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.

See you in 2008!

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Inhabitat and Core77 invite designers to explore the concept of “Greener Gadgets.” Designs should seek to minimize the environmental impact of consumer electronic devices at any stage in the product lifecycle. Areas of sustainability to consider include:

1. Energy
2. Materials / Lifecycle / Recycling
3. Social & educational development

Participants are encouraged to consider their designs as part of the entire product ecosystem, and should think as holistically as possible. Designers may choose to focus their entries on a particular area of human enterprise (learning, playing, communicating, etc.), or a particular context (work, home, school, etc.), a particular material, or a specific device. Entries may also seek to create new paradigms for products and services.

Deadline closes at 11:59 pm EST on 27 January 2008. Visit the Greener Gadgets site for details!

Millennium School is a design competition for school buildings in developing countries located in the tropics. The Millennium School Design Competition is part of the Be Better Build Better Campaign and aims to solicit the best architecture-for-humanity designs from all over the world. Architects shall be brought together in a collective effort to try to find solutions to the problems of school buildings in the developing world, and in particular those that are constantly faced by natural disasters like typhoons, flash floods and earthquakes.

The competition will facilitate the emergence of new sustainable design solutions and appropriate technologies that will improve the quality of school buildings in the developing world. The competition will offer a venue for the practice of architecture for a client group that would otherwise have no access to design professionals that can solve their problems.

Deadline for registration is 11 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

By Kids For Kids (BKFK) announced the extension of four concurrent teen innovation contests today to allow for wider participation: The Digital Storytelling Challenge, The Signature Style Challenge, The Sports Evolution Challenge and The Going Green Challenge. These competitions are the just the first round of challenges to be launched on the company’s newly upgraded teen creativity portal at www.bkfk.com, powered by the flagship “Idea Locker™.”

Teens have been responsible for some remarkable creative output and innovations. Did you know that Jim Shooter was just 13 when he started selling stories to DC Comics? Did you know that Tommy Hilfiger, Stella McCartney and Jean Paul Gaultier all achieved success in the fashion industry before the age of 18? Or that Water-skis, the Frisbee and the Trampoline were all invented by teens? How about the “green teens” already in action saving our environment? Smitha Ramakrishna , 15, was one of ten chosen in the nation for the President’s Environmental Youth Award, given by the EPA. She was recognized for a special project that helped deliver clean water to the world. And Victor Nashan , 16, of Tanzania, East Africa, raises environmental consciousness through using creative methods like songs, poems, art and games.
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Burnswell wants to be more than just another t-shirt store. They’re looking to find some new t-shirt talents through their Big Deal t-shirt competition. Six winners a month (two contests with three winners each) will be printed and sold as totally limited edition shirts, on sale for only three days and then gone forever. And of course the winners will be rewarded, in the form of free shirts and prizes of $300, $200 and $100 (depending on ranking). And if your design is a big seller, you could be entitled to an even larger prize. Visit the site for details. I’ve also added this site to the “nonstop contests” in the links in the middle column.

Via: the t-shirt competition guide