Groundbreaking design often begins with a prototype.

  
Prototyping is to design an original idea into a form that has the potential to lead to the next step. The KOKUYO DESIGN AWARD 2025 seeks designs pointing the way to the future and serving as a catalyst.

  
Your design will inspire others and become a vector for the future.

  
We look forward to seeing your “prototype” not bound by existing thinking or limited to mockups or ideas.

The best design will be awarded with **2,000,000 Japanese yen** — about $12,800\. Three Merit awards of **500,000 Japanese yen each**, will also be announced and special prizes may as well be awarded. Up to 10 winners will also be announced for the New Generation Award and will each be awarded with **30,000 Japanese yen**.

  
The contest organizer will pay expenses incurred by participants for travel and lodging (up to two individuals for group entries).

Kokuyo Design Award 2025: Prototype

The School of Media Arts and Design (ESMAD) at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto (P.PORTO) has launched the John Goto Prize in honor of the innovative photographer and artist John Goto. His groundbreaking work has contributed to reshaping photography as a means of social commentary and cultural critique.

  
The competition is aimed at higher education students in the visual arts (photography, video, cinema, digital arts, multimedia, design, plastic arts), with innovative approaches that use photography and/or other areas mentioned above as a means of reflecting on contemporary issues. 

The competition foresees the selection of 4 exhibition or installation proposals, individual or collective, by a selection jury composed of recognized artists and researchers.

  
The exhibitions, which will present the selected works, will be open to the public on a date to be defined, in the exhibition spaces of the P. PORTO universe and public institutions with agreements with ESMAD.

  
The authors whose proposals are selected will receive a grant for support and production, within the context of the exhibitions, amounting to €1500 (one thousand five hundred euros).

John Goto Award

The University of Saskatchewan Art Galleries and Collection (USAGaC) has now opened the application call for the third annual **ohpinamake Prize for Indigenous Artists**. “ohpinamake”is a nêhiyawêwin term meaning “to lift others,” which was gifted to USAGaC by three Indigenous community leaders: elders Maria Campbell and Louise Bernice Halfe-Sky Dancer, and artist and alumna Ruth Cuthand (BFA’83, MFA’92). This prestigious award recognizes an Indigenous artist who works within the spirit of the term, and whose territories intersect with the current colonial borders of Canada.

ohpinamake Prize for Indigenous Artists

For the third time now, Fumetto, together with the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland, is awarding the PULSAR comic sponsorship prize: the award goes to a young talent, at the beginning of a promising comic career. Are you a comic artist, a yet undiscovered star in the comic cosmos? Then send us your idea!

  
The theme of the PULSAR 2025 is “**LIGHT / SHADOW**”. The Pulsar comic should have an explicit reference to the basic idea and obligations of the Weltethos project (for further information see also the “Declaration of the global ethos”).

  
Fumetto and the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland will select a winner from the dossiers received by the end of October 2024\. The project starts with a kick-off meeting as soon as possible at the end of October with the artist, Fumetto and the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland, including an inspection of the exhibition location in the Heiliggeistkapelle in Lucerne.

  
The production period for the comic is from the end of October 2024 to the end of February 2025\. In January 2025 there will be a joint update meeting with Fumetto and the Foundation Weltethos Switzerland. The comic should be completed by the beginning of March 2025, the exact date for the print deadline is yet to be announced.

  
The exhibition construction will take place between March 24th and April 4th, 2025, with support from the Fumetto construction team. The award ceremony will take place as part of Fumetto on Saturday, April 12, 2025, at 4 p.m.

PULSAR consists of a cash prize of CHF 2500, a solo exhibition at the Fumetto Comic Festival Luzern 2025 from 5th to 13th April 2025 and a publication (300 copies, of these, 30 specimen copies will go to the artist). As a festival artist, you will receive a festival pass, the official festival T-shirt, food during the festival days and invitations to all events.

Pulsar Comic Sponsorship Award

iJungle Illustration Awards 2024 is a competition to celebrate the world´s art of illustration. Located in Europe, it is opened to illustrators, agencies, representatives, students and teachers all over the world. iJungle 2024 has 6 categories: Book, Editorial, Comics, Commercial, New Talent (Student), Self-Promotion. A jury of some of the world's best illustrators and art directors will select the winners.

  
Categories expanded: 

  
**Book**

Illustration works commissioned in the form of printed and digital picturebooks for children, youth and adults, book covers for text books, inside illustrations, interactive books, works of fiction and non-fiction, zines, artist books.

  
**Editorial**

Illustration works commissioned for printed and digital magazines, newspapers, fanzines, other publications. Includes illustrations for articles, news items, cartoons, political satire, reports and others.

  
**Commercial**

Illustration works commissioned in the form of printed or digital advertising, merchandising, posters, greetings cards, annual reports, packaging, brochures, leaflets, calendars, toys, vinyl toys, plush toys, CDs, DVDs, record sleeves, stamps, board games, animations or websites and others, which have been commercially commissioned.

  
**New Talent (Student)**

Open to all illustration students in all countries.

  
**Self-Promotion**

Unpublished work, gallery art, personal or experi­mental work, commissioned but not published work by professionals)

  
**Comics**

Illustration works commissioned in the form of printed or digital comics and graphic novels (Send up to 5 illustrations/pages).

Multiple Image Entry ($48 US dollars for up to five related uploads per entry except Video game Art, that has 10 works.)

A jury of some of the world´s best illustrators and art directors will select the winners.

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All winning entrants will be exhibit in the **iJungle Illustration Annual 2024!** This ebook will be available FOR FREE online, reaching thousands of Art Directors, Illustrators, Representatives, Gallerists and Curators worldwide, giving the awarded members international recognition!

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All winning entrants will be exhibit on **our NEW online gallery, to be seen by an anyone interested in illustration** !

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The winners will be presented to art directors through the Annual ebook that **we send to art directors around the world!**

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iJungle 2024 Illustration Awards will also distribute the following awards:

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* **US $2500 money prize for the Best of the Best (**(chosen from one of the gold medalists) **and correspondig Gold Medal**

* **US $500 money prize the Gold Medals** for each category (the remaining 5 gold medals)

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* Up to **20 Merit Awards** for each category (Up to 140 Merit Awards).

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* All awarded designers will receive an **AWARD CERTIFICATE.**

  
* The Gold Medalists will have interviews dedicated to their work with extensive social media promotion.

2024 International Illustration Awards

The New Emergence Art Prize 2024 offers a £1000 cash prize for the winner and a permanent feature in our online gallery for shortlisted artists. This is our sixth edition of the art prize, founded to champion and showcase living emerging artists from all backgrounds worldwide.

  
There is no set theme; we are excited to showcase the diverse range of contemporary art being created around the world today. We accept applications from all international artists aged 18 or over working in any medium.

The judges for The New Emergence Art Prize 2024 are Habib Hajallie RBA (Founder of New Emergence Art), Alex Zawadzki (Founder & Director of The Second Act Gallery) and Phoebe Boddy (Contemporary Artist).

The New Emergence Art Prize 2024 offers a £1000 cash prize for the winner and a permanent feature in our online gallery for shortlisted artists. This is our sixth edition of the art prize, founded to champion and showcase living emerging artists from all backgrounds worldwide.

The New Emergence Art Prize 2024

Chromatic Awards is an international competition of color photography open to both professionals and amateurs. Participation in the Chromatic Awards offers not only prestige, but also the opportunity to win extra money for the development of passion. 

  
 As such, every professional and amateur photographer from every corner of the world is invited and urged to participate in the third edition of this international prestigious photographic competition dedicated to color photography where 20 categories will be adjudicated by an international jury composed of magazine editors, gallery curators, professional agents and other industry professionals.

The international range of the competition and the prestige the winners receive will not only enrich the portfolio, but also stand out in the art world and the media. The winning entries awarded with gold, silver and bronze medals for each category will be presented both in the Gallery of Winners and the Official Book of Chromatic Awards. The photographers will also receive the right to use the winner badge and certificate. 

  
 Other than that, the winner among the professionals will receive **$2,000** and the winner of the amateur category will get **$1,000** as monetary awards on top of the media and magazine mileage mentioned above.

2024 AWARDS

The LOEWE FOUNDATION launches the eighth edition of the LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize, an international award celebrating excellence in craftsmanship.

  
The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize seeks to acknowledge and support international artisans of any age (over 18) or gender who demonstrate an exceptional ability to create objects of superior aesthetic value. By identifying work that reinterprets existing knowledge to make it relevant today while reflecting its maker’s personal language and distinct hand, the LOEWE FOUNDATION aims to highlight the continuing contribution of craft to the culture of our time.

  
Craft artists who leave their individual imprint on their work dig into the quicksands of art and claim the chance of making trades flourish once again, recycling and not forgetting the past. The LOEWE FOUNDATION believes that the artistic vision describes the craft that will make a better future.

The Prize for the winning piece of work is fifty thousand euros (50,000 euros). The winning entry can be made up of either one single piece of work or one series of works. The Prize for the works awarded with a Special Mention is five thousand euros (5,000 euros), regardless of the number of Special Mentions granted. Prizes will be subject to the withholding of the corresponding Spanish personal income tax (Impuesto sobre la Renta de las Personas Físicas, IRPF) in accordance with current legislation in Spain. 

  
The works created by the Winner and Finalists will be included in the exhibition ‘LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025’ (herein after ‘the Exhibition’) and its accompanying catalogue, on view in Madrid in the spring of 2025 or any other location that LOEWE FOUNDATION may deem appropriate.

The LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize 2025

Joseph Binder believed that the work of a graphic designer always has an impact on society, the economy, and the reception of the product itself. Graphic design adds value and can develop a distinctive voice. This year’s theme “Show your Color” by the graphic design collective so-super.com refers to this philosophy by encouraging designers to show the tonality, and the origin of the individual design language in their work. The typography-based and reduced design concept of the Joseph Binder Award 2024 highlights the importance of typeface in Binder’s work. It plays with format, form, rhythm and volume to create awareness and space for a colorful international illustration and graphic design scene.

  
The Joseph Binder Award is an international competition and showroom with a focus on graphic design and illustration and was first launched in 1996 by designaustria, the interest organization and knowledge centre for design in Austria. It is named after one of the most outstanding graphic designers and illustrators active in Austria, who subsequently also revolutionized visual communication in the United States.

  
Preparations for the Joseph Binder Award 2024 are in full swing. Designers have the opportunity to submit their ideas and projects in 14 categories and have them evaluated by a critical, competent and internationally experienced jury. **The submission phase starts in _September 2024_ and will run until October.** The jury’s decision will be made in December 2024\. 

  
On March 27-28, 2025, the award ceremony will be held together with the Joseph Binder Symposium and the exhibition opening. The JBA will take on a new festival character with the aim of strengthening synergy within the international graphic design and illustration scene.

JBA AUDIENCE AWARD: February 2025

  
AWARD CEREMONY, JOSEPH BINDER SYMPOSIUM, EXHIBITION OPENING at Vienna’s MuseumsQuartier: March 27-28, 2025

  
EXHIBITION at designforum Vienna: March 29, to Mai 15, 2025

  
TOURING EXHIBITION in several European cities: 2025/2026

Joseph Binder Award 2024

$20.00 for 1-3 artworks, $10.00 for 1-3 artworks thereafter. 

The Homiens Art Prize is an international, non-acquisitive art prize open to all artists. All art forms, mediums, and completion dates are eligible. We're excited to welcome artworks of all dimensions, on any theme.

  
View our recent Winners here: https://homiens.com/the-homiens-art-prize-spring-2024/

6 Winning artists are exhibited by Homiens, each receive an unrestricted cash award of $500, are published in our exhibition catalog, receive an optional interview, feature in our prestigious annual publication The Homiens 60, and may request a letter of recommendation from our Jurors. 

  
12 additional Finalists per round exhibit with Homiens and are published in our exhibition catalog. 

  
Up to 200 artists are Highly Commended and celebrated across our media. 

  
All entrants are considered for our seasonal exhibition program and may apply to participate in our Meet the Artists initiative, or to become a Homiens Promoted Artist.

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