Adobe announced Photoshop CS4 and Creative Suite 4 this morning, and PhotoshopCAFE also announced their new support site for these products. At PhotoshopCAFE, you’ll find all the new features explained as well as some all new video tutorials on Photoshop CS4. Jump into the free learning site and get to grips with Photoshop CS4 through a full review, new feature list and some all-new free videos on key new features.

Mohawk Fine Papers celebrates the designers who shape our world. They invite you to show the best of your work on Strathmore Writing papers. Entries will be judged on creative design, production excellence and appropriate paper choice. All of the Strathmore premium writing grades are eligible including: Strathmore Pure Cotton, Strathmore Writing and Strathmore Script.

Five winners will receive $5000 each and finalists will be awarded $500 each. Enter as many projects as you like (there are no entry fees). Deadline is 29 May 2009. Visit the site to learn more.

Designers! Has a client rejected one of your designs lately? It was a great one, and looking at it now it still excites you. Don’t consider that work a waste of time or effort - just send it to flogged magazine, as they celebrate good designs that have been flogged in a monthly magazine.

The first issue is now out. Some designers have artistically hidden client logos, whilst others have created a whole new design from their flogged
designs to celebrate frustration. The Editor’s note says “celebrating rejected designs is kinda like playing with a loose tooth, it sort of hurts a little, but it feels good. Most designers are tooth fiddlers.”

Visit flogged magazine today and keep fiddling that tooth!

Photographer’s Forum Magazine and Nikon present the 29th Annual College Photography Contest. The winning photos will be published in the May 2008 issue of Photographer’s Forum, and all contest finalists will be published in the Best of Photography Annual 2009. Additionally, there are over $4,000 in cash grants and two Nikon cameras that will be awarded. Winning photos also will be entered into Nikon’s Emerging Photographers Hall of Fame.

Final deadline is 20 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Design For The Children is an open, international design competition asking architects and designers from around the world to develop a sustainable, culturally responsive, pediatric clinic model for East Africa. Fight for the Children staff will work with local residents at the proposed site in East Africa to build the clinic based on the winning design, using local materials and building techniques. Fight for the Children staff will train and work with local doctors and nurses, who will in turn train other area residents.

Registration deadline is 15 October 2008. 15 January is the submission deadline (only the registration date will be noted on the calendar). Visit the site to learn more.

School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York City, in partnership with Giraldi Media, announces the first annual Out of Hand International Festival, a showcase for innovative digital content created by students and intended for playback on mobile phones and other wireless or handheld devices. The festival invites aspiring artists, designers, filmmakers and creative thinkers worldwide to enter original work into competition using the online submission form by December 31, 2008. A public showing and awards presentation, awarding cash and other prizes to the top submissions, will take place in New York City in March 2009. Details to come.

Visit the site to learn more.