Day after day, when designing PR campaigns or websites, annual reports or brochures, packaging or exhibition concepts you are working on generating the greatest possible attention for your customers or a certain issue. You create visual worlds, soundscapes, worlds of emotions, and worlds of labels – spaces for your messages. With the “red dot award: communication design” you can find a space to present your most innovative and imaginative works to an international, top-level expert committee that knows to evaluate and classify them. This gives you the chance to be awarded in one of the largest and most important design competitions worldwide, the red dot design award. Take this chance because the “red dot” is an impartial quality seal. Due to its distinctive and highly recognisable profile it will finally give you the very attention which otherwise is always directed to your customers.

In addition, on the occasion of the “red dot award: communication design” the title “red dot: design agency of the year” will be awarded for the first time this year. It is a distinction to honour an agency or a design studio for their continuous and innovative design performance in the field of communication design. In future, with this award we want to move a creative team into the focus of public interest every year.

Latecomers’ registration deadline is 13 June 2008 - so hurry! Visit the site to learn more.

How would you like to win a cool free G worth of Karmaloop Gear and have your work put in every Karmaloop box they ship? You heard correct, Karmaloop is giving away one $1000 Dollar Gift Certificate to whoever can design the best new Karmaloop Sticker. Get those creative juices flowing, pop open your favorite graphic program and get to work!

One lucky winner will be selected June 6th and have their winning submission actually printed onto stickers that Karmaloop will place in orders. The winner will also take home a fat $1000 Dollar Gift Certificate to Karmaloop.com. Don’t hold back, they really want to see some ground-breaking, no google images, no copying and pasting, just earth-shattering, slam dunk work!

There’s no deadline, but if winners are going to be chosen on 6 June, I would get my work in by the end of May…Visit the entry page to learn more.

In the Crystal vision competition, you will come up with new products and ideas to fill the new Swarovski concept. You should explore the properties of this unique material and challenge people’s perception of how crystal can be used in the near future. What role could crystal play in an urban lifestyle and make you feel better? How feminine and sensual can crystal pieces be and make you more beautiful? They are looking for innovative product concepts that might be based on pure crystal or that fuse with crystal with new materials or functions. Don’t think about crystal cities, furniture or cars, however, as the product must be ‘packageable’ and should be able to be sold over the counter.

Deadline is 12 June 2008. Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world, to professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts. Free registration required. Visit designboom to learn more.

Design Book Magazine is now accepting entries for their T-shirt design competition. The winning design will be become their official shirt for the 2008 season. Winning designer’s bio and work will be shown in the Summer issue along with a link to his or her website.

Entries will be judged on creativity and originality. There is no entry fee or limit to the number of entries per designer. All designs must be original. Submit your entry by 20 June 2008 deadline. Visit the site to learn more.

Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. It is open to everybody in all countries who are associated with the creation and marketing of packaging. The winners will receive bronze, silver, gold, platinum or diamond Pentawards according to the creative quality of their work.

Packaging design from the world over created or brought out in 2007 will be judged by a likewise international jury that will select the winners in accordance with the creative quality of the work submitted.

Apart from prize-giving, Pentawards’ mission is the promotion of packaging design with companies, the press, the economic and political authorities and the public in general, throughout the world.

All works presented must have been created or produced (launched) between 1 January and 31 December 2007, in any country whatever. Deadline is 13 June 2008. Visit the Web site to learn more.

The Army Ten-miler (ATM) has just announced the dates for its annual Official Race T-Shirt Design contest. Submissions for the contest will be taken from May 6 to June 6, 2008. The first place winner will receive $1,000 and the winning design will be printed on over 26,000 runner and volunteer t-shirts. The second and third place designs will win $500 and $250 respectively.

The top five entries as selected by a Blue Ribbon Panel will be posted on the Army Ten-Miler web site. Registered runners only will be eligible to vote for the top design from June 17 - 24. Last year over 6,840 runners voted for the winning designs. Winners will be determined by the greatest number of online votes. Winners will be announced on the ATM web site on June 26.

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Social Design Network announced today that John McArthur, new CEO of Millennium Promise, will serve on the final judging panel for the DESIGN 21 Millennium Promise Competition. The competition tasks designers to join the fight against extreme poverty by creating a web-based campaign to advocate for the eight Millennium Development Goals.

McArthur has been centrally involved with Millennium Promise since its inception in 2000 and has worked to promote Millennium Development Goals throughout rural Africa. He also served as the Policy Director at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and co-director of the Millennium Villages Project, a partnership between the Earth Institute, Millennium Promise, and the UN Development Program. Prior to this, he worked as the Deputy Director and Manager of the UN Millennium Project. There, he coordinated a global network of nearly 300 experts who served on 10 thematic Task Forces and was the lead editor of the Project’s final report to the Secretary-General, “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals.” McArthur’s professional experiences and global expertise make him an ideal choice to evaluate submissions for DESIGN 21’s Millennium Promise Competition.

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The purpose of this competition is to create an online campaign design for Millennium Promise, a non-profit organization with the mission to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals – eight globally endorsed objectives that address the many aspects of extreme poverty – in Africa by 2015. Millennium Promise works with impoverished communities, national and local governments and partner organizations to implement high-impact programs aimed at transforming lives on the African continent and engaging donor nations, corporations and the general public in the effort.

This competition calls for the design of a new media campaign that promotes public awareness of the Millennium Development Goals (”MDGs,” provided at the competition site). The aim of the campaign is to prompt the general public to do what they can to support the cause and urge their leaders to stick to their commitment to the MDGs. The campaign needs to be web-based. It should be designed to reach as wide and global an audience as possible on the Internet, and as such anything of a “viral” nature is encouraged – but the campaign can only be represented using the Entry Provisions stated at the site and in the Entry Rules.

Early entry deadline is Tuesday June 17 2008 at 6:00pm UTC (Universal Coordinated Time).

Photographs that focus on all things horses, from Appaloosas to Zebras, country roaming to carousel rotating, are welcome to this call for entry. Images of working horses, wild horses, dressage, tack, anything related to the life of our equine friends is welcome.

The Center for Fine Art Photography, located in Fort Collins, Colorado, invites photographers working in all mediums and styles to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works, including new processes, mixed techniques are welcome.

The exhibition, which will be held at The Center for Fine Art Photography’s gallery from September 5 through September 27, 2008, is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both.

Deadline is 18 June 2008. Visit the site to learn more about hte judge, the exhibition, and the prize awards.

How do you travel on a budget? Make a video that’s two minutes or less that demonstrates how you live the budget-savvy life style while on a vacation or road trip! Upload a video that answers the question and you could win $25,000 from Budget Rental Car. Your video must include some car travel and feature a Budget Rent A Car reference and logo prominently shown at some point in the video. View the details at Budget’s “Flip for Budget!” contest.

Every day until 13 June, 2008, Budget will reward a Flip Ultra Series Video Camera to the best video of the day. Digg your favorite video and they’ll award $1000 to the video that gets the most diggs at the end of the contest. At the end of the contest, a grand prize of $25,000 will be awarded to the filmmaker who demonstrates the best ideas for a smart, fun, budget-savvy trip.

Deadline is from now until 11:59:59 PM EST on 13 June 2008. Visit the site to learn more.