Rock is more a way of life than just a genre of music, according to Ink Fruit. So they thought it’s time to do it justice. Now they want you to make some rockin Tees. Make sure you’ve got some awesome music playing while you design for this contest. They’ll know if you don’t!

To make sure that the people who make the most Rockin Tees feel real special, they’ve got prizes worth $30,000 bucks (not shabby!). Ten designs will be selected as the winners, so plenty of you are gonna be mighty happy by the end of it - and all the others will find some mind blowing t-shirts to buy…

Deadline is 1 October 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The Mohawk i-Tonie Awards competition is open to projects printed on any one of Mohawk’s i-Tone® paper grades* on an HP Indigo press. Work produced between January and December 2008 is eligible including, but not limited to, direct mail pieces, books, letterhead, brochures, etc. A distinguished jury - Frank Romano, Bill Garno, Todd Kalagher, and Brett Traylor - will convene to review entries. Judges will look for projects that exhibit intelligence, virtuosity, maximization of HP Indigo capabilities, and excellence in production. A Best of Show winner will be chosen from all the entries, and the jury will acknowledge distinctive work with an Honorable Mention. The Best of Show winner will receive $1,000. Honorable mentions will receive $250 each.

No deadline mentioned. Download the PDF to learn more.

The Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF), formerly the National Scholarship Trust Fund (NSTF), is a not-for-profit, private, industry-directed organization that dispenses undergraduate college scholarships and graduate fellowship assistance to talented men and women interested in graphic communications careers. The mission of the PGSF is “To strengthen the print and graphics industry by providing scholarship assistance.”

Housed under the same roof as PIA/GATF, the Print and Graphics Scholarship Foundation (PGSF) has coordinated the printing industry’s largest scholarship program since its inception in 1956.

Individuals, companies, and associations provide scholarship funds to PGSF, which administers the scholarship and fellowship programs for the industry.

Deadline is 1 March 2009 for high school students and 1 April 2009 for college enrolled students. Visit the site to learn more.

Autumn is an extra special season on the fertile Coast around Half Moon Bay, California. Stunning vistas of seaside farm country with rolling fields of orange, scare crows and pick-your-own pumpkin patches. It’s the perfect time of year to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest and Half Moon Bay does it like nobody else. Every year, a quarter-million visitors make the trek to the “Pumpkin Capital of the World” for the world-famous Half Moon Bay art & Pumpkin Festival. Massive Volkswagen-sized pumpkins, the amazing “Picasso of pumpkin carvers”, harvest-inspired crafts, the tastiest pumpkin pie on the planet, three stages of blockbuster entertainment, everyone’s favorite home-spun parade, enchanting events and contests for the whole family, the never-ending search for the Great Pumpkin.

This is a national contest. Entries must be submitted electronically and received before September 15, 2008. First prize = $1,000. Visit the site to learn more.

One winner will have his/her work featured on a prominent billboard in the arts district of the major city from where they reside. In addition to this, win the $10,000 cash prize to help further your career. Five runners up will receive complimentary printing of their artwork/design onto a 1800 Tequila glass bottle. Must be over age 21 to enter the site and to compete in the contest.

Chances of winning are based on the number of submissions received in a three month period beginning on September 14, 2008 (so, consider the deadline as about 14 December). Visit the site to learn more.

Ooprint, your online printer, is proud to announce its second Holiday Greeting Card Design Competition, based upon the success of its first ever competition in 2007. The idea is to create a greeting card with the theme Happy New Year or Happy Holidays that will be offered for sale online on the Ooprint websites. The First Prize winner will be selected based on sales, and the Jury Prize will be awarded for excellent artistic merit.

Participants will compete for over $5000 in prizes. The deadline for entries is 20 October 2008. For competition details please visit the site.

Since launching Mobile Broadband last year 3 have led the charge amongst the mobile operators. Mobile Broadband is a service offered by 3 that gives customers access to the internet on their PC or laptop using a USB modem and 3’s HSDPA network. 3 have sold over 500,000 broadband dongles in the UK alone and over 1 million across Europe. Mobile Broadband and dongles are becoming more widely understood but there is still an education job to do to communicate their benefits, and that’s where Don’t Panic comes in.

They wanted to organize a competition that allows artists and creative types as much freedom as possible, while still creating a visual message which related to 3’s mobile dongle (they are offering you £500 after all!). We want you to create a personal, unique piece of work representing freedom, communication, locality or whatever you can draw from 3’s mobile-broadband Dongle. You can take any part of it as your inspiration: it’s name, it’s functionality, it’s color scheme, mobilization, the Internet, whatever.

As well as a £500 cash prize, the winner (as selected from a public-voted shortlist) will also have their work reproduced as part of a limited edition collection of posters available through east London, as well as being used in a flyer poster campaign and included on stickers inside the Don’t Panic packs. The collection will be exhibited in the Truman Brewery in October where the winner can come down and showcase their skills in a live art studio with some of the UK’s leading creative artists.

This is a chance for you to shine, to create something cool, desirable and beautiful and have it seen via various media throughout the world. If you’re interested in submitting a piece of work, please head over to Don’t Panic for the full brief. The competition will open for submissions worldwide on 1 Sept and run until 28 Sept.

The 11th annual Step inside design competition is now open. All submissions must have been printed or published for the first time between October 1, 2007, and October 1, 2008. There are numerous categories, from illustration to student work. Note that all entries have fees for qualification.

Entries must be postmarked no later than October 1, 2008. Winners will be notified by December 1, 2008. Winning entries will be published in the March/April 2009 STEP inside design 100 Annual. Only 100 entries will be selected for inclusion in the Design 100. Visit the site to learn more.

The Dynamic Graphics Re:Design Competition gives readers the chance to have their best redesign work showcased in print. Because entries will be judged according to the quality of the redesign work plus how much improvement it demonstrates, you will need to submit both before and after materials. Entries that lack materials showing the project prior to redesign will not be considered.

Deadline has been extended to 29 August. Visit the site to learn more.

This graphic design contest is organized in cooperation with prominent Czech designers, and received posters will be exhibited in the futuristic foyer of the Alfa cinema in Sokolov. Everybody can take part in the contest, no matter whether a professional or an amateur. The contest is not only for our regional co-citizens. Works from abroad are welcome. We suppose that the author will most of the time be a human, however, in case there is a talented fly flying in your house, tell it about our web site.

Deadline is 5 September 2008. Received works will be exhibited in the futuristic foyer of the Alfa cinema in Sokolov from 1 October to 14 October. The exhibition will be open during the opening ceremony of the Film Sokolov on 10 October. Visit the site for details.