Head On Alternative Portraits invites photographers to submit works to the 2007 photographic portrait exhibition, to be held at Australian Centre for Photography between 19 April - 25 May 2007 and in June 2007 in Daylesford Foto Biennale. Three prizes will be awarded for the best images. Prizes include state of the art digital SLR Canon 5D (x2) plus a lens each, ACDSee Pro Digital Asset Management software (x3) and books from Focal Press. Total value of prizes is about $13000.

Head On represents a vibrant, diverse cross section of new and traditional photographic practices. Images could range from film to digitally produced using any photographic technique in colour and/or black & white. The exhibition is open to all artists residing in Australia. Deadline: Sunday 18 March 2007; Visit the sitetitle for details and entry form.

The 13th annual San Antonio Underground Film Festival is currently taking submissions. Submit DVD or VHS tape with two-sentence synposis. The deadline for entries is 21 April 2007. Visit the sitetitle= for details and entry form.

Cartoonists are invited to submit their work (or the work of someone else) for consideration for one or more of the following Division Awards, which include advertising, illustration, greeting cards, and more. National Cartoonists Society (NCS) members, and non-members alike, are eligible. You will need an NCS Division Awards Entry Form. Contact information is below.

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The 40th Annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival invites the public to participate in the return of the Festival’s Poster Contest. The winning entry will earn a $500 grand prize, and the artist’s design will be used in posters, souvenir T-shirts and commemorative booklet covers to help promote Northern California’s largest Japanese American community festival.

The design should emphasize the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival’s 40th Anniversary, and reflect the spirit of the Matsuri (festival) season. Read the rest of this entry »

Electronic Arts is pleased to announce that REVEAL, our national 3D Animation Showdown for graduating Canadian art students, is back for its third year. The grand prize for the Best Short Digital Animation will be $20,000 to the winning student, along with a $20,000 matching grant to that student’s institution. One additionall innovation his year is a new Level/Design category to recognize the excellent work that Canadian students are doing in the various Game Design programs across the country.

Entrants must be graduating between September 1st, 2006 and August 31st, 2007. Visit the site to view the full contest rules, and last year’s winners. All entries must be submitted in their entirety by 11:59 p.m. PST on 6 April 2007.

And - ta-da - we now have the world’s first dissolvable dress, the culmination of a creative partnership at the University of Sheffield between the award-winning designer Prof Helen Storey and Prof Tony Ryan, a leading chemist, to show off new materials that can make consumer products less environmentally harmful. The question I have is this: Why did they make a dress? Why didn’t they produce a jock strap? This, and a woman on board the design team. Shocking. Read more at either The Telegraph or at fashion.psfk. Yes, there’s a photo. I just won’t reproduce it here. I’d rather look at Fang.

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Project Polar is about pushing the boundaries of your imagination, creativity and thought processes towards polar opposites. They want you to take them to places you haven’t yet explored. And, if you have, then they want you to show them what you’ve found.

The 3rd quarter of 2007 will see a full-color book of your findings being published and distributed worldwide. Open to artists, illustrators, graphic designers, photographers, writers, poets, and “polar bears with exceptional skills.” Visit the site to receive information about receiving a brief. NOTE: I know nothing about this group, never heard of them before. Look the materials over before you spend any time on this project.

The City of Lone Tree (Colorado), The Lone Tree Arts Commission and the Lone Tree Photography Club are calling for entries to the 5th Lone Tree Photographic Art Show. The show is open to all photographers. The categories will be Color, Monochrome, Special Effects Color and Special Effects Monochrome. Deadline 1 March. Submission of images is 14 April and the opening reception is 15 April. Entries will hang until 5 May. Cash prizes will be awarded for Best of Show and for 1st, 2nd, 3rd places and Honorable Mention in each Category. Visit the city Website to download the entry form.

The Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition was set up to find the best wildlife pictures taken by photographers worldwide, and to inspire visionary and expressive interpretations of nature. The judges are looking for aesthetic appeal and originality, with a preference for photographs taken in wild and free conditions. The judges will also want to see images that faithfully represent nature. Closing date for entries received by post: Friday 23 March 2007. Closing date for entries received online: Friday 30 March 2007.

The competition is open to anyone, amateur or professional, of any age and of any nationality. All the winning and commended photographs will go on display at the Natural History Museum, London, from October 2007 until spring 2008. The exhibition will tour the UK, as well as many countries overseas. All the winning and commended images will be published in a commemorative hardback book, Portfolio 17, and the winners in a souvenir supplement free with the November issue of BBC Wildlife Magazine. The title of Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2007 will be given to the photographer judged to have taken the single most striking and memorable of all the entries in the 12 categories and three special awards. The winning photographer will receive a cheque for £10,000, presented at an awards ceremony at the Natural History Museum, London, in October 2007. Visit the site for details.

Here’s a pithy little contest: Design a shoe, or, more like illustrate a shoe. The winning shoe will be produced and sold in West 49 stores across Canada. Winner will also receive 10 pairs of Globe Shoes and a Globe Prize Pack. Template supplied. Contest ends 26 February 2007. The Contest is open to all legal residents of Canada who are thirteen (13) years of age or older as of the first day of the Contest Period, excluding all residents of the province of Quebec. Visit the site for details.