The Adelaide Fringe is giving artists, designers, students and amateurs alike the chance of a lifetime to design the 2011 Fringe poster. For the first time, all design submissions will be made online and entrants are encouraged to incorporate a range of mediums such as animation, sculpture, photography, painting and computer-generated and digital imagery.

For this contest we are looking for centemporary designs using 3D printing. As the Despoke team will be judging the contest, visit the Despoke & 100% Design sites to see the sort of design that might spark their interest.

The Semi Annual Design Contests are open to graphic and web designers from around the world, who have designed inspiring, unique and creative design pieces for either self-promotion, or legitimate paying clients.

Just as every great city is unique, so too are the new Melbourne Design Awards, the first city of the City Design Awards project, created in partnership with the Design Institute of Australia: with cities New York, Paris, Stockholm and Beijing to follow. While entries to the Awards are open globally, each Awards event will celebrate and honour the unique design culture and identity of the city in which it is held – from the great cultural and design centres of the world to exciting, vibrant emerging hubs of technology and design.

A monster doesn't need to be ugly. Why not try to draw a monster even if you've never tried to before? We look forward to your entry!

The Taiwan International Design Competition (TIDC) is entering its ninth consecutive year. In the nine years of its existence it has already cultivated an extensive international reputation.

Creatives from around the world can submit their 60-second-movie. Each movie must express a personal position, perspective or attitude towards Germany while all styles and techniques (live action, stop motion, animation) are permitted.

Submission deadline is September, 6th 2010.

Selected teams will have three days and three nights to plan and realize their projects in response to missions assigned to them on take off day. Selected projects will remain on site permanently.
A professional jury will select a team to win the first prize.

Language is not only a product of human life – it is a pre-requisite that humans require to form relationships. As a fundamental form of expression, language binds us together.
But not all languages are spoken. A language can be visual – made up of complex ideas of truth deeply rooted in symbols, custom and imagery. Mother Tongue is about the power of language – verbal and visual, formal and informal. First language. Native language. It honours languages at risk of being lost in our globalising society and those that have survived the forces of colonisation.

"Spark celebrates the best in dazzling design - from architecture and products to the bravest digital work, and we've already received a great wave of summer submissions," explains Peter Kuchnicki, executive director of Spark Awards. "But we want more - things that blow existing solutions apart, by people who see problems with completely new eyes."