Welcome to Doodle 4 Google, a competition where we invite K-12 students to work their artistic will upon our homepage logo. At Google we believe in thinking big and dreaming big, so this year we’re inviting U.S. kids (students are not required to be U.S. citizens. However, they must be U.S. residents) to exercise their creative imaginations around the theme, "If I Could Do Anything, I Would…". We’re looking forward to the kids’ answers too. Gather those art supplies and some 8.5" x 11"paper and encourage your students to enrich us all with their creative visions for what they would do in the world, if they could do anything. This year, a group of well-known illustrators, cartoonists and animators from organizations like The Sesame Street Workshop, Dr. Seuss Enterprises, The Charles Shulz/Peanuts Museum and Pixar Animation Studios, will be helping us select the 40 finalist doodles as well as attending our awards ceremony to personally meet our winners. The National Winner will win a $15,000 college scholarship to be used at the school of their choice, a trip to New York City for an event on May 26, 2010, a laptop computer, a Wacom digital design tablet, and a t-shirt printed with his/her doodle on it. We'll also award the winner's school a $25,000 grant towards the establishment/improvement of a computer lab. The winning doodle will also be featured on the Google.com homepage on May 27, 2010.

The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2010, International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, and has defined three main dimensions: dialogue, mutual understanding, and cooperation. UNESCO, as a specialized agency of the United Nations entrusted with the mandate to build “the defences of peace in the minds of men," has been designated as lead agency of the Year within the UN system. Participants of the competition are invited to express their vision and understanding of the "Rapprochement of Cultures" by designing posters that creatively emphasize the importance of exchange and dialogue among and between cultures in ensuring social cohesion and harmonious coexistence. Designers have complete creative liberty. 50 posters will be selected for display in an online gallery linked to UNESCO's website dedicated to the celebration of the International Year 2010. From 50 selected posters, 30 posters will be printed for an exhibition to be held at UNESCO HQ in May 2010 in the framework of the UNESCO International Festival of Cultural Diversity. From the 30, UNESCO will select an Overall Winner who will receive a $2000 cash prize plus an invitation from UNESCO to attend the poster exhibition at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in May 2010.

USGBC's Natural Talent Design Competition provides applied learning experience in the principles of integrated design, sustainability, and innovation, all of which are components of the LEED Green Building Rating System. Participants compete in local competitions, and the top winner of each moves on to compete for a national award at USGBC’s annual Greenbuild International Conference & Expo. Awards include green building scholarships, as well as travel and registration to Greenbuild, where finalists’ entries are displayed and final judging occurs. Registration rates are $25 per student team and $50 per emerging professional team, but will increase to $50 and $75, respectively, after March 1st. Open to USA only.

The SMPS National Marketing Communications Awards (MCA) program is the longest-standing, most prestigious awards competition that recognizes excellence in marketing communications by professional services firms in the design and building industry. Now in its 33rd year, this competition is open to both SMPS Members and Nonmembers, US and International Firms. Materials completed between January 2008 and December 2009 will be accepted for the 2010 competition. First-, second-, and third-place and small-firm winners (as appropriate) will be announced on stage at the Awards Gala on July 15, 2010, during the 2010 SMPS National Conference.

Marie Claire & IED Barcelona announced their first Fashion Illustration Contest. If you like fashion and are driven by illustration, this is your chance. Take part in our fashion illustration competition and win a 2010 summer course in Creative Illustration or Introduction to Fashion Design. Participants are welcome worldwide with or without studies in fashion design. Free technique: watercolour, acrylic, felt-tip pen or pencil (individually or combined). No collage and no computer program is allowed. Reinvent yourself in 2010 – this is your year!

Inkfruit (an online community of designers and t-shirt lovers) in partnership with World Wildlife Fund (WWF - India) brings designers across the world the opportunity to design for a cause. Earth Hour is a contest for graphic designs supporting Climate Change. Earth Hour is an initiative calling people throughout the world to Switch OFF on 28th March 2010 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm local time, showing your support for Saving the Environment. Submit your graphic designs in support of Earth Hour. Make a Difference! This contest is open for everyone; No entry costs; Please submit your original creations as jpeg files. If your entry wins, you will be expected to mail the high resolution or vector design files.

Poster Clash is a new breed of poster competition. Not only will a select panel of judges moderate the entries, but the final decisions are in your hands with head-to-head voting online and at the Poster Clash Main Event, March 18th 2010. A national panel of judges will judges all the entries and narrow down the field to 64 posters to contend in the Clash. The judging will be based on the individual style and taste of the judge, as well as completion of the requirements. Those 64 contestants will enter an online competition where the public will be able to cast their votes in a head-to-head match up system drawn at from the results of the judging process. Concept: Change One Thing. The concept for this year’s Poster Clash is the line: "Change one thing", From the simplest action of changing to compact florescent bulbs, to more in-depth changes such as political parties and life habits, motivating change in visual communication is one of the most basic and fulfilling aspects of the communication profession. Open worldwide. Entry fees are 5.00 USD for students, and 10.00 USD for professionals.

Anci Creative Award returns after two successful editions. This international competition is promoted by the National Association of Italian Footwear Manufacturers, the reference point for worldwide footwear manufacturers. Anci once again turns to creative artists, invited to create artwork conceived with the aid of digital technology. Footwear, a 3D fashion accessory by definition, is a technological sculpture, which hides the secrets that make it come true. So let us give a green light to Artists and their open vision and interpretation of this object, who will refer to this little but big universe. Works can be illustrations, traditional sculptures, or CG3D. The jury will select 20 works that will be printed and inserted in a breathtaking 3-D stereoscopic video. They will be showed to visitors and international press during next Micam ShoEvent (Milano, March 2nd to 5th, 2010). During the event the winner will be announced and awarded with a prize money.

Imageglow lantern candles are looking for new, creative designs. Open worldwide, artists and graphic designers (ages 18+) are invited to submit new, original designs; hand illustrations, paintings, or computer-created graphic designs. Submit as .jpg image (template provided). The winner’s prize: a case of six lantern-style candles in their design (value $160) and at Imageglow’s option, it will produce and market candles with the winner’s design. In that case, winner will earn a royalty of 5% of the wholesale selling price, paid quarterly. (So if your design is fabulous like we know it will be, you can make some cash!) Imageglow Candles are an all-wax hurricane lantern with artist-designed patterns embedded in the wax, through a patented process. ‘Candles?’ you ask. Yup, but these are different. Gorgeous designs that radiate with light when illuminated, check out the photos. Imageglow founder Linda Marshall’s interest in design is holistic, having practiced interior architecture and design, and heading a firm offering graphic design, interior and product design.

A new design contest has launched on eYeka for France’s postal service. Win up to 6,600 euros to create its new holiday packaging! The new design/packaging, will be sold in all postal offices and used by the whole French population in 2010 for every holiday! It’s up to you to bring your "festive, celebration, present, holiday" spirit to this design! Be imaginative, trendy, sober, off beat… Make sure we want to send and receive your package and that it reflects the desire to make people happy. Create the exterior design, but also don’t hesitate to imagine its interior (see guidelines). Early Bird Prize: 4 prizes of 150 euros. 4 designs will be selected among the creations submitted before January 30th. First Prize : 3 000 euros. One design selected among the creations submitted between January 18 and March 29, 2010. Most voted: 10 prizes of 300 euros. For the 10 most voted designs between March 30 and May 17, 2010. The contest is open worldwide. There is no entry fee.