SCION is a modern-thinking brand on the forefront of youth culture and innovation, known for engaging its consumers in an interactive quest for creative ideas. One of SCION’s trademarks is its support of organizations that also seek to connect with children and young adults in expressive, artistic ways.

In its mission to advocate community outreach and foster creativity in the younger generation, SCION now joins forces with Cut&Paste in the FRESHLY SQUEEZED WEB DESIGN CHALLENGE (”Contest”). The website design competition will benefit J.U.i.C.E., a non-profit weekly after-school program that allows the underprivileged youth of Los Angeles to express themselves artistically through dance, music, visual arts, and MC skills workshops.

As J.U.i.C.E. focuses its resources on programming and operations, they need your help: SCION’s new online competition, the FRESHLY SQUEEZED WEB DESIGN CHALLENGE summons all web designers, illustrators, graffiti connoisseurs, coding geniuses, hip-hop enthusiasts, and creatives all around to help J.U.i.C.E. refine their online presence with a brand new homepage design. Web designs submitted for the competition should embody J.U.i.C.E.’s urban aesthetic and youthful spirit, while adding to the site’s functionality as a user-friendly vehicle for communication.

So, help city kids, put $5K in your pocket, and get your work seen. Submit your designs for a new and improved Web site for J.U.i.C.E., a nonprofit hip-hop arts program for LA’s urban youth, and you’ll be entered to win five grand, courtesy of SCION. All entries must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on April 10, 2009. Visit the site to learn more.

The image shown at right is “Spiral with opaque lines” by winner Andreas Lober

Every four years the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) meets to discuss mathematics and to present Fields medals. For the 2006 ICM, which was held in Madrid in August, new events were added, including a fractal art exhibit. The purpose of the ICM 2006 Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest was to select some of the artwork for display in this exhibit. They named this contest and exhibition in honor of Professor Benoit B. Mandelbrot, as without his work establishing fractal geometry there would be no fractal art. Prof. Mandelbrot was a plenary speaker at ICM 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

Noxzema is calling all fashion-design hopefuls or fashion lovers to design an outfit for one of the Noxzema girls for a chance to win VIP treatment at New York Fashion Week and other prizes. You are asked to submit an original drawing, sketch, or illustration of your proposed design along with a statement of 50 words or fewer that describes the look. Entries accepted online up to 5 January 2007. For more information, visit the Noxzema site and click the link for “promotions” under “Beauty Bonuses” in the top menu. Entrants must be over age 18.

New Masters of Poster Design: Poster Design for the Next Century - by John Foster, 2006

After adding a few contests to this site, I know that the majority of the competitions are focused on poster design. This type of design incorporates illustration more often than photography, and usually always includes typography. While you could browse through older books about posters, why not take this one on - it’s a new and scrumptious look into poster designs for the “next century,” even though it looks at posters from the immediate past in a definitive collection. What makes this book different is that writing is involved, and Foster’s take on the work contained within this book is definitely insightful. Read the rest of this entry »

BetterPhoto.com Offers “The Nikon D80 Camera” and “Eye to Eye: Capturing the Face”

BetterPhoto.com, the worldwide leader in online photography education, today announced the addition of two new 4-Week classes to the November course schedule. Like all BetterPhoto courses, these will be taught by published, professional photographers. Photo assignments are personally critiqued by the instructor, giving students immediate feedback on their photographic work. Classes begin November 1st. Read the rest of this entry »

MUSCAT — The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar (VCUQ) announced the launch of the Fifth Annual Design Competition. The competition, open to all students in their senior year of high school, is being launched in Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Turkey and this year in Pakistan. Read the rest of this entry »