Patricia Samaniego from Las Vegas, NV has won the EXPRESS YOUR STYLE Design Competition for her BACARDI LIMON inspired ‘Retro Cocktail Dress.’ Samaniego received a $5,000 cash prize in addition to an internship at HOLLYWOULD and a portfolio critique and interview with 24Seven, Inc. In addition, her work, along with the other four finalists will be featured in the May issue of The Daily MINI, the monthly fashion magazine.

My daughter thanks you all for my time off last week. She made out with a Zune, new jeans, about fifteen tops, a prom outfit, and something else. I don’t remember. I don’t have enough money left to feed the dog.

Have a great weekend!

Art Santa Fe, the City Different’s biennial art fair, is holding a competition to select an art installation for the east facade of El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in the city’s new contemporary arts district. The open competition will be judged on creativity and the ability to transform the railside exterior of El Museo into a focal point for the new art district. A panel of local arts professionals will select the winning idea. Finalists will have their concepts displayed during ART Santa Fe 2007 in July and the winner will receive a $5,000 award.

Applicants can download an application at Arts Santa Fe. The deadline for entries is 20 April and the winning design will be announced 25 April.

Good 50X70 is a communication design competition focusing on five of the burning social issues which the UN recognizes as the plagues of our millennium: AIDS, Environmental damage, Human rights violation, Underdevelopment and War.

For each of this issues Amnesty, Amref, Emergency, Greenpeace, Lila, our endorsing charities, created a brief for the contestants to answer by designing a poster. Our jury will shortlist 30 finalists for each category and from them 10 posters will be selected as “Good 50×70.� One poster from all the categories will be selected as Grand Winner of the contest. All the finalists posters will be gathered in an exhibition. The same artwork will be also collated in a catalogue. The aim of the contest is to raise public awareness particularly amongst people inside the communication industry, and the relevance and importance of social communication.

The contest is now open to everyone who’s willing to confront the stereotypes of social communication and deliver a truthful and meaningful message, without any limit on age, sex, race, religion, profession or favorite color. Deadline: 10 May 2007. No registration fee. Visit the site for details.

NEW!! THE PRINTING AWARDS: In keeping with the mandate to inspire and inform Applied Arts readers, the magazine is launching a STAND-ALONE PRINTING AWARDS. Visit Applied Arts Printing.

DEADLINE: 18 May 2007

WHY YOU SHOULD ENTER? Exposure, exposure, exposure! Winners will also be featured year-round in the PRINTING AWARDS Winners Gallery on our Website, which attracts more than 200,000 unique visitors annually. Entering the 2007 PRINTING AWARDS is an opportunity to promote your talents and receive recognition for the great work you’ve done during the past year.

In today’s highly competitive market, the challenge is how to get noticed. One of the best ways is to promote your talent to Canada’s creative community and potential clients as a winner in the country’s biggest and most important awards contest. The Applied Arts Design & Advertising Awards features the very best work in a variety of DESIGN, ADVERTISING (print) and BROADCAST categories. Check out the ALL NEW easier and faster way to enter online at: http://www.appliedartsmag.com/da.

DEADLINE: MAY 4, 2007.

NEW THIS YEAR! All winning work will be displayed at the first Design & Advertising Awards Winners’ Exhibit, held Nov. 2007, in Toronto. This unique gallery show is expected to draw more than 1000 attendees(Location to be announced).

HBO and THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LATINO FILM FESTIVAL (NYILFF) today announced the 4th annual open call for entries for the HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition. The competition, created in 2004, seeks to foster films by Latino filmmakers and/or about the Latino experience. The deadline is for the Competition is 4 May 2007

One winner will be chosen from among applicants to receive $15,000 in funding from HBO to produce and direct a short film (on digital video) based on an original script entry. The completed short will be considered for exhibition this summer at the 2007 New York International Film Festival in July and on any of HBO’s programming services. Visit the site for details.

SAGA (Students Against Global Apathy) is a groundbreaking new student organization that’s determined to defeat global poverty!! Their confidence is inflated because their challenge is enormous. But as young students who will become the future leaders of the world, they feel they must set certain standards.

One of those standards is a monthly T-shirt contest, where members in this organization design shirts that spread certain messages. All designs are printed on sweatshop-free American Apparel tees in a number of colors and sizes for both guys and girls, plus 100% of the profits go towards development projects, health services and education programs in India and Sierra Leone.

Although this group is located in Canada, it appears that students anywhere can join up. I’ve posted their link under “nonstop design competitions” at the bottom of the middle column here. Or, you can go visit the site now.

The Successful ONLINE Exhibition of International Digital Art is Calling for Entries for May 2007 Exhibition to be launched as part of Futuresonic 2007 in Manchester May 10th 2007. Call for Submissions (Deadline April 30th, 2007).

digitalshow.co.uk is an International Digital Art website created by artinliverpool.com. The intention is to show online-only exhibitions of high quality digital art. The first exhibition was held as part of the Independent Biennial Liverpool in 2006 with great success (see the Gallery pages) and this year for our 2nd show they have linked up with Futuresonic 2007 Urban Festival of Electronic Arts and Music in Manchester, UK. (now confirmed) Entry is open to all worldwide.
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The Mannheim FilmFestival (9 – 21 October 2007) is looking for completed new feature-length films, both fiction and documentary. Although world premieres are preferred there is no problem if the film has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007 or at the Cannes Film Market 2007. All films to be submitted need to be on DVD format only. The deadline for submission of films is 15 July 2007. The deadline for the feature-length co-production projects at the MANNHEIM MEETINGS is 1 August 2007. Directors of the chosen feature films and producers of the selected projects will be invited to attend the Mannheim-Heidelberg festival in person. The festival would also welcome commissioning editors and representatives of official film organisations. For all further information please contact Michael Berkel, the African correspondent of the Mannheim festival by email only at berksa_at_global_dot_co_dot_za. Visit the site for info.

The Mannheim FilmFestival (9 – 21 October 2007) is looking for completed new feature-length films, both fiction and documentary. Although world premieres are preferred there is no problem if the film has been screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2007 or at the Cannes Film Market 2007. All films to be submitted need to be on DVD format only. The deadline for submission of films is 15 July 2007. The deadline for the feature-length co-production projects at the MANNHEIM MEETINGS is 1 August 2007. Directors of the chosen feature films and producers of the selected projects will be invited to attend the Mannheim-Heidelberg festival in person. The festival would also welcome commissioning editors and representatives of official film organisations. For all further information please contact Michael Berkel, the African correspondent of the Mannheim festival by email only at berksa_at_global_dot_co_dot_za. Visit the site for info.