| 12 March 2008 | to | 21 March 2008 |
This is your chance to dazzle the design world and see your work in the pages of HOW.
Just choose your best promotion design work (for yourself, clients, pro-bono and more), download the entry form and send everything to HOW by March 21, 2008.
All winners will be featured in HOW’s October 2008 Self-Promotion Annual, plus they’ll get a $100 discount to the 2009 HOW Design Conference.
One Best of Show winner will even score a free trip to the 2009 HOW Design Conference and an award to be presented at the Conference!
Check out the rules and download an entry form here.
| 27 February 2008 5:00 pm | to | 16 March 2008 11:59 pm |
Show off your creativity and promote the many benefits of your favorite browser as part of the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest. The winning design will be featured as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt in the Mozilla Store. You will receive worldwide recognition for your work, and an opportunity to win prizes!
Are you up for the challenge? We want to see your designs!
- First, create your T-Shirt design. View the sections on Submission and Design Guidelines for more details.
- Upload your design to the contest-specific Flickr group FF3 T-Shirt Design Contest for review.
- An internal team at Mozilla will conduct first round judging to select the top 5 designs.
- These designs will be posted online at the Mozilla Store for public voting. You determine the winner!
- The winning design will be printed on 100% organic T-Shirts, as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt and featured in the Mozilla Store as an exclusive item!
- For contest details including eligibility, terms and conditions, please read the Official Rules.
- If you have any additional questions, check out the FAQ or post a discussion topic.
For official rules and entry details, please visit the site.
| 20 February 2008 | to | 3 March 2008 |
Now accepting entries for the 2008 Regional Design Annual. NEW for 2008: Entering your work is even easier. You can now register and pay for your entries online. Read the complete guidelines or access the official entry form (pdf).
This issue, the Regional Design Annual, is the most comprehensive survey of graphic design in the United States-and one of the biggest issues to hit the graphic design industry each year. All winning work will be organized by region and featured in the December 2008 issue of PRINT. They received more than 20,000 individual entries for the 2007 Regional Annual, from almost every state. The process of selection in all regions of the country was as stringent as ever, and, as always, they feel that the work chosen is first-rate, and that it represents the best design, illustrations, and photography being produced throughout the United States.
NEW: Get inspired with ten year’s worth of Regional Design Annual Winners. Learn more about the Regional Design Annual 10 Year Retrospective DVD and website. Entry form pdf is here.
| 15 February 2008 | to | 15 March 2008 |
CUT&PASTE Presents
The Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) “See What’s Possible” Challenge
Adobe and Cut&Paste challenge designers to “See What’s Possible” by entering a visually pioneering 15-second or less animation or motion graphic video. Grand Prize – $20,000, Adobe CS3 Master Collection, and inclusion in Adobe Photoshop marketing materials
February 5, 2008: Cut&Paste(R), the producers of the international live design tournament, announces the first Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) “See What’s Possible” Challenge, to be administered on http://swp.cutandpaste.com. Cut&Paste teamed up with Adobe Systems
Incorporated to put the call out to its joint community of graphic designers, animators, and motion graphics wizards worldwide to create a promotional animation or motion graphics work that best illustrates the theme of “See What’s Possible.” The twist: this isn’t just a
competition, but for the winner, an opportunity for their winning work to be used in Adobe’s marketing campaign of Photoshop in addition to the Grand Prize of $20,000 (USD) and Adobe Creative Suite 3(R) Master Collection.
“As the Cut&Paste community and designers across the globe appreciate, Adobe Photoshop is the professional industry standard in digital imaging software, so we’re thrilled to team with Adobe to provide more exposure to aspiring and experienced designers and animators alike,”
says John Fiorelli, executive director of Cut&Paste. “But this challenge isn’t just about winning – all submissions will be publicly showcased on CutandPaste.com where contestants can share their skills with not only fellow designers, but fans, recruiters, and potential clients.”
To judge the competition, Cut&Paste has assembled an all-star team of judges including Alexei Tylevich (Logan), Jonathan Notaro (Brand New School), Nando Costa (Nervo) José Gomez (Shilo), Adina Sales (Blacklist) and Victor Newman (Freestyle Collective). Judges will be looking for work that breaks new ground and has a “wow” factor. Submissions should not exceed 15 seconds in duration, should incorporate and close with the Photoshop “See What’s Possible” brand logo and tagline, and should use Adobe Flash(R) or After Effects(R) in its creation (see Rules at http://swp.cutandpaste.com for more details). “It’s always inspiring for us to see how our users push the creative boundaries of what’s possible with Photoshop,” said Kevin Connor, senior director of product management for Professional Digital Imaging at Adobe. “By teaming up with Cut&Paste, we are excited to offer graphic designers, animators, motion graphics designers, web pros, and photographers a unique opportunity to display their work for the entire community.” Five submissions will be chosen by the judges as Finalists, and Adobe will award one of those five finalists the Grand Prize of $20,000 (USD) and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. In addition to the Grand Prize, the winning submission will be featured in Adobe’s marketing campaign of Photoshop. All finalists receive Adobe Creative
Suite 3 Master Collection. The Challenge also offers a People’s Choice Prize: All eligible submissions will be available for voting on the Cut&Paste Web site. Anyone may view the submissions and any registered users may add comments to any work or vote for their favorite submissions for the People’s Choice Prize, which is Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection. Supporting the promotion of the challenge to its subscribers are media sponsors, Stash DVD Magazine and the motion graphics blog, Motionographer.
How It Works :
Grand Prize Selection
Cut&Paste will screen all eligible entries to a final 30 selections that will then be provided to judges for evaluation. The top 5 scoring finalists will then go to Adobe who will choose the Grand Prize Winner.
People’s Choice Prize
Commenting and voting on all submissions are open to all registered users Popular online vote by registered users will determine winner.
Prizes
· Grand Prize - $20,000 (USD) and Adobe Creative Suite 3 Master Collection (retailed at $2,499) and inclusion in Adobe marketing including:
o Featured on adobe.com
o Available as a screensaver for community download
o Showcased at Adobe(R) tradeshows, seminars and demos
o Intro to Keynote speeches, etc
o HTML email, banners
Five Finalists – Adobe(R) Creative Suite 3 Master Collection(R)
People’s Choice Prize – Adobe(R) Creative Suite 3 Master Collection(R)
Timing
Contestants may submit entries on http://swp.cutandpaste.com beginning
February 15, 2008, and ending on March 15, 2008
People’s Choice Prize voting open from February 15, 2008 to March 31, 2008
Prizes announced at Photoshop World – April 4, 2008
How to Enter
Contestants post submissions to a video-sharing Web site such as YouTube, Google Video, Vimeo, or Revver.
Starting February 15, entrants may register with the Cut&Paste Web site and complete a Web application form at http://swp.cutandpaste.com
| 22 January 2008 | to | 14 March 2008 |
The “Call for Entries” is out for the best developed games Independent game developers have to offer. Now in its’ third year, this year’s contest promises to big bigger and better than ever beforewith more games and prizes. There are two catagories for game entries - General and Casual. The Winner of each catagory will receive a specially configured game development workstation and there are several prizes for Fianlists and Semi-Finalists. Also, to celebrate our upcoming generation of game developers, ECD Systems has added a special recognition award for student entries. Winner of the “Best Student Entry” will receive a cash scholarship award.
Voting begins March 14, 2008 so get your game entered early and help “Fuel the Fun”. If last year is an indication of what to expect, several million unique visitors will be coming to the site every month to play games and experience the latest and greatest developments of the Indie game development community. You see, the Indie Game Contest is not only a competition, it is an opportunity for Indie developers to showcase and promote their games and talents.
ECD Systems looks forward to assisting you and working with you. We truly wish you ALL the very best!
To submit a game, please visit the site
| 18 January 2008 | to | 24 March 2008 |
Dedicated to everyone who dreams of being a Director!
Alice @ 97.3 radio in San Francisco announces Call for Entries for the sixth annual 3-Minute Independent Film Festival which will be held April 11, 2008 at the historic Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco. With over $10,000 in cash and prizes, extensive radio exposure and more, this season’s juried competition offers filmmakers a unique opportunity to showcase their ‘short’ cinematic masterpiece and be honored in an evening that celebrates the art of short film. Over the last 5 years, more the 100 short films have been screened at Alice’s 3-Minute Film Festival with over $60,000 in cash and prizes awarded. We are looking forward to receiving more innovative and creative works for our 2008 festival.
The only limit to creativity is the running time of your film. Your short film must be 2 – 5 minutes long. The running time does not count closing credits, so your film can run over 5 minutes if you’re running closing credits. Deadline for submissions is March 24, 2008. Submissions are free. Enter today. Your film could be chosen and showcased at Alice’s Film Festival in April, 08 where an esteemed jury will choose the best overall film in each category to win cash and prizes in a special award ceremony at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco. Good luck, we look forward to watching your film.
To submit your film, please fill out the official entry form and mail your DVD film submissions to Alice Radio, 3-Minute Film Festival – 865 Battery Street, San Francisco 94111.
For more information, please visit the site
