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Design Contest : The winner of the 2018 Buenos Aires Medal Design goes to Muhamad Farid Husen from Indonesia. The design was chosen from more than 300 entries and it was a dream come true for the 18 year old Muhamad Farid Husen. It's a coinciden
Design: It's the 53rd annual Design Award Contest for the 'Society of Publication Designers' and they will be accepting entries till January 26th 2018. Society of Publication Designers is a contest which recognizes editorial design, photography and illustration in print and digital mediums. Entry fees is 60 USD for SPD members and non-members it's 120 USD. You can upload your design entries as a story format or a book format. You can find the tips on how to prepare your entries by clicking on the below link. Visit spd.org for more info. The finalists...
Design: European Design Awards was initiated in the year 2007 and ever since has been conducting award ceremonies which recognizes the talent in print, web and exhibition design, illustration, packaging, mobile apps and motion graphics. It's one of the most prestigious awards organization which recognizes and promotes the artists work in the mixed media. It's one of the most sought after design and print media contest in Europe. Participants living within Europe can submit their entries which was created in 2017 after creating an account with them. Enter the...
Design: OWP eyewear company is conducting an eyewear design contest to bring in some of the most trendiest and wearable eyewear designs of the future. The aim of the eyewear design contest is to bring forth innovative ideas for the corrective frames and sunglasses. The materials used by the participants should be large scale production friendly. The frames can be designed for both men and women and this design contest particularly targets university level students and graduates who are in the creative field. There are no entry fees.The following factors play a...
Design: Here is a unique chance to design F1 Racer Valtteri Bottas Helmet for 2018. The winning helmet design will be picked up by Valtteri and will be used for the majority of the Grand Prix in 2018. The winner will receive a replica of the helmet design with Valtteri's autograph. In 2017, Lewis Hamilton conducted a helmet design competition, which received a whopping 8000 entries. How to Enter the Design Competition? Send the helmet designs in pdf format(not more than 20mb) to VB77Helmet[at]mercedesamgf1.com. The competition is open till 12th January 2018...
Package Design: The 23rd Annual International Package Design conducted by Young Package is currently open for entries till 14th May 2018. The package design contest aims at the use of paper, cardboard which are meticulously designed to create simple but effective designing. The theme is 'Coffee Mania', so graphic designers around the world you can participate in this contest as it's free to enter(No entry Fees). Winners will receive a pool prize money of $7343 (6000 Euro) and a selected winner will receive a three week internship at the Model Obaly Innovation...
Typography contest : 2018 Typomania will be held at Moscow and currently all typography artists worldwide can submit their entries till May 1st 2018. There is no entry fees and the typography contest is open to designers, illustrators, animators with no age restrictions. The Typography award function will take place between 26th May - June 3rd 2018 at the Museum of Moscow. Designers can submit videos of their works which was created between 2016 and 2018 which primarily focuses on fonts face. The sponsors are yet to decide on the prizes to be awarded to the...
Graphic Design: iJungle 2018 is a graphic design competition which is held annually in Europe and graphic designers from all over the world can participate in the contest. The graphic design works should have been published in 2016 - 2017. Each participant can upload upto 5 images per entry after paying an entry fee. The entry fees starts from $20 till a maximum of $40. Graphic design artwork should be in any of the below mention 11 categories: Ijungle graphic design award poster • Applied and Print Design • Advertising/Promotion • Branding •...
Logo Design: Logo Maker Plus allows you create original looking logos within few minutes. Now you can turn simple icons into stunning logos, by choosing the gradient, filters which are easily accessible within the logo app. Logo Maker Plus was developed by Logopit to help users create original logo designs from the comfort of their homes and smartphones. Logo Maker Plus is available in the google play store and you can check the compatibilty with your device before you download them. Using Logo Maker Plus you can change the icon color, use different textures for...
Logo Design: Illinois State Police (ISP) will be celebrating it's 100th Anniversary in the year 2022 and to honor the occasion, ISP has organised for a logo contest which is open to general public, ISP employees(retired/active) and community members. The 100th anniversary logo will be used in making commemorative stars, patches, car decals, letterhead, challenge coins, yearbook, apparel, web design, advertising, and collectible memorabilia. Participants can send upto 3 logo designs. The Logo design contest starts on Nov 1st and ends on March 1st, 2018. Logo...
The new app for professional image editing on Mac will be launched by Pixelmator on November 29 2017, as per the company's release. The image editing domain mainly dominated by Adobe Photoshop was taken into control by the launch of Pixelmator as an image editor for macOS which was launched in 2007. Since its launch the image editor saw a steady growth and now the company has announced the launch of its Pro version. Pixelmator has everything a operating system brings in - built-in versioning, split view, iCloud support, native tabs, touch bar support and...
Adobe Photoshop has come up with exciting upgrades for brushes, curvature pens which can be used by designers, digital photographers, and illustrators. The new update is somewhat similar to the Adobe Illustrator. Some of the upgrades are : Stroke Smoothing, Streamlined Brush management, access to lightroom photos in Photoshop,variable fonts,share your work in social media, curvature pen tools, path options, rich tooltips, editing spherical panorama pictures in photoshop, learning panel and other tools. To know the entire features list, checkout adobe website....
Logopony is an online web app powered with AI which makes it easier and faster to create flat logos for startups. Logo creators usually have randomly matched fonts and colours but logopony will ensure you receive professional and quality suggestions for your logos. There are 3 main key points why it is different from the competition: fully editable logo templates, more than 150,000 shapes to choose from and easy to use yet very powerful editing tools. It is completely HTML5/JS/Canvas based app, no flash. Using the power of artificial intelligence you can design...
In Adobe Max on October 18, new updates has been introduced to Photoshop CC. Photoshop 2018 consists of 360 compatibility, assist for the new HEIF format applied by Apple in iOS 11 and others, and a handful of instruments for graphic design, together with brush smoothing and variable kind. The 360 degree data may be imported using the sperical panorama choices from the 3D menu choices and exported via the identical menu to take care of that scrolling format when sharing. Watchout 360 degree workflow :   Depth map knowledge edit of dual camera iPhones,...
Andreu World has called for entries for its 17th International Design contest. The contest was started in 2000 and has been successful for past 16 years showcasing innovative and exceptional seating and table design solutions. This acts as the launching pad for the budding artist to showcase their exclusive designs to the International audience. The designs should be sustainable with possible innovative features related to design, quality, technology, production processes, etc. Seating: The main material used shall be Beech wood, Oak wood or Walnut. Chairs may...
Packaging Design: Calling out to all student and professional package designers from all over the world, who want to create an impression for their packaging designs through a stiff competition. The Recreate Packaging by Stora Enso is a design competition that seeks new packaging ideas and solutions based on renewable materials. The packaging design competition is open till 22nd December 2017 for registrations. Recreate Packaging is widely recognized in the international design community, media and social channels, which provides great opportunities for talented...