Designboom and PROCTER & GAMBLE present the 2007 packaging design competition.

Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world: to professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts alike.

Free registration required.

Registration deadline: September 20, 2007

Designs will be judged on:
- Innovation of the concept: is this design a breakthrough?
- Relevance to the low income consumer: how will this design make his/her life better?
- Value optimization: is this design financially viable?
- Sustainability

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Create graphic artwork to raise awareness - it’s a perfect way to declare your support! As each day goes by the problems facing the earth become more and more apparent, its abundantly clear that many things must change.

Throughout history, graphic design has proved itself as one of the best means to instigate a change in society and communicate a call to action. Here’s your chance to raise awareness on the environmental issues affecting our delicate planet.

Your graphic design entry should provoke a positive change in the many things that are compromising our biosphere.

Deadline: September 1, 2007

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Sponsored by the International Academy of Visual Arts, the W³ is the first major web competition to be accessible to the biggest agencies, the smallest firms, and everyone in between.

In addition to honoring great Websites and Web Marketing programs, this year the W³ will also award the best in web video, reflecting the explosion of video content created particularly for the internet. It’s time to show off your award winning interactive and web work!

Final Extended Entry Deadline: August 17th 2007
Final Entry Fee: $95.00 Per Entry
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The 6th edition of the annual competition created as a tribute to Francisco Mantecón, who was responsible for the design of the corporate image of Bodegas Terras Gauda wine company. The winning entry will form the basis for the company’s advertising campaign for a one year period as well as a cash prize of 6,000 Euros.

Participants may base their entries on the theme of their choice, although ideally they will reflect corporate issues of the organizing company, principally relating to its white wines. Any form of photographic, painting or computerized techniques, may be used. Each participant is allowed to present a maximum of two entries.

Deadline: September 30, 2007

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Open to web designers from around the globe, The American Design Awards Monthly Design Contest is open to web designers who have designed inspiring, unique and creative websites for either self-promotion, or paying clients. Whether you are a student or freelance designer, or have made web design your profession full time, you are eligible to take part in this competition no matter which country you live or work in.

The contest was created to gauge each designers’ creativity, design abilities, and ethical values through a unique grading system devised by the American Design Awards’ panel of real-life design professionals.

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Students, independent designers and design teams from around the globe are currently invited to create their own variations of the HC2 logo. No, they aren’t about to replace their trademark symbol; rather, this contest seeks to give artists an opportunity to breath new life into the existing HC2 logo. All work must be submitted in Photoshop or Illustrator formats. The top three designers will be awarded with free web hosting packages for two years. There is no entry fee.

Deadline: August 10, 2007

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In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Helvetica typeface, Linotype is currently inviting designers worldwide to take part in the Helvetica NOW poster contest. Participants are invited to design a poster that will investigate the role of type in modern day life, and the way that typography – and Helvetica – affect our perception of the environment.

The winners will be selected by popular vote with the voting being carried out online at www.linotype.com/helveticaNOW starting in mid-October 2007. The winners will be announced in the January 2008 issue of the LinoLetter.

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Creativity + Commerce, PRINT’s business graphics review, is the newest and fastest-growing of PRINT’s design competitions. This competition brings together a full range of work done for corporate clients around the world, from print ads, corporate identities, and flyers to animated short films, websites, interactive games—and much more.

The work selected in PRINT’s Creativity + Commerce competition will be featured in the September/October 2008 issue of PRINT.

DEADLINE: 11/1/07

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Luke Wroblewski

Luke Wroblewski is a Web strategist, designer, and author. He is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy he founded in 1996. Luke has authored a book on Web interface design principles entitled Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability, as well as numerous articles on design methodologies, strategies and applications. He is also frequent presenter on topics related to Web strategy and design, and a former member of the board of directors of the Interaction Design Association. Here, the hardest working man in web design shares his insight into the most important topics in the field today… (more…)

Ford Blue Oval Scholars is a national Web-based initiative that aims to provide Ford Motor Company Fund scholarship winners with a place to network and share information with each other, learn about internships and jobs, plan and implement community service activities, and access information about careers. They are now launching a national contest open to both amateur and professional designers between the ages of 18-28.

The winning logo will be used as the official logo on the website and in all materials related to Ford Blue Oval Scholars.

First prize: Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium Software.

Deadline: October 1, 2007

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