To facilitate a broad range of disciplines and artists, the American Design Awards has established an ongoing Monthly Design Contest, two Semi-Annual Design Competitions, as well as the newly established Student Design Contest in hopes of reaching out to thousands of graphic and web designers with varying levels of experience.

The monthly competitions center on Web site designs, and you can enter free of charge to see how you fare against the competition. The semi-annual design contest is geared toward other design categories, twenty-two in all from annual report design to Web design. The semi-annual design competitions have a six-step registration process that you might want to start now, even if you don’t have designs to submit right away.

Deadlines for the monthly competitions are open year-round. The summer and winter semi-annual design competition deadlines are 15 August and 15 February. Visit the site to learn more, especially with their new student design award category.