Netdiver Mag

Wild Things’ Forts! – BOOOOOOOM! ran this exciting and totally fun call for entries. Winners are now annouced and get a Wild Things Edition XBOX plus a magnificent bus shelter-sized poster not available in stores!

Suggest you take a moment to view the entries – it is good for the soul to revisit one’s fav childhood role-playing game and to see the sheer amount of creativity and fun that was put into building these.

#1 – #2 – #3 – #4 – #5 – #6 – #7 – #8 – Winners

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

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.