NOTE: This is an update to previous post…

The Northwest Regional Development Agency and the Forestry Commission, in partnership with RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) and Lancashire Wildlife Trust, are inviting architects to design a green building complex. Run as a competition, the NRDA wants architects to design a suite of visitor facilities for the Brockholes wetland and woodland nature reserve in Preston.

The 106ha former quarry site sits in a key strategic location aside junction 31 of the M6 motorway, and is intended to become a major visitor attraction under the ‘Newlands’ scheme. Newlands is a £59 million, NWDA-funded regeneration scheme that aims to transform over 900 hectares of the Northwest brownfield land into community woodland and green space. Launched in the Summer of 2003, Newlands is now the largest land regeneration project in the country – and the foremost of these programmes to use forestry as the basis for change.
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Here’s the chance to see your design on an icon – a limited edition ‘Coca-Cola’ glass bottle, which will be sold at Nando’s throughout Australia.

The brief? Happiness or optimism. They want your take on it.

Apart from the sheer glory of winning, there are $3,500 worth of Apple vouchers to be won.

Competition is open to people aged 12-30 years. Entries close 30 September 2007. Visit the site to learn more.

Internet users from all over the world are being given the chance to design a new logo (mascot) for the social bookmarking portal.

Mister Wong is on the search for a new logo. In a worldwide contest, Europe’s largest social bookmarking service is searching for a new optical identity. On all six portals in Chinese, Russian, French, German, Spanish, and English, web designers, graphic artists, and anyone interested are being called upon to participate in one of the biggest ‘crowdsourcing’ actions so far. After a user voting, an international jury will choose the top three designs. The winning logo will be used on all of Mister Wong’s international portals and the winners will receive $12,000 altogether.

As a true web2.0 service, the social bookmarking portal wants its users to take part in the decision process, “We felt that a worldwide contest was the best way to get our users involved in the design and the decision of our new logo,” stated Founder and CEO of construktiv, Kai Tietjen.
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Brickfish(TM), the online content marketing platform, today announced a partnership with non-partisan public policy think tank, The Reform Institute, to launch the “Design Your Portion of the Border Fence” campaign. The thought-provoking contest invites entrants to offer their opinions on the U.S.-Mexico border fence debate with original designs for decorating it. The online contest, located at www.Brickfish.com/politics/Borderfence, encourages participants to combine imagination and passion with artistic interpretations of what border-crossers should see when traveling from one side of the border to the other.

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A hand-me-down sweater … a raggedy old skirt from the thrift store … a plain T-shirt … Using just a few tools coupled with your creativity, all of these items can be transformed into fantastic works of wearable art! The publisher of Belle Armoire and Somerset Studio invites you to submit your own altered and embellished clothing and accessories to be considered for the third volume of this exciting publication. Chapters will include Skirts & Dresses, Pants & Overalls, Jackets & Vests, Shirts & Tops, Children’s Wear, Sassy Shoes, and Accessories.

Deadline for artwork to be received: 15 September 2007. Please read submission guidelines before sending your submissions to: Stampington & Company · C/O: Altered Couture · 22992 Mill Creek, Suite B · Laguna Hills, CA 92653.

Via: Bead Arts

To mark the release of Ruarri Joseph’s new single ‘Blankets’ on September 24, GigWise is hosting a special, exclusive competition. They’re asking all budding artists and Ruarri Joseph fans to come up with a piece of artwork to commemorate the release of the single.

The artwork can be absolutely anything as long as it’s in jpeg form – sketches, paintings, photographs etc. Ruarri himself will be picking the best twelve entries which will then be pieced together in a patchwork blanket design.

Each winner will get a signed copy of the final artwork and a personal invite from Ruarri to attend one of his London shows. Deadline for entries is 17 September. Visit the site to learn more.

UNIQLO’s T-shirt design competition, held every year since 2004, is open to people of all ages from any country in the world. Last year, they received 14,023 design entries from 20 different countries.

Now into its fourth year, they have invited top creative talent to judge the 2008 competition — art director Kashiwa Sato, architect Tadao Ando, and the avant-garde novelist Yayoi Kusama. They are hoping to encourage entrants from countries all over the world to express their artistic views freely in a two- dimensional artwork using a T-shirt for a canvas. The competition runs from 15 August through 20 September 2007. There will be a range of prizes, with a cash prize of 3 million yen going to the winning entrant.
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Frederick’s of Hollywood wants you to design a corset so fashion-forward they’d be insane not to send it down the runway at their celebrity-studded charity event. The winner gets whisked away to Hollywood for a glam A-list weekend with a shopping spree at Frederick’s, a room at the hottest hotel and red carpet treatment, including roundtrip air and limo service for you and a guest. Then, feel the spotlight as a high-fashion model struts her stuff down the runway…in YOUR corset design.

Open to anyone in the continental U.S. who has access to the Internet, and is 18 or older at the time of entry. Deadline for entry is 14 September 2007 at 11:30 pm (PST). Visit the site to learn more.

The Grand Prix International de Photographie de Vevey is a competition endowed with a first prize of CHF 30′000 - (approx. 18′000 €). The competition is open to professional artists and photographers, as well as to trainee photographers. Its first aim is to discover new talents, with no age criteria, to give them the opportunity to realize a unique project. The selected project will have to be completed and exhibited at the IMAGES’ 08, which will take place in Vevey in 2008.

An entry form, to be downloaded from the website at Consulter le lien must be sent to their address, along with a description of the project and the requested documents, no later than 30 September 2007. The jury will designate the winners in October 2007.

Global Advertising Strategies announced a call for entries for the 2nd Annual AdVision Awards today in New York City. For the second year in a row, the AdVision Awards will celebrate the international scale of Russian-language advertising by honoring the best from all over the world. One of the most affluent immigrant groups in the United States, the Russian-speaking population is projected to command a buying power of $204 billion by 2008.

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