Anfachen Award X
Call for Submissions
Featuring the topic of Justice/Gerechtigkeit, the tenth edition of the yearly Anfachen Award invites designers and artists to engage with one of…
2025 Golden Pin Design Award Exhibition
The Spectrum of Scale
We visited the Golden Pin Design Award Exhibition at the Taiwan Design Museum, located within the Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in…
Call for Entries by Stiftung Buchkunst 2026
“Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” and “Förderpreis für Junge Buchgestaltung”
The Stiftung Buchkunst is now accepting submissions for the Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2026 (Best German Book Design 2026) and the Förderpreis…
Submissions for the European Design Awards are currently open. The competition continues to be an important reference point for European communication design,…
100 Beste Plakate 25
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
On December 15th, 2025, the competition 100 Beste Plakate 25 Deutschland Österreich Schweiz (100 Best Posters 25 Germany Austria Switzerland) kicks off.…
For almost 60 years, Stiftung Buchkunst has awarded an annual prize to the 25 most beautiful German books, selected by independent juries…
The World’s Best Typography, Typography 46 brings together the work of the winners of the latest TDC competition for typographic excellence from…
Open Call: Fight for Kindness 2025
Promoting a Culture of Kindness Through Typographic Posters
The Fight for Kindness initiative is back for its fourth edition, inviting designers from all over the globe to use their craft…
100 Beste Plakate 24
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
The results are in for the 100 Beste Plakate 24 competition, and we’re excited to give you a sneak peek at some…
Mut zur Wut 2025
Call for Entries—International Poster Competition
Once again this year, Mut zur Wut with it’s 13th edition is deliberately turning public space into a stage for visual resistance!…
Call for Entries by Stiftung Buchkunst 2025
“Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher” and “Förderpreis für Junge Buchgestaltung”
The Stiftung Buchkunst is now accepting submissions for the Die Schönsten Deutschen Bücher 2025 (Best German Book Design 2025) and the Förderpreis…
The European Design Awards (ED-Awards), an award celebrating the regional distinctiveness of European communication design and its common foundations, is set to…
Anfachen Award IX
Call for Submission
The Anfachen Award IX addresses a critical fracture point in democratic societies: privilege. The unequal distribution of opportunities, power, and resources ignites…
100 Beste Plakate 24
Germany, Austria, Switzerland
On December 16th, 2024, the competition 100 Beste Plakate 24 Deutschland Österreich Schweiz (100 Best Posters 24 Germany Austria Switzerland) kicks off.…
Best German Book Design 2024
“Holy Smoke” wins the 2024 Stiftung Buchkunst Prize
We warmly congratulate Kaj Lehmann, whose book Holy Smoke: Censers Across Cultures (published by Hirmer Verlag, Munich) has been honored with the…
Call for Submissions: Slanted Magazine Experimental Type 3.0
Submissions are open until July 31st, 2024
After the success of the first two editions, Experimental Type is now set to become a series of publications. Working in collaboration…
100 Beste Plakate 23
X/100 — Expect Nothing — Appreciate Everything
The motto of this year’s 100 Beste Plakate is enticing and delivers on its promise: Every year, the association 100 Beste Plakate…
German Design Award 2025
Call for Submissions
Companies, designers, architects, and agencies worldwide are invited to submit their products and projects for the German Design Award 2025. This award,…
WAS IST GUT 2023
DDC Design Competition: Discursive, Participatory, Democratic
The German Designer Club (DDC) awarded ideas and projects in its design competition WAS IST GUT 2023 (transl. What is good) on…
Readymag Reinvents Designing Women
A Web Special and Design Grant
Readymag, the design tool for creating outstanding websites without coding, announces the relaunch of Designing Women, an initiative crafted to make a…
Fight for Kindness
Typography for Social Change
Recognizing the falling off of genuine kindness in today’s world, Fight for Kindness is a global initiative calling upon the design community…
100 Beste Plakate 2023
The Competition Winners
The winners of the 100 Beste Plakate (100 best posters) 2023 have been selected! The prizes for the 100 posters and poster…
Redesign Everything Challenge
Deadline Extended
What Design Can Do and the Ikea Foundation extended the deadline for the The Redesign Everything Challenge! Get another chance to participate…
Anfachen Award VIII
Call for Submissions
Featuring the topic of Angst/Fear, the eighth round of the yearly Anfachen Award is once again addressing contemporary experience and events. International…
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