Brickfish is bringing back their famous art campaign for the third time - they want to showcase your original art. Whether it’s your best drawing, painting, or sculpture, they want to display it and award you $1,000. Not bad if you’re a starving artist! They are looking for pieces in the mixed media category (pastel, chalk, charcoal, paint or any other creative substance you use to make your masterpiece). Photography will not be accepted for this campaign.

No purchase necessary. Open to anyone who is a resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia or Canada (excluding Quebec) has access to the Internet, and is 13 or older at the time of entry. Deadline is 23 July 2008 11:30 PM (PST). Visit the site to learn more.

This year represents HOW Magazine’s 10th Annual Interactive Design Awards. Enter your work in this competition to win a slot in HOW’s huge April 2008 Design Annual and to receive a $100 discount toward registration for the 2009 HOW Design Conference. One ‘Best of Show’ winner will be prominently featured in the April 2008 Design Annual and will be a guest at the 2009 HOW Conference - including round-trip airfare within the U.S., hotel and registration!

Categories range from business-to-business Web sites to “Miscellaneous.” Work must have been created between 1 January 2007 and 15 July 2008. Deadline is 15 July 2008, so get cracking! Visit the site to learn more.

In the run-up to the 21st Interieur Biennale, the Interieur Foundation organizes its biennial design competition. Previously known as Design for Europe, the competition will focus on three themes, aiming to generate new, functional, creative and contemporary prototypes.

The cultural and economic dimensions of design and the increase in leisure time have inspired the organizers to focus on the following themes: working, playing and living. It provides participants with a broad choice, while taking into account factors such as durability, simplicity, and health. Form and usage of these products should be within reach of as many consumers as possible.

Winners of the competition will walk away with 35,000 euro in prize money. Apart from the prize money and the honor involved in the nominations, this international competition is also the ideal platform for young designers on the way to commercial success. All entries will be on display during the 21st INTERIEUR Biennale, and will be seen by potential manufacturers, professional visitors as well as the general public. The 21st INTERIEUR Biennale will take place in Kortrijk Xpo (Belgium) from 17 - 26 October 2008.

The competition is open to professional as well as young designers, design studios, and design students. The registration deadline is 15 July 2008. Visit the site to learn more (click on the “EN” at top right when you enter the site to view in English).

Via: FRAME

Open to everyone, the semi-annual Pulse Innovative Design Contest encourages designers and non-designers alike to submit original designs to Pulse for consideration. The winner gets fame and fortune (well maybe not) and Pulse stay son the cutting edge by constantly shaking up their product line and hearing from the people on the street. Plus, it’s is part of our mandate to support the design community by giving it access to manufacturing, marketing venues and potential revenues.

Although in the spirit of being kind to one another they’d like to say everyone is a winner, in this case they’re not. Pulse will pick a maximum of 2 winners from each submission deadline. However if there is no entries that blow them away, they may not declare a winner for that deadline.

Prize is $1000 USD per winner, inclusion in the Pulse furniture line-up, 1% royalties on all sales generated by the winning design (lifetime), and infamy. The deadlines each year are 15 January and 15 July. Both dates will be noted on this calendar for 2008. Visit the site to learn more.