The world urgently needs design-driven solutions. Designers hold the power to shape how we live, experience, and interact with our surroundings. From transforming urban spaces to championing social causes through graphic design, the opportunities to create meaningful change are vast. These open calls offer a platform for designers eager to turn their vision for a brighter future into reality.

Communication Arts | 2025 Design Competition

Enter the most prestigious competition for creativity in graphic design, the Communication Arts Design Competition. Any design project printed, published or aired for the first time from May 2024 through May 2025 is eligible.

Rewards: The winners are featured in one of our annuals distributed worldwide, in both print and digital editions, and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work.

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Animayo | 2025 International Poster Contest

The Animayo 2025 International Poster Contest invites artists from across the globe to participate in crafting the official image for one of the most prestigious animation festivals. The Animayo Festival, which spans various artistic disciplines such as animation, visual effects, virtual reality, and video games, is an internationally acclaimed event recognized for its innovative approach to promoting audiovisual creativity. Free entry!

Rewards: The winner will receive a cash prize of €500, and their artwork will be used to promote the Animayo 2025 festival.

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Resilence / S+T+ARTS | Call to Design Soundscapes of Future Cities

The Resilence project enables collaborations between designers, architects, artists, scientists and researchers on sound-based projects related to urban environments. This program provides funding for these actors to design art-driven technologies that envision the sound of future cities. An unconventional residency program that may take place in multiple locations, designers who are interested in interdisciplinary collaborations and new technologies should consider applying.

Rewards: €40,000 funding for artists, access to state-of-the-art technologies + collaboration

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Seoul Design Award | Seoul Design Award for Sustainable Life

The Seoul Design Award is a platform that showcases the best of the best design practices that contribute to an improvement of everyday life. The award is given to designers or organizations that contribute to sustainable development by solving complex everyday problems through creative design.  Design that enables better relations among people and with the environment are especially suitable for this open call.

Rewards: 130,000,000 KRW (~€9,700) total prize money + promotion

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Poznań Graphic Arts | 14th Poznań Graphic Arts Biennale 2025

The Graphic Arts Biennale, established in 1999, is a cyclical review/competition presenting the works of young-generation artists working in the area of graphic arts. In 2019, the competition formula was changed as thematic areas were defined to expose alternative values entering into dialogue with contemporary culture and everyday life. The new formula of the Biennale has been adapted to changes in contemporary art related to post-artistic activities (1:1 art, ‘utilitarian’ art and material realism) and to transformations conditioned by the role of graphic statements in the context of social activities (activist movements).

Rewards: $50,000 total prize money + exhibition

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