The Information is Beautiful Awards — Celebrating Excellence in Data Visualation
http://www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/2011/09/premiere-challenge/
$3,000 in prizes. They provide the data, you provide the design. They say:
We’d like you to visualise this data on the Earth’s non-renewable resources. Stuff like tin, aluminium, gold, coal, oil – the stuff that we can’t replace. (Unless a huge, ore-bearing comet slams into the planet, of course). We’ve done a metric tonne of research into the reserves of various earth metals and minerals. Now we’re looking for a graphic that conveys it all. You can enter in two ways. With a finished ‘design’ or a well-conceived ‘napkin’ sketch.