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Monday, May 12, 2008

Design Book Magazine's T-shirt design competition


+ Design Book Magazine has announced Call for Entries for its T-shirt design competition. The winning design will be become our official shirt for the 2008 season. Winning designer's bio and work will be shown in the Summer issue along with a link to his or her website. The T-shirt design must feature the Design Book Magazine Logo. (click here to download). Color Designs are acceptable only if accompanied by a monochromatic version. Design must fit on the front, side, or back of a standard cotton T-shirt. Designs must be submitted in EPS format.
Entries will be judged on creativity and originality. There is no entry fee or limit to the number of entries per designer. All designs must be original. Submit your entry by June 20th, 2008 via e-mail to contribute@designbookmag.com. For more information, please visit www.designbookmag.com.

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SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 New Horizons: Call for Participation


+ SIGGRAPH Asia, the 1 st ACM SIGGRAPH Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Asia seeks participation from digital innovators, researchers, producers, artists, and engineers to be part of the inaugural SIGGRAPH Asia as contributors, presenters or volunteers for its programmes.
Content Presentations and Contributions
Technical Papers
The SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Technical Papers programme will continue the tradition of excellence in computer graphics and interactive techniques that SIGGRAPH is known for and extend this world-class experience to Asia. SIGGRAPH Asia invites submission of high-quality papers that will set the standard in the field and stimulate future trends. Accepted papers will be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 and published as a special issue of ACM Transactions on Graphics. The deadline for submission to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Technical Papers is 28 May 2008.
Sketches and Posters
This programme covers a broad spectrum of topics including digital art, design, science, and engineering. It encompasses ideas ranging from speculation to academic research, from industrial development and practical tools to behind-the-scenes explanations of commercial and artistic work. Whether one is toying with fuzzy what-if ideas, developing new techniques, or using existing ones in novel ways, SIGGRAPH Asia wants to hear from them! SIGGRAPH Asia encourages them to be a part of this exciting exchange of ideas and techniques by being a pioneer and contribute their ideas to the first SIGGRAPH Asia! The deadline for submission to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Sketches & Posters is 12 July 2008.
Courses
The Courses programme welcomes submissions that cover state-of-the-art techniques in computer graphics and interactive interfaces including (but not limited to) animation, computer-human interactivity, post-production, entertainment, gaming, rendering, scientific visualisation, virtual reality, and programming hackery. SIGGRAPH Asia also welcomes reports on recent industrial advances and tutorials on skills and techniques for artists. The deadline for submission to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Courses programme is 19 May 2008.
Art Gallery
The Art Gallery welcomes submissions of printed, interactive, networked, digital art in 2D, 3D, and 4D, especially works that deal with transformations, fusions, intersections, and paradigm shifts from Asia. The show will facilitate an encounter with, and exchange between, different fields to showcase "hybrid" works such as space art in zero gravity, text-literature visualisation, and ubiquitous sounds. The deadline for submission to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Art Gallery is 20 June 2008.
Computer Animation Festival
The Computer Animation Festival includes two main components: The official competition programme features a juried selection of "the best of the best" amazing works that provide insight on current international trends in computer-generated animation. Further to this a special curated programme will showcase remarkable films, from classics to experimental explorations of the latest technologies. This special programme of short subjects and features presents an intriguing collection of world-
renowned animated works. Professionals, artists, filmmakers, and researchers from throughout the world are invited to participate. The deadline for submission to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Computer Animation Festival is 20 June 2008.
Educators Programme
The aim of the Educators Programme is to create an environment that supports innovation in the instruction of computer graphics and digital art. Support the evolving integration of art and technology as embraced by educators of all levels from early learning through higher education and industry in all sub-disciplines of the field. Share ideas concerning educational strategies as adopted in both industry and academia and help make learning a more satisfying, productive, and meaningful process. The deadline for submission to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Educators Programme is 6 June 2008.
Emerging Technologies
This programme seeks creative and innovative projects in the fields of virtual and mixed reality, haptic interfaces, ubiquitous systems, digital tools, HD displays, robotics, and any other applications of new, exciting, and amazing technologies. The deadline for submission to the SIGGRAPH Asia 2008 Emerging Technologies is 26 May 2008. For more information on contribution or participation, or for contributors’ benefits, please visit www.siggraph.org/asia2008.

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Friday, May 09, 2008

HYPSOO Present 2008 T-SHIRT Design Contest


+ This is our first contest this year and it’s for all the creative people out there. If you love t-shirts here’s your chance to see your very own design on a Hypsoo t-shirt, limited editions. The design concept can be of your choice. Deadline for submissions: June 30th, 2008
THE PRIZES - #First Prize winner will receive five t-shirts with their design or any other t-shirts of their choice from hypsoo catalogue. #Second prize winner will receive three t-shirts with their design or any other t-shirts of their choice from hypsoo catalogue. #The runner-ups will receive one t-shirt each with their design or any other t-shirts of their choice from hypsoo catalogue. Visit www.hypsoo.com for more details.

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

SAPPI IDEAS THAT MATTER : Call For Entries



+ Call for Entries has been announced for SAPPI - "Ideas that Matter," is an initiative by Sappi - the world's leading producer of coated fine paper. This annual campaign encourages creative marketing and advertising professionals from Europe, North America and South Africa to create printed communication campaigns and designs around important social or environmental issues. Individual Graphics designers, design agencies, in-house design departments and individuals or groups of design students are all eligible to apply. The successful applicants will be awarded a grant of up to R300,00.00 (US$20,000) for the print production and implementation of their idea. Independent selection committees in Europe, North America and South Africa will review all applications in their respective region. For more information, please - Click Here

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Call for Entries : 5th annual Architectural 3D Awards


+ Call for entries has been announced for 5th annual Architectural 3D Awards, ending on 24 May 2008 12:00:00 UTC-0600 (deadline). Architectural visualizers are asked to submit their entries in still and animation categories. Following up on last year's huge success, CGarchitect.com is hosting the 5th annual Architectural 3D Awards to be awarded at this year's Mundos Digitales Conference in La Coruna, Spain. The Awards Competition is open to everyone in the Architectural Visualization industry to highlight the best imagery and animations done in 2007/2008. For more information, please - click here!

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Monday, April 28, 2008

Love Your Body: 2009 Poster Contest


+ Call for entries has been announced for "Love Your Body: 2009 Poster Contest" organisied by National Organization for Women Foundation, to celebrate the Love Your Body Campaign. The Entries are open to world-wide artists and graphics designers. Deadline: Postmarked December 1, 2008. The grand prize winning poster will be used as part of a national campaign to challenge the media's use of violent, drug-addicted, starved, surgically-enhanced images of women and to fight against industries that profit from women’s dissatisfaction with their bodies.
Artists may submit multiple posters in the same category, but may not submit posters in different categories. When creating your poster, please remember that the winning poster will be reproduced and distributed and consider the cost of reproduction. You may send all your posters in one envelope. Before submitting posters to the contest, please look at past winners and familiarize yourself with the campaign. The winning poster will be distributed to schools as well as individuals, so please consider the audience when designing your poster.

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Friday, April 11, 2008

HUGO Create Contest*



+ Entries has been invited from Digital artists, designers, illustrators and enthusiast for Second round of HUGO Create challenge. The winners of first round has been announced earlier this month. Participants are invited to make a design for HUGO Fragrances, inspired by and featuring the HUGO Man Bottle. The competition is conducted in 4 rounds. The top 10 designs of each round will be awarded with a cash prize of 500 US-$ (40 money prizes in total). The winning design of each round will also be published in i-D magazine. All designs will be posted in the Gallery within a week of their submission. Site users can vote for their favorite creations. The HUGO Create challenge is open to entrants over 18 years old. Each entrant is allowed to submit maximum 5 proposals per round and can only receive one jury prize per round.Entering the HUGO Create challenge is free of charge. For more information, please visit www.hugocreate.com

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Call for Entries: ADC Young Guns 6


+ Art Directors Club has announced Call for Entries: ADC Young Guns 6, biennial competition for under-30 creative professionals. The rules are simple. You must be under the age of 30, you must have two years’ experience in a creative profession, and you must produce high-caliber visual work that will seize the jury’s attention and knock ’em dead. On April 3, ADC Young Guns 6 opens its call for entries worldwide. Fifty new Young Guns will be chosen as this year’s competition class; they will be announced in September and presented with the ADC Cube at the opening party for the gallery exhibition of their work. Selections of their work will be printed in a commemorative, limited edition volume published exclusively for the Art Directors Club by Moleskine®. The ADC Young Guns 6 class will also have their work added to the ADC’s permanent collection online and receive one-year membership in the organization. As in previous years, submissions need not conform to any specific media categories; entries may consist of one medium or as many as the contestant chooses to include. Contestants are asked to submit 6–10 pieces, up to 3 of which can be personal work, and will be judged on the basis of this body of work. Eligibility requires only that the contestant is under 30 years of age and has at least two years of professional experience (both full-time and freelance work qualify). The competition is open internationally, and past entries have come from as far as Australia, Croatia, South Africa, and Hong Kong. The entry fee is $125 USD; proceeds help fund the ADC’s wide-ranging programs throughout the year. The deadline for submissions is June 2, and late entries will be assessed an additional $25 fee. Procedural guidelines are available online (adcyoungguns.org). Adobe®, the lead sponsor for ADC Young Guns 6, supports this project for its close alignment with the way Adobe® products recognize and help creatives who work across platforms and without boundaries. Supporting sponsorship has been provided by JanouPakter, a talent recruiter for the world’s leading corporations, design consultancies, advertising and branding agencies, and fashion and luxury goods houses since 1985. To learn more about ADC Young Guns 6, visit www.adcyoungguns.org.

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Call for Entries: for animated films


+ Cartoon Club, the International Festival of Animation Cinema and Comics, has announced call for Entries for animated film, in competitive and non-competitive sections. In order to participate in different sections of the Festival (the International Section, open to all directors and film-makers; the Animation Workshop Award, for the students of primary and secondary schools; and the Signor Rossi Award, for the students of high schools, universities and animation cinema schools), your movie must have been produced after January 1st, 2006. There is no entry fee, and a committee will select the films which will be admitted.
You must send a copy of your film (preferably on DVD, otherwise on good quality VHS) to the Festival headquarters (Cartoon Club - via Circonvallazione Occidentale, 58 - 47900 Rimini – Italy) together with the completed entry form, at least three stills from the film, a photograph of the film-maker and the film dialogues (if they are in a language other than Italian or English, please also include a translation in one of these two languages). Shipping costs are on the participant. The submission deadline is April 30th, 2008. The Festival will tell the participants if their films have been selected by June 15Th, 2008. The copies of the films submitted will not be sent back: they will become part of the Festival archives. For more information, please visit www.cartoonclub.it

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

ARTRMX COLOGNE - Last call for entries


+ Last Call for Entries for ARTRMX COLOGNE 2008. Photographers, street artists, graphic artists, painters and video artists can send in their works to the given subject "WHERE IS MY MIND?" until April 15th 2008. In collaboration with artistic advisors, the artrmx e. V. will assemble and distribute the artworks among different off-spaces throughout Cologne. The jury members are as follows: Dr. Barbara J. Scheuermann (curator "Tate Modern London"), Claudia Stein (chief editor "photography now", Berlin), Gérard Goodrow (former director "Art Cologne"), Rik Reinking (curator collector, Hamburg), Zevs (street artist, Paris), Boris Hoppek (street artist and graphic designer, Barcelona), Wolfgang Zurborn (artist, gallery owner "Lichtblick"), Markus Schaden (publisher, "Schaden.com") , Prof. Julia Scher (artist professor "KHM", Cologne), Georg Elben (curator head of "Videonale" 10 und 11 in Bonn) etc. Alert, unconventional and inventive artworks are wanted, reflecting the present artistically or in documentary style. The participation fee amounts 40 Euro. For further information, participation conditions and application forms, Please visit: www.artrmx.com

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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Call for submissions: Icograda Galeria


+ Become part of Icograda’s Galeria – our international, online design exhibition. Icograda invites designers, illustrators and typographers who are members of Icograda to submit original work for display. Participation is open to members of Icograda Member associations, faculty and students of Icograda Education Network members and Icograda Friends.
The Galeria is a showcase of design that exhibits original expression, creativity, wit, or effective visual communication. Selected work should communicate effectively to an international audience in an online environment. The best suited work includes designs for posters, postcards, book jackets, etc. Each selected work is highighted for a one-week period on the Icograda website, and then becomes a permanent part of the Icograda Galeria archive. Download the submission criteria: Word Doc (168KB) or PDF (216KB). For more information, please visit www.icograda.org

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Friday, March 28, 2008

2008 Create Awards - Call For Entries



+ The 2008 Create Awards – one of the top creative competitions for professionals and students in advertising, film and video, motion Graphics, Graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting – announces its official call for entries on 21 March (first deadline May 30). The 2008 Create Awards has once again doubled its prize pool from last year (07 Create awards). More than $125K worth of the latest in software and hardware from leading creative industry manufacturers is up for grabs, not to mention national print and online exposure in Create Magazine. New this year, every Create Awards Gold winner will receive an All-Access Full Conference pass to Create Chaos 2008, our one-week, multiple-event experience in Orlando, FL from October 13-17 (a $995 value). Winners will also receive a VIP ticket to the Create Awards Gallery unveiling party that week. Prizes for Best of Show, Best of Student and Best of Industry winners include products from industry-leading companies such as: Alienware, Adobe, Nikon, Total Training, Wacom, Pantone, Microtek, Lasersoft Imaging, Lensbabies, Corel, Letraset, Booq Bags, Markzware, Maxon, Focal Press, Pixologic, Digital Juice, Extensis, Auto FX Software and Stash Media. The first deadline for entries with discounted “early bird” submission fees is May 30. To enter the competition or receive more information, visit there website or pick up a copy of the Mar+Apr issue of Create Magazine on newsstands now.
The Create Awards is one of the top competitions for working creative professionals across the nation and is open to all creative professionals and students working in advertising, film and video, motion graphics, Graphic communication, photography, printing, interactive media, and copywriting. Enter today at www.thecreateawards.com today to stay updated on prizes and entry deadlines!

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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Digital Show 3 - Call for Entries


+ The Successful ONLINE Exhibition of International Digital Art is Calling for Entries for May 2008 Exhibition. Deadline for submitting your entires is April 27th, 2008. digitalshow.co.uk is an International Digital Art website showing online-only exhibitions of high quality digital art. This will be the third in the series which started with the Independent Biennial Liverpool in 2006 and the second as part of Futuresonic 2007 Urban Festival of Electronic Arts and Music in Manchester, UK. Entry is open to all worldwide. Futuresonic 2008 runs from May 1 to May 5 2008 in Manchester UK.
Digital Art for the purposes of this exhibition is defined as artwork that has been entirely or at least substantially created using computer software. e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter, Flash, 3ds Max, Maya, Bryce etc. What we are looking for is exciting, interesting painting and drawing rather than examples of your knowledge of the software tools, filters etc. New work is preferred.The Theme is ‘People’. Loosely linked to Futuresonic's theme for 2008 of 'The Social - Social Networking Unplugged'. So, could be portraits, groups, crowds, other figurative or social scenes. Please read the details of the theme from Futuresonic website to get more inspiration.

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Monday, March 24, 2008

skopje poster competition


+ Call for Entries has been announced for skopje poster competition, and the main subject of this competition is Tolerance, a Global Challenge. The “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” project embodies a number of activities which are meant to contribute to a graduate improving of the society as a whole, giving special attention to the young population between the age of 18 and 28. Its goal is to bring the ideas together, giving the youth a chance to express their beliefs and thoughts through “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” by creating a ‘poster’. It will have a direct effect on the society by opening new horizons and giving a strong motivation for the youth to work towards a better future. This project should promote the ‘poster’ as a mean of expressing these ideas among the European youth.
Entry deadline is 15th of May, 2008. The competition is open to art and design students registered at an educational institution for art and design including disciplines such as fine arts, Graphic design, communication design, visual communication, media design and other related disciplines. There's no limit for nationality.

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Friday, February 29, 2008

Call for Entries: LACDA 'TOP 40' JURIED SHOW


+ Forty Winners! Enter our "TOP 40" juried competition for digital art and photography. Entrants submit three JPEG files of original work. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to the creation of the images are acceptable. Open to all geographical locations. Forty selected winners receive one print up to 24x36 on museum quality paper to be shown in an international group exhibition in our gallery from April 10- May 3, 2008. The show will be widely promoted and will include a reception for the artists.
Many artists from this exhibition continue their relationship with LACDA with exhibitions in solo shows or exhibitions curated outside of LACDA and digital art and photo fairs where LACDA participates. All entries are given special consideration for exhibiting at LACDA and outside exhibitions where we are featured. Artists participating in our competitions form the pool of artists from which we select the vast majority of those featured at LACDA and are often considered by our associated network of galleries and curators. Proceeds from the competition support these gallery programs. Juror Rex Bruce has curated and participated in over 50 exhibits since the founding of LACDA in 2004 and is internationally recognized as a leader and expert in the field. Registration fee is $30US and Online registration only. Multiple entries are permitted, seperate entry fee required for eachset of three images submitted.
Deadline for Entries: March 20, 2008
Winners Announced: March 27, 2008
Exhibit Dates: April 10-May 3, 2008
For more information, please visit www.lacda.com

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