The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) has launched the 2023 International Design Excellence Awards (IDEA), its annual premier international design competition, recognizing and promoting design excellence across a wide array of industries and disciplines. Founded in 1965, the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) is one of the oldest and largest industrial design associations in existence. Their roots stretch to the beginning of the profession and our members are, and have been, some of the most celebrated industrial designers of all time. The IDSA community helps strengthen the industrial design profession as a whole and contributes to the boundless impact of design within business, culture, and society. Companies, designers and students from around the world are invited to submit innovative design projects, which benefit users, clients and society. The best of the best win IDEA and are recognized as shining examples of design excellence.

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Fluid – Design Forum and NGO Flux are hosting the FLUID 2023 regional Contest for Young Designers: “FLUID IDENTITIES”. Applications are open for young (18–35 years of age) graphic designers, illustrators, design & architecture students, visual artists, photographers, architects… from Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Serbia, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Albania. The three awarded authors will have an opportunity to take part in a joint exhibition or presentation @ FLUID #12/2024.

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Applied Arts Magazine has announced the call for entry for Applied Arts 2023 Design Awards, Canada’s largest multi-disciplinary competitions. Launched in 1992, the Applied Arts Awards are the only competition in Canada that recognize the creative work of professionals across the visual communications sector, from image makers to advertising executives to designers. The Applied Arts Awards competition is an international recognition of creative excellence for professional, personal/unpublished and student work.

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The call for entries to the C-IDEA Design Award 2023 has opened to designers from all parts of the world. The C-IDEA Design Award is the world’s annual juried design competition. It aims to recognize and promote visionary talents in a wide array of categories ranging from communication design, industrial design, architecture, interior design, fashion design, and new media. Award winners receive award certificates, opportunities for inclusion in the C-IDEA Design Award Yearbook, international media coverage, a free entry ticket to the award ceremony and more. A yearbook and exhibition of the nominated designs are also presented as part of the event.

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The 22nd edition of Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award, the biggest and the most prestigious international photo contest in Georgia, is ready for you. The main goal of the Award is to link international photography to Georgia and to Georgian photography. The prize fund for 2023 is $6,000 (US).

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3×3 Magazine is calling for entries to its 20th annual International Illustration Awards Show, open to illustrators at all levels in all countries. The competition is also open to art directors, graphic designers, educators, students, recent graduates, editors, publishers in all countries for commissioned, non-commissioned and personal work produced or published between March 2022 and the regular show deadline, 31 March 2023. Best of Show winners receive $1,500 and all Gold medal winners receive $750. Prizes will total over $9,000. All Best of Show, medalists and distinguished merit winners will be exhibited in a pop-up gallery in New York City.

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The Pentawards annual competition is open for entries, seeking to award the best packaging designs for 2023 worldwide. Recognized as the world’s leading packaging design competition, winning a Pentaward is a one-of-a-kind achievement for any packaging design agency, brand or student that takes part. The Pentawards annual competition recognizes the best of the best in global packaging design, with entries judged by an incredible line-up of over 50 experts from global brands and agencies. With less than 20% of entries receiving a Pentawards, getting the global recognition of packaging design excellence has a profound effect on those fortunate enough to receive it.

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Become a part of Dieline history and elevate your work to a global design audience by participating in the Dieline Awards 2023 competition. Dieline Awards is where big ideas intersect with influential design, where impressive innovation meets design excellence. For the past 13 years Dieline Awards have formally recognized the absolute best in packaging design worldwide, bringing awareness to the immense value of well-designed brand packaging.

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Now in their fourth year, the World Nature Photography Awards celebrate some of the world’s most beautiful and striking nature and wildlife photographs. Nature photographers from all around the world are invited to participate in the World Nature Photography Awards (WNPA) 2024 competition. The mission of the World Nature Photography Awards is to celebrate the world’s best nature photographers, whilst showcasing nature’s beauty to a wider audience, to drive us all to secure a better future for our planet. Winning work is seen by millions of people around the globe.

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Communication Arts magazine has opened its 2024 Typography Competition to works created during the past year. This juried competition celebrates the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and hand lettering. Any typographic project first published or produced from September 2022 through September 2023 is eligible. Chosen by a jury of leading design professionals, the selected entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Typography Annual, in print and digital editions, and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work

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