Armor Games is looking for new, innovative flash games and is calling on game developers to submit their entries to its latest contest, Armor Gaming Challenge #5. The contest, which runs through 15 May, is awarding the top 10 games with substantial prize money.

“We’re looking for new ideas in the gaming world,” says Daniel McNeely of Armor Games, “and we’re willing to pay for it. Our mission is to protect the world from being bored. That means we have to be on the cutting edge by bringing people the most entertaining games out there.
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Above: Jeff Smith, Los Angeles, CA: “Thus, when the film is run backwards, we see that it contains a hidden message: the glaciers are actually getting larger.”

This spring, creative minds throughout America will have the opportunity to show off their artistic and comedic talents in support of independent science by entering the 2nd annual Science Idol: the Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest.

The Union of Concerned Scientists isA looking for your creative take on the issue of political interference in science. Submit one-panel or multi-panel print cartoons that address the misuse of science on a specific issue or in general. But before you put pen to paper, please check out the Web site to make sure you’re on the right track. Deadline 22 May.

I thought that this contest, offered by CD Willy’s, was very cool and - hopefully - someone out there will create a regional, national, or international contest based upon this concept:

Remake/Reformat Recycled CD Art Competition

Discarded compact discs and DVDs represent a growing environmental hazard in communities across the country. According to the independent research organization Worldwatch Institute (www.worldwatch.org), more than 45 tons of CDs become obsolete – outdated, useless or unwanted – every month.
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Advertising Age is proud to announce the 9th annual Hispanic Creative Advertising Awards in cooperation with the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies. These awards are the premier showcase of Hispanic creative talent honoring the best Hispanic-targeted advertising across television, radio, newspaper, magazine, out-of-home, interactive media, direct marketing and nontraditional/guerrilla marketing.

Entries will be judged by a panel of top Hispanic agency creatives, senior-level marketing executives and Advertising Age editors. Entrants do not have to be AHAA members to be eligible.

Winners will be honored at an awards gala in New York in September after the AHAA semi-annual conference. The winners also will be featured in a special report in Advertising Age and online at AdAge.com. Deadline 16 May. Visit the site for details.

The OLED Design Contest is a design competition of ideas opened to everybody but principally directed to professional architects and designers and to the students of architecture universities and design schools. It is based on the concept to image the future of a specific OLED lighting system. The contest has been launched with the aim of connecting the research activities with the future commercialization aspects of the OLED elements. Enter as individual or team. Application period ends 31 May. Visit the site for details.

Good 50X70 is a communication design competition focusing on five of the burning social issues which the UN recognizes as the plagues of our millennium: AIDS, Environmental damage, Human rights violation, Underdevelopment and War.

For each of this issues Amnesty, Amref, Emergency, Greenpeace, Lila, our endorsing charities, created a brief for the contestants to answer by designing a poster. Our jury will shortlist 30 finalists for each category and from them 10 posters will be selected as “Good 50×70.� One poster from all the categories will be selected as Grand Winner of the contest. All the finalists posters will be gathered in an exhibition. The same artwork will be also collated in a catalogue. The aim of the contest is to raise public awareness particularly amongst people inside the communication industry, and the relevance and importance of social communication.

The contest is now open to everyone who’s willing to confront the stereotypes of social communication and deliver a truthful and meaningful message, without any limit on age, sex, race, religion, profession or favorite color. Deadline: 10 May 2007. No registration fee. Visit the site for details.

NEW!! THE PRINTING AWARDS: In keeping with the mandate to inspire and inform Applied Arts readers, the magazine is launching a STAND-ALONE PRINTING AWARDS. Visit Applied Arts Printing.

DEADLINE: 18 May 2007

WHY YOU SHOULD ENTER? Exposure, exposure, exposure! Winners will also be featured year-round in the PRINTING AWARDS Winners Gallery on our Website, which attracts more than 200,000 unique visitors annually. Entering the 2007 PRINTING AWARDS is an opportunity to promote your talents and receive recognition for the great work you’ve done during the past year.

In today’s highly competitive market, the challenge is how to get noticed. One of the best ways is to promote your talent to Canada’s creative community and potential clients as a winner in the country’s biggest and most important awards contest. The Applied Arts Design & Advertising Awards features the very best work in a variety of DESIGN, ADVERTISING (print) and BROADCAST categories. Check out the ALL NEW easier and faster way to enter online at: http://www.appliedartsmag.com/da.

DEADLINE: MAY 4, 2007.

NEW THIS YEAR! All winning work will be displayed at the first Design & Advertising Awards Winners’ Exhibit, held Nov. 2007, in Toronto. This unique gallery show is expected to draw more than 1000 attendees(Location to be announced).

HBO and THE NEW YORK INTERNATIONAL LATINO FILM FESTIVAL (NYILFF) today announced the 4th annual open call for entries for the HBO/NYILFF Short Film Competition. The competition, created in 2004, seeks to foster films by Latino filmmakers and/or about the Latino experience. The deadline is for the Competition is 4 May 2007

One winner will be chosen from among applicants to receive $15,000 in funding from HBO to produce and direct a short film (on digital video) based on an original script entry. The completed short will be considered for exhibition this summer at the 2007 New York International Film Festival in July and on any of HBO’s programming services. Visit the site for details.

Down the hall in your resource library, a shelf is overflowing with carpet samples. Rethink these beautiful, fashion-forward textiles…they aren’t trash, destined for the dumpster. They’re design materials.

So what to do with these samples? After they’ve served their purpose for your design project, we say re-use them to make a design product. Recycled materials became design elements because designers chose to see them as such. Why not carpet samples, which are high style, high performance, and wonderfully ‘reuseful’?

Create a design that will transform these textiles into a beautiful and/or functional fixture, piece of furniture…or any interior product you dream up. The winners will be promoted at NeoCon and in Floor Focus, and have blueprints of their design posted for free download, to forward-thinking designers around the world. Visit the site for details. Deadline: 15 May.