Deadline: March 31, June 30, September 30, and December 31, 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: May 30, 2008

Mohawk Fine Papers invites you to show the best of your work in this annual competition. Five winners will receive $5000 each and finalists will be awarded $500 each. This year's “Small Studio, Big Design Award” will go to a studio with five or fewer people.

Go to www.mohawkpaper.com/showcase to get the full scoop.

Early Bird Deadline: May 30,2008
Final Deadline: July 7, 2008

The 2008 Create Awards is the perfect excuse to put your best foot forward and not only win national exposure, but also part of over $125,000 in prizes including passes to Create Chaos 2008 Conference. All the various requirements and info on stepped entry fees (that increase the longer you wait to enter) can be found at www.thecreateawards.com/08/public.

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: September 1, 2008

One Best of Show winner will score a free trip to the 2009 HOW Design Conference (round-trip airfare, hotel and conference registration) and an award to be presented at the conference. All winners will see their work in HOW's April 2009 International Design Annual, get $100 discount to the 2009 HOW Design Conference and receive a nifty certificate.

Get full details and download an entry form at www.howdesign.com/competitions/.

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/.

Deadline: March 20, 2009

HOW spotlights the best work developed to promote design and creative services firms, freelancers—or their clients. Since its inception, the Self-Promotion Design Competition has been judged by members of the HOW magazine staff, who evaluate entries from the perspective of a user/recipient/client.

Full contest rules, prizes and entry forms can be found at www.howdesign.com/competitions.