Skip to main content

Competition Details

In order of deadline:

Spoonflower Weekly Design Challenge (Deadline: Weekly Challenges)

Spoonflower’s Weekly Design Challenges encourage creativity by inviting our community to submit designs around fun themes and vote on favorites to win prizes.

Spoonflower Emerging Designer Grant (Deadline: Ongoing)

The Spoonflower Emerging Designer Grant, an award to support undergraduate and graduate students in pursuit of textile and design degrees worldwide. Grants are awarded to a select group of recipients each month to create their own digitally printed custom fabric and wall media for use in shows and exhibitions. Recipients are chosen monthly on a rolling basis.

Deadline: Ongoing

Additional questions can be directed to studentgrant@spoonflower.com.

Virginia Jackson Design Competition (Deadline: March 26, 2025)

Textile Design competition with 3 categories: Dobby, Jacquard, and Print

ITA Cover Competition (Deadline: April 30, 2025)

ITA is pleased to bring you an opportunity to gain exposure in the home furnishings industry for your school and students: the ITA Interwoven Market Show Guide Cover Competition.

AATCC C2C Student Design Competition (Deadline: April)

This year’s theme asks students to choose one of the following sustainability features to focus their design on (preferred fibers, manufacturing, end of life/reusability). Then, choose 2-3 AATCC Test Methods (such as but not limited to coloration, laundering, odor, microfibers) that will help prove the designs are sustainable.

Alpaca Owners Design Challenge (Deadline: April)

The AOA Student Design Competition mission is to expose college-level art, fashion, and textile design students and professors to the wonders of designing with alpaca fiber.

PCA Vision Student Competition (Deadline: April)

An international competition for students designing corporatewear, workwear and PPE.

Woolmark Performance Challenge (Deadline: May)

It is designed to facilitate innovative, environmentally-considerate product solutions for the sports and performance market, by harnessing the unique natural properties of Australian Merino wool.

Surface Design Association Outstanding Student Award (Deadline: Spring)

Each spring, SDA’s Outstanding Student Award is presented to students enrolled in accredited undergraduate or graduate programs at a college or university with a fiber focus.

Art2Wear (Deadline: Spring 2023)

Young designers are challenged to imagine, create, and inspire by expressing their point of view through wearable art.

ITAA Creative Design Scholarship (Deadline: June 1)

ITAA design scholars / students are invited to submit proposals to present original design work at the ITAA Annual Conference during the Design Exhibition.

Chicago Textile Week – Annual Competition (Deadline: Varies)

Each year there is usually a design competition associated with CTW.

FSF Case Study (Deadline: October 13, 2025)

Annual multi-disciplinary competition including an in-depth student challenge that focuses on real issues facing the fashion industry today.