Design Events and Competitions from around the world

Let us check out design events and competitions from all around the world
Pixel Awards
The Pixel Awards are the cutting-edge website award, annually honoring compelling sites in 20 unique categories that have shown excellence in web design and development. Here for more.
UT Grand Prix 2009.
UNIQLO’s annual T-shirt design competition since 2004, the 5th “UT Grand Prix” will call for entries from July 15th.
FITC Seoul 2008.
FITC makes its Far East debut with FITC Seoul, a one-day flash design event featuring seven of the world’s top designers and developers.
Made In Spain 08
International design event.
Pipit 2nd Anniversary.
Still have time to submit your art!
Shift Calender Competition 2009.
Shift has been trying to offer artists many platforms to showcase their works online. The Shift calendar competition held from 2003 successively, pushes the boundaries between online and off line using a “calendar” as its medium. Entries are invited from all over the world and selected works will be distributed throughout the world in the format of a physical calendar.
Images 2009
The best of British illustration competition 2009 call for submissions. Selected work promoted to 4000 commissioners through the Images annual. New categories - New Media and Children’s. Prizes worth £900 for the student section.
Sydney Design 08
Australia’s longest-running design festival Sydney Design 08 (SD08) returns from 8 to 24 August. Here for more.
Flash on the beach 2008.
If you are a designer, developer, coder, student, manager, game developer, artist, animator or a newbie, then this conference is for you! Don’t miss this opportunity to see over 40 of the best minds in the industry delivering 3 full days of awe-inspiring sessions. Here for more!
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Design Brno 2008
The 23rd year is dedicated to graphic design, illustration and typography in books, magazines, newspapers and digital media. In two years, the Biennial will focus on poster design, corporate identity, information and advertising graphics.
The Survey, 2008 by A List Apart
Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and everyone else who makes websites. It is time once again to pool our information so as to begin sketching a true picture of the way our profession is practiced worldwide. Here for more.
Istanbul Design Week 2008.
Istanbul Design Week (IDW) brings together new talents, professionals, manufacturers and design addicts under the same umbrella. IDW, which will host in addition to the industrial design the other disciplines of the design such as fashion, meal, graphics, is targeting to spread all over the city, especially starting from old Galata Bridge, with the fair, panels, seminars, contests, exhibitions, interactive shows, workshops and other activities with “design” theme.
Flashforward
The longest-running, largest gathering of Adobe® Flash users on the planet. It’s a known quantity, a well-established conference featuring the best minds in the industry.

Malaysia Design Competition 2008.
Organize by Majlis Rekabentuk Malaysia, the aim is to give due recognition to young Malaysian designer. The theme for this yeas is ‘Safety’.
SIGGRAPH2008 | Evolve
The 35th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques!
Creative Freelancer Conference.
Creative Freelancer Conference, slated for August 27-29, 2008 in Chicago, is the first and only business conference for self-employed creative professionals, serving illustrators, graphic designers, photographers and copywriters.
Pictoplasma NYC
All the way from Berlin to Manhattan, the renowned Pictoplasma project is bringing its annual conference on contemporary character design and art to the U.S. for the first time. Pictoplasma NYC will gather international artists under one roof to discourse freely about the world of character-driven art and design. The event will offer two days of back-to-back lectures, screenings, exhibitions and parties.
REMIX: DMI’s 33rd Annual Design Management Conference.
This conference, co-chaired by Jeanette Hanna, VP Brand Strategy, Cundari SFP, and Scott Lerman, Founding Partner, Lucid Brands, will present a unique platform for professionals to gain valuable learning through presentations by top thinkers and to participate with ideas and concepts that can transform careers and enterprises. Remix marks an important milestone as DMI intensifies our commitment to connecting members with a global community of design leaders.
CAT-iq Design Competition
CAT-iq provides an open platform for pioneering IP service applications as well as new form factors for non-computing communication devices.
The Green Dot Awards.
The Green Dot Awards strive to reward and promote forward-thinking businesses that create environmentally friendly products or services, and to recognize revolutionary business plans and proposals.
AutoDesignNight London.
AutoDesignNight re-affirmed its place at the epicentre of car design last night at its exclusive, high-profile networking evening in central London.
Maria Martinez Otero Industrially Produced Designer Furniture Awards.
The Maria Martinez Otero Foundation announced the Third Edition of the Maria Martinez Otero Industrially Produced Designer Furniture Awards.
Roanoke Urban Effect 2008 Design Competition.
A design competition which focuses on three specific areas of the city of Roanoke, VA and challenges design professionals and students to create new environments that will transform the current urban landscape. Here for more.
UK Young Design Entrepreneur Award.
Created by the British Council in partnership with the Cultural Leadership Foundation, the award recognises the potential of an individual, aged between 25 and 35, working within the design industry, to be a future leader of the sector in the UK, and indeed internationally.
Rehacare Design Award 2008 2009.
With the Rehacare Design Award, Messe Dusseldorf awards accolades to design-oriented innovations which are characterized by a humane and sensitive design.
Global Brand Forum 2008.
Global Brand Forum, called the “Davos of Branding,” is unveiling yet another stellar line-up of the worlds leading brand and business icons.
Dressing Code Competition.
Domus Academy and Future Concept Lab with the support of Deborah group present the Seventh edition of Dressing Codes Competition.
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4 comments
Hello,
Thanks for making this post. Why not add local malaysian design competitions like the ones hosted by MRM/ Majlis Rekabentuk Malaysia this year?
I will be taking part. Come join me! =D
Tati
thanks for this informative post =)
Thanks Tati for the info. Good luck!
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