Post it on your monitor! Call for submissions, collaborations, competitions, contests, conferences and other new nedia and design industry related events you don’t wanna miss!
Design has the power to influence our core values, our identity, our expectations and our worldview. The conference offers designers, business leaders and government the opportunity to experience current design thinking.
Reshape your understanding of the value of design.
Upcoming: April 26-30
Author Ethan Bodnar created over 30 unique tasks and gave each contributor (I was one) a task that was different from their typical work. Jumpstart your creativity!
(30 task cards included)
Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies, students, visual artists... you are welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental artwork.
International designers Network is a publication for creative people on a mission to amplify and unify the design community.
You've got a terrific product or service and wanna reach a fabulous international audience? Looking for a sweet deal?
Free poster to download, print and share. Tx for being a terrific audience!
Sharing this special gift with you. Free to download, share and print.
The Pictoplasma Berlin Festival brings together an international scene of artists, directors, designers and agencies, offering a unique forum for all those working with – or simply loving – the visualisation and application of contemporary character design.
The lively exchange between the various disciplines highlights the importance of characters in contemporary visual culture.
Upcoming: April 9 – 10
SXSW Interactive features five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders and an unbeatable line up of special programs showcasing the best new websites, video games and startup ideas the community has to offer. The industry Spring break!
Upcoming: March 12-16
Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies, students, visual artists… you are welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental artwork inspired by the theme:
Selected works will be featured through online exhibit and book.
Extended deadline: February 20
:output is the biggest international competition for students in design and architecture. Works carried out by students usually disappear into drawers after presentation to a relatively small college audience. There the work remains invisible. We want to change that. The works selected by the jury will be published in the yearbook.
:output Grand Prix: 3.000 Euro
Deadline: February 15
Call for entries. WOLDA is the worldwide logo design annual that is extending its foundation to become a global awards scheme.
Enter and get one ‘09 book copy free of charge!
Deadline logos 2009: February 10
OFFF is a cutting-edge festival exploring the latest in digital aesthetics and software language. OFFF festival brings together the artists that are breaking ground and shaping new standards in media and design, becoming the essential meeting point for the international scene of digital creation.
OFFF 2010 will take place in Paris, France. It is an exciting challenge and a very special way to celebrate a decade of post-digital creation.
Super early tickets available till January 31.
Upcoming: June 24-26
Icograda Design Week will take place in Vancouver under the theme: Design Currency: defining the value of design.
“Design has the power to influence our core values, our identity, our expectations and our worldview. The conference offers designers, business leaders and government the opportunity to experience current design thinking.
Reshape your understanding of the value of design.”
Upcoming: April 26-30
365: AIGA Annual Design Competition 31
A distinguished jury of design exemplars selects the best work across all disciplines of communication design and strategy created in 2009.
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AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2009 competition
This time-honored juried competition aims to identify the 50 best-designed books and book covers of 2009.
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Become part of the AIGA Design Archives and a traveling exhibition that debuts at the AIGA National Design Center in New York.
Deadline: March 5
Adobe Design Achievement Awards 2010 call for entries
Get recognised for your work on an international stage. The ADAA gives higher education students from around the world the shortcut to brilliance to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry.
Finalists will be invited to attend the awards ceremony at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles and awarded software and cash prizes.
Deadline: June 4
Design Adidas Goggles for the 2010 Winter Olympics. Customize a pair of adidas iD2 goggles to be worn by a British Adidas eyewear sponsored athlete competing in the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Following the submission deadline, all the designs will be posted on Talenthouse for voting to identify the top 10 finalists.
Compensation: 20,000$ USD
Deadline: December 31
Call for entries. Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek from London-based design studio FL@33 are currently compiling and designing an exciting new book entitled ABC Dimensional (working title) to be published worldwide by Laurence King Publishing in spring 2011.
ABC Dimensional will be a handbook, source of inspiration and the a truly comprehensive showcase focusing 100% on three-dimensional experimental letterforms, sculptural shape-shifting letters, tactile experiences and surprising and inventive ways to interpret the alphabet, ranging from beautiful and humorous to poetic, witty and conceptual.
Deadline: January 6
Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies, students, visual artists… you are welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental artwork inspired by the theme:
We are expecting diversity and freestyle: all styles of outstanding visual media are welcome. Selected works will be featured through online exhibit and book (more information soon).
Deadline: January 31 (2010)
Art Directors Club 89th Annual Awards Call for Entries is now opened. Announcements of the winners will appear in national and international advertising and design publications, both in print and online versions. Winners will be announced at the Gala ceremony at ADC Gallery in New York in the spring of 2010. Winning work will go on a worldwide exhibition tour and be published in the Art Directors Annual 89, the longest-running archive of leading creative work in global advertising and design.
Deadline Design: January 22
Deadline Interactive: January 29
Deadline Advertising: February 5
Deadline Hybrid: February 26
Deadline Students: January 29
To enter to win free Inspiration Passes to the Motion Graphics Festival, send a quick message to MGFest via this contact form and type “Netdiver LUV” in the message. The first 10 people to send a request will get access to all MGFest Art & Entertainment events. All others will receive 15% off admission to workshops as long as seats are available.
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All free passes have been given away!
Upcoming: November 18-22 in Washington DC
The Veaux Gallery presents: CORNUCOPIA: Salon #3
Curated by Veaux and David Gibson
at EPJ
260 Moore, #107
Brooklyn, NY
Upcoming: October 9
UT CANNES LIONS GRAND PRIX 2010 call for submissions. The theme is inspiration. Cannes Liones International Advertising Festival that developed as a venue to judge advertising ideas from around the world will select as the UT Cannes Lions Grand Prix 2010 T-shirt design one of the various values that can be said to be the Cannes brand. No age, gender, nationality, or other requirements apply. Anyone, anywhere in the world can apply.
Prize: US$10,000 (gold)
The top 20 works will be made into UNIQLO products. Of those, gold, silver, and bronze prizes will be awarded.
Extended deadline: October 18
Cut&Paste is proud to present the culmination of Digital Design Tournament 2009 —the first-ever Global Championship. With the broad geographical reach of an Olympic event and the nervy psychological gamesmanship of the X Games, the championship takes the tournament’s international approach to design as spectator sport and amps it up like never before.
Upcoming: October 16 in NYC
Smile On Your Brother is an art show centered around the original shape of skateboards. Bringing together contemporary artists both in, and affected by the skateboard industry to help raise funds to go towards the first goal of Contributor, which is to donate 100 skateboards to disadvantaged youth across Canada in 2009/2010.
Boards on auction, we are contributors.
Online auction ends: Oct 25
Upcoming: Toronto – Sept 25-27
Upcoming: Montreal – Oct 2-4
Upcoming: Quebec – Oct 16-19
Motion Graphics Festival 2009 (New Motion + New Sound + New Code) showcases explosive artists and motion picture creators including: Shepard Fairey, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, Chuck D of Public Enemy, KRS-One, Addictive TV, Digital Kitchen, The Mill, Passion Pictures, Animal Logic, Post Panic, Dvein, David Lobser and more.
Upcoming: November 18-22 in Washington DC
Art & Design Montréal mettra en valeur dans une même exposition une sélection de créateurs en communications visuelles. On y trouvera une quinzaine de photographes, de designers graphiques et d’illustrateurs qui mettent habituellement leur talent au profit de clients commerciaux.
Upcoming: September 11
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Ghee, if you attended yesterday, you discovered as I, how packaging can be deceptive. It turns out that the best of show was really the campaign posters of the artists (as advertised on their website) which was no where to be seen on location?!?! If the show had delivered to equal part with their promotional material, it would have been nothing short of outstanding.
For all the hooplah and buzz, the exhibit was quite disappointing. Featured work had (for the most part) already been published (and readily available for free on the artists websites). Quite a throwback that there was no curating direction. Nothing fresh and unique was prepared by the artists for the A&E premiere.
Some people I talked to were quite upset of having had (like I) to pay an entry fee and waited in line for over 45 min. It was in the end, a well organized big ego back-slapping event and a lure for another Friday night party.
The endorsement was spectacular by Montreal’s standards, and for me, raises a big question: How far and remoted is the media from what is really going on in the design culture community? Clueless it seems. To their benefit, they were sold, as I, an empty package.
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