ROYGBIV Lab, a leading website that creates and maintains an online “hive” of artists and designers by way of competitions, announces the launch of its second groundbreaking online design competition.

Beginning May 15th, 2008, any aspiring designers or fashion-forward consumers will have the chance to create a men’s t-shirt for the fall 2008 season by submitting their designs at www.Roygbivlab.com. The Roygbiv online community and the public are invited to vote for the top 16 finalists who will see their styles sold at a major retail location. They will also be awarded a preliminary cash prize of $500. The 16 finalists will be narrowed down to 8 winners based on sales popularity and will also be awarded an additional $2,000. The final 8 designs will comprise the Roygbiv Lab fall 2008 collection and will be sold at a major national retailer. The themes for this contest are: Out on a Limb; Shoot for the Moon; One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure. Deadline is 1 July. Good luck!

How would you like to win a cool free G worth of Karmaloop Gear and have your work put in every Karmaloop box they ship? You heard correct, Karmaloop is giving away one $1000 Dollar Gift Certificate to whoever can design the best new Karmaloop Sticker. Get those creative juices flowing, pop open your favorite graphic program and get to work!

One lucky winner will be selected June 6th and have their winning submission actually printed onto stickers that Karmaloop will place in orders. The winner will also take home a fat $1000 Dollar Gift Certificate to Karmaloop.com. Don’t hold back, they really want to see some ground-breaking, no google images, no copying and pasting, just earth-shattering, slam dunk work!

There’s no deadline, but if winners are going to be chosen on 6 June, I would get my work in by the end of May…Visit the entry page to learn more.

Upload your games and win $18,000 in cash and prizes in the XPoser Game Developer Contest 2008. This contest is open to independent game developers, development companies and gamers of all kinds. The contest’s categories are divided in a way that allows participants that have a bank of already developed, sponsored and published games to upload them and compete for 1 of 10 prizes awarded to the best non-exclusive game submissions, chosen by a certified panel of judges via very detailed criteria. In addition, a limited number of participants who upload 3 or more games will be sent a limited edition, 2 gigabyte XPOGames USB flash stick and will be automatically enrolled in the contest’s quantity category which is split into two phases.

There are other rules to abice by, so be sure to check out the Web site. Deadline is 10 August 2008 at 23:59 hours.

In the Crystal vision competition, you will come up with new products and ideas to fill the new Swarovski concept. You should explore the properties of this unique material and challenge people’s perception of how crystal can be used in the near future. What role could crystal play in an urban lifestyle and make you feel better? How feminine and sensual can crystal pieces be and make you more beautiful? They are looking for innovative product concepts that might be based on pure crystal or that fuse with crystal with new materials or functions. Don’t think about crystal cities, furniture or cars, however, as the product must be ‘packageable’ and should be able to be sold over the counter.

Deadline is 12 June 2008. Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world, to professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts. Free registration required. Visit designboom to learn more.

While Chicago is well known for its architecture, theatre, fine art, public landscaping, and music scenes, there is a significant lack of applied visual arts in public spaces. By focusing on making this exhibition an outdoor one, Chicago hopes to accomplish two important objectives. First, they want posters to be realized as the quintessential public art form, because they engage citizens at street level, requiring an emotional and intellectual response. They also stimulate dialogue and articulation of important issues—social, political, and economic. Secondly, they want to help the City of Chicago craft its international reputation as a proponent of international cooperation and communication—and as a strong civic advocate of design.

All entries must be designed and printed between 1 January, 2006 to 1 March 2008. All entries must be received at the committee office of the Biennial address by post on or before 27 May 2008. Participants must submit TWO copies of each poster. Visit the site to learn more.

Design Book Magazine is now accepting entries for their T-shirt design competition. The winning design will be become their official shirt for the 2008 season. Winning designer’s bio and work will be shown in the Summer issue along with a link to his or her website.

Entries will be judged on creativity and originality. There is no entry fee or limit to the number of entries per designer. All designs must be original. Submit your entry by 20 June 2008 deadline. Visit the site to learn more.

Brickfish is bringing back their famous art campaign for the third time - they want to showcase your original art. Whether it’s your best drawing, painting, or sculpture, they want to display it and award you $1,000. Not bad if you’re a starving artist! They are looking for pieces in the mixed media category (pastel, chalk, charcoal, paint or any other creative substance you use to make your masterpiece). Photography will not be accepted for this campaign.

No purchase necessary. Open to anyone who is a resident of the 50 United States, the District of Columbia or Canada (excluding Quebec) has access to the Internet, and is 13 or older at the time of entry. Deadline is 23 July 2008 11:30 PM (PST). Visit the site to learn more.

Pentawards is the first and only worldwide competition exclusively devoted to packaging design in all its forms. It is open to everybody in all countries who are associated with the creation and marketing of packaging. The winners will receive bronze, silver, gold, platinum or diamond Pentawards according to the creative quality of their work.

Packaging design from the world over created or brought out in 2007 will be judged by a likewise international jury that will select the winners in accordance with the creative quality of the work submitted.

Apart from prize-giving, Pentawards’ mission is the promotion of packaging design with companies, the press, the economic and political authorities and the public in general, throughout the world.

All works presented must have been created or produced (launched) between 1 January and 31 December 2007, in any country whatever. Deadline is 13 June 2008. Visit the Web site to learn more.

The Army Ten-miler (ATM) has just announced the dates for its annual Official Race T-Shirt Design contest. Submissions for the contest will be taken from May 6 to June 6, 2008. The first place winner will receive $1,000 and the winning design will be printed on over 26,000 runner and volunteer t-shirts. The second and third place designs will win $500 and $250 respectively.

The top five entries as selected by a Blue Ribbon Panel will be posted on the Army Ten-Miler web site. Registered runners only will be eligible to vote for the top design from June 17 - 24. Last year over 6,840 runners voted for the winning designs. Winners will be determined by the greatest number of online votes. Winners will be announced on the ATM web site on June 26.

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Social Design Network announced today that John McArthur, new CEO of Millennium Promise, will serve on the final judging panel for the DESIGN 21 Millennium Promise Competition. The competition tasks designers to join the fight against extreme poverty by creating a web-based campaign to advocate for the eight Millennium Development Goals.

McArthur has been centrally involved with Millennium Promise since its inception in 2000 and has worked to promote Millennium Development Goals throughout rural Africa. He also served as the Policy Director at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and co-director of the Millennium Villages Project, a partnership between the Earth Institute, Millennium Promise, and the UN Development Program. Prior to this, he worked as the Deputy Director and Manager of the UN Millennium Project. There, he coordinated a global network of nearly 300 experts who served on 10 thematic Task Forces and was the lead editor of the Project’s final report to the Secretary-General, “Investing in Development: A Practical Plan to Achieve the Millennium Development Goals.” McArthur’s professional experiences and global expertise make him an ideal choice to evaluate submissions for DESIGN 21’s Millennium Promise Competition.

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