Nagoya Design DO!

Nagoya Design DO! is an international design competition that is open to the whole world. The competition seeks to develop the potential of young designers and to enable exchange between designers.
Nagoya Design DO! was started in 1998 and has been held every two years. “Nagoya Design DO! 2010”, the 7th competition, has been reborn into a new form that is inspired by the vision of “Creative Design City Nagoya”.

By creating themes from various issues in Nagoya and by holding a competition, we hope to encourage young people throughout the world to consider what design can contribute to the ideal society.
In addition to prize money, award winners of the Nagoya Design DO! competition will be given the privilege of participating in a workshop held in Nagoya. At the workshop, themes will be discussed through joint cooperation with students and young designers from both Japan and overseas. Furthermore, participants will have the opportunity to give a public presentation regarding the results of the discussions.

We hope that Nagoya Design DO! will serve as a stage for new creativity and the transmission of that creativity to the world.

http://www.idcn.jp/

International Bicycle Design Competition

The International Bicycle Design Competition is the only worldwide bicycle design competition.
It was followed by the "1997 Bicycle Design Competition Among Korea, Japan & R.O.C." These two competitions were welcomed with great enthusiasm by Korean and Japanese participants as well as by those from Taiwan, and so from the third year on, the competition became a global one. The sponsors anticipated that it could become a channel of communication among bicycle designers, manufacturers and aficionados from all over the world.

http://www.ibdcaward.org

seoul international design competition

Objective
The "Design for All" objective is made to increase the efforts and the pursuit of design production that can be shared by all, removing emotional and physical barriers by becoming an universal communicative social solution.
Entries may be submitted to the following categories:

• Product for All
  
  
  • Product
  • System
  • Fashion
  • Craft
• Communication for All
  
  
  • Graphic
  • Advertisement
  • Moving Image
  • Animation
• Space for All
  
  
  • Interior
  • Environmental Design
  • Architecture

Please read the official Call for Entries for complete details.

Prizes
The total prize money of Seoul Design Competition 2010 amounts to US $26,000 certification and prize money awarded by the mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government and special benefits for those who are awarded with golden and silver haechi prizes (within US $3,000 for individual/team including grants for overseas training for korean winners and invitation to the awards ceremony in Seoul for international winners).

• Golden Haechi prize: one winner, US $10,000
• Silver Haechi prize: three winners, US $2,000 each
• Bronze Haechi prize: five winners, US $1,000 each
• Iron Haechi prize: max. ten winners, US $500 each
• Honorable mention: within two hundred people, certification for each
• People's choice awards: twenty winners, certification for each

The winning submissions will be exhibited during the exhibition period of Seoul Design Fair 2010 from 17 September to 7 October 2010.
The award ceremony of Seoul Design Fair 2010 will take place on 7 October 2010 at Jamsil Sports Complex in Seoul Metropolitan City, Republic of South Korea.

http://sdf.seoul.go.kr/eng/ 

IDSA Catalyst Award

Purpose
Design is vital to all aspects of our lives. By bringing depth, clarity and transparency to the industrial design process, these case studies reveal the profound importance of the profession. This concrete body of evidence will instill into the collective consciousness design's power to effect positive change.

Eligibility
Open to design stories worldwide. Designers, client companies or any interested party may nominate a design story. There are no restrictions on dates in use or in distribution; however, the design story must clearly demonstrate the impact of design.

Application/Nomination Process
Nominate your own design story or someone else's via email application. The Review Committee may also nominate design stories that they feel are exceptionally worthy of a case study.

Fees
There is no fee to nominate a design story.

Review Committee
Committee will be comprised of professionals from across business, design, and academic disciplines.

Review Process
On a semi-annual basis, members of the Review Committee will evaluate all abstracts and decide whether to conduct brief follow-up phone interviews. No member of the committee shall engage in voting or commenting on a nomination in which that reviewer has a financial or other stake in the outcome of the nomination, or who served as a consultant, teacher, or advisor. The most compelling stories will be selected for full case study write-up. Case studies will be written by independent researcher/writers. Subjects must agree to grant these writers timely access to data, high quality images/graphs and key personnel in order for them to craft the best case study.

Dissemination
Case studies will be published and sold online by IDSA and also recorded as podcasts. Eventually, compilations of case studies will be printed and sold hardbound. Select case studies will be presented at an annual conference.

http://www.idsacatalyst.org

Communication Arts Competition

Enter the most prestigious competition for creativity in graphic design, the Communication Arts Design Competition. Any design project printed, published or aired for the first time within the last twelve months prior to the deadline is eligible. Selected by a jury of leading design professionals, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Design Annual and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work.

http://www.commarts.com

Pentawards

Packaging designers, brand owners, packaging suppliers from the world over are invited to enter their best creations in 44 categories divided into 5 major sectors: Food, Beverages, Body, Other Markets, and Luxury. An international jury composed of 12 professionals from packaging design and its chairman will bestow the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum Pentawards. The best of the show will be crowned with the prestigious and unique Diamond Pentaward.

http://www.pentawards.org/

Observeur du Design Award

The APCI (Agency for the Promotion of Industrial Creation) launched Observeur du Design Award aimed at companies in all sectors of business, design consultancies or freelance designers, as well as local or private organisations.

Inaugurated in 1999 by the APCI (Agency for the Promotion of Industrial Creation), the Design Observeur is an annual exhibition that aims to highlight and reward a selection of the best creations resulting from the collaboration between companies and designers.

http://www.francedesigninnovation.fr