Design Competitions—Not Spec Work
Designed by Michael Bagnardi.
I’m always pushing students into getting their work out there—it’s all about doing shit that matters.
I love to promote great opportunities—NOT spec work. 99designs is a perfect example of this unscrupulous practice. The difference being that spec or speculative work is a method used by for-profit businesses use to get free or cheap work, essentially robbing a paid project from a creative professional. There is a long history of corporations taking advantage of students and competitors by luring them with the hopes of a being published and winning a grand prize or cash reward. Companies such as the Gap, J.C. Penny, even the United States Government have been guilty of utilizing crowdsourcing techniques. The AIGA—professional association for design has posted their position on spec work and crowdsourcing here along with an article about the varying viewpoints.
Video made by Topic Simple. Just say no to spec work…. join the movement.
How to respond if you are invited to do spec work.
The AIGA has crafted a professional response in the form of a letter that you may customize to your situation. {link}
IF you are looking for a place to enter your designs and practice your craft there are plenty of nonprofit organizations and good causes to keep you busy.
International Student Poster Competition, Skopje 2017
Deadline: 30 October, 2017 (CET 00:00)
Exhibition opening: 17 November, 2017
Museum of City of Skopje
Skopje, Republic of Macedonia
The issue – Artificial Reality
This year the Council of International Student Poster Competition decided to put accent on the issue of the Artificial Intelligence. We invite students to do their creative work, make buzz and create messages that will inspire many, to engage maybe few but to contribute to raising the awareness of general public, but mainly to policy-makers and business heavyweights.
Ahhhh… who wouldn’t love to earn the golden pencil.
One of the most acclaimed advertising, interactive and design student competitions is the annual One Club Young Ones Competition, a tradition dating back to 2005.
Cash prizes are awarded to the Gold, Silver and Bronze Pencil winning teams, respectively. The Pencil winners are awarded at the annual One Show Young Ones Education Festival awards ceremony and finalists are published in the One Show Annual as well as online in the Awards Archive.
Email education@oneclub.org if you have any questions.
N.O.W. Love Your Body Poster Competition – Free to enter.
| Past Love Your Body Poster Contest Winners |
The National Organization for Women Foundation hosts an annual poster contest to celebrate the Love Your Body Campaign. The winning posters are featured on the website and used to promote Love Your Body events through out the nation.
More opportunities can be found on the Pratt Comd blog. {here}
Gain worldwide recognition for your work by entering the most prestigious juried competitions in visual communications.
Since 1959, Communication Arts has published the best in visual communications from around the world. Ask any creative director which competitions rank as the most influential, and they’ll place Communication Arts at the top of the list.
Each winning entrant will receive a personalized Award of Excellence, milled from solid aluminum.
Communication Arts has six juried competitions that cover the entire field of visual communications. With winning entries published both in print and online, art and creative directors, graphic designers, Web designers, copywriters, photographers and illustrators find these competitions a priority for worldwide promotion and a valuable resource for potential clients and colleagues.
CA’s Award of Excellence is one of the most-coveted awards in the industry. If chosen, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession.
The CA Annuals are must-have references for creative excellence in visual communications and have furthered numerous careers through the worldwide exposure they provide.
More opportunities can be found on the Pratt Comd blog. {here}
Posters for Tomorrow—Free to enter!
We are pleased to announce that poster for tomorrow’s 9th call for entries, “Freedom of Movement”, is now officially open. You have until Monday the 10th July to enter the contest and submit your poster entries through our website.
The full brief, regulations and more tips are available for download in several languages here.
Ramøn Sosa, PrattMWP 2016 Winner.
COMPETITION TO DESIGN A COVER FOR THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS
The British Journal of Aesthetics (BJA) holds a competition each year open to students on full-time undergraduate or graduate courses at art and design schools or in fine art/design departments in any country to design a cover for the journal, which is published by Oxford University Press (OUP), both in print and online. The overall cover design includes an image, generally a black & white photograph of a sculpture or a detail from a print. It is normally but not necessarily a monochrome image. But winning entries in the competition have varied considerably from this norm.
The specific brief for this year’s 2017 competition is to design a cover on the theme ‘Art and War‘.
The 5th International Reggae Poster Contest, 2016
Theme: Toward a Reggae Hall of Fame: Celebrating Great Jamaican Music.
CALL FOR ENTRIES: The 5th edition of the International Reggae Poster Contest 2016 will open for entries on November 1st (12am EST time), and will run until January, 31st, 2017(12am EST time). The 100 best posters will be selected by a jury panel comprising of design professionals and will be exhibited in our Art of Reggae exhibitions around the world. The Art of Reggae Exhibitions are curated and presented as a platform to share the vision for a Reggae Hall of Fame Museum for Kingston, Jamaica.
OBJECTIVE: The objective of the International Reggae Poster Contest is to build awareness for positive Reggae music and to celebrate the global achievements of Reggae and its impact on the world. The term Reggae used by the contest encompasses all the popular Jamaican musical genres; Ska, Rocksteady, Roots Reggae, Dub, Dancehall and the unique Jamaican Sound system. We are looking for your talent and creative visual expressions and we are very excited to see what designers can come up with in their original poster designs that will capture the energy and the vibe of Reggae Music. The goal is simple: Create a poster about Reggae Music – the rest is up to your imagination. Feel free to explore themes of Reggae covering any one of the genres; Ska, Rocksteady, Roots Reggae, Dub, Dancehall and the unique Jamaican Sound system. Also explores do capture the many musical pioneers, singers, producers, institutions that help establish the music globally. Good luck!
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