SCION is a modern-thinking brand on the forefront of youth culture and innovation, known for engaging its consumers in an interactive quest for creative ideas. One of SCION’s trademarks is its support of organizations that also seek to connect with children and young adults in expressive, artistic ways.

In its mission to advocate community outreach and foster creativity in the younger generation, SCION now joins forces with Cut&Paste in the FRESHLY SQUEEZED WEB DESIGN CHALLENGE (”Contest”). The website design competition will benefit J.U.i.C.E., a non-profit weekly after-school program that allows the underprivileged youth of Los Angeles to express themselves artistically through dance, music, visual arts, and MC skills workshops.

As J.U.i.C.E. focuses its resources on programming and operations, they need your help: SCION’s new online competition, the FRESHLY SQUEEZED WEB DESIGN CHALLENGE summons all web designers, illustrators, graffiti connoisseurs, coding geniuses, hip-hop enthusiasts, and creatives all around to help J.U.i.C.E. refine their online presence with a brand new homepage design. Web designs submitted for the competition should embody J.U.i.C.E.’s urban aesthetic and youthful spirit, while adding to the site’s functionality as a user-friendly vehicle for communication.

So, help city kids, put $5K in your pocket, and get your work seen. Submit your designs for a new and improved Web site for J.U.i.C.E., a nonprofit hip-hop arts program for LA’s urban youth, and you’ll be entered to win five grand, courtesy of SCION. All entries must be submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on April 10, 2009. Visit the site to learn more.

The 2007 PopVox Awards will honor the best local (British Columbia) digital media. Awards categories include Best Web 2.0 Application, Best Mobile Game, Best Digital Animation Short, Best Digital VFX, Best Game, Best Digital Music Score, and Homegrown: The Best of British Columbia (BC). Submit a project, win prizes, and celebrate at the Vancouver International Digital Festival.

Deadline: 7 September 2007. Visit the site for details.

NanoArt is a new art form where micro or nanosculptures created by artists or scientists through chemical or/and physical processes are visualized with powerful research tools like Scanning Electron Microscopes. The monochromatic electron microscope scans are processed further using different artistic techniques to create pieces of art that can be showcased for the general public.

Because this is a new art form, nanoart21.org founded by artists/scientist Cris Orfescu (www.crisorfescu.com) will provide 3 high resolution monochromatic electron scans for competitors to choose from. The participating artists will have to alter this image in any artistic way to finish the artistic-scientific process and create a NanoArt work. The artists or scientists are encouraged to participate with their own image as long as this visualizes micro or nano structures.

The worldwide competition NanoArt 2007 is open to all artists 18 years and older. Online voting will open 1 January 2008 through 31 March 2008. This seems to be a fascinating project, and the first 10 winners will be exhibited on nanoart21.org site for one full year and will be invited to exhibit at the second edition of The International Festival of NanoArt. The first edition of the festival was hosted in May 2007 by Kotka Photographic Center, in Finland. Deadline is 31 December, 2007. Visit the site to snag the images and to learn more about this contest.

Every month, CSS OFF designs a web page in Photoshop and hosts a competition to see who can turn it into the best web page. The designs that are released will present specific markup challenges, along with design and coding considerations for everyone from web newbies to experienced developers.

The point of CSS Off is to make you think critically about web design, and then execute it on a dime. You’ve got 24 hours to take our design and slice it up. Be thoughtful, be creative. Above all, use flexible markup, lean CSS, good design and your best judgment.

CSS OFF just finalized their second competition, and I don’t have a clue when their third competition will take place. I have, however, placed a link to their page under the “nonstop design competitions” at the bottom of the middle column. Go visit the site and see if this contest is right for you…

Both students and professionals in the field of design may enter this competition, which - for the first time - has no age limit.

The challenge is to design a seat or a table in which innovative design/styling contributions are made, bearing in mind the thechnical specifications in the briefing you can download from the Web site along with complete rules and regulations. First prize is 4.000 eur. Deadline is 13 September 2007. Sign up online at www.andreuworld.com.

International designers’ Network is celebrating their 15th anniversary, and they pondered long and hard on how they could bring the whole wide and varied world of design and designers even closer together. From there, they launched a regular column “15 degrees” in IdN magazine, derived from the famous six degree of separation that is supposed to join everyone in the world with everyone else. And besides, they are holding a series of competitions which has now already come to the 3rd episode - “Universe.”

Express visually (by graphics, drawings, illustrations, photography, typography…) what the word, “Universe,” means to you. Winning entries of “Universe” will not only be published in IdN magazine in the form of an article, but will also be printed on Graniph’s t-shirt for sale all over the world.

Deadline is 1 December. Visit the site to learn more.