At Left: A still from the “Hands” campaign for Hewlett-Packard, the 2007 first-place winner. AGENCY: Goodby, Silverstein & Partners; DESIGN FIRM: Motion Theory.

Creativity + Commerce: PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize is PRINT’s newest competitive design review—and the stakes are high: They’re awarding $9,000 in prize money!

Enter your work in Creativity + Commerce, PRINT’s International Business Graphics Prize, and you could see your best ads, direct mail, logos, packaging, Web sites and more in PRINT’s October 2009 issue. You might even win some cash…

Entry deadline is 1 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) today opened entries for the 2009 Mark of Excellence Awards, presented by CEA’s TechHome Division to honor outstanding achievement in custom home electronics products, services and installation. Winners will be announced at an awards dinner on Friday, March 13, 2009 at the Rosen Centre Hotel, during the tenth annual Electronic House Expo (EHX) Spring 2009, which returns to the Orange County Convention center in Orlando, Florida, March 10-14.

Award entries will be accepted until November 14, 2008, and will be reviewed by a panel of industry experts and submitted in two categories: Supplier and Systems Integrators. New sub-categories this year include Best Software Application, Best Universal Design Home and Best Community Home of the Year.

“We look forward to receiving this year’s entries for the most innovative products in custom home electronics,” said Karen Chupka, senior vice president of conferences and events, CEA. “We are continually impressed by the quality of product submissions as our Mark of Excellence Awards program becomes more popular every year.”

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New Era pretty much have the market cornered when it comes to caps. They basically run things. As such, they’ve had literal boatloads of high & mighty guest designers, including Spike Lee, Danny Way, Travis Barker, Gym Class Heroes, Fat Joe, Dizzy Rascal, and Jake Burton.

How would you like to add your talent to this roster? Footasylum would like talented new designers and students to add to their catalogue with their hot headwear designs, so they’re opening this competition to give you a chance.

The winning design will become the next Footasylum exclusive and sold at Footasylum stores throughout the UK. They’re also offering two runners-up 12 pieces of their own design.

Pick up a Design Template in store at Footasylum or apply online at www.dontpaniconline.com/designbrief/client/newera where they have a live interactive voting gallery. Entries open worldwide until 15 November 2008.

The objective of this competition is to design a housing complex in Cleveland’s Fairfax neighborhood that will provide an innovative, affordable, sustainable and supportive environment for families in which grandparents are the primary caregivers of their grandchildren. Open to Ohio registered architects in association with collaborating designers as a single-phase open competition. Informational session for participants will be held September 29, 2008, 4:30-6:00pm at Quincy Renaissance Place, 8111 Quincy Avenue, Cleveland.

Submission deadline is 19 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

How do you see yourself? How do you think of yourself? How do you think other people see you? Are you the fly on the wall or the center of attention? The Idea of Self stretches further than the self portrait, and into the recesses of the mind, spirit and our subconscious. The Idea of Self takes us on a journey of self enlightenment and discovery allowing the photographer to truly bare their soul or to hide it away. This investigation of who we are, or who we think we are, is uniquely represented through the art of photography.

The exhibition for the Center for Fine Art Photography is open to all domestic and international, professional and amateur, photographers working with digital or traditional photography or combinations of both. The Center for Fine Art Photography invites photographers working in all mediums, styles and schools of thought to participate in its exhibitions. Traditional, contemporary, avant-garde, creative and experimental and mixed techniques are welcome.

Deadline is 12 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) Center for Communities by Design is pleased to release the 2009 Sustainable Design Assessment Team Program (SDAT) Request for Proposals. The RFP solicits applications for inclusion in the Sustainable Design Assessment Team (SDAT) 2009 program. The SDAT committee will conduct two rounds of application review through the remainder of 2008 to offer submitters the opportunity to receive an early decision by the review committee. The first round of review will be in September 2008, and committee members will evaluate all applications received to date. Applications received after the first round of review will be reviewed in December 2008. Any additional applications received after the second review period will be considered for the 2010 SDAT program. The final deadline to submit proposals for consideration in the 2009 SDAT program is November 14, 2008. The Center for Communities by Design will hold a teleconference for communities interested in learning more about the SDAT program and the application process on September 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm Eastern.

Visit the site to learn more and to learn about the contact for the call.