The 8th Seoul International Film Festival is open for entries. Seoul International Film Festival Net Section is trying to introduce talented visual artists all over the world and their brilliant works and to lead the new audio-visual experiences based on the Internet and New Media.

The festival runs from 6 September to 31 December, and submission deadline is 13 July 2007. For the official competition, only works competed after January 2006 are eligible. Submissions should be creative works produced or adopted through digital technology. There will be no restrictions regarding the genre, length or subject matter of the work and all types of works, including fiction, documentary, experimental work, music video, animation, motion graphic, flash animation, game, web-art, etc. will be accepted. Visit the site for details.

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The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Research and Development Department launched this new awards scheme in 2005 – the RIBA President’s Awards for Research – to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture carried out by PhD students, academics and practitioners.

The awards will help to promote and champion high-quality research and encourage its dissemination and incorporation into the knowledge base of the profession. They will contribute to raise the profile of architects - practitioners and academics – engaged in outstanding research, and raise awareness of the need for research across the profession to foster innovation and strategic thinking.

Submission deadline is 30 July 2007. Visit the site for details and contact information.

The British Academy has announced the call for entries for The British Academy Video Games Awards. There are 13 awards categories and any game is eligible as long as it has been or will be released in the UK between 6 October 2006 and 31 December 2007.

All entries will be grouped into categories and voted on by the industry and BAFTA members. The highest-scoring titles will then go to a jury that will be chaired by a member of the BAFTA video games committee. BAFTA juries will judge the entries and decide on the nominated games and winners. The nominations will be announced on Tuesday 25 September and the winners on Tuesday 23 October at The British Academy Video Games Awards at Battersea Evolution, in London.

Eentry deadline is Friday 6 July. Visit the site for details about categories, etc.

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Agathe Jacquillat and Tomi Vollauschek from London-based design studio FL@33 are currently compiling and designing an exciting new book of postcards to be published later this year by Laurence King Publishing. The book will showcase the best international postcards and postcard-related projects created AND produced from the year 2000 to now.

Submissions are now welcome and regardless of the reason for creation they would like to see anything that could be described as exciting, innovative, conceptual, promotional, experimental, decorative, witty and/or humerous.

The book will feature the very best examples from around the world on 192 full-colour pages. It will come in an intriguing packaging containing 20 specially designed postcards by selected international designers, illustrators, photographers and artists. The book will also introduce the individuals and/or studios behind all featured postcard creations. Deadline 10 July 2007. Visit Stereohype for all the details.

The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions (secondary, vocational, or higher education).The 2007 Design Competition is now underway. UCDA is looking for your biggest and best ideas for our annual design competition — whether it be print, electronic, or even student work! Enter today!

Entries must be received by Friday, 6 July 2007. Enter early and avoid the last minute rush to gather, prepare and package your entries (from publications to illustration, electronic media to sustainable design!). Visit the site for details.

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DOK Leipzig, the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary und Animated Film, celebrates its 50th edition with numerous innovations from 29 Oct. to 04 Nov. 2007. You can submit all new documentary and animated films for the official festival programme and the DOK Market until 28 July.

Animated Film has been an important part of the festival for the past decades and has its own competition since 1995. With this special focus on two sections the festival in Leipzig is one-of-a-kind. Entry deadling: 28 July 2007. Visit the site for entry form and details.