You might have noticed the “Shelter Me” competition offered by Design 21 with a deadline of 17 June. Design 21 is also offering two other competitions in conjunction with the Shelter Me entry. One is “Child’s Play,” where you design an object that encourages children to cultivate their own imagination and creativity.

The “Global Warming” competition asks participants to create an educational campaign to raise public awareness of the problem of global warming and the contribution of our daily lifestyle and activities to this phenomenon. The aim of the campaign is to provoke people to think about the issue and how their individual consumer choices and energy consumption play into the equation.

Your entry may address the broader topic of global warming or highlight a specific factor, but any facts contained in your entry must come from a verifiable source (you must quote the sources of your information in your project description).

The campaign may employ any media (print, billboard, clothing, film, animation, music etc) or a combination of formats. Pretty impressive prizes - 1st place, US $5,000. Deadline 17 June. Visit the Design 21 site for details about all three competitions.

Design a single web-page which you feel would make a good e-commerce homepage. You will submit in flat graphical form, HTML is not required. Your page can be based on any company, real or imagined. There is a total of exactly RM2,220.00 in prize money to be awarded.

No entry fee! Deadline 30 June. Visit site for details.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia directed by Vicente Guallart - www.iaac.net - is issuing an international summons to architects, designers and students from around the world, inviting proposals for the construction of self-sufficient dwellings with an emphasis on exploring people’s capacity to self-construct their own homes.

The 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest directed by Lucas Cappelli encourage in this edition of the Self-sufficient housing competition, the design of a “SELF-FAB HOUSE” using industrial or traditional craft-based techniques generated on the basis of the knowledge of the information age, such as digital processes, software-driven manufacturing, skills and know-how in the use of new or established materials, the strategic recycling of other chains of production or familiarity with the historical processes of the construction of habitats in natural environments, revised in the light of new standards of sustainability.

Deadline for confirmation of registration is before Monday 17 September 2007, and entries must without exception be received before Tuesday 18 September 2007. Visit the site for details.

Pete Case, creative director of digital design agency Gloo, and recently appointed jury chairperson for the Digital Category’s Judging Panel of the 2007 Loerie Awards, is calling on the top creatives in the digital industry to enter their best work for this year’s awards.

“The Digital industry has dramatically increased its profile within the marketing and advertising mix and because of this we expect a record number of entries, as well as an even higher level of creativity this year. Last year we saw a digitally based campaign win the integrated advertising Grand Prix for the first time in Loerie’s history. This has set a benchmark for others to leap over and we want the entries to reflect the highest standards of excellence in this innovative category,” says Case.

“In the Digital categories, the judges will be looking for creativity across a growing number of digital platforms, from the internet space, to CD roms, online media campaigns and pioneering work on cellphones. There’s a new category for this year which embraces digital campaigns and there are many enhancements to the judging process itself, all aimed at finding and rewarding the best work out there.”

The Loerie Awards is a non-profit event that recognises and rewards the mastery of creative excellence. Entry deadline extended to 30 May. Judging will take place in June 2007 and finalists will be announced at the end of the judging week.

Via: MarketingWeb

How Magazine is looking for fun, interesting, cool business cards to feature in an upcoming issue. If you’ve got a great card, please mail two samples to Megan Patrick at 4700 E. Galbraith Rd., Cincinnati OH 45236 along with a brief note about what makes the card special. Email any questions to megan.patrick |AT| fwpubs.com. They’ll contact you if they decide to use your card in the story, and send you a copy of the issue when it comes out.

The Clothes Show wants to discover a fresh new textile print design talent - and they want you to take part. If you think you can design a show-stopping print that’ll turn their plain tunic dress from drab to fab, prove it to us. Just print off the competition entry form, embellish the plain dress and swatch with your pattern design and post it off to us. Simple!

The winner of the The Clothes Show Design-a-Print competition will pick up a £1,000 cash prize courtesy of The Clothes Show Live. Plus, they’ll get to see their print adorning a real-life version of the tunic dress in one of Marks & Spencer’s new collections. Deadline: 7 June. Visit the site for details.

MUJI is proud to announce the second in its series of MUJI Award International Design Competitions. Their theme for 2007 is RE, which stands for the reinvention of everyday life that is MUJI’s greatest resource (Re-think, Re-design, Re-use, Re-fuse). They ask designers who submit projects to focus on reality, in which people are both part of the environment and whose lives create the environment. Each submission should embody a new angle on the everyday of a kind that provides the foundation for everything that MUJI does.

Enter as an individual or as a group. No limit of number of entries. There are no rules on the method used for entries as long as the work indicates measurements to facilitate the understanding of the final three-dimensional work. Deadline: 31 July. Visit the site for details, including winners from previous year.

With the success of last year’s writing contest, BioWare has decided to follow it up this year with a world design contest. Anyone who has dreamed of working as a world designer will find this a unique opportunity to get their work noticed by the right people. We are looking for exceptionally talented level designers to help develop BioWare’s first MMORPG in Austin, Texas.

BioWare asks for designers to create a Neverwinter Nights adventure to showcase their world design skills using the Neverwinter Nights 1 Aurora Toolset. There are a lot of options to consider when creating a module in the Toolset, but it is important to remember that we will be mainly looking at the technical skills and creative level design used.

When hiring world designers, BioWare looks at your scripting/technical abilities, your creative level design skills, your ability to create cinematic moments, and your ability to create interesting and fun puzzles. Because BioWare is known for quality, we also value a world designer’s ability to create stable, bug free work that is well documented.

Visit the site to learn the module parameters and other details. Deadline: 20 July 2007 by 11:59 PM Central Standard Time (the time zone of Austin Texas).

The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival (TTFF) 2007 will be held from September to October 2007. The Festival accepts films made by Caribbean people, by persons of Caribbean descent living in the Diaspora and by international filmmakers who have made films about the Caribbean in the Caribbean spirit.

The Festival intends to screen films in 35mm, NTSC DVD or NTSC mini DV formats. Entries of various lengths will be accepted. All initial submissions should be in NTSC DVD and must be in English or with English subtitles. The Festival will celebrate the Caribbean in all of its diversity and explore a number of sub-themes. There is no submission fee. Deadline: 30 June 2007. Visit the site for details.

Photo Archive News announces the launch of the 2007 Picture Editors’ Awards. They will be accepting entries until Sunday 27th May 2007. Images can be from the period 1st January 2006 to 19th May 2007 (inclusive). As always, entry is free, there are no registration or other fees. Entries can be submitted via email and the maximum size of each image is 750Kb. Visit the site for details.