The prestigious HUE® Awards, presented by Benjamin Moore to recognize and celebrate architects and interior design professionals who passionately and consistently apply color in their residential and/or commercial projects, will be seeking entries for its 3rd annual competition.

Prize money totaling $25,000 in five categories will be awarded. Join the ranks of past honorees such as Will Alsop, Jamie Drake, Steven Holl, Ibarra Rosano, David Ling, Moore Ruble Yudell, Rockwell Group, Saia Barbarese Topouzanov, Ettore Sottssass, TVS Interiors and Clive Wilkinson. The deadline is 26 October. Visit the website for a list of rules for entrants. Enter to win the HUE Award and $5,000 for exceptional use of color in architecture or interior design.

Submissions due Friday, 26 October. HUE Awards Ceremony will be held in New York City in March, 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Simply amazing. What an astounding group of winning photographs. These 17 winning images were selected from over 2100 submitted by photographers in 27 countries. The wide range of subject matter, locale, style, and creative vision from so many exceptionally talented and dedicated photographers was astounding! With thanks to the jury members for the 2007 Banff Mountain Photography Competition — acclaimed photographer Alec Pytlowany, Photo Life editor-in-chief Anita Dammer, and photographer/filmmaker Pat Morrow.

Although Marc Adamus from Corvallis, Oregon won the grand prize (he also walked away with a special mention), the shot shown here is the one that grabbed my eye. This photo was taken by Marc Piscotty, who was an integral part of the photo staff at the Rocky Mountain News which won Pulitzer Prizes in Breaking News Photography for coverage of the Columbine High School Tragedy (2000) and the 2003 Colorado wildfires. He was also a finalist in the 2001 Pulitzer Prize Feature Photography category for the year he spent chronicling high-school life in the wake of the Columbine tragedy. In addition to numerous professional state-wide and national awards, Marc was the winner of the William Randolph Hearst Collegiate Photojournalism Championship as a junior at Western Kentucky University.

The image above is entitled, “Iron Mountain Fire,” taken in Canon City, Colroado on 3 June 2002. “A slurry bomber drops fire-retardant across a hillside during the Iron Mountain Fire…The fire would rage on for a week, burn almost 4500 acres of forest and threaten more than 100 homes. The 2002 fire season was only a prelude to the following year, which would go down on record as the worst fire season in Colorado history.”

LicensArt.com needs a new logo, and they want you to design it for $1,000 cash prize. They’re looking for a graphic symbol or icon that elegantly captures and communicates the essence of their unique business model, connecting creativity with commerce. Submission deadline is 30 November 2007. Visit the site for details.

At Left: 1st Winner for the LBVCR, Jackie Bull.

Following the success of the first LBVCR (London to Brighton Veteran Car Run) photographic competition, spectators at the 2007 event, taking place on Sunday 4th November, will be invited to enter their favourite pictures and be in with a chance of winning some very unique prizes. The overall winner will be awarded the opportunity to take part in the 2008 LBVCR as a passenger on one of the participating veteran cars.

The 2007 London to Brighton Veteran Car Run Photographic Competition is open to all members of the public to enter their pictures from the Run in one of three categories. The top ten images submitted in each category will be short listed and displayed in a special gallery on the LBVCR website. The best of the rest will also be displayed on the LBVCR website in the gallery section.

The entry form for the 2007 LBVCR Photographic competition is available from the website. Closing date for entries is Wednesday 21 November, with the winning entries announced on Monday 1 December.

Via: ePhotozine

Beneath the Sea 2008 is pleased to invite Photographers and Videographers to enter its annual Worldwide Underwater Photo/video competition.

Underwater photographers will compete for the coveted David Doubilet award for excellence in underwater photography and a trip for one on the M.V. Telita in Papua New Guinea.

Underwater Videographers will compete for the distinguished Stan Waterman award for excellence in underwater video and a one week trip for one aboard the Nai’a in Fiji.

Underwater Photographic Artists compete for the celebrated Jim Church award for excellence in creative underwater photography and a trip for one aboard the M.Y Telita in Papua New Guinea.

Wherever you live in this wide world, submit your underwater photographic entry to the Beneath the Sea 2008 Worldwide Photo/Video Competition. The contest deadline is 31 December 2007. For contest rules and entry blank visit Beneath the Sea. There you may see the images of previous winners, get a set of rules and regulations, and enter on line or download an application form for this year’s competition.

Via: DivePhotoGuide

The annual competition organised jointly by Bird Watching magazine and Warehouse Express is now the award that all bird photographers – amateur and professional and from all parts of the globe – aspire to win. And it’s open to all…

Now in its fifth year, the International Wildbird Photographer competition is generating some of the most exciting images of birds ever seen. With a magnificent prize fund exceeding £10,000, and the worldwide esteem in which the IWP is held, it is the competition that every photographer wants to win. Professional wildlife photographers from more than 30 countries are now submitting entries to the IWP, but less experienced photographers are also encouraged to send in their bird images – several categories are tailor-made for amateurs.

Closing date for entries is 31 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

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Spreadshirt is looking for a new logo and is inviting you all to design their logo which will be seen by millions of people every year (They’re not counting, but it’s a lot)! The overall prize bounty is worth over $19k (€15k). Some of the prizes include cash, new laptops, adobe design software, and more. Submit your logo designs every week to the entries blog where you can all post your entries. They’ll pick out the best designs and discussion from the entries blog and show in the entries blog. Every week starting 3rd Sept they, with help from the panel (and all your comments) pick our weekly winners and those winners will move to the grand final.

Look for battles and discussion about who should win on the main blog. From there they pick the winners and allocate all the other prizes (the jury prizes can also be awarded to designs/individuals that didn’t make the Grand Final). The contest will be closing midnight 14 October, so start designing your logo to win! Visit the site for more information.

At Right: Critical Mass Winner Donald Weber.

Critical Mass is an annual juried competition sponsored by Photolucida. It is a valuable addition to Photolucida’s popular in-person Portfolio Reviews, and offers an online submission and selection process. Critical Mass participants receive tremendous artistic exposure at a fraction of the cost of in-person reviews. 2007 is the fourth year of Critical Mass.

The aim of Critical Mass and all Photolucida programming is to provide participants with career-building opportunities and to promote the best emerging and mid-career artists working today. This is THE contest to enter to get your work noticed by people who can actually pay you for future work. Consider this contest more of a portfolio review.

Critical Mass 2007 registration closes 26 October. Enter the first stage for $50 - if you’re one of the 150 chosen for the second round, you pay another $250 to have your work sent to a full panel of 200 ju8rors. Everyone who pays the initial $50 fee will receive the monograph books by the 2007 winners as well as the CD-ROM. Visit the site to learn more.

FROM LLIC: A new cash prize of £2500 has been added to the first annual LICC competition! The finalists in the exhibition will get to choose the prize recipient.

They are also excited to announce that the exhibition will be hosted by Gallery Yujiro http://www.galleryyujiro.com/menu.html with a collateral event at Alma Enterprises Gallery http://www.almaenterprises.com/
Due to an overwhelming response from international entrants and the addition of the new cash prize, the deadline for submissions has been extended to 30 September (it was originally slated for 15 August). SUBMIT YOUR WORK NOW!http://www.licc.me.uk/submit/
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The Brno Biennale was established in 1963, and is thus the oldest exhibition of graphic design in the world. It regularly alternates between two subjects. This year (for 2008), categories are dedicated to books and exhibition catelogues, digital and audiovisual media covers, magazines and newspapers, type design, and digital media. Endorsed by ICOGRADA (International Council of Graphic Design Associations). Deadline for all categories is 30 November 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Dexigner