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

Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. announced its first-ever online design contest for the Contra 4 mobile game scheduled to be released this fall. The competition extends an open invitation to fans of the franchise to design their own Contra character in honor of Contra’s 20th anniversary. The winning designer will see their character come to life in the upcoming game.

The promotion runs through 1 October on the Konami Mobile Web site (www.konamimobile.com/contradesign), and challenges fans to develop a creative new character that demonstrates the true meaning of the classic Contra game.
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Graphex 2008 is an Icograda-endorsed national design competition that has been celebrating the best of visual communication in Canada since 1977. The primary goals of Graphex are to promote the value of design to the Canadian public and business community – Good Design Is Good Business – and to create an archive of Canadian design for future generations to reflect upon and study.

Graphex thrives on learning from and rewarding those designers who are addressing increasingly complex and diverse creative challenges. As such, the theme for Graphex 2008 positions the winning entry as not only the end result of a tournament style process of elimination but also as the catalyst for a ripple effect of influence upon the world at large. The point of this is to highlight the fact that while many designers do not often look past the moment of winning an award, there are larger issues at stake and greater possibilities for change than whatever was the design’s original intention. In doing so, we are reminded of both the importance of design’s place in society and the responsibility that designers must assume as a result.

Entries, forms and fees must be received at Kwantlen University College no later than 5pm Friday, 23 November 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, British Columbia Chapter

Entries into the 12th Annual Webby Awards will now be accepted. With expanded categories and incredible new judges, this is your opportunity to be crowned the best of the Web. Save money by entering before the Early Entry Deadline of 26 October 2007. Visit the site to learn more.