The Sarasota Architectural Foundation has sent out a Request For Qualifications (RFQ), initiating a competition for a design and financial plan to provide alternative use and preservation of Paul Rudolph’s historic buildings at Sarasota’s Riverview High School, built in 1958, which are currently scheduled for demolition.

The RFQ is seeking up to five qualified architect and developer teams with demonstrated experience in creative planning and implementation of projects that include the use of historic buildings. Their design and financial proposals must include plans for revitalizing the Rudolph courtyard buildings for alternative use, financing the work and the long-term preservation of the buildings, and compensating for the parking lot and playing fields currently scheduled to be built in that area.
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IQONS x NIKEiD is a design competition to challenge athletes and sport clothing connoisseurs to explore their creativity, and push fashion designers and fans to apply their talents to athletic fashion. To participate, IQONS members submit designs from the NIKEiD website (www.nikeid.com). Designs will be uploaded to an area on iqons.com where members and the general public can rate the submissions and comment on favorites.

Each month, the design rated highest by IQONS members will be given to its designer, courtesy of NIKE. Additionally, one randomly selected commenter will receive the design they’ve rated highest.

For full competition terms and conditions, visit http://www.iqons.com. Deadline is 31 August 2007.

New Thinking on Urban Transportation: entrants are asked to imagine ways of moving goods and people safely and efficiently while reducing the impact on the environment. The goal is healthful, pleasurable urban transit that reduces automobile traffic in favor of less-polluting modes.

This is one in a series of competitions sponsored by RE:VISION. Register by 1 August, and final entry date is 15 Aug 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

backup is a media-festival for young filmmakers, artists and designers who define and reflect the boundaries of film and its diverse segments in a creative preoccupation of different ways of production and expression.

Prizes for the best entries will be awarded by an independent jury of filmmakers, TV executives, producers, designers and media theorists. To qualify for entry into the competition, all works must be submitted in a common video format, must have been completed after the 1st of January 2006 and must be no longer than 15 min. in length.

Deadline is 25 August 2007. Visit the site to to learn more.

Via: Shortsville

The British Society of Underwater Photographers is accepting entries for its “International Focus-on” competition. The contest has been held for each of the last two years and is open to any photographer anywhere in the world.

Entries are free but limited to one per photographer, and the photo must show at least a partly underwater scene. Photos that have finished in the top three places of other photographic competitions are excluded.

Each photographer is judged by his or her peers. The winner will be declared following a vote at a meeting of the society’s members on 15 August. Deadline is 14 August. Visit the site for details.

Via: Photopreneur

Europe 40 Under 40® is an annual awards program that celebrates the next new talented generation of European industrial designers. The program is directed to support new and emerging design talent that will influence the near future of European design, thinking, and theory with the direct consequence of impacting future environments and the future of European and international design. The key is to bring wider recognition to 40 of the most promising emerging industrial designers working in the European Union and in other countries inside Europe, fostering and encouraging new talent and new creative thinking at the forefront of tomorrow’s profession (remember, you must be under 40 to “emerge”).

Yet…you must be a “professional” in Industrial Design, Graphics, Fashion, and Textile Design before you can apply. That’s a tight margin. Deadline is 1 August for architecture and 1 October for industrial design. Visit the site for details.

Win a 2 day digital photographic workshop with renowned photographer Les McLean plus £150 of HARMAN PHOTO products. The competition is open to residents of the United Kingdom only.

All entries must be printed on HARMAN PHOTO Professional Inkjet paper, MATT FB Mp, and printed to one of the following paper sizes - A4, A3, A3+. Closing date for entries is 31st August 2007. Visit the site to learn more!

Here’s your chance to share your art. Follow the instructions, download the assets, and design your version of a Death Sentence movie poster. Entry period ends 16 August. After all submissions are in, you and your friends can vote on your favorites. The 10 most popular posters will be selected as finalists. Remember to keep a hi-resolution version of your poster; if you’re selected as the winner you’ll receive a full size poster printed, framed and signed by James Wan. Woo-Hoo! Visit the site for details.

The 11th annual Japan Media Arts Festival is now open for international entries. This year the festival is launching an “Open Form,” where the public can recommend works that they believe deserve recognition. Other traditional categories include the broad subjects of “art (which includes Web works), entertainment (which also includes Web works), animation, and manga.”

One Grand Prize, four Prizes for Excellence and one Encouragement Prize are Awarded in recognition of works of outstanding artistry and creativity in each division. Based on the recommendations of the Jury, Special Achievement Prizes may also be presented to artists who have made significant contributions to the field of media arts.

Open Form’s submission deadline is 31 August, and traditional category deadline is 5 October. Visit the site to learn more.

Via: Frames Per Second

Auckland City Council is throwing down a challenge to creative members of the public and engineering and to architectural firms worldwide, to shape an enduring landmark on an outstanding New Zealand waterfront location.

A dramatic opening bridge - for pedestrians, cyclists and public transport - is proposed on Auckland’s city waterfront. The existing heritage bridge, which connects Quay St with the east side of Te Wero Island, will remain alongside the new structure.

The design competition is open to the public, artists, sculptors, student designers and established design professionals from around the world and all entries will be anonymous. Deadline for registration is 17 August. Visit the site for details.