You are invited to investigate the future design of the work environment – this is your opportunity to showcase your creativity to the Australian design community. Now in its second year, Workstation of the Future 2008 is recognized as one of the most exciting design competitions in the country.

Iken in conjunction with various sponsors is offering a unique and exciting opportunity for architects, designers and students to conceive the office of tomorrow. There are great prizes to be won including a D10-day trip to Orgatec, Cologne, a visit to their manufacturer, Gispen, in The Netherlands and a visit to Okamura in Japan.

There are two categories for working professionals and students: Innovation Award and Sustainability Award. The competition will run until 30th June 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

CUP is seeking designers for the next issues of Making Policy Public. They are looking for designers who are interested in using communication design to illuminate pressing issues of our day. Designers chosen through the juried submission process will receive full attribution for their work, an honorarium of $1000, and publicity through CUP. CUP will manage the design process and provide design support as needed.

Making Policy Public uses innovative graphic design to explore and explain public policy. Each publication is the product of a commissioned collaboration between a designer and an advocate. This series aims to make information on public policy truly public: accessible, meaningful, and shared. Designers can engage social issues without sacrificing experimentation.

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createurope: THE FASHION ACADEMY AWARD aims to demonstrate the vitality of the European fashion scene by way of a competition that invites young fashion designers at the beginning of their careers from all over Europe. It intends to help them get their feet off the ground, start their own business and unite them with other young colleagues from European countries in the form of intercultural dialogue. At the same time, the competition links the many European educational facilities in the fashion world and hereby fosters the exchange of faculty and students.

The young creative prize winners will be determined in two separate phases. In the first phase candidates from the participating countries will be chosen to present themselves in the second phase to a prominent international selection committee. The closing event will take place at the end of October in Berlin offering a platform for publicity.

Deadline for postmarked items is 30 June 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The 2008 Australian Packaging Awards is organized under the patronage of the Packaging Council of Australia. The Australian Packaging Awards can provide avenues for growth for companies who achieve success at the Awards. The Australian Packaging Awards have helped past winners to attract new clients, reward employees, boost their company profile within the industry and help draw the best talent to their organisation.

With 11 categories to choose from, plus the Best of Show, there are many opportunities for success. The 2008 PCA Awards Presentation Dinner will be held at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Melbourne on Thursday, 9th October 2008. Following the presentation night, photos and details of all winning entries will be featured on the Packaging Council of Australia website www.pca.org.au.

Deadline for entries is 20 June 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

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.