GeniusRocket would like you to combine your graphic design skills with guerrilla marketing tactics to create an Online Banner Ad & a Poster/Flyer to help drive our College Outreach Campaign. You’ll have to rely on your time, energy and imagination instead of a big marketing budget.

Your job is to promote GeniusRocket on Facebook, promote your school’s group on GeniusRocket. Judging Criteria is based upon the best ad execution and the most effective and creative ad placement via screenshots (for banners) and digital photos (for poster/flyers). The grand prize? $3,000!

Deadline is 30 April 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Major League Baseball® and Baby Ruth® are searching for the most talented performance of the popular baseball anthem “Take Me Out to the Ballgame.” The search, which will be conducted through a contest sponsored by Baby Ruth, celebrates the song’s 100th anniversary and supports the League’s 2008 Opening Week initiative. One lucky winner will receive the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to lead the beloved song during the 7th Inning Stretch of the 2008 All-Star Game at Yankee Stadium, the final season at the historic stadium.

Grand Prize Winner to Perform Historic Song at the 2008 All-Star Game…Fans can enter by submitting a video clip of their performance to http://www.MLB.com/babyruth. Videos can be submitted from March 31st through May 26th. In June, ten semi-finalists’ videos, selected by MLB and Baby Ruth, will be posted for fan voting online. The three videos with the most votes will go to 2008 DHL All-Star FanFest where a panel of judges will determine the grand prize winner. Restrictions apply, visit http://www.MLB.com/babyruth for official rules. In addition, all 30 Major League Clubs will host local celebrations for the 100th anniversary of this famous song.

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Enter your great web designs in STEP’s Best of Web Design Competition sponsored by Jupiterimages Unlimited and get the recognition you deserve. Winners will be interviewed and prominently featured in the Best of Web Annual [September|October 2008 issue]. Enter your entire Web site, Web advertising or motion graphics in the business, consumer, self-promotion or nonprofit and public service categories. Deadline extended to 15 April 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

When nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, perhaps the news about saying ‘no’ needs to be more…er…transparent. In addition, recent statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that one in four female adolescents in the U.S. have a sexually transmitted disease, so this timely campaign tackles this public health issue head-on.

The campaign wants people to talk about protecting themselves BEFORE they get naked – and asks anyone to design a pair of boxers, panties, or a t-shirt with a message about playing it safe. ISIS will award scholarships and personalized undies for winning entries. Go to the site to download the templates and design away to win a $1000 scholarship. Contest ends 15 May 2008 at 11:30 pm PST.

At Right: Shopping cart chair from Reestore Design.

Calling all eco furniture designers! All green ID geniuses! All chair connoisseurs! Here’s your chance to conjure up an innovative armchair in keeping with the tenets of “good” (ie “green”) design. The One Good Chair Competition is looking for some smart new designs that balance beauty with comfort while letting sustainable forms shine through. The winning team will receive $4,500 to help realize their design as a prototype.

Contest entries will be judged according to innovation and originality in three categories: make (material conservation), feel (physical comfort), and looks (emotional resonance). Registration costs $50 and is open until May 16th (this is the date marked on this site’s calendar), while all designs must be submitted by June 9th. Inhabitat founder Jill Fehrenbacher is one of the judges for this great competition, so begin by reading more about this contest at Inhabitat!

ARTISTS ARE ASKED TO SUBMIT DESIGNS FOR NEXT SPRING’S ROSE APRIL 1-MAY 26

Lord & Taylor announces the re-launch of its iconic Rose on April 1. Through the end of May, awnings and windows on the Fifth Avenue flagship will showcase the 2008 version of the store’s legendary symbol, re-created and re-colored in “sunrise,” the extraordinary mixture of yellow and orange Lord & Taylor has adopted as it re-invents itself for the twenty-first century. Shopping bags, boxes, gift cards and in-store visuals will portray the new Lord & Taylor Rose in all 47 Lord & Taylor stores until Memorial Day, May 26. And, in Manhattan, buses wrapped in a collage of the Lord & Taylor rose, will carry New Yorkers and visitors to and from metro area locations starting April 7th.

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This year, One Show provides industry ringside seats for Mexican wrestler themed extravaganza.

On May 9, the One Show Interactive awards, the industry’s most prestigious awards competition, will become more interactive than ever as they honor the year’s best digital media and web design. In celebration of the fascinating world of Luchadores, the striking and mysterious masked wrestlers of Mexico, they will install a regulation-sized wrestling ring right in the middle of New York City’s Nokia Theatre.

“Bloody fights, killer instincts, masochistic contenders dressed in outrageous outfits— isn’t this a typical day at the office for the industry’s interactive leaders?” laughs Kevin Swanepoel, President of The One Club. “Seriously, this year’s theme is a literal interpretation of the battles creatives wage everyday—against themselves, the industry, the zeitgeist, you name it. You can’t get any more interactive than putting a small agency in the ring with a big industry and letting them duke it out. We’ve been doing just that with One Show Interactive for eleven years now, and let me tell you, the results can be very surprising.”

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Sixth biennial competition reunites five generations of ADC Young Guns to select the next wave of creative wunderkinds

March 13, 2008, NEW YORK ­ To all young creative professionals across the map: It’s time to open those portfolios and find the pieces that show you at your freshest and most brilliant. ADC Young Guns 6 is fast approaching and will uncover the best under-30, professional talent throughout today’s multi-disciplinary creative industry.

Since its inception in 1996, ADC Young Guns has identified rising stars in the fields of graphic design (Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore), illustration (Deanne Cheuk), photography (floto+warner), advertising Alexander Gelman), interactive media (Rei Inamoto), film and video (Mike Mills), and animation (Todd St. John), among others. The competition discovers the most promising young creatives across various disciplines and brings these emerging talents into the spotlight.

The sixth class of ADC Young Guns will have their work showcased in a gallery exhibit and published in a limited edition book by Moleskine®. Their work will also reside in the ADC permanent collection online. These new Young Guns will be awarded the iconic ADC Cube and join the ADC’s membership, a veritable Who’s Who of advertising and design that counts Milton Glaser, Yohji Yamamoto, Ivan Chermayeff, Seymour Chwast, and Jay Maisel among its famous names.

This year the ADC has added a twist to Young Guns 6: for the first time, Young Guns alumni from classes 1­5 will serve as the jury and choose the new class to join their ranks. Having once been selected for the same award, these “old” Young Guns bring unique experience to the judges table, where they will evaluate each body of professional and personal work without the constraint of media categories.

In making the competition both for Young Guns and by Young Guns, the Art Directors Club with its singular capacity to connect several generations of visual talent‹has created a rare community characterized by its creative daring, forward-thinking ambitions, and level of prestige.

ADC Young Guns 6 opens its call for entries online on April 3 in conjunction with its launch party, Disclosure, at the Art Directors Club gallery. The launch will coincide with the ADC’s unveiling of The Undiscovered Letter (www.theundiscoveredletter.com).

For more info on this contest, please visit the site.

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.