A season of inspirational lectures launches in London & Manchester this September. The line up includes Tony Davidson, Irma Boom, Paul Davis, Ivan Chermayeff and Paul Lavoie showing their work and discussing their influences. The lectures begin on 5 September and end on 14 November. Read on for more information on the lectures, or go straight to D&D to book!

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A photography competition that offers the chance to win a trip to China is featured on a new website launched by Panasonic called MyPlace. MyPlace is about celebrating the nature, culture and heritage of the UK and Ireland. They want you to share those photos that are special to you with other members of the MyPlace community.

Visitors can post images of their favorite places in Great Britain and Ireland with their shots rated by a professional photographer. By submitting your best photos, you could be in for a chance to win money off vouchers, Lumix cameras and a World Heritage tour in China. There are weekly, monthly and yearly competitions that you will automatically be entered in to when you submit your photos.

The website also includes details of the Panasonic-sponsored project to build the largest collection of UNESCO world heritage site photos - all captured using LUMIX cameras.

I’ve added this site to the “nonstop” competitions in the links located in the middle column. Good luck!

Via: Amatuer Photographer

With the aim of cultivating and supporting youngsters who are interested to be designers as their future career, in conjunction with Grossé, the worldwide renowned fashion jewelry brand, the winner will be awarded to put his/ her design in production and launch it as part of the Grossé Spring / Summer 08 Collection.

The competition is open to all students who are required to provide evidence supporting their student status (e.g. student ID). Enter a jewelry set with a combination of three kinds of jewelry pieces: e.g. Necklace, bracelets, earrings, rings, brooches and so on. The prizes aren’t shabby - the “Champion” wins US$4,000, award certificate, and a place in the Grossé Centenary Show as part of the Grossé 2008 Spring/Summer Collection.

All materials must bve submitted by 30 September 2007. 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.

SHOPDROPPING.NET is currently seeking 20 artists in their twenties for a new project that will consist of an upcoming book and exhibition. 20/20 will profile each artist and copies of the limited edition book will be shopdropped into bookstores throughout the world.

In the spirit of shopdropping, they are seeking artists who are exploring new forms and pushing boundaries within their field. Bands and musicians with hard to define genres, Internet filmmakers and compulsive bloggers, curators and gallerists working out of their homes, post-vinyl dj’s and digital vj’s, actors and writers working outside of film, theater, and television, artist collectives, culture jammers, and other hard-to-define creative minds are in demand.

To be considered for this project please submit examples of your work via web link to: submissions AT shopdropping.net. Visit the site to learn more about shopdropping and the contest. No deadline noted.

The iDAT exhibition is a unique combination of major interactive media events Ars Electronica from Austria and Interactive Tokyo from Japan. It is calling for interactive media works that merge design, art, and technology, moves beyond technology traditions, and transforms social assumptions. They are seeking interactive works in the form of installations which will be part of the exhibition at the Singapore Science Centre. The works should have a focus on interactive media systems that have an innovative technological concepts blended with excellence in art and/or design. They also are encouraging works which have harmonious parts of content and interactive technology, with a focus on human usability, and expanding the scope of media for use in human society.

Deadline for entries is 15 October 2007. Visit the site to learn all the details.

Lark Books seeks images of outstanding handmade knives, daggers, folding knives, tomahawks, swords, hunting knives, forged blades, and other implements for publication in a juried collection of international studio metalwork. Diverse design styles, materials, and techniques are desired. Submission to the book is free; you need only furnish images and an entry form.

To be released in the fall of 2008, this book aims to be an inspiring collection for beginning and professional knifemakers and metalsmiths, as well as for collectors and knife enthusiasts.

To be considered for inclusion, please submit high-quality transparencies, slides, or digital images with entry forms. Artists whose work is selected will receive full acknowledgment within the book, a complimentary copy, and discounts on the purchase of additional books. Artists retain copyright of their work. There is no entry fee.

Entries must be postmarked by 1 October 2007. Guidelines & entry forms now available at the contest page.

Via: SCAtoday

At Right: At the Gate of God, by Joseph Jordan, Illustrated by Eldar Zakirov, Gold Award Winner

Twelve winning writers and twelve illustrators from around the globe - all commercially-unpublished prior to their entry in the annual Writers and Illustrators of the Future Contests - will be honored during the 23rd Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement Awards at the Caltech Athenaeum Club on Friday, 24 August 2007 beginning at 7:30 pm.

The highlight of the ceremony will be the announcement of the year’s two Grand Prize writing contest and illustrating contest winners who will each receive $5,000. Quarterly winners also receive cash prizes from $1,000 to $500. Their winning stories and illustrations will appear in the annual anthology, L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers and Illustrators of the Future, volume 23 (Galaxy Press, 2007).
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Enter up to 15 pieces in the most high-profile emerging creative portfolio contest in the nation for the opportunity to be published and seen by an industry of creative decision makers across the globe. Entries will be judged by today’s most influential professionals in all fields. Open to current students, recent graduates and the self-taught. Deadline: Monday, 8 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Organised by the film festival Film Sokolov, Czech republic, everybody can take part in this contest, no matter whether a professional or an amateur. The work must reflect the main topic of the festival, a work containing or describing a scam in any way is the basic idea. The technique of your work is not set and limited. You can send your works in the A2 formate, 3 mm over print, bit maps 150 dpi. The file must have max 10MB. In case your work has more than 10MB you can use their web depository or mail a DVD. The author of the best work, elected by the audience, is going to win a gift certificate from the Student Agency, for 4150 Kc(. All participants of the contest get a free accreditation and accommodation during the festival.

Deadline is 31 August 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Graphic Competitions