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 opportunity to represent the best in international typographic design has arrived. Enter the Type Directors Club Competition, TDC54, where up and coming and established designers are showcased in one of the top design annuals in the world. The TDC competition can place you among the world’s preeminent graphic and type designers.

This year marks TDC’s fifty-fourth open Call for Entries in its international competition which recognizes excellence in the use of typography, calligraphy, handlettering and other letterforms. Winning works will be exhibited in six traveling shows and published in Typography 29, the hardbound, all-color competition annual designed by Philippe Apeloig.

Deadline is Friday, 4 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The fourth annual Rome International Film Festival (RIFF) is now accepting entries for the 2007 event, scheduled for Sept. 6-9 in Rome, Georgia. For film submissions, go to http://www.withoutabox.com/login/3360 or visit the RIFF Web site at http://www.riff.tv. RIFF screens animated, experimental, documentary and narrative films, both short and feature length. The deadline for entries is 1 June 2007.

Quark VS InDesign.com (www.quarkvsindesign.com), the Authority on the War Between Desktop Publishing Giants QuarkXPress® and Adobe® InDesign®, today announced an open competition to redesign the icons for Adobe Creative Suite 3, CS3-version, and other Adobe software products. The contest is open to graphic designers, illustrators, interface designers, and skinners anywhere in the world. A cornucopia of software, books, and videos are offered to three winners in a prize chest valued at more than US$7,000.

In late December 2006, Adobe revealed a portion of its branding scheme for the next generation of Adobe applications, including the upcoming Creative Suite 3 and all CS3-version point products like Photoshop, InDesign, InCopy, Illustrator, and Acrobat. Except in a few instances, the branding scheme, which incorporates all the formerly Macromedia-published products, foregoes the symbols and iconography familiar to creative professionals from previous versions of the applications of the last 20 years in favor of color-coded, two-letter symbols for each application. The branding change has met with passionately polarized opinions—some creative professionals adore the new icons while others despise them. Without taking sides or expressing its own opinion, Quark VS InDesign.com created the Design Your Own Creative Suite 3 Icons Competition to give users of Adobe products the opportunity to express their visions of the perfect Creative Suite 3 application icons. Read the rest of this entry »

Deadline Reminder: Abstractions due Tuesday, 6 February 2007.

New Call for Entries: Interactions: Images of How People Interact With and To Each Other. Deadline 13 March 2007

Early Announcement: International Student Exhibition. Deadline: 18 April 2007. High School / College & Trade School Categories, Prospectus and online image submissions beginning 10 February 2007. Gallery Exhibition: June 7 through June 10, 2007; Online Exhibition: June 7 through December 31, 2007.

Awards will include: Scholarships and Photography Equipment; Inclusion in Artists’ ShowCase, the feature section in CameraArts magazine. Portfolio reproductions of Artists’ ShowCase for artists whose work is published. All work will be exhibited matted without frames to reduce exhibitors’ costs.

Details for all of the above Calls for Entry at The Center for Fine Art Photography.

All FIRST teams are invited to create a 30 second animation submission for the Autodesk Visualization Design Competition using Autodesk 3ds Max software that was donated by Autodesk. Teams are challenged to design an animation that best demonstrates the concept of the theme, showcases creativity and technical execution. The Autodesk Visualization Award recognizes outstanding student achievement in animation. Autodesk challenged teams to use Autodesk® 3ds Max® software to produce a 30-second animation that best depicts the theme assigned in the Autodesk competition. This is a terrific opportunity to see how imaginative teams can be using one of the greatest imagination tools in the world. The judges look for concept, creativity, and technical execution. Visit this page for your rules and regs.