Competitions

SPD 2013 Student Design Competition - NOW CLOSED

THIS YEAR'S COMPETITION IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED.… MORE

Best of Collegiate Design 20 (cosponsored by the CMA)

SPD's Student Outreach Committee is co-sponsoring the 20th Annual Best of Collegiate Design competition with the College Media Association, honoring the best design work in student media over the past year.

If you worked on your school's newspaper, magazine, yearbook or online publication from May 15, 2011 thru May 14, 2012, enter your work to be considered by our expert panel of judges. Comprised of a variety of top-notch professionals from SPD and the CMA, your designs will be in front of an incredible group of talented eyes. Enter now for that opportunity!

Winning work will be published in a publication this fall, to be distributed and announced at the CMA's National College Media Convention this fall in Chicago, and featured on the SPD and CMA sites.

Deadline: May 15, 2012.

Official rules and entry instructions here.
Get updates on the competition Facebook page here and on their Twitter feed here.
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SPD 2012 Student Design Competition: CLOSED

This year's competition is now closed. Thanks to all who entered! Winners will be announced soon.… MORE

SPOTS! SPOTS! SPOTS! Fame, Glory, Awards + The Party. Enter Now.

Illustration is changing, showing up in unexpected ways, blurring borders, reinventing itself as a medium for bold expression in the digital age. Tightening budgets are breeding creative solutions. Digital publishing i smoking away from the stifling proliferation of photographic syndication, stock imagery, and sameness. Illustrators are moving to the forefront, providing the character and dynamism needed to stand out in a crowd of predictability.

And they're doing it with SPOTS.

The static full-page illustration is no longer the standard of excellence. In both printed and digital publications, the most exciting illustration weaves its way into the fabric of the story, makes trends tangible, tells the deeper truth, communicates identities, and often wins the spotlight for itself.

SPOTS honors the illustrations that outshine all the others when the spotlight comes around.

SPD is the only organization to honor this exciting, evolving artform with its annual SPOTS competition, a part of our mission to promote the best in editorial design, today and every day. Commissioned work by publications of any kind (printed or digital, paper or screen) is awarded, along with UNcommissioned work, pieces published only by you, the illustrator.

Download the forms and Call for Entries after the jump...
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2011 Student Design Competition

Every year, SPD holds a professional competition to find the best editorial design out there. Now students have the chance to be a part of this world-class event!

Enter up to 5 entries according to our categories and rules, and you could win cash prizes, the Adobe Creative Suite software and--perhaps best of all--an internship! Check out all the details below:

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SPD AWARDS: All Information, All The Time

We're gearing up to celebrate the best work of the year, across all disciplines. Here's a quick list of deadlines and links to Call for Entries so you can mark your calendar, and get those interns to work!


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COMPETITION CLOSED // SPOTS 2010: The Call for Entries. Medals! A Book! A Party! Enter now.

(Please note: this competition is closed. For the current SPOTS competition, please see this post.  --  The Editors)

Illustration is changing, showing up in unexpected ways, blurring borders, reinventing itself as a medium for bold expression in the digital age. Tightening budgets are breeding creative solutions. Online publishing initially brought a stifling proliferation of photographic syndication, stock imagery, sameness. Now illustrators are moving to the forefront, providing the character and dynamism needed to stand out in a crowd of predictability.

And they're doing it with SPOTS.
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