The British Academy has announced the call for entries for The British Academy Video Games Awards. There are 13 awards categories and any game is eligible as long as it has been or will be released in the UK between 6 October 2006 and 31 December 2007.

All entries will be grouped into categories and voted on by the industry and BAFTA members. The highest-scoring titles will then go to a jury that will be chaired by a member of the BAFTA video games committee. BAFTA juries will judge the entries and decide on the nominated games and winners. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday 25 September and the winners on Tuesday 23 October at The British Academy Video Games Awards at Battersea Evolution, in London.

Eentry deadline is Friday 6 July. Visit the site for details about categories, etc.

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It pays to offer hefty prizes for contest rewards, and pays even more if you enter and win. Take the Graniph T-shirt design contest, for instance, where the first prize was 1,000,000 yen (about USD $9,000). That contest received over 15,000 entries worldwide, and with that many entries the contest judges are bound to find a true piece of art (yes, T-shirts can be art - as well as a political statement or just something that tells people how idiotic you are).

You’ll find cats, elephants, squirrels, birds, pandas, a sheep, and a few dogs among other subject matter on the winner’s page at Graniph. My dog didn’t like the dog shirt that spelled ‘God’ with the ‘d’ backwards. He said that was old hat. But, then again, he thinks he’s a rabbit.

Have a great weekend!

Piemonte Share Festival announces the second edition of the Share Prize 2008 for digital art. The competition jury will award a prize of €2,500.00 to the work (published or unpublished) which best represents experimentation between arts and new technologies.

The contest is open to any Italian and foreign artist using digital technology as a language of creative expression, in all its shapes and formats and in combination with analogical technologies and/or any other material (i.e. computer animation / visual effects, digital music, interactive art, net art, software art, live cinema/vj, audiovisual performance, etc.). Each artist or group can enter up to 3 works. Artists who are part of a group participating in the contest may also enter up to 3 individual works.

Participating entries must be registered on the site www.toshare.it using the registration form. Registration and description of the competition entry forms should be either in English or Italian; English is preferred. Registration must take place by 12.00 pm on 30 September 2007.

See Rhizome.org for details in English.

Send your project redesigns to the Dynamic Graphics magazine Re:Design competition and win the chance to see them in print. Dynamic Graphics has been featuring makeover projects crafted by staff designers for 10 years in their annual makeovers issue. Now they’re inviting you to show off by entering your best redesigns in this all-new competition. Winners will be published in their December/January issue, on newsstands 1 December 2007. Grand prize winner will receive a one-year subscription of multimedia resolution images to JupiterImages Unlimited (a $2,500 value).

To enter, you’ll include both a “before” and “after” version of the redesigned project you are entering so we can see the transformation. Categories include newsletters, brochures, advertisements, logos/stationery, direct mail, websites, self-promotions, packaging, announcements/invitations/menus/programs and student work. Deadline 6 August 2007. Visit the site for details.

Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek from London-based design studio FL@33 are currently compiling and designing an exciting new book of postcards to be published later this year by Laurence King Publishing. The book will showcase the best international postcards and postcard-related projects created AND produced from the year 2000 to now.

Submissions are now welcome and regardless of the reason for creation they would like to see anything that could be described as exciting, innovative, conceptual, promotional, experimental, decorative, witty and/or humerous.

The book will feature the very best examples from around the world on 192 full-colour pages. It will come in an intriguing packaging containing 20 specially designed postcards by selected international designers, illustrators, photographers and artists. The book will also introduce the individuals and/or studios behind all featured postcard creations. Deadline 10 July 2007. Visit Stereohype for all the details.

The In-HOWse Designer Conference connects you with peers who have the same workplace frustrations— and the same passion for design—that you do. It helps answer your questions, solve your biggest challenges and refresh your creative energy. It enables you to learn from the top experts in design and business, and it lets you share your own experiences with other designers like you.

You may pre-register via this site or via fax or postal mail. Space is limited, so you want to register early. Registrations will be processed in the order they are received. Conference fees must be paid in full and accompany a completed registration form. Conference is 9-11 September at the Hyatt Regency Austin.

The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions (secondary, vocational, or higher education).The 2007 Design Competition is now underway. UCDA is looking for your biggest and best ideas for our annual design competition — whether it be print, electronic, or even student work! Enter today!

Entries must be received by Friday, 6 July 2007. Enter early and avoid the last minute rush to gather, prepare and package your entries (from publications to illustration, electronic media to sustainable design!). Visit the site for details.

Via: Dexigner

DOK Leipzig, the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary und Animated Film, celebrates its 50th edition with numerous innovations from 29 Oct. to 04 Nov. 2007. You can submit all new documentary and animated films for the official festival programme and the DOK Market until 28 July.

Animated Film has been an important part of the festival for the past decades and has its own competition since 1995. With this special focus on two sections the festival in Leipzig is one-of-a-kind. Entry deadling: 28 July 2007. Visit the site for entry form and details.

Enter your work in HOW’s most prestigious competition for a chance to make it to their “it-list.” You’ll be in good company when you grace the pages of their best-selling International Design Annual. Wow the design world with your star-quality stuff in over 14 categories that deal with print and body copy (packaging, editorials, etc.)

Best of Show scores a free trip to the 2008 HOW Design Conference
(round-trip airfare, hotel and conference registration) and an award to be presented at the conference. All Winners see their work in HOW’s April 2 008 International Design Annual, get a $100 discount to the 2008 HOW Design Conference and receive a nifty certificate.

All entries must be postmarked no later than 4 September 2007. Visit the PDF for details.

Printing Industries of America/Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (PIA/GATF) and its Ben Franklin Society are seeking to honor an outstanding woman and a school program in the graphic communications industry. Nominations for the Naomi Berber Memorial Award and the Frederick D. Kagy Education Award of Excellence are due 20 July 2007.

The Naomi Berber Memorial Award was established in 1976 and created to honor the “First Lady of the Foundation,” Naomi Berber, who served as GATF’s first administrative director and was the first woman elected to the Society of Fellows, now known as the Ben Franklin Society. This award is presented annually to a woman who has made major contributions to the development of the graphic communications industry.
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