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.

Show off your creativity and promote the many benefits of your favorite browser as part of the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest. The winning design will be featured as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt in the Mozilla Store. You will receive worldwide recognition for your work, and an opportunity to win prizes!

Are you up for the challenge? We want to see your designs!

• First, create your T-Shirt design. View the sections on Submission and Design Guidelines for more details.
• Upload your design to the contest-specific Flickr group FF3 T-Shirt Design Contest for review.
• An internal team at Mozilla will conduct first round judging to select the top 5 designs.
• These designs will be posted online at the Mozilla Store for public voting. You determine the winner!
• The winning design will be printed on 100% organic T-Shirts, as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt and featured in the Mozilla Store as an exclusive item!
• For contest details including eligibility, terms and conditions, please read the Official Rules.
• If you have any additional questions, check out the FAQ or post a discussion topic.

For official rules and entry details, please visit the site.

It’s not even March yet, but already the enquiries about the 2008 World Communication Awards are flowing in.

We’ll start calling for entries in March, 2008, but if you are starting to think about your submission we can now confirm that the list of categories for the 2008 WCA will be as follows:

* Best Brand

* Best Content Service

* Best Customer Care

* Best Managed Service

* Best Mobile Operator

* Best International Carrier

* Best New Service

* Best Operator in a Developing Country

* Best Project Management

* Best Technology Foresight

* Best Changemaker

* Best Wholesale Carrier

* Best Global Operator

* Person of the Decade

* The Green Award

Unbelievably this will be the tenth year of the WCA and so fittingly the theme will be a Decade of Excellence - things have certainly changed since the first awards presented in Geneva in 1999.

This years gala evening will be the 26 November, and the venue will be the outstanding Hilton on Park Lane, London.

If you are interested in getting involved, please visit the site.

We hope to start unveiling sponsors very soon…..

Now accepting entries for the 2008 Regional Design Annual. NEW for 2008: Entering your work is even easier. You can now register and pay for your entries online. Read the complete guidelines or access the official entry form (pdf).

This issue, the Regional Design Annual, is the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States-and one of the biggest issues to hit the graphic design industry each year. All winning work will be organized by region and featured in the December 2008 issue of PRINT. They received more than 20,000 individual entries for the 2007 Regional Annual, from almost every state. The process of selection in all regions of the country was as stringent as ever, and, as always, they feel that the work chosen is first-rate, and that it represents the best design, illustrations, and photography being produced throughout the United States.

NEW: Get inspired with ten year’s worth of Regional Design Annual Winners. Learn more about the Regional Design Annual 10 Year Retrospective DVD and website. Entry form pdf is here.

CUT&PASTE Presents

The Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) “See What’s Possible” Challenge

Adobe and Cut&Paste challenge designers to “See What’s Possible” by entering a visually pioneering 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video. Grand Prize – $20,000, Adobe CS3 Master Collection, and inclusion in Adobe Photoshop marketing materials

February 5, 2008: Cut&Paste(R), the producers of the international live design tournament, announces the first Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) “See What’s Possible” Challenge, to be administered on http://swp.cutandpaste.com.  Cut&Paste teamed up with Adobe Systems
Incorporated to put the call out to its joint community of graphic designers, animators, and motion graphics wizards worldwide to create a promotional animation or motion graphics work that best illustrates the theme of “See What’s Possible.” The twist: this isn’t just a
competition, but for the winner, an opportunity for their winning work to be used in Adobe’s marketing campaign of Photoshop in addition to the Grand Prize of $20,000 (USD) and Adobe Creative Suite 3(R) Master Collection.

“As the Cut&Paste community and designers across the globe appreciate, Adobe Photoshop is the professional industry standard in digital imaging software, so we’re thrilled to team with Adobe to provide more exposure to aspiring and experienced designers and animators alike,”
says John Fiorelli, executive director of Cut&Paste. “But this challenge isn’t just about winning – all submissions will be publicly showcased on CutandPaste.com where contestants can share their skills with not only fellow designers, but fans, recruiters, and potential clients.”

To judge the competition, Cut&Paste has assembled an all-star team of judges including Alexei Tylevich (Logan), Jonathan Notaro (Brand New School), Nando Costa (Nervo) José Gomez (Shilo), Adina Sales (Blacklist) and Victor Newman (Freestyle Collective). Judges will be looking for work that breaks new ground and has a “wow” factor.  Submissions should not exceed 15 seconds in duration, should incorporate and close with the Photoshop “See What’s Possible” brand logo and tagline, and should use Adobe Flash(R) or After Effects(R) in its creation (see Rules at http://swp.cutandpaste.com for more details).  “It’s always inspiring for us to see how our users push the creative boundaries of what’s possible with Photoshop,” said Kevin Connor, senior director of product management for Professional Digital Imaging at Adobe. “By teaming up with Cut&Paste, we are excited to offer graphic designers, animators, motion graphics designers, web pros, and photographers a unique opportunity to display their work for the entire community.”  Five submissions will be chosen by the judges as Finalists, and Adobe will award one of those five finalists the Grand Prize of $20,000 (USD) and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. In addition to the Grand Prize, the winning submission will be featured in Adobe’s marketing campaign of Photoshop. All finalists receive Adobe Creative
Suite 3 Master Collection. The Challenge also offers a People’s Choice Prize: All eligible submissions will be available for voting on the Cut&Paste Web site. Anyone may view the submissions and any registered users may add comments to any work or vote for their favorite submissions for the People’s Choice Prize, which is Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. Supporting the promotion of the challenge to its subscribers are media sponsors, Stash DVD Magazine and the motion graphics blog, Motionographer.

How It Works :

Grand Prize Selection
Cut&Paste will screen all eligible entries to a final 30 selections that will then be provided to judges for evaluation. The top 5 scoring finalists will then go to Adobe who will choose the Grand Prize Winner.

People’s Choice Prize
Commenting and voting on all submissions are open to all registered users Popular online vote by registered users will determine winner.

Prizes

· Grand Prize - $20,000 (USD) and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection (retailed at $2,499) and inclusion in Adobe marketing including:

o Featured on adobe.com

o Available as a screensaver for community download

o Showcased at Adobe(R) tradeshows, seminars and demos

o Intro to Keynote speeches, etc

o HTML email, banners

Five Finalists – Adobe(R) Creative Suite 3 Master Collection(R)
People’s Choice Prize – Adobe(R) Creative Suite 3 Master Collection(R)

Timing
Contestants may submit entries on http://swp.cutandpaste.com beginning
February 15, 2008, and ending on March 15, 2008
People’s Choice Prize voting open from February 15, 2008 to March 31, 2008
Prizes announced at Photoshop World – April 4, 2008

How to Enter
Contestants post submissions to a video-sharing Web site such as YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, or Revver.
Starting February 15, entrants may register with the Cut&Paste Web site and complete a Web application form at http://swp.cutandpaste.com

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