At Left: A still from the “Hands” campaign for Hewlett-Packard, the 2007 first-place winner. AGENCY: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; DESIGN FIRM: Motion Theory.

Creativity + Commerce: PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize is PRINT’s newest competitive design review—and the stakes are high: They’re awarding $9,000 in prize money!

Enter your work in Creativity + Commerce, PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize, and you could see your best ads, direct mail, logos, packaging, Web sites and more in PRINT’s October 2009 issue. You might even win some cash…

Entry deadline is 1 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Turning the spotlight on environmentally responsible forestry, DESIGN 21: Social Design Network, an online platform founded by Felissimo and UNESCO to inspire and promote design for the greater good, is proud to announce a new set of environmentally conscious initiatives in the form of a competition and a challenge. Developed by DESIGN 21 to benefit The Nature Conversancy and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), Wood, Paper, Checkmark is a competition for its international base of 13,000 members to formulate an awareness campaign for sustainable forestry. As a companion initiative, DESIGN 21 members FSC-US and The Nature Conservancy, are hosting Going with the Grain–a challenge to conceptualize an object using only one sheet of sustainable wood.

By running these two initiatives simultaneously, DESIGN 21 is hoping to utilize the creativity of both established and emerging designers to combat the large-scale eco-challenges of illegal logging and deforestation. As director of DESIGN 21, Haruko Smith, states, “DESIGN 21 is pleased to be able to offer this complementary package of a visual communications design and product design that will promote the use of sustainable wood, especially because the process itself will help to educate many people about the need to protect our valuable natural resources.”

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Golden Drum is open to agencies, advertisers, clients, design or production houses, TV houses, media or other parties involved in creation or production of marketing communication. There are twelve groups and even more subcategories involved in this competition, including Web, film and video and more. Remember that this is a competition for ads - therefore, the Festival reserves the right to request a full media schedule from each entrant company to verify the authenticity of the ad(s) in the event that entry is shortlisted or a winner.

The entry application is complicated, including special entries for “New Europe” competitors. The deadline, however, is very clear - 4 September 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The 2009 ReBrand 100 is open to any rebrand launched anywhere in the world between January 2006 and September 2008. The rebrand can be for an enterprise-wide initiative, a single component of a brand or for a brand extension. Entries submitted can be from in-house corporate professionals, design firms, clients, architects, business strategists, advertising agencies, non-profit organizations, and government agencies. The rebrand may have been for a product, service, entire company, non-profit organization, an individual, or a place.

Entry deadline is postmark 24 September 2008. Late entry with late fee is 8 October 2008 (this latter date is the only one listed on our calendar). Visit the site to learn more.

The New York Festivals’ International Television Programming and Promotion Awards recognize “The World’s Best Work” in news, documentary, information and entertainment programming as well as in music videos, infomercials, promotion spots, openings and ID’s. Now entering its 49th year, the total number of entries in TV Programming continues to grow.

A separate fee is applicable for each category selection. Preferred payment is by VISA, MasterCard or AMEX. Checks must be drawn on US banks and made payable to International Awards Group. Checks drawn on international banks will not be accepted. No refunds will be made once judging begins. For wire transfer payments, all bank charges must be prepaid and an additional $25 US dollars must be added to the total amount of the wire to cover intermediary bank fees.

The deadline for entries is September 29, 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

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).