This is the third edition of Faces of Design's hugely successful interdisciplinary design competition raising the visibility of hot design talent worldwide. The competition is based on participants’ existing portfolios, and culminates in the publication of a printed volume, showcasing the 25 most promising design talents, by design discipline (e.g. graphic, fashion or interior design). This collection of profiles is distributed to over 1.500 key decision makers at more than 400 companies, design institutions, and the design press.

On top of this, the three candidates with the most panel votes overall receive extra promotion, including special press features and personal introductions to key individuals within the industry.

This year, VAC/GMHC is running a competition to find a poster to promote our World AIDS Day activities. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about HIV and how it affects Victorians, and to see your work displayed around the city, on trams and online. There are also great prizes to win and the 20 shortlisted entries will be exhibited during the period of AIDS Awareness Week in the CBD.

Some of science’s most powerful statements are not made in words. From the diagrams of DaVinci to Rosalind Franklin’s X-rays, visualization of research has a long and literally illustrious history. To illustrate is to enlighten. How many people would have heard of fractal geometry or the double helix or solar flares if they had been described solely in words? In a world where science literacy is dismayingly rare, illustrations provide the most immediate and influential connection between scientists and other citizens, and the best hope for nurturing popular interest.

The poster festival Weltformat is for the first time this year opening up for an international poster competition for students. The posters are reflections of the society that views them and for whom they are produced and hung in masses. The high requests and the interest from society are reflected in this fascinating media: its needs, its wishes and its dreams. The students are being challenged to consider the advantages and the powers of posters as an advertisement- and communication media. Posters for the poster - this must be the visual statement of the poster design.

Can you create an eye catching poster for the National Student Survey (NSS) that will be seen in every university in the UK? This year’s NSS poster competition is your opportunity to showcase your creative skills and have your design included in its high profile national marketing campaign. Entries must be entirely your own original work and must not breach any copyright or third party rights. All entries must be suitable for public viewing and must not include any defamatory, offensive or unlawful content.

The RSA Events team in partnership with Nominet Trust are launching an open competition, offering a fantastic opportunity to bring ideas to life in new and exciting ways. To get involved, simply listen to the featured audio excerpt chosen from our events programme and create a visual accompaniment which illustrates the concepts in a vivid, clear and original style.

Do you have an iPhone™, iPod Touch™ or iPad2™? Then there’s a film studio in your pocket! That’s why we created this unique film festival - to showcase the creativity, talent and imagination of you, the iphone filmmaker. So put your film studio to work. It’s as easy as Shoot Edit & Upload. We’ve recruited a panel of experienced industry professionals from the worlds of advertising, film and television to watch what you come up with. They will pick their favorites and we’ll give away some cool prizes - fame awaits! All we need now is your masterpiece. Get out there and Shoot Edit & Upload!

To commemorate 45 years of Hard Drive manufacturing, Toshiba Singapore is holding the inaugural Digital ART! Design Competition to find a new look for its Canvio Portable Hard Drive. The task is simple: use Toshiba’s Portable Hard Drive chassis as a canvas for your imagination and create a graphic design with both the given theme and concept. Designers are allowed to submit multiple entries. The competition theme is “ART IN VOGUE” and the design concept is “Contemporary Minimalism”.
 

The Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), the European Union agency responsible for registering designs and trade marks valid in all the countries of the EU, announced a major competition aimed at recruiting designers in the battle against counterfeits and illegal copies.

Design can be bold, intelligent and passionate; it can be humorous, serious and confident. But most of all, it can simply be excellent - and carry an iF design award. Since 1953, iF has invited international manufacturers and designers to enter their products in the iF design awards. Design experts from all over the world come together in the iF juries to evaluate the entries: excellent design is recognized and rewarded. The iF design awards have long been a trademark feature of iF and the iF label is recognized the world over as a seal of design excellence.