Hugo Boss is asking for submissions from design fans, professionals, and students for concept ideas for its Hugo Create contest. Hugo Boss specializes in fragrance products for men and women.
The competition selects 10 winners from each contest round. One winner from the group will have their artwork published in the international urban magazine,
i-D. All winners receive a $500 cash award. Other winning designs will be painted on New York building walls during the month of September.
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The Hugo Create contest wants advertising poster designs that feature the HUGO Man bottle. The contest theme is “Summer Time.” Examples for this theme are favorite holiday moments, travel locations, or outdoor activities.
All visuals must be submitted electronically as RGB or JPEG files no larger than 500kb. Illustration, photography, painting, or any other medium applicable for visual design is acceptable.
The final format used to publish visuals on the Hugo Boss website is 672 pixels wide by 960 pixels high. Submissions can be in portrait or landscape orientation. If your entry is selected as a winner and is in landscape mode, you will need to turn in a version that is in portrait format.
Entries are judged on the most daring, expressive, and clever designs. Judges will be taking into consideration the uniqueness, quality, wit, and product relevance of submissions.
The deadline for this contest round is June 30, 2009. For the official contest rules, click here. For more information, the official entry form, and other contest materials, go to the official website by clicking here.
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Virtually every PC gamer has played the simple but extremely entertaining game called
Peggle. The video game is a cross between pachinko, breakout, and pinball all rolled up into one fast action game.
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PopCap Games, the developer of Peggle, is calling for graphic artists, illustrators, gamers, and just about anyone who loves Peggle to enter its Peggle Art Contest. In this contest you don’t have to be a Di Vinci to enter. PopCap Games is looking for fun, and inventive art ideas that can be used in their game.
Art ideas can be renditions of Peggle Masters (featured cartoon characters in the game), new Peggle Masters, a new special game power, or for the more ambitious, a game level concept.
There will be two Grand Prize winners (1 adult, 1 youth) that will receive:
· Inclusion of their submission in future installment in Peggle series
· Trip for two to Seattle
· $500 Shopping Spree at Best Buy
· iPhone or Xbox with our games included
· Signed boxed editions of Peggle and Peggle Nights
· $30.00 worth of Peggle swag
· Two semi-finalists and 20 runner-ups receive Peggle games and gift certificates from Best Buy.
For the official rules of the Peggle Art Contest, click here. The deadline for submissions is June 3, 2009.
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LG Mobile Phones , Autodesk , and crowdSpring are partnering up to announce a new contest for all designers. The Design the Future Competition is calling for submissions that predict the future of personal mobile communication, and where it may be heading.
What will be the wave of the future? Perhaps we’ll see cell phones the size of postage stamps. It could be possible that personal mobile communications devices may be linked to our brain waves. Who knows? Whatever you can imagine is fair game. LG wants your ideas.
LG Mobile Phones is not looking for a long list of technical specifications or engineering blueprints for this contest. What it is seeking are ideas on how mobile phones may work and look like within the next decade.
The concept must be supported by scenario illustrations on how the phone would be used by consumers. The LG logo must be incorporated into the design.
According to the official contest site, the following guidelines are used for judging entries:
Need Fulfillment / Market Potential (40% weight): How well does the phone address general consumer needs / frustrations?
Creativity / Originality / Innovation (30% weight): Is the idea / design unique? Does the concept convey WOW or game-changing characteristics?
Feasibility (20% weight): Can this idea / product be realistically implemented with current or near-future technology?
Polish and Appeal (10% weight): Is the idea easy to understand and aesthetically appealing? Does it have images illustrating usage scenarios?
U.S. citizens, or green card holders 18 years of age or older are eligible for this competition. Autodesk is providing a free 15-day trial of SketchBook Pro to contest participants to render and design their projects.
Prizes:
Award 1: $20,000
Award 2: $10,000
Award 3: $5,000
40 Awards of $1,000 each plus an LG phone
The rules for this contest can be downloaded here. Download project tips, LG logo files, and guidelines for LG logo usage from the preceding links.
This music festival may not break the attendance records set by Woodstock, but the Linton Music Festival does offer a chance for graphic artists and illustrators to submit their entries to its t-shirt design competition.
The winning t-shirt design will be sold at the concert and online. The winning entry receives $500. Second place receives a royalty of 50 cents for every t-shirt sold.
Rules and details of the contest:
- 2 or less “spot” colors! (no blends or shades)
- No white t-shirts!
- Design using vector art…if you win, must provide design in vector format, and in desired print size. (Must be smaller than 1500×1500 pixels)
- No more than 2 designs will be accepted per person. ONLY 20 designs will advance to the “Voting” phase.
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The contest deadline is July 1, 2009.
The music concert takes place in Linton, Indiana, a small town with a population of 6,000. Linton is home to Goose Pond, one of the country’s leading wetland preservation projects. The festival is from August 29-31, 2009. Garage bands, indie artists, jazz, rock, and even bluegrass music rounds out this eclectic selection of entertainment.
Last year, the festival had over 10,000 people attend. The event is free of charge and camping sites are available near the festival grounds.
Jimmy Deck is a new company that is asking graphic designers to submit artwork for new snowboard decal designs. The average cost of a new snowboard can range anywhere from $99 to $600 or more.
Jimmy Deck says you can save all that cash by just buying a new decal to apply to your old trusty board. That’s sound logic that is hard to argue with.
An independent judging panel will base their decisions on the design’s imagination, creativity, artistic content, and originality. All decisions are final. Contestant winners will be notified by email. The contest is open to everyone 18 years or older.
The prizes offered for the top five winners will be in the form of a royalty for every 50 units sold. Prize payout is 500 units maximum.
First Prize - $5 from each decal sold with their design
Second Prize - $4 from every decal sold from their design
Third Prize - $3 from every decal sold from their design
Forth Prize - $2 from every decal sold from their design
Fifth Prize - $1 from every decal sold from their design
For the official contest rules, click here. The deadline for the competition is May 16, 2009. Other design artwork contests will be held throughout the year so check the jimmydeck.com site often.
Hugo Boss is asking for submissions from design fans, professionals, and students for concept ideas for its Hugo Create contest. Hugo Boss specializes in fragrance products for men and women.
