Sorted by upcoming regular deadline date. Listed are all competitions with:
The largest and most prestigious awards competition exclusively for the “Davids” of creativity.
The mission of The Pixie Awards is to honor and promote outstanding individual work in Motion Graphics, Visual Effects and Animation.
The AIGA (Re)Design Awards are a distinct design competition recognizing the importance and excellence of socially responsible and community driven work.
Finding the world's rising star directors.
Finding the world’s best rising photographers.
Curated by our advisory panel of global design giants, NOW brings you the newest projects, latest trends and inspiring futures across design, experience, tech and innovation.
An international web design and development award platform that honors and showcases freelance designers, studios and agencies for work that pushes the boundaries of UI, UX and innovative development.
siteInspire is a showcase of the finest web and interactive design.
Good Design Australia is an international design promotion organisation responsible for managing Australia’s annual Good Design Awards and other signature design events.
NSSC is a competition for design students to win scholarships and cash prizes.
IDEA is a benchmark of design and is unweathered by shifting fads or transitory styling.
Awarding the finest creative work in the world since 1954
Since 1970 Creativity Awards has been in the business of awarding great design from both well established and up-and-coming designers
Creative Quarterly is an international journal focussing on promoting the work of the creative community.
For designers creating posters, brochures, packaging, trademarks, corporate identity, integrated branding, annual reports, catalogs, public service, self-promotion, letterheads and signage.
The Advertising Competition attracts consumer and institutional print ads along with posters, broadcast and new media, as well as the growing category—integrated media campaigns.
The W³ Awards honors creative excellence on the web, and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award winning sites, videos and marketing programs.
D&AD Impact is for everyone who believes in the power of creativity to change the world, whether you’re a brand, NGO, start-up, entrepreneur, agency, social enterprise or aspiring innovator.
An award for calendar publishers in Germany.
The AGDA Design Awards recognise the best work in Australia across a wide range of disciplines every year.
Estonian Design Awards will bring a unique roof to the recognition of the design sector issued in Estonia so as to enhance the voice and message of design in society.
A juried competition celebrating the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and hand lettering.
Each year, the STA 100 seeks to award the best 100 examples of communication design from around the world that utilize innovative typography.
The iNOVA competition honors overall excellence and innovation for corporate websites.
A' Design Award and Competition aims to highlight the excellent qualifications of best designs, design concepts and design oriented products worldwide.
The LAD Awards are part of Latin American Design and are aimed at creative minds from agencies, design studios and independent.
Supporting talents and demonstrating trends and visions of tomorrow through fresh thinking – this is the declared objective of the International Design Award that takes place every two years
Celebrating the best of new British advertising.
The primary way that we celebrate quality is through our annual competitions in which we highlight the best of the best typographic work in communication and typeface design internationally.
The Webbys now honors excellence in 7 major media types: Websites, Film & Video, Advertising, Media & PR, Social, Mobile Sites & Apps, Games, and Podcasts & Digital Audio.
100 best posters from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
The ASTRID Awards afford all creators and producers of design communications an exceptional opportunity for international recognition.
The ADC Annual Awards is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world.
D&AD Awards recognise beautiful ideas, brilliantly executed. Coveted the world over, a D&AD Pencil is the pinnacle of many creative careers.
The European Design Awards wraps up with a festival in a different city every year, leading up to the awards ceremony.
This survey of the best in book design represents perhaps the longest-standing legacy in American graphic design.
The Telly Awards honor excellence in video and television across all screens.
The International QUESTAR festival recognizes outstanding achievement in Corporate Video.
An international contest for young designers at the Lodz Design Festival! The competition is addressed to designers, makers, students and graduates, especially from art and design disciplines.
The GOV Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The Melbourne Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
Once a year, courage to anger deliberately turns public space into the scene of visual resistance.
Honoring the best web, design, video, advertising, interactive, mobile & social marketing from creative agencies worldwide.
The Sydney Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The 2018 Innovation By Design Awards honor the designers and businesses solving the problems of today and tomorrow.
The New York Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The Good Design Award is a comprehensive design-promotion system that picks good design out of a variety of unfolding phenomena, and aims to enrich our lives, industries, and society as a whole.
The Hong Kong Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The London Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The Brisbane Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The Berlin Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The DRIVENxDESIGN Design Awards program provides marketplace recognition across an extensive range of categories and celebrates the creativity and courage of those who are leading the way.
The Summit Emerging Media Award evolved through a need to recognize and celebrate creativity, innovation, and those pushing the bounds of creative excellence in all newer forms of emerging media.
Vega Digital Awards seeks to recognize and honors the outstanding performance, talent and effort of the best digital and creative professionals, web developers, web designers and web agencies.
Innovation and uniqueness in the following disciplines: Product, Packaging, Communication, Interior Architecture, Professional Concept, Service Design / UX and Architecture.
MarCom Awards honors excellence in marketing and communication while recognizing the creativity, hard work and generosity of industry professionals.
The International Biennale of Graphic Design in Brno was founded in 1963 and is one of the oldest and most important events in the field of visual communication in the world.
The eurobest awards celebrate, nurture and set the standard for brilliant work in the European creative communications industry each year.
The big and broad ones
