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.

It’s that time again - time for the reddot design award. Participation extends to all designers, design studios, companies, research laboratories, inventors, design professionals and students from anywhere in the world are eligible to enter.

All kinds of inventions, novelty designs and aesthetic designs that are not in the market, and not produced for sale before 1 December 2008 can be entered. Award decisions are taken on the concept presentations directly by the jury during the adjudication process.

Registration deadline is 11 July 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Diesel Wall is an international art contest that aims to bring intriguing/inspiring/insightful/inciting contemporary ideas to giant urban canvases in city centers around the world. Diesel Wall was born out of a need to salvage what precious public space is left. They will take your art, your powers of dissuasion; your ability to disrupt; incite; excite; inspire and intrigue; to make comment; to make beautiful; to make real; to make people think again. And they will give you walls in four major cities around the world to express yourself!

You must be logged in as a DIESEL CULT user to upload file. Deadline is 11 July 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The 2007-2008 ImpressInPrint.com Inspired Artist scholarships are awarded four times per year in the amount of $500 each. The scholarships are open to eligible students currently attending university, college, trade school, technical institute or vocational program in the 2007-2008 academic year. Eligible students may not have already been receiving or awarded a full-tuition scholarship or waiver from another source. International students are welcome to apply.

You must explain why you chose art as your direction of study over other educational opportunities and what contribution your art will make to the world and society. Then, you must explain how will the ImpressInPrint.com Inspired Artist Scholarship help you meet your educational and professional goals. One digital image or photo of one piece of artwork is required as well. Deadline is four times per year. Upcoming deadline is 14 July 2008. Next deadline is 14 October 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

LittleBigPlanet is a new type of game in which characters and levels are designed by players, who can then share their creations with the world. It’s a platformer with a creative edge - described as the Youtube for games, it’s going to be an endless pixel canvas for your wildest design schemes.

Sony have asked us to seek out the best character design to be incorporated into the retail version of the game. That means, of course, that not only will hundreds of thousands of people see your design, but they’ll be using it throughout the game - a fairly unparalleled way of getting your unique style recognised.

Your character will be in good company - so far, 20 creative visionaries have contributed their level designs, including: Build, Kate Moross, Peepshow, Trevor Jackson and Yuko Kondo.

Voting on entries begins on July 14 2008. For more information, brief and the design template, check out the site at Don’t Panic.

Two freelance editors are currently working on a new book about graphic design and designers. They need your help with collecting some statistics about your prefession and professional habits. The survey shouldn’t take more than five minutes of your time. Just think - you’ll be part of history! So help these folks out and take the survey…