Deadline: December 31, 2007; March 31, June 30, 2007 and September 30, 2008

Mohawk Fine Papers continues to celebrate the designers who shape our world and invites you to show your best identity work on Strathmore Writing papers. Enter the new Strathmore Letterhead Contest, which accepts submissions of letterheads alone or complete identity systems, and win great incentives and cash prizes awarded quarterly.

For more information and a contest entry form to download, call 1-800-the-mill or visit www.strathmore.com.

Deadline: April 14, 2008

Enter your best corporate work in HOW’s second annual InHOWse Design Awards. This is an exclusive opportunity to have your creative projects judged alongside the work of other in-house designers. Among other things, the Best Of Show winner receives a two-page spread in HOW’s February 2009 issue.

Complete contest details can be found at www.howdesign.com/competitions.

Deadline: April 30, 2008

The grand-prize winner in Gruppo Cordenons 2^nd Annual Design Contest will be rewarded with business class airfare and five days/4 nights’ accommodations for two at either the Portofino Hotel in Universal City, Florida or The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The contest is open to all design professionals.

The winning entry will demonstrate outstanding use of Gruppo Cordenons impressive papers in any printed format. For complete details and to download an entry form, please log on to www.gruppocordenons-usa.com/newsEvents.php.

Deadline: May 2, 2008

Adobe’s eighth annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA) honor talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.

Students from more than 30 countries are invited to submit projects through the ADAA Web site, where visitors will also be able to access ADAA Live! to see participants submitting projects in real time.

For complete information, please visit www.ADAAentry.com.

Deadline: May 31, 2008

Sappi Fine Paper North America announced the call for entries for the 2008 Ideas that Matter program, an international grant program that provides funding to designers and design companies for the development of unique print-based campaigns promoting social, environmental and humanitarian causes. 

For more information on the program, please visit www.sappi.com/ideasthatmatter.

Deadline: Entries received before Dec. 31 are judged in January of the following year

Be distinctive. Be creative. Be recognized when you enter your best work in Fox River’s juried competition of today’s outstanding design. Entries must be printed on Fox River and/or Gilbert paper (a combination with coated stocks is acceptable). The Best of Show winner will be featured in the following year’s call for entries and shared with designers everywhere.

For more information, go to: www.foxriverpaper.com.

Deadline: Ongoing

CTI asks creatives, “What saved your creativity?” for their competition in conjunction with their new whimsical promotional piece, Our deepest sympathies for the death of your creativity. You are invited to tell your own unique tale of stubborn clients, unreasonable budgets and tapped-out creativity that led to your creative death and resurrection.

For more information and registration for the competition, go to www.thepapermill.com/death.

Deadline: Bi-Monthly and Quarterly

Neenah knows you’ve done the work and now they want to reward designers, printer representatives and their paper distributors in their PAPERWORKS Letterhead and Text and Cover Contests. The Letterhead Contest is judged bi-monthly, the Text and Cover Contest is judged quarterly.

For more information and registration forms for both competitions, go to www.neenahpaper.com/contestforms/.