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Have your artwork reproduced on the cover of American Artist, Watercolor, or Drawing magazines in 2007 and included on the magazine website. One work of art will be selected for the cover of each publication, and 10 finalists in each competition will be chosen for articles in the same issues.

Go to website: MyAmericanArtist

To help commemorate the National Wildlife Federation's 70 years of conservation action, the editors of National Wildlife, in collaboration with Nature's Best Photography magazine, invite photographers from all levels of expertise to enter the 2006 National Wildlife Photography Awards, its expanded 36th annual photography competition.

Go to website: nwf.org/NationalWildlife/

Have your design on the next Fossil Tin. Fossil is in search of artwork that supports it's vintage identity. First Place is a $1000 gift certificate and a trip to the Fossil Design Studio in Dallas.

Go to website: design.fossil.com

The Palladio Awards Program is designed to honor outstanding achievement in traditional design. The Program recognizes individual designers and/or design teams whose work enhances the beauty and humane qualities of the built environment through creative interpretation or adaptation of design principles developed through 2,500 years of the Western architectural tradition.

Go to website: PalladioAwards.com

Don't miss your opportunity to enter the 15th Annual HOW International Design Awards. It could be your chance to gain international recognition, feel like a star and show off your hard work Winning entries appear in the April 2007 issue of HOW.

Go to website: HowDesign.com

inside::out is a unique opportunity to have a role in transforming one of the most significant public spaces in America... the urban campus of the Boston Center for the Arts.

The BCA is a precious resource for showcasing performing and visual arts. Within its four acres are four theaters, over 50 artists' studios, a gallery, a jazz club, a music school, a ballet company, a 125-year-old large domed historic exhibition space, as well as restaurants, shops and residences. The challenge: to explore ideas in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, graphic design, and lighting, to better express the activity and energy inside the BCA's walls—to the outside.

Go to website: http://www.insideout.bcaonline.org/competition.html

The Adobe Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition — which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software — honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world's top institutions of higher education.

There are nine categories in the 2006 Adobe Design Achievement Awards competition, open to students at post-secondary institutions in 24 countries throughout the world. First-place winning entries will receive US$5,000, a trip to attend the July 20, 2006, awards ceremony in Toronto, Canada, valuable Adobe software products, and studio tours.

Go to website: adobe.com/education/adaa/