Design submissions for the 9th annual Create Design Awards are now open. The event celebrates Australia’s world class creative industry, awarding exceptional talent over an array of creative fields. The Awards are presented by desktop magazine, sister publication to Marketing, and this year the Awards night is taking place in Sydney for the first time.

Have you been involved in a creative project that deserves to be recognised? The categories most applicable to marketing-related work include:

• Identity/branding
• Interactive
• Packaging
• Print – commercial
• Signage and display
• Website

Pictured: The 2012 winner of the Identity/Branding category, Qube Konstrukt’s identity for KUBIK Melbourne, for client Marksthespot.

Entries for the 2013 Awards close at midnight on 31 May. Click here for the full list of categories. Entrants must be based in Australia and work entered must have been completed between 1 January 2012 and 31 May 2013.

Winners are determined by a panel of some of Australia’s most prominent and respected design industry figures and will be announced at the prestigious 600+ people Gala Awards Night in November 2013 in Sydney. In addition, winning projects and designers will be published online and profiled in a special Create Design Awards issue of desktop magazine.

Click here for more details on how to enter.

Click here to see the winners from 2012.