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.

How do you see yourself? How do you think of yourself? How do you think other people see you? Are you the fly on the wall or the center of attention? The Idea of Self stretches further than the self portrait, and into the recesses of the mind, spirit and our subconscious. The Idea of Self takes us on a journey of self enlightenment and discovery allowing the photographer to truly bare their soul or to hide it away. This investigation of who we are, or who we think we are, is uniquely represented through the art of photography.

The exhibition for the Center for Fine Art Photography is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur, photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Deadline is 12 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Doug Jaeger, founder, CEO and creative director at design and branding agency thehappycorp global and director of event/digital media project LVHRD, both New York, has been elected as the 57th president of the Art Directors Club, the premier organization for integrated media and the longest-running global creative collective of its kind with membership in design, advertising, interactive and visual communications.

In addition, four new directors were added to the board, two directors were elevated to officers, and ADC executive director Ami Brophy was promoted to CEO.

Jaeger, 33, becomes the youngest president in the ADC’s 88-year history, a move reflective of the organization’s commitment to remain fresh and connected as the leading professional hub for both young and experienced designers and creatives. He succeeds Paul Lavoie, chairman, chief creative officer at TAXI, who made significant headway in enhancing the ADC’s relevancy, currency, visibility and financial health during his three-year term as president.

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YSL Beauté has teamed up with Brickfish to launch the “Create Your Own YSL Rouge Volupté Masterpiece” campaign in celebration of their new signature lipstick, Rouge Volupté. The campaign calls on fashionistas and designers alike to create a fabulously chic masterpiece inspired by the glamorous allure of the YSL Rouge Volupté Collection.

The campaign allows participants to use any medium to create their masterpiece, ranging from painting to graphic art and many more. YSL Beauté is looking for unique gallery-worthy YSL lipstick-inspired pieces of art. The grand prize winner, selected by an expert panel from YSL Beauté, will receive a trip to NYC to have their makeup done by a YSL makeup artist.

Prizes also will be awarded to one runner-up and one most viral entry. Deadline is not noted. Visit the site to learn more.

Thus competition aims at selecting an idea to create the new logo of the Universidade de Vigo and the subsequent granting of a prize for that idea. The logo will be used to identify the institution in all actions necessary such as publicity, communications, publications and editing, projects, signs and labels, etc. It will be the base for the new corporate image of the university.

Participants must consider the factors listed under item 11 of these terms and conditions related to the identity of the Universidade de Vigo in order to develop their ideas. There is a single prize of 12,000 euros for the participant whose design is selected by the jury. The amount will be subjected to the appropriate tax deduction under Spanish law.

Deadline is 16 October 2008. Download the PDF for details (in English).

The Design Green Project is the first of its kind to honor and reward designers’ creativity from around the world for their excellence in designing ‘Green’ for a better planet – in the disciplines of art, branding, environments, fashion, packaging, photography, print, design green, and now interactive.

All designers who participate in this unique competition will be part of the solution to the Global Warming Crisis by replacing one of their old light bulbs with a compact fluorescent light bulb provided by The Design Green Project. Additionally, there will be a tree planted in their name and 50% of all proceeds will be donated to the StopGlobalWarming.org fund, just for entering.

This is an international competition with various caveats to entries, so be sure to visit the site to learn more about the guidelines and the creative categories. Deadline is 15 December 2008.