Marie Claire and Glam.com are looking for the next great handbag designer. Here’s your chance to be discovered! To enter, simply submit your handbag design. From there, Marie Claire and Glam.com readers will vote online for their favorite handbags each week, and the top eight finalists will have the opportunity to create the handbag they’ve sketched. Their panel of judges will then pick the top handbag, and the winner will be flown to New York to be a guest accessories editor at Marie Claire for the day. After the competition, the final eight bags will be auctioned for charity on eBay.

Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia and Canada who have reached the age of majority in their state or province of residence at time of entry. Deadline 7 June. Visit the site for details.

At left: David Burdeny, Shear, Japan 2005 Director’s Award – 2006 International.

The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions and activities. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental works that include new processes, mixed techniques, and challenging personal, emotional or political statements are welcome.

The exhibition is open to all professional and amateur, domestic and international photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. Entries due 10 July. Visit the site for details.

At right: 1st Place - Outstanding Achievement, PHILIP LEE HARVEY - UK.

International Color Awards is a global online awards show recognizing excellence in color photography. This celebrated event shines a spotlight on the finest professional and amateur photographers in the world’s premier photographic showcase of color photography. The awards international Jury represents the most influential art directors, agencies, editors, galleries, and publishers from the world of photography, advertising and entertainment. Images are nominated and selected by Jury members who honor the finest images with the highest achievements in color photography.

International Color Awards is open to professional and amateur photographers worldwide shooting in all forms of color photography using traditional or digital methods. Final Deadline 31 May 2007. Visit site for details.

PSFK is looking for a few sponsors to sit beside the likes of Imagination and Anomaly. Sponsors are essential partners for making their events work. Sponsors get high profile visibility before an influential audience of creative thinkers in the advertising, design and media sectors.

Email Celestine Arnold at celestine |AT| psfk.com for a sponsorship pack. Event details: http://psfklondon.eventbrite.com/.

The Webby Awards and Adobe are proud to announce the Webby In-Motion Contest, an amazing opportunity for you to use unlimited creative license with Adobe software and wow the Webby community with your motion graphics talent.

Contestants can produce one or more 20-second video category IDs that will be shown at the 11th Annual Webby Awards Gala in NYC. Entrants will animate, illustrate and bring to life their vision of 10 Webby category clusters including Entertainment, Society, Advertising and Mobile.

There is no entry fee and winning work from the Grand Prize Winner and Finalists will be presented during the show to over 800 of the top creative minds in the world! Groovy prizes. Deadline: 11 May 2007. Visit the site for details.

Call me impressed. Design Can Change, a site dedicated to teaching designers about how they can become more sustainable in their practices, is incredible. The site is a smashLAB initiative and a non-commercial effort that will hold your attention for a good fifteen minutes if you race through the production, a good hour or so if you want to soak in the materials.

Take the pledge that will note you as a sustainable designer. Learn what you can do to seed that change in your studio so that your efforts will grow to your clients and suppliers. Go. Now. Do it.