Enter your work in the HOW International Design Awards. All winners will see their work in HOW’s April 2011 International Design Annual and get a $100 discount to the 2011 HOW Design Conference. One Best of Show winner will get a FREE TRIP to the 2011 HOW Design Conference (roundtrip airfare, hotel and conference registration) and an award to be presented at the conference.

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.

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.

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.

Participants are invited to make a design for HUGO Fragrances, inspired by and featuring the HUGO Man Bottle. The top 10 designs in each round will be awarded with a cash prize of 500 US-$. The winning design in each round will also be published in a well-known design magazine.

The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions (secondary, vocational, or higher education). The UCDA Design Competition for 2010 is now underway. UCDA is looking for your biggest and best ideas for our annual design competition — whether it be print, electronic, green, and even student work!

A call for papers for the first international Illustration Symposium in Cardiff, with Cardiff School of Art and Design at the Wales Millennium Centre and Chapter Arts.

Participation in the competition is free and is open to all those who want to put to test their abilities in projects linked to the theme of Food Design. Particularly architects, professionals, artists, craftsmen and designers creatives, high school students, university students and students of the sector. Participation can be either individual or collective and in the latter case a person must be appointed and will be the only referent for the promoters of the competition. When students or a group of students from a class or a course are coordinated by a teacher, he/she acts as a referent.

Faces of Design is launching a new interdisciplinary competition to raise 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 design). This collection of profiles will be distributed to more than 1.000 key decision makers at more than 300 companies, including firms such as vitra, IKEA, the Richemont Group (including prestigious brands such as Montblanc, Cartier and Chloé), the design press, and designers’ studios such as the Campanas’ and Bouroullecs’.