki and PULSE Contemporary Art Fair announce the American debut of Kaikai GEISAI Miami Art Fair. The GEISAI Miami event will introduce a new type of fair into an already booming Miami art market, allowing artists to represent themselves and to present their work directly to an audience of collectors, art professionals and art enthusiasts. The fair is set to run alongside the Art Basel Miami Beach, and will be held at the Parliament Building of SOHO Studios in Miami’s Wynwood Art District.

Applications are open to artists of all nationalities that do not have ongoing, commercial gallery representation at the time of application. The GEISAI Miami jury includes Tom Eccles, Massimiliano Gioni, Walter Robinson, Lin Lougheed, and Carol Kingo.

Application Deadline: October 1, 2007
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designers interactifs will launch its first Pecha Kucha Night in Paris on October 4th. It will be hosted at ENSCI, 48 rue St Sabin, 75011 Paris.

Watch as a dozen or so selected projects are presented in their 20 x 20 format: 20 slides, 20 seconds each, with no presentation lasting longer than 6 minutes 40 seconds. Find something to be inspired, surprised or even provoked by. Pecha Kucha encourages architects, graphic designers, interactive designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, game designers, artits and students to share their creative vision.

Deadline for the first edition is September 15th, 2007.

Please send your images, along with your personal info, short description to bd@designersinteractifs.org.

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Mumedi (Mexican Museum of Design) is calling on all designers, students, teachers, professionals and anyone interested in the subject (over 18 years of age), to participate in this International Poster Contest. The theme, “To Death with a Smile” is an effort to promote the exercise of good design and is meant to stimulate creativity so we may see the diversity and language richness offered by different cultures around the world, giving every participant their own unique style.

- All entries must be 60 x 90 cm in vertical format.
- Technique is freestyle.
- Tons of prizes, with the best entries being exhibited at the Mexican Museum of Design from October 2007 to February 2008 in the Downtown Historic Center of Mexico City.
- Deadline: September 14th, 2007

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