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.

Produced by Emmy Award nominee Stan Rogow, the fully immersive and free sci-fi series Afterworld (www.afterworld.tv) uses Poser to create a new kind of computer-animated entertainment that blends video games, graphic novels and anime into one dynamic experience.

Episode 47: Off the Grid has just been released and depicts the main character traveling through the Ozarks on his quest across the US after an inexplicable global event renders technology useless and 99.9% of the population missing.

For Poser and sci-fi enthusiasts, it’s definitely worth checking out this series at www.afterworld.tv. Seriously amazing.

About Afterworld: The story follows the adventures of Russell Shoemaker, who wakes up in New York after “The Fall” and is compelled to walk to Seattle in the faint hope that his wife and child have survived. Russell’s own harrowing journey, from technological dependence to total self-reliance, mirrors the world he discovers along the way, where other survivors are rebuilding society in strange and surprising ways. Piecing together the complex mystery of what caused the global event, Russell eventually paves the way for the bold new future of mankind.

Fresh Brain is looking for new and creative graphics to enhance their Website and to make navigation visual and friendly. Do you have the creativity they are looking for? If so, you can win one of five new 8 GB iPod Touches.

They mainly need icons and buttons for the following areas of technology: Gaming, Video, Music, Eco/Green Science, Web and Graphics. Deadline wasn’t noted. Visit the site to learn more.

New talent is constantly being sought in British fashion and now MY-WARDROBE.COM, the online fashion boutique, has launched the Design Incubator Project, a competition to find the next big thing. The winner, chosen at a ceremony in January 2008, will have their collection produced and sold on the MY-WARDROBE.COM website. Among the judges are fashion power-players Hilary Alexander (fashion director at the Daily Telegraph), Sara Hassan (fashion editor of Sunday Times Style), Lauretta Roberts (editor of Drapers), The Clothes Show presenter Louise Redknapp and designers Nargess Gharani and Vanya Strok.

Fledgling designers are being asked to upload an eight-piece capsule collection for spring/summer 2008 and the lucky three to make the short-list will be given £1000 to produce the garments for the judges, who will then choose a winner in January. Sarah Curran, MY-WARDROBE.COM’s founder and editor, will also be judging the competition. “This is such a fantastic opportunity for us to discover and nurture new fashion design talent in the UK and provide that all important retail opportunity,” she says. For Hilary Alexander, a pioneer for new talent, the competition is a chance to find those who will “represent the future of fashion.”

All entries should be submitted to the site, www.thedesignerincubator.com, by 9 November to be presented to the judging panel.

Via: Vogue

“Attitude” is the topic of the European Fashion Award “Fash 2008″ of the German Apparel Industry Foundation (SDBI). The task is to design clothing in tune with the environment and social conditions, which provide expression to both aesthetic and ethical attitudes. Submissions can explore relevant partial solutions, but they can also deal with complete visions and even post-industrial strategies.

This pan-European contest is open to especially talented design students of all disciplines starting from the fourth semester. The categories of regular students and those preparing for their degree examination will be distinguished for the first time this year. The registration deadline is 3 December 2007, and the submission deadline is 8 January 2008. Only the registration deadline will be noted on this calendar. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: CosmoWorlds

Dell invites design students and individuals to create a broad range of design concepts and innovations for technology products that demonstrate refreshed approaches and responsible solutions for green computing technologies.

Their goal is to facilitate an open exchange among all peoples of the Earth and contribute to the body of knowledge that advances the practice of environmentally responsible product design for current and future computing technology products.

The competition begins 9 January 2008 at 5:00PM US CST, and ends 2 April 2008 at 11:59PM US CST. There is no cost to enter, but the competition is not open to residents of Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, Syria, and where prohibited by law. Other stipulations apply. Visit the site to learn more.