If you’re interested in breaking into editorial photography, check out this seminar on building a freelance photo career on Wednesday, April 9, with Pulitzer-winning photo editor Stella Kramer in New York. A student at her last class wrote, “Stella offers refreshing, candid insights into a side of the business that photographers rarely see. Her ability to clearly describe what photo editors are looking for was a real eye-opener.”

This is a great opportunity to meet a top editor and learn how to get your work out there. “Breaking Into Editorial Photography” with a Pulitzer-winning photo editor will prepare you to get the best freelance photo jobs

Stella Kramer, multi-award-winning photo editor (The New York Times, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Entertainment Weekly), shares practical information and insider tips on how to get editorial assignments and build a career as an editorial freelancer. Visit mediabistro to learn more!

Sixth biennial competition reunites five generations of ADC Young Guns to select the next wave of creative wunderkinds

March 13, 2008, NEW YORK ­ To all young creative professionals across the map: It’s time to open those portfolios and find the pieces that show you at your freshest and most brilliant. ADC Young Guns 6 is fast approaching and will uncover the best under-30, professional talent throughout today’s multi-disciplinary creative industry.

Since its inception in 1996, ADC Young Guns has identified rising stars in the fields of graphic design (Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore), illustration (Deanne Cheuk), photography (floto+warner), advertising Alexander Gelman), interactive media (Rei Inamoto), film and video (Mike Mills), and animation (Todd St. John), among others. The competition discovers the most promising young creatives across various disciplines and brings these emerging talents into the spotlight.

The sixth class of ADC Young Guns will have their work showcased in a gallery exhibit and published in a limited edition book by Moleskine®. Their work will also reside in the ADC permanent collection online. These new Young Guns will be awarded the iconic ADC Cube and join the ADC’s membership, a veritable Who’s Who of advertising and design that counts Milton Glaser, Yohji Yamamoto, Ivan Chermayeff, Seymour Chwast, and Jay Maisel among its famous names.

This year the ADC has added a twist to Young Guns 6: for the first time, Young Guns alumni from classes 1­5 will serve as the jury and choose the new class to join their ranks. Having once been selected for the same award, these “old” Young Guns bring unique experience to the judges table, where they will evaluate each body of professional and personal work without the constraint of media categories.

In making the competition both for Young Guns and by Young Guns, the Art Directors Club with its singular capacity to connect several generations of visual talent‹has created a rare community characterized by its creative daring, forward-thinking ambitions, and level of prestige.

ADC Young Guns 6 opens its call for entries online on April 3 in conjunction with its launch party, Disclosure, at the Art Directors Club gallery. The launch will coincide with the ADC’s unveiling of The Undiscovered Letter (www.theundiscoveredletter.com).

For more info on this contest, please visit the site.

This is your chance to dazzle the design world and see your work in the pages of HOW.

Just choose your best promotion design work (for yourself, clients, pro-bono and more), download the entry form and send everything to HOW by March 21, 2008.

All winners will be featured in HOW’s October 2008 Self-Promotion Annual, plus they’ll get a $100 discount to the 2009 HOW Design Conference.

One Best of Show winner will even score a free trip to the 2009 HOW Design Conference and an award to be presented at the Conference!

Check out the rules and download an entry form here.

April 19 - 22, 2008, Toronto Hilton, Toronto, Canada

Break your tools. Break your patterns. Break the norm. Break the standards.

Toronto, Canada [March 5, 2008] — Having just concluded a sold-out event in Amsterdam, FITC returns to Toronto, Canada for FITC Toronto: The Design + Technology Festival. Scheduled for April 19 - 22, 2008 at the Toronto Hilton, FITC Toronto is the largest event of its kind in Canada and a highlight of the international conference circuit with over 1,000 attendees from more than 15 countries.

FITC Toronto is where the world’s top designers and developers come together to share their insights and expertise across three subject areas: creative, technical and business. Sessions cover all aspects of the creative process, explore the latest developments in rich media technology, and provide insight into the ups and downs of running an Interactive business.

“The theme this year is about pushing the limits,” says Shawn Pucknell, Founder and Executive Producer of FITC Toronto. “We want delegates to walk away from the festival with new ideas, new skills, new contacts, and a new sense of purpose about their work.”

New to this year’s program is the FITC “Get-A-Job” event, which takes place Saturday, April 19th at the Toronto Hilton. The Get-A-Job event is open to the general public (no festival pass required) and is organized to connect up-and-coming designers and developers with top Interactive agencies and technology companies. For more information, go to http://www.fitc.ca/getajob.

This is the 7th year for the three-day festival, which also includes a kick-ass Awards show, a speakers’ series devoted to experimental art and programming, a large scale interactive art exhibit as well as some very cool parties.

For more information, or to register, go to http://www.fitc.ca/toronto.

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

Electrolux Design Lab 2008 invites industrial design students around the world to create tomorrow’s home appliances for the Internet generation, deadline May 30.

Electrolux, a global leader in home appliances and appliances for professional use, launches the 6th edition of its annual design competition via www.ElectroluxDesignLab.com and will select a limited number of entries to compete in Zurich at the international finals October 8 & 9, 2008.

The Internet generation comprises brand-conscious, busy young professionals between 25-35 who are independent, concerned about the environment, and whose lives are intertwined with technology and online social networks.

This year’s submissions should be for 2-3 years into the future and address food storage, cooking, and/or washing. “We are looking for daring ideas and solutions,” says Henrik Otto, Head of Global Design at Electrolux. “Entries should reflect the iGeneration’s core interests and concerns like mobility, convenience, time, materials, personalization, entertaining, technology, and sustainability.”

About Design LabSince 2003, thousands of design students have participated in the Electrolux Design Lab competition, which culminates in a different city every year at an international press event. Previous venues include Paris, Barcelona, Stockholm, New York, and Budapest.

Last year’s competition “Green designs for 2020” was won by Levente Szabó from Moholy-Nagy University of Art & Design, Hungary, with E-wash, a compact washing machine that uses soap nuts instead of detergent.

The Design Lab 2008 has a First Prize of 5,000 Euro and a six-month internship at one of Electrolux’s global design centers. The second prize is 3,000 Euro and third prize 2,000 Euro. An international jury will judge the entries based on intuitive design, innovation, and consumer insight.

Entries must be submitted by May 30, 2008 via the website. A limited number of finalists will be chosen by the end of June and invited to Zurich to make a final presentation to the jury on October 8 & 9 where the winner will be announced and the prizes awarded.

For more information about the competition, high-resolution photos of previous finalists and their concepts, broadcast quality b-roll, and to watch videos from last year’s competition on Design Lab TV, visit www.ElectroluxDesignLab.com.

This category of the Prix Ars Electronica is open to:
works of 2D or 3D computer animation, digital short films and narratives, character animation, abstract CG animation, scientific visualizations, commercials, music videos, visual effects, CG for the creative manipulation or enhancement of live action scenes, real-time CG, game cutscenes, machinima, generative visuals, etc.

CATEGORIES

• COMPUTER ANIMATION / FILM / VFX
• INTERACTIVE ART
• DIGITAL MUSIC
• HYBRID ART
• DIGITAL COMMUNITIES
• u19 – FREESTYLE COMPUTING
• MEDIA.ART.RESEARCH AWARD

For entry details, please visit www.aec.at