Andreu World Furniture Contest

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Specialization: Product Design, Ideation, Architecture

Deign a table or chair for Andreu World.

Prizes: 4,000 Euros in prizes
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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Perfect Pitch Trainer Challenge

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Specialization: Product Design, Ideation, Architecture, Visual Communication

Design a premier youth baseball-pitching aid for the 21st century. Pitchbacks are used to help baseball players improve their ball-throwing accuracy and catching ability.

Prizes: $8,000 in prizes
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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Bitbop Transform Your Time!

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Specialization: Writing, UX Design, Strategy, Ideation

Pitch an unconventional and engaging concept to drive awareness and buzz for Bitbop’s launch in Germany.

Prizes: $10,000 in prizes
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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Sony World Photography Competition

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Specialization: Photography

Are you an amateur photographer and a keen photography enthusiast, with an eye for capturing that perfect moment? If so, then this is the competition for you!

Prizes: $5,000 and stuff
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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International Humor Exhibition

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Specialization: Visual Communication, Illustration, Ideation

In its 37th edition, Humor Exhibition of Piracicaba brings the joy of the cartoons, political cartoons, caricatures and comic strips to a diverse audience.

Prizes: $35,000 Brazilian Reais (aprox. $22,000 USD)
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: open to Brazilians and foreigners
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Possible Futures Film Competition

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Specialization: Visual Communication, Moving Image, Ideation

Here is our invitation to the storytellers of the world: Make a short film that Inspires us. Moves us. Gives us something to believe in. Envision a new, positive, possible future for the world. One ...

Prizes: $18,500 in prizes and stuff
Motivation: Experience, Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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CAPITheticAL

306 Days Left

Specialization: Visual Communication, Strategy, Illustration, Ideation, Architecture

CAPITheticAL invites you to look back at the big ideas that shaped our national capital and look forward to the big ideas that will shape our future cities in the 21st century and beyond.

Prizes: $100,000 in prizes
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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The Management 2.0 Challenge

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Specialization: Strategy, Ideation

In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we’re inviting management innovators from around the world, in every realm of endeavor to share the most ...

Prizes: recognition as a business innovator through media buzz
Motivation: Experience, Fame
Fine Print: Members of the MIX
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It’s Time to Tab Video Contest

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Specialization: Visual Communication, Moving Image, Ideation

Make a video, up to 60 seconds long, about how 24/7 digitally active people make their lives fuller through the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1.

Prizes: $15,000 in cash prizes
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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Tree Houses In Paradise

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Specialization: Architecture, Strategy

DESIGN A TREEHOUSE FOR A TROPICAL ISLAND RESORT. The competition is simple: To design the perfect structure in the perfect place where everything you need is accessible.

Prizes: $12,000 in cash prizes and stuff
Motivation: Experience, Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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WWF International Smart Gear Competition

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Specialization: Product Design, Ideation

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced the launch of the 2011 International Smart Gear Competition today, to find innovative ways to reduce the amount of fisheries bycatch.

Prizes: $57,500 in cash prizes
Motivation: Money
Fine Print: anyone older than 18 years of age can enter
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Bio Escapes: International Digital Imaging Co

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Specialization: Visual Communication, Photography

Olympus America Inc. is in the eighth year of sponsoring a dynamic international photo competition that honors the world's most extraordinary microscope images of life science subjects.

Prizes: Microscope or digital camera equipment
Motivation: Stuff
Fine Print: anyone 18 years of age can enter
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John Lennon Song Writing Contest

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Specialization: Writing, Music

The John Lennon Songwriting Contest is an international songwriting contest that began in 1997. The Contest is open to amateur and professional songwriters who submit entries in any one of 12 categor...

Prizes: Studio Recording Merchandise and stuff
Motivation: Stuff, Fame
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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$300 House

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Specialization: Ideation, Architecture, Strategy

Design a simple dwelling that can be constructed for under $300 which keeps it’s occupants safe from the weather, allows them to sleep at night, and gives them both a home and a sense of dignity....

Prizes: $25,000 in cash prizes
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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Create 4 the UN

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Specialization: Ideation, Illustration, Visual Communication

Create an ad for the 2011 “No to Violence Against Women” competition, launched on 8 March 2011: a competition calling for gender equality and an end to all forms violence against women and girls. ...

Prizes: 3,000 Euros and other prizes valued at 5,500 Euros
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: must be 18 years of age and a citizen the the EU
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SLANT: Landscape Architecture

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Specialization: Architecture, Ideation

The international competition for the SLANT AWARDS is being held this year for the first time and on this occasion is aimed exclusively at students of Landscape Architecture and Landscape Design....

Prizes: 5,250 Euros in cash prizes
Motivation: Money
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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James Dyson Award

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Specialization: Product Design, Ideation

The James Dyson Award is an international student design award running in 18 countries. It’s run by the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson’s charitable trust, as part of its mission to encourage ...

Prizes: 23,000 British pounds in cash prizes
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: open to product design, industrial design and engineering university level students (or graduates within 4 years of graduation) more details on website
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Bartcelona.org Design Edition

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Specialization: Visual Communication, Ideation, Graphic Design

Edition design Bartcelona.org launching a competition to design professionals and students in order to promote the creation, opening new channels for young designers and give them the opportunity to t...

Prizes: Over 10,000 Euros in cash prizes and designer watches
Motivation: Stuff, Money
Fine Print: open to design professionals between ages 18-40 or students
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Arise: The Quake Recovery Project

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Specialization: Illustration, Ideation, Graphic Design, Visual Communication

We’re hosting an open call for posters and artwork around the theme 'Arise' and it’s present context to Japan and the disaster, or broadly its culture and its people.

Prizes: no cash prizes, Top 5 winning designs will have prints sold online.
Motivation: Stuff, Good
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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Ban the Bland Design Challenge

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Specialization: Illustration, Graphic Design, Visual Communication

Help color the world of plain white period products.

Prizes: 3 people win a chance to work with Patricia Field
Motivation: Experience, Fame
Fine Print: anyone can enter
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