Mohawk Fine Papers celebrates the designers who shape our world. They invite you to show the best of your work on Strathmore Writing papers. Entries will be judged on creative design, production excellence and appropriate paper choice. All of the Strathmore premium writing grades are eligible including: Strathmore Pure Cotton, Strathmore Writing and Strathmore Script.

Five winners will receive $5000 each and finalists will be awarded $500 each. Enter as many projects as you like (there are no entry fees). Deadline is 29 May 2009. Visit the site 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.

Students, instructors and administrators: Submit your students’ latest design, advrtising and photography work to Graphis New Talent. Get the recognition you deserve, and share your work with peers and hiring industory professionals. Every student included earns a Graphis Gold Award, and standout instructors earn the Platinum Award.

Register online with this link, and click on the Call For Entry link on that page. Complete instructions, forms, art specifications, shipping and payment procedures may be obtained online at the entry Web site. All entrants and subscribers are eligible for a 40% discount on the annual. Deadline is 26 May 2008.

The Center for Fine Art Photography in cooperation with Beet Street* will host a show of photographs created by Peace Corps Volunteers during its long history. The 2008 Peace Corps Exhibition will take place in Fort Collins, Colorado during the International Peace Corps Reunion. Selected images will be exhibited in the Center’s gallery during the reunion, August 20 – August 30, 2008 and on the Center’s website for two additional years. There are also plans for a traveling exhibition.

• Eligibility: Pictures created by current and former Peace Corps Volunteers will be accepted.
• The photos must be of events and everyday life during a Peace Corps Volunteer’s tour.
• Juror: Dr. Anthony Bannon, Director of the George Eastman House in Rochester New York.
• No entry fee, as the show is underwritten by Beet Street, an independent cultural and economic development entity of the Ft. Collins Downtown Develop Authority and sponsor for the Peace Corps Reunion.

Deadline is 29 May 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Photo above: Alema Rose, Aler IDP Camp, Uganda, 2006, by Heather McClintock.

The “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” project embodies a number of activities which are meant to contribute to a graduate improving of the society as a whole, giving special attention to the young population between the age of 18 and 28. Its goal is to bring the ideas together, giving the youth a chance to express their beliefs and thoughts through “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” by creating a ‘poster.’ It will have a direct effect on the society by opening new horizons and giving a strong motivation for the youth to work towards a better future. This project should promote the poster as a mean of expressing these ideas among the youth.

The competition is open to art and design students registered at an educational institution for art and design including disciplines such as fine arts, graphic design, communication design, visual communication, media design and other related disciplines. There’s no limit for nationality. Entry deadline is 15 May 2008. The poster should preferably be in English, German or French; however, poster texts in all other languages will be accepted. Prizes are award in Euro. Visit the site to learn more.

The competition invites this year all designers to set their imagination free and talk about their dreams, whether these are images and feelings the human mind creates while we sleep or their hopes and wishes. Therefore, the term “dream” can also be used metaphorically, it can be the “starting point” of an idea or be the main theme for the final piece.

The ten best entries will be printed into banners with dimensions 2m x 60cm and will be hung along Ithaca’s promenade for the entire summer of 2008. Their creators will have free accommodation in Ithaca on the weekend of the exhibition’s opening (July 2008).

Each individual or group may submit up to two posters. In order to enter the competition, each artist has to register through this website. Each piece must have dimensions of 40cm height x 12cm width (15,75’’ height x 4.73’’ width) and must be uploaded as an electronic file (pdf or jpeg), resolution 360 dpi, maximum file size 10 MB.

Entries can be uploaded until 31 May 2008. Visit the site to learn more.