Design Contests

Last Updated on July 18, 2020.

Recent Design Contests

Contest Name: JAGDA International Student Poster Award 2020

Deadline: July 31, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: Per piece application fee is 1,000 Yen.

Japan Graphic Designers Association (JAGDA) is hosting its International Student Poster Award competition for 2020 and invites participation by students worldwide. This year’s theme is “Money”.

Contest Name: Art Moves 2020 – International Billboard Art Competition

Deadline: July 23, 2020 Rewards: PLN 5.000 (about EUR 1 127, USD 1 278) Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

The Art Moves festival invites all the interested people, artists, and students to participate in its International Billboard Art Competition for 2020. This year’s competition theme: Epidemics – a global catastrophe, a punishment, or a chance to reinvent yourself and the world?

Contest Name: Curtas Vila do Conde 2020 – International Film Festival

Deadline: June 30, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: 15EUR/18 USD 

The 28th Curtas Vila do Conde – International Film Festival announces the call for entries for new short films produced in 2019 or 2020, within the duration limit of 60 minutes. Eligible for submission are animations, documentaries, fiction films, experimental films and music videos, in film (35mm or 16 mm) or digital (DCP).

Contest Name: Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2020

Deadline: June 26, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

The Pro Carton Young Designers Award, one of Europe’s leading student competitions for packaging design, is open for entries for 2020. The Award plays a pioneering role in promoting sustainability, as it is the only design competition focusing exclusively on cartonboard design.

Contest Name: 4th Cemer Dreams Come True Design Competition 2020

Deadline: June 25, 2020 Rewards: Area Design category 1st prize 4,000 Euro; Professional Product Design category 1st prize 2,000 Euro & Student Product Design category 1st prize 1,500 Euro. Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

Cemer is seeking for innovative and creative ideas for 2020, for its 4th “Dreams Come True” Design Competition, themed: Breathing / Breathable Living Spaces.

Contest Name: 2020 Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Student Contest

Deadline: June 15, 2020 Rewards: $5,000 in total Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

The 2020 Ocean Awareness Contest is  calling for young artists, conservationists, makers, thinkers, and activists who are concerned about the future of our blue planet. This platform is for young people to learn about ocean issues through art-making and creative communication.

Contest Name: Model Young Package 2020 – International Design Competition

Deadline: June 15, 2020 Rewards: Unlimited (Universities & Designers) – 1st place 2000 EUR, 2nd place 1200 EUR & 3rd place 800 EUR; High Schools (secondary schools and tertiary professional schools) – 1st place 1200 EUR, 2nd place 600 EUR & 3rd place 400 EUR Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

The Model Young Package 2020 competition brings up a pressing issue – Personal Care in our globalised and connected world. They invite designers from all around the world to create a modern packaging that is sustainable and contributes to improving the quality of life at the same time.

Contest Name: Rethink: 2025 – Design for life after Covid-19

Deadline: June 12, 2020 Rewards: 1st prize £5,000, 2nd prize £2,000 & 3rd prize £1,000 Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is hosting the Rethink: 2025 – Design for life after Covid-19 competition to discover what kind of a world might be coming. Participants are invited to submit a speculative proposition at any scale – in-detail or wide-ranging – that offers a positive and tangible response to one or more of the issues arising from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Contest Name: Australia’s Good Design Awards 2020 Competition

Deadline: May 08, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: Social Impact $150 & All categories $450 

Good Design Australia is calling for Australian and international entries to the 2020 Good Design Awards. Australia’s Good Design Awards annual program recognizes and celebrates excellence in cutting edge design and breakthrough innovation.

Contest Name: 17th DC Shorts Film Festival and Screenplay Competition

Deadline: April 30, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: $85 

7th DC Shorts International Film Festival and Screenplay Competition is now open for submissions. Films from 30 seconds to 40 minutes, in all genres and styles, can be submitted. The spotlight is on truly independent short films created around the globe.

Contest Name: OSTEN 52nd World Gallery Of Cartoons – Skopje 2020

Deadline: April 30, 2020 Rewards: Grand Prix for Lifetime Achievement $1500, 1st Award $1000 & 2nd Award $500 Entry Fees: $0

OSTEN Skopje invite submissions by authors from around the world. Professional, semi-professional and amateur cartoonists can participate with one or more original cartoons, satirical drawings and comics/strips.

Contest Name: Joseph Binder Award 2020

Deadline: April 17, 2020 Rewards: Total prize 10000 Euro Entry Fees: 55 Euro for Students and varies for other participants.

Joseph Binder Award is an international competition that invites students, designers and illustrators from all over the world to submit their work.

Contest Name: Posterheroes 2020: Humans at Work

Deadline: April 10, 2020 Rewards: Cash Prize 2500 € Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

Posterheroes invites students and professional designers or people passionate in graphic design to submit their work for 70x100cm poster designs about “Humans at work”.

Contest Name: YICCA 2020 – International Contest of Contemporary Art

Deadline: April 09, 2020 Rewards: 1st selected 3000 Euro and 2nd selected 1000 Euro. Entry Fees: 45 Euro

YICCA call for international artists for all kind of contemporary artworks, including mix media, video, installations and performances.

Contest Name: PHOTO IS:RAEL 2020 International Photography Festival

Deadline: April 06, 2020 Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: $15 and includes a free entry ticket to the Photography Festival for all submitting artists.

PHOTO IS:RAEL invites artists to submit proposals for the central exhibition of the 8th  International Photography Festival in Tel Aviv, November 2020.

Contest Name: 3×3 International Illustration Show No. 17

Deadline: April 03, 2020 Rewards: $9000 total prize. Entry Fees: Professional Show single entry is $35 and a series of 3 to 5 images with a similar theme is $60. Student Show single entry is $15 and a series of 3 to 5 images with a similar theme is $35. Additional late fee will be $10 after 27th march 2020.

3×3 International Illustration Show No. 17 competition open to all illustrators from all parts of the world to submit their best work.

Contest Name: Australia’s Good Design Awards 2020 Competition

Deadline: March 27, 2020. Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: All categories $450 AUD per entry, Social Impact $150 AUD per entry & Next Gen Free Entry.

Good Design Australia has started accepting all designers and innovators entries for Australian and international entries to the 2020 Good Design Awards.

Contest Name: World Habitat Awards 2020

Deadline: March 23, 2020. Rewards: £10,000. Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

Through the 2020 World Habitat Awards competition, World Habitat is looking for the world’s most remarkable and innovative housing projects. The winners will have received international recognition for their work and also get Bronze, Silver, and Gold Awards. 

Contest Name: Communication Arts 2020 Photography Competition

Deadline: March 20, 2020. Rewards: Not Specified! Entry Fees: For Advertising, Books, Editorial, For Sale, Institutional, Self-Promotion & Unpublished $40 single entry & $80 series entry. For Motion or Cinematography $90 single entry & $180 series entry. For Student Work single entry JPG $20, Video $45 & series entry JPG $40, Video $90.

Entries are open for the most prestigious competitions for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition. Any photograph first published or produced from March 2019 through March 2020 is eligible.

Contest Name: 30th World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb 2020

Deadline: March 15, 2020. Rewards: Short Film Competition: Grand Prix 2,500 €, Golden Zagreb Award 2,000 €, Zlatko Grgić Award 1,500 €. Feature Film Competition: Grand Prix 2,500 €. Student Film Competition: Dušan Vukotić Award 2,500 €. Croatian Film Competition: Best Croatian Film 1,000 €. Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

World Festival of Animated Film ‘Animafest Zagreb’ invites submissions for the 30th edition of the Festival. This festival’s submissions are open to films applying all animation techniques, including combinations with live-action and documentary.

Contest Name: Posterheroes 2020: Humans at Work

Deadline: March 13, 2020. Rewards: 2,500 €. Entry Fees: No Entry Fee!

Every year Posterheroes calls for poster 70×100 cm about social and environmental themes. They invite students, professional designers or people passionate in graphic design, to realize a poster about topics of social interest.