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.

This exhibition is open to all professional and amateur, domestic and international photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. Juror’s Selection award: $500 + Special Recognition in Artists’ ShowCase, the Center’s feature section in CameraArts magazine. Entries due 10 July 2007. Visit site for details.

Halstead Bead, Inc. is pleased to announce its Second Annual Business Development Grant for new designers entering the bridge jewelry trade. The grant will be awarded to a winning candidate in August. The winner of the 2007 Grant will receive $6,000 in cash and merchandise as well as other benefits. Applications must be received before 30 June 2007. Complete application details can be found at www.halsteadbead.com/grant.

The mission of Art in Motion is to make Lexington, Kentucky, more vibrant and livable through the fusion of public art, public transportation and public spaces. The first goal is to enhance Lexington’s transit system through the design and construction of bus shelters that incorporate murals and sculpture.

Professional architects, engineers, sculptors and artists are eligible. The contest is also open to submittals by students under the supervision of professional architects, engineers, sculptors and artists. Deadline for proposals: 16 July 2007. Proposed installation date: 30 October 2007. See site for details about this interesting contest. Winner receives US $2500.

For the fifth year in a row, Electrolux is encouraging students around the world to fire up their creative minds to design household appliances for the future. In the 2007 edition of the design competition, Electrolux Design Lab, students are asked to create eco-friendly sustainable household appliances and solutions for 2020.

The competition is open to all design students worldwide via the Internet, www.electrolux.com/designlab. The nine best entries will be invited to Paris, France, for a final event in late November this year, where the winner of Electrolux Design Lab 2006 will be announced. First prize: 5,000 Euro and six-month scholarship at one of the Electrolux Group’s global design centers. Deadline: 1 August.

See last year’s winner.

Born on the initiative of Associazione Culturale Lazzari, Textile Design Contest2 is aimed at the creation of links between young designers who are about to enter the world of work and the domains of Textile, Fashion and Clothing Industries. Held with the co-operation of Regione Veneto, Provincia di Treviso and Comune di Treviso, IUAV University it is also sponsored by the Camera di Commercio, Ascom, Unindustria Treviso.

Entrants will be asked to create and design a fabric through design methods that border on actual professional performances, with a direct concrete approach to textile industry and the related fields of fashion and Italian fashion in particular. Any creator, aged 18 to 30, may enter the contest provided he/she is interested in the design and creation of fabrics. For example students of Fashion, Design and Art Faculties, students of Schools for textile technicians, of Architecture, Fashion and Graphic Design Institutes, as well as of Academies of the Fine Arts etc. are all eligible.

Deadline: Monday, 18 June 2007. Visit the site for details [PDF].

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Designers, advertising agencies, and firms producing communication design pieces from around the world are invited to submit their work to the Red Dot Award competition and to expose their talents to the world. With over 6,000 submissions last year alone, the red dot design award is a top design competition and one of the biggest worldwide. Products and works that stand out in the competition will then be presented to the public for one year in the red dot design museum. Registrations can be made online at www.red-dot.de/registration. The registration deadline is 22 June 2007.

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