Design Edge Canada is proud to present the Regional Design Awards, celebrating the best of Canadian design from all corners of the country. Entrants compete within eight geographic regions. An esteemed panel of judges, consisting of one person from each region, will select the winners in 12 categories including Best logo, Best Advertising: web, Environmental Design, and Print Design. All designers working in Canada may compete. Regions are based on where within the country the entrant's office is located. Canadian designers may also submit work done for clients outside of the country. A separate category is offered for student work. Entry fee: $75 first entry; $65 for additional entry; Students: $35 first entry; $25 for additional entry. Winners and finalists will be recognized in Design Edge Canada's special Awards Issue and at a special celebration in Toronto in June 2010.

The current European flag with its twelve identical yellow stars placed in a circle on a blue field, was designed in 1955. Since then Europe has changed. About 30 million people from Middle Eastern, African and Asian origins are living and working in Europe. Besides these new cultures, the inter European immigration creates a new mix of cultures as well. In the last 50 years Europe has become a very fine maze of identities. What is the identity of this cultural, economical and dynamic Europe with its diversity in cultures, languages, traditions and believes? And what is the perception on Europe, from within and from the outside? How would a new symbol for Europe look like? Designers are invited to send in their design for a new symbol for Europe. 12 Submissions will be selected by an international jury and will be printed on flags. These flags will be shown during the first edition of Design and Government in 2010 in Den Haag and Berlin. All designers, young and old, professional and students, can enter as individuals or as groups. The number of submissions is unlimited.

Mediabistro Logo Competition is organized by Mediabistro and several other industry sites, such as Brands of the World, Ads of the World, Graphics.com and others. The award honores the best identity designers and their work. You can enter your logo as long as it was done in the past 2 years. The contest is open to everyone worldwide. There is a US$30 dollar fee to enter. Work will be judged by famous designers, like Armin Vit from UnderConsideration and Rob Janoff designer of the Apple logo. Participants and especially winners will be promoted to millions worldwide through the participating sites that reach over 5M unique visitors per month. The Judges shall award 3 gold, 3 silver, and 3 bronze awards in each category. They will also select 3 entries, a gold, silver and bronze, as overall winners of the Contest. The Mediabistro Logo Awards is a great way to promote yourself and your clients in 2010.

Venus febriculosa is a blog dedicated to books and book design with an emphasis on the twentieth century and concentrated primariliy on the works of Vladimir Nabokov. Following on the heels of our successful Book Cover Design Contest #1 in which we challenged readers to generate compelling visuals for Vladimir Nabokov’s legendary 1955 novel LOLITA, this time we turn for inspiration to Umberto Eco’s "postmodern" 1980 novel THE NAME OF THE ROSE. One submission per entrant. Copyrights of all entries shall remain the property of the artists. This contest is open to anyone 18 years or older anywhere in the world. There's no entry fee.

Totally independent, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, now in it’s second year, is the only concept of its kind dedicated exclusively to design. Judged by a highly influential panel of top international journalists from the design, hospitality and lifestyle sectors, the judges will recognise and reward both ’restaurants and bars’ and their ’designers’ for design excellence. With free online entry and a wide variety of categories, applicants and their projects receive extensive exposure, raising their profile for the duration of the competition and beyond. Culminating in a unique and innovative awards ceremony, the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards’ winners, including the best designed restaurant and the best designed bar, will be announced and presented with their award at a stunning central London location in June 2010. These awards are open to UK projects (the only exceptions are restaurant and bar entries made into the international category) launched or renovated between the 1st January and 31st December 2009.

VoteForArt.com is a new startup backed by the large apparel company MV Sport, which is among the largest marketers of licensed apparel. They are the holder of hundreds of collegiate licenses and are a licensee of Minor League baseball, the US Olympics, the PGA. Vote For Art hosts graphic design contests at major universities, where the winning design based on votes from the public is sold at the University bookstore. We’ve just completed a contest for Purdue University and we’re presently hosting a contest for Arizona State University. The Men’s NCAA basketball season is upon us and the Sun Devils are looking for a cool, never-before-seen design for their basketball fans. The winning design will be printed on t-shirts and sold in the "The College Store" and the winning designer will earn $500 and 2% of the winning t-shirts online store sales. The contest has only a few rules. The design can not contain more than 5 colors. There should be no mention of any other university in the design. There should be no crewd and profane images. The contest is open to anyone worldwide. The contest has no entry fee.

The Summit International Awards (SIA), being one of the world’s most prestigious industry recognition organizations, is now open for submissions in its 2010 Summit Creative Award (SCA), recognizing and honoring advertising, design and web creation for contestants with billings under $30 million. Throughout its sixteen-year history, the SIA has established itself as one of the premier arbiters of creative and communication excellence. Using rigorous evaluative criteria, it is the only competition rewarding those firms truly deserving of top recognition for creativity. All work submitted must have been completed within the last two calendar years, 2008 and 2009, up through the final deadline. Entries may not have been previously entered in the competition. Winning entries receive the coveted Best of Show, Gold, Silver or Bronze awards. Judges select Best of Show from among Gold winning entries. Fee from $25 (Student Submissions) to $135 (Campaign Entries).

The goal of EcoTopia is to encourage the development of products that foster a healthy ecosystem and a sustainable society. Submissions should focus on one of the following areas: Transportation, Clothing/Footwear, Farming/Food, Household Appliances, and Shelter. Twenty entries will be chosen to appear in the show and will be included in a press release to be widely distributed by Nectar Design with the goal of being featured in industry and general audience publications. Entries can range from initial concept ideas to finished designs. All media will be considered, including 2D presentations, video, prototypes, scale models, and mockups. Entries must be accompanied by a one-page write-up that explains the benefits of the product. Each entry must also include plans, diagrams that illustrate how the product works and demonstrates its feasibility. There is no entry fee.

The 2010 HOW Promotion Design Awards is now open. Categories: Client Promotions, Designer Self-Promotions, Personal Promotions, Pro-Bono Promotions, Illustrator Promotions, Photographer Promotions, Student Promotions, Miscellaneous Promotions. Designs may be entered in more than one category. Submit a separate entry and fee for each category. Work must have been created between January 1, 2009, and March 22, 2010. All Winners will see their work in How’s October 2010 Self-Promotion Design Annual, get a $100 discount to the 2011 HOW Design Conference and receive a nifty certificate. Single Entry: $65, Campaign: $90, Student Single Entry: $35, Student Campaign: $55.

Established in 1992, Golden Bee collects the best world achievements in graphic design. Golden Bee invites individual artists as well as groups of artists to submit an unlimited number of works to this year’s competition. There are no special format or printing technique requirements for posters and other printing and there is no participation fee. Categories: Poster, Graphic Design and Music, Graphic Design and Religion, Graphic Design and New Media, Special project ’All Gold of the World’. Awards Ceremony on 2 September 2010 at 20:00, Central House of Artists Concert Hall (Moscow, Russia).