In each issue, Creative Quarterly features the best student work from across the country, so here’s your chance to enter. Enter and you’ll have the opportunity to be published and seen by some of the industry’s top decision makers. Entries will be judged in four distinct categories by some of the top people in their respective field.

Entries in graphic design, illustration, photography, and fine art must be postmarked by Friday, 26 October 2007. Undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled in a college, university or art school in the US or Canada may enter. Recent graduates may enter personal or unpublished work for the remainder of 2007. Visit the site to learn more!

Mumedi (Mexican Museum of Design) calls designers, students, teachers, professionals and anyone interested in the subject (over 18 years of age), to participate in this International Poster Contest. Theme is “To Death with a Smile” to promote the exercise of good design, to stimulate creativity, so they might see the diversity and language richness in different cultures around the world.

Lots of prizes, and the best entries will be exhibited at the Mexican Museum of Design from October 2007 to February 2008 in the Downtown Historic Center of Mexico City. Deadline for entries is 14 September 2007. Visit the site to learn all the details.

The Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards is an international competition arranged by MindTrek, Nokia and Tampere Region Centre of Expertise in Ubiquitous Computing.

The purpose of the competition is to encourage makers of digital media to generate ideas and develop new and innovative ubimedia products & services. The entries are expected to take a stand on the following questions:

• How does ubiquitous computing affect media environments?
• What are intelligent media environments like?
• What will the location- and context-aware media services of the future be like?

The total award sum for the Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek competition category is 7 000€. The sum can be awarded to one entry, divided between several entries or not awarded at all if the award criteria set by the jury are not fulfilled.

Registration for the competition ends on 9 October 2007 at 16:00. Visit the site to learn more.

The 24-hour fast film competition known as The Shoot Out Boulder has announced a call for team entries. The Shoot Out Boulder, which takes place 12 - 13 October is now in its fourth year. It is the first annual 24 hour competition of its kind in the United States, and was voted the Best Film Festival 2007 by Westword. The Shoot Out Boulder challenges filmmakers of all experience levels to trust their courage, imagination and determination to make a seven-minute-long film in just 24 hours.

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Kokoromi collective has a challenge for game designers: design a simple, pick-up-and-play game that has a resolution no greater than 256 X 256, and that must run on Windows XP and use an xbox360 controller. Entries close 1 November, and the winning game will be fêted during the Gamma 256 party at the Montreal International Game Summit on 28 November. Visit the site to learn more.

Enter STEP’s design 100 competition to share the flavor of your work in the design 100 annual. STEP inside design magazine brings you the only design annual that interviews all 100 winners. Your winning design is prominently showcased, and your peers get a rare opportunity to review the creative thinking behind your great solution. You can’t win if you don’t enter.

Categories include just about everything but Web Design. Entries must be postmarked no later than 1 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Anime Music Videos (AMVs) are remixes of anime and music pulled together from often divergent sources into astonishing works of art filled with action, drama, comedy, romance, and always a lot of heart. And the inaugural New York Anime Festival is proud to play host to a competition between the editors, storytellers, and artists that are AMV makers — with the winners taking home prizes from sponsors including Bandai Entertainment, Central Park Media, Classic Media Group, Del Rey Manga, and Media Blasters.

The New York Anime Festival is accepting AMVs in four genres and one special theme on New York City. AMV submissions must be postmarked by 15 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

The Rosicrucian Order is replacing the lawn areas at Rosicrucian Park, in San Jose, with California Native Plants and they invite you to participate. They are looking for a brilliant landscape design that complements their Egyptian architecture and gardens, using California native plants that require little to no water once they reach maturity.

There will be two 1st place prizes of $2,500, one prize for each area. Entrants who submit designs for both areas are eligible to win both 1st place prizes for a total of $5,000. Submission deadline - 15 September 2007. You can do it - especially if you know anything about Xeriscaping.

The winning designs will become the property of the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC and will be put out to bid for installation. Visit the site to learn more.

The prestigious Innovations Design and Engineering Awards program recognizes the most innovative consumer electronics (CE) products in the industry’s hottest product categories. Innovations has become a hallmark for the best designed products in consumer technology.

Featured in a special display at the 2008 International CES at Innovations Plus at the Sands, honorees receive recognition throughout the entire show and in a variety of events and press articles before and after the International CES.

Innovations 2008 Design and Engineering Awards are open to all, regardless of CES exhibitor status. Entries will be accepted through 28 September with the honorees being announced at CES Unveiled@NY on 13 November at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. Visit the site to learn more.

All right, web geeks. Don’t even bother to wash your hair. Or go digging for a shirt from this century. You want to really get noticed? Then enter your best work into Applied Arts Interactive Awards 2007.

Winners receive exceptional year-round recognition in:

• The glossy Interactive Issue, published in March 2008, is read by more than 65,000 clients, colleagues and competitors — many of whom are actual, real live girls.
• The year-round site, www.appliedartsmag.com, features the winners in the Awards Gallery, which attracts more than 200,000 unique visitors annually — many of whom might in fact be virtual girls.

Entries must have been active between September 2006 to September 2007.The awards are open internationally to all those involved in the process of developing Interactive Media for corporate or non-corporate organizations, companies, etc. Girls too.

Deadline for submission is 28 September 2007. Visit the site to learn more.