Inkfruit helps the designer community by allowing designers to focus upon what they are best at: designing awesome graphic t-shirts. Inkfruit facilitates the process by manufacturing the winning designs and ensure that name fame and money flows to the designer.

At Inkfruit, choice of winning designs is a collective decision of community. Inkfruit empowers the consumer to decide what is indeed good and worth their pennies. The winning designs are printed on 100% cotton t-shirts and printing is done through screen printing methods. Screen printing allows Inkfruit to print various effects like foil, high density, pigment, glow-in-the-dark inks and more with flexibility in terms of design size and placement on the t-shirt.

In terms of choice, customers can be assured of getting excellent graphic t-shirt every time they visit the site www.inkfruit.com site, as voting and comments by community ensures that non-deserving designs are weeded out. Consumers need no longer remain content with humorous one-liner message t-shirts. The winning t-shirts are screen printed and made available for sale online. Designers are paid 20,000 INR worth in prizes every fortnight. Also, the name of designer features on the t-shirt label thus ensuring the designer gets due credit for their creation and hard work. Visit Inkfruit to learn more.

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You know what is better than getting a brand new Toshiba Qosmio X305 gaming laptop this holiday? How about getting one for free? Yes, that definitely would be the way to go; but there is one small catch: You have to earn it by designing your vision of the ultimate gaming laptop of the future.

Just send a presentable looking mockup of your design with specs and other info to “contests @ gizmodo.com” (remove spaces and quote marks) with the subject “X305 Contest.” Hurry though, all entries must be received by December 1st to be considered. Visit the site to learn more.

On February 27, 2009 innovators, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and designers will return to New York City to discuss the future of sustainability for the consumer electronics industry.

Topics will include: emerging energy technology, e-waste and recycling, new inventions in energy generation and efficiency, and future forward recyclable gadgetry.

Join this group of thought leaders and reserve your place at the conference today. Greener Gadgets 2009 will take place at the McGraw Hill Conference Center in NYC on February 27th, 2009. Visit the site to learn more.

The AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2009 COD Ideas Competition, titled “Listening to the Past, Looking to the Future: A House for Today.” In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the legacy of modernist design through a concept design problem.

Winners will receive funding to attend the COD Spring Design Conference in Boston and have their work exhibited at the 2009 AIA National Convention in San Francisco. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA Web site.

Submissions will be made in the form of two Powerpoint slides containing the information and images you choose to present your vision for the new house. In order for the judging to be blind, you must not include any identifying information on the slides. Please be sure to name your project and ensure that that name is on both your slides and the registration form.

To register for the competition please email Allison Fax to request the Powerpoint template and a registration form. Payment can be made with check or credit card (Visa, Mastercard or American Express). Payment by check must be postmarked no later than February 13, 2009. For background details, jury information and templates, please visit the site.

EXHIBITOR Magazine’s Exhibit Design Awards honor the world’s best trade show exhibit designs. The most coveted design award in the industry, the competition draws domestic and international entrants from countries such as Turkey, Switzerland, Israel, Australia, and the Netherlands.

Trade show exhibit designs debuting between Dec. 1, 2006, and Dec. 1, 2008, are eligible for the 2009 competition. Final deadline is 12 December 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

MyToons.com, the world’s first and only online animation community to offer HD animation, today announced the launch of its ground-breaking Digital Portfolio System. Using the Digital Portfolio System, artists and animators can easily customize a variety of pre-designed layouts or build their own portfolios from scratch. MyToons.com also reinforces the efforts of the artist by supporting each portfolio with an engaged community, trustworthy technology, and dynamic marketing efforts. The MyToons.com Digital Portfolio System will allow animators and artists throughout the world to present their portfolios online while maintaining their unique brand identity.

“An animator’s portfolio represents his or her brand identity, and we believe that the creator should have absolute control over how that identity is managed and presented to the world,” said Paul Ford, co-founder and president of MyToons.com. “We are honored to be able to offer animators a powerful, yet easy-to-use tool that provides such broad creative freedom and complete command of their online portfolio. With this robust system we aim to empower artists and animators with the ability to present their portfolios to a global audience with control, creativity, and confidence.”

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