Competitions http://www.spd.org/competitions/ en Copyright 2013 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:00:00 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification SPD 2013 Student Design Competition - NOW CLOSED THIS YEAR'S COMPETITION IS OFFICIALLY CLOSED.

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 as many entries as you like 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 after the jump...


]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2012/11/spd-2013-student-design-compet.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2012/11/spd-2013-student-design-compet.php Student Competition Fri, 16 Nov 2012 10:00:00 -0500 Best of Collegiate Design 20 (cosponsored by the CMA) 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.
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2012/04/best-of-collegiate-design-20-c.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2012/04/best-of-collegiate-design-20-c.php Student Competition Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:30:00 -0500 SPD 2012 Student Design Competition: CLOSED This year's competition is now closed. Thanks to all who entered! Winners will be announced soon.

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 after the jump...
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2011/10/spd-2012-student-design-compet.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2011/10/spd-2012-student-design-compet.php Student Competition 2012 student competition Student Design Competition students Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:00:00 -0500 SPOTS! SPOTS! SPOTS! Fame, Glory, Awards + The Party. Enter Now.
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...
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2011/02/spots-spots-spots-fame-glory-a.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2011/02/spots-spots-spots-fame-glory-a.php SPOTS Arem Duplessis awards Criswell Lappin Fahrenheit 212 Feltron Jessica Walsh illustration judging jury MAT: Design Company Matthew Lenning McGraw-Hill Construction Group Nicholas Felton Metropolis Magazine Money Magazine Francesca Messina Sagmeister Dungjai Pungauthaikan SPOTS The New York Times Magazine Tom O'Quinn Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:00:00 -0500 2011 Student Design Competition
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:

]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/10/2011-student-design-competitio.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/10/2011-student-design-competitio.php Student Competition student competition Thu, 14 Oct 2010 10:40:00 -0500 SPD AWARDS: All Information, All The Time

]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/08/awards.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/08/awards.php Awards Annual awards competitions design illustration photography PUB 47 SPOTS students Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:53:54 -0500 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.
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/04/spots-2010-the-call-for-entrie.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/04/spots-2010-the-call-for-entrie.php SPOTS Aviva Michaelov awards Bon Appétit drawger.com Gail Anderson Glamour Golf Digest illoz.com illustration Istvan Banyai John Gall Ken DeLago Kory Kennedy Matthew Lenning medals Op-Ed parties PUB 45 PUB 45 Annual Random House Robert Zimmerman Runner's World Sarah Viñas Spot Co SPOTS The New York Times The SPOTS Book Yuko Shimizu Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:00:00 -0500 PUB 45: All the Winners the rarest of Rare Specimens, joining a collection of work that stretches back to the beginnings of SPD in 1965 and today sets a new standard for excellence in visual communication.

After the jump, a list of all the winning magazines part of SPD's PUB 45 Competition... ]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/03/pub-45-all-the-winners-1.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/03/pub-45-all-the-winners-1.php 45 (t)here 3x3--The Magazine of Contemporary Illustration AARP Segunda Juventud AARP The Magazine Absolute Review American Craft Magazine Apartmento Architect Atlanta Magazine Backpacker Barcelonés Best Life Bicycling Magazine Blender Bloomberg Markets Body + Soul Bon Appétit Boston Magazine Brides Business Week Clase Premier Complex Condé Nast Portfolio Cookie CUT - Leute machen Kleider Departures Discover Presents Einstein Earnshaw's Eden Prairie Magazine Elephant Magazine Elle (UK) Elle Décor Entertainment Weekly ESPN The Magazine Esquire Essence Everyday Food Family Circle Magazine Fast Company Field & Stream Fine Cooking Footwear Plus Fortune France Magazine Garden & Gun Glamour Golf Digest Golf Digest Index Good Good Housekeeping GQ Greensource Hemispheres IEEE Spectrum IL - Intelligence in Lifestyle Inc. Inked Intelligence Report Interior Design Latina Listen: Life With Classical Music M-The National Magazine MADRIZ Marie Claire Martha Stewart Living Martha Stewart: Halloween Maxim Men's Health Men's Journal Metalsmith Magazine Metropoli Metropolis Miami New Times Middlebury Magazine Minnesota Monthly Money More Mother Jones Moviemaker MyMidwest National Geographic New York Newsweek Nylon NYU Physician O The Oprah Magazine Ocala Magazine Omega Lifetime Out Outdoor Life Outside Parents Magazine PC World PCMA Convene People Philadelphia Phoenix New Times PLANADVISER Magazine Popular Mechanics Prefix Photo Print Psychology Today QUO Reader's Digest Real Simple Relevance Rides Rolling Stone Runner's World Samvirke Self SKI Magazine Southwest Spirit Airlines Magazine SPIN Sports Illustrated Stanford Magazine Suffolk Alumni Magazine T The New York Times Style Magazine Tennis Texas Monthly The Atlantic The Boston Globe The Boston Globe Magazine The FADER The New York Times Magazine The New Yorker The Rotarian The Washington Post This Old House TIME TIME Asia Time Out New York Travel + Leisure Twin Cities METRO Magazine U of T Magazine UCLA Magazine Ud & Se UPPERCASE Magazine Vanity Fair W Washingtonian Bride & Groom WIRED WIRED Italy Women's Health Worth Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:00:00 -0500 SPD Digital: Judging Excellence in Editorial Design Across All Digital Platforms NEW FINAL DEADLINE! Wednesday, April 7th at 5PM!

The SPD Digital Competition is the first competition to exclusively embrace and celebrate great editorial design being executed across all digital platforms--great design is platform agnostic! Send in your best work and be celebrated with the best of the best at the SPD Awards Gala in May, in the SPD PUB 45 hardcover Annual, and be put on a pedestal in the SPD.org Galleries.

We are also announcing this year, for the first time ever, the Site of the Year Awards where we'll crown the year's best website. To level the playing field we will offer two Site of the Year Awards for sites both with and without a print component.
 
Who can enter you ask? Web sites and other digital publications containing dynamic or regularly updated editorial content including text, pictures, video, audio, animation or a combination of any of these.

Keep reading after the jump for the list of jurors, rules and forms for entry...
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/03/spd-digital-judging-excellence.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2010/03/spd-digital-judging-excellence.php Digital Competition 45 digital Billboard Brian Ellis Martin carousel CBS Interactive CNET CNN Digital CNN.com competitions digital Jason Treat Jeremy LaCroix Josh Engroff judging Khoi Vinh Natalie Hansen NYTimes.com online PUB 45 pub 45 Sean Villafranca SPD Digital spd digital Subtraction.com TheAtlantic.com Time.com Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0500 Student Design Competition: CLOSED The deadline for this year's competition was Monday, March 8, so the competition is now closed. But we do it every year, and the rules are generally the same in case you want to start brainstorming already for next year.

Every year, SPD holds a professional competition to find the best editorial design out there. Now all you 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:


]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/12/student-design-competition-ent.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/12/student-design-competition-ent.php Student Competition 2010 March 8 Student Design Competition student outreach Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:26:00 -0500 PUB 45 Call For Entries: Rare Specimens Requested Rare Specimens" competition has cultivated hundreds of remarkable entries from the most knowledgeable and esteemed designers, photo editors and assorted editorial experts from around the civilized world. Taken together, these selected works promote and recognize champion editorial work from print and online manufacture; the jury reviews each specimen as to how it upholds the greatest of attributes in each of these principles: uniformity of overall structure, uniqueness, and clarity, as well as good taste and charm.

Rare specimens are now requested from all corners of the world, from the glossiest of the glossies to the ground-breaking alt-weeklies, from online video and blog reporting to limited-run 'zines and local broadsheets, from corporate missives to specialty niche publications. Download entry forms & rules here.

Entries due by FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 2010 without a late penalty.

2009 has been a challenging, tumultuous year in our industry, but one that has proven the rule: from great challenges can come some of the best solutions. Inspire your colleagues!

]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/12/pub-45-call-for-entries-rare-s.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/12/pub-45-call-for-entries-rare-s.php 45 45 Call for Entries Casey Tierney Debra Bishop More PUB 45 Real Simple Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:00:00 -0500 PUB 45: And the Jury Is... submit to SPD's PUB 45 Competition, you'll be encouraged to know that your work, your best work, side-by-side on the table with the best work from your peers, is being judged by the best of the best as well:

COMPETITION CO-CHAIRS:
Debra Bishop, CD, More
Casey Tierney, DP, Real Simple

Captains and the jury, as well as some special notes about the judging, after the jump...
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/11/pub-45-and-the-jury-is.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/11/pub-45-and-the-jury-is.php 45 45 Amy Berkley Amy Koblenzer Andrea Dunham Arem Duplessis Bon Appétit Bruce Ramsay Casey Caplowe Casey Tierney CBS Interactive Chow.com Chris Dixon Chris Dougherty Condé Nast Traveler Criswell Lappin David Harris Debra Bishop Dirk Barnett Dora Somosi Eddie Guy ESPN The Magazine Esquire FB Design Field & Stream Florian Bachleda Gael Towey Gail Anderson Golf Digest Good GQ Janet Froelich Jeremy LaCroix Jeremy Leslie jury Kathleen Klech Ken DeLago Kira Pollack Kristina DiMatteo Latina Laurie Kratochvil Luke Hayman magCulture.com Maisie Todd Martha Stewart Living Mary Shanahan Matthew Lenning Maxim Metropolis Michael Norseng More Nancy Stamatopoulos Nathalie Kirshseh New York O the Oprah Magazine Patrick Mitchell Pentagram People PUB 45 Real Simple Scott Dadich SpotCo Supermarket News Texas Monthly The New York Times Magazines Time TJ Tucker Town & Country UrbanBaby.com Vanity Fair W WIRED Women's Health Zana Woods Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:00:00 -0500 Dog Gone... To view the gallery, the whole shebang photographed by Bryan Bedder can be found here.  Stay tuned for the top dogs screen test-inspired film from the evening, a hilarious Triumph the insult dog's cameo and some of our film shorts from the awards presentation! ]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/05/dog-gone.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/05/dog-gone.php 44 44 best in show gala pics Thu, 14 May 2009 16:28:44 -0500 The Best in Show: PUB 44 Medal Winners and the Merit Winners, of SPD's PUB 44. Just 10% of the total entries in January were selected overall, which is a huge, huge accomplishment!

As we work to finish adding the almost 700 winners of PUB 44 to the Galleries (check back here by the end of the week!) we're happy to post a full list of the Gold & Silver winners after the jump, or you can download a pdf of the press release here, and check back for party pictures as we get them (and if you've got them, send them in!). Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the work, and more importantly, the fabulous people who DO the work: you're the reason we can do this! And now, we're off to soak our feet a bit more; you, check out these winners...
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/05/the-best-in-show-pub-44-medal.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/05/the-best-in-show-pub-44-medal.php 44 Best in Show Gala Gold PUB 44 Silver winners Mon, 11 May 2009 17:40:53 -0500 SPOTS! The 2009 Competition Begins...
The Society of Publication Designers is the only organization to honor these hard-working little gems with its annual SPOTS Competition. Chaired this year by Matthew Lenning, Design Director at Bon Appétit, and Don Morris, Principal at Don Morris Design, SPOTS will be judged by a panel of leading publication art directors and commercial illustrators, with the winning entries will be featured in a special, self-contained book and sent to SPD members and winning illustrators for FREE, as well as featured in the PUB 44 Design Annual, and archived in a special gallery on this very site, linking to the winning illustrator's websites.

Read on for all the details, the call for entries, and links to past winners...

*Big thanks to Yuko Shimizu for the illustration on the Call for Entries, above!
]]> http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/04/spots-the-2009-competition-beg-1.php http://www.spd.org/competitions/2009/04/spots-the-2009-competition-beg-1.php SPOTS American Way Bloomberg Markets Bon Appétit Christopher Silas Neal competitions David Curcurito Dirk Barnett Don Morris Don Morris Design ESPN the Magazine Esquire Grace Lee illustration illustrators J.R. Arebalo Jr. John Genzo Juliette Borda Matthew Lenning Michael Lawton Popular Mechanics Portfolio Siung Tjia SPOTS Yuko Shimizu Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:40:01 -0500