If you have ever submitted any forms for scholarships, you realize how involved it can become. But the Frame My Future Scholarship Contest 2010 may be the exception to the rule.

The contest is offering $5,000 in total prize money to five lucky winners plus an additional $1,000 to the grand prize winner’s graphic design school, graphic design college or university.

How It Works
Entering this contest is simplicity itself. Submit a JPEG image that communicates the following theme of “This Is How I Frame My Future.” The idea is to demonstrate, through your design, what your plans and vision are upon graduating college.

Acceptable Original Creations
After you have decided how to express your idea of what you want to accomplish and achieve after your graduation, you may submit your work in various forms such as:

• Photography
• Painting
• Graphic Design
• Drawing
• Poem
• Collage
• A Combination of All of the Above

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Who Is Eligible?
The scholarship contest is open to all full time students attending college for the 2010-2011 academic year. Entrants must show proof of legal US residency. For the official rules and guidelines, click here.

The Awards
Awards will be given to five “success driven” students in the form of $1000 scholarships. The grand prize winner will also receive a $1,000 donation to the school’s general scholarship endowment program.

The twenty-four finalists in this contest receive a commemorative “Frame My Future” frame displaying their submitted entry.

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Other Information
If you are enrolled for the 2010-2011 school year and are selected as a winner, your graphic design college can benefit as well. The deadline for entries is March 15, 2010. Winners are based upon the highest total amount of votes received during the website’s voting period at www.diplomaframe.com.

To submit your entry, click here. To view entries already submitted, click here.

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The Infectious Tee Party Design Contest is open to all graphic artists, illustrators, and designers.

The competition is all about creativity and because of this the contest is open ended and does not have a specific theme.

Artists are encouraged to use their imaginations to produce “the freshest t-shirt designs ever.”

Winners for this contest are selected from the highest vote counts from the most popular designs submitted to the infectious.com website.

Infectious Guidelines
Infectious gives the following tips and info about its contest:

• You must show us your artwork on a t-shirt
• You can only use 8 colors in your designs (white and black count as colors)
• Metallic inks are allowed
• We might turn winning designs into device skins or skateboards
• Your design must only be on the front of the t-shirt. No sleeves or back designs

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Awards

• First Prize - $2000, $100 of Infectious merchandise, and 5% royalties from sales of winning design
• Runners-Up - $100 for Infectious merchandise and 5% royalties from sales of winning design

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To download the template for designing t-shirt artwork, click here. To submit your design, click here.
The deadline for this competition is November 4^th, 2009.

The Company
Infectious is a firm that produces skins for laptops, cell phones, and music players.

Infectious also makes wall decals, car decals, and limited edition designer skateboards.

The company website provides a full bio along side the artists who have their designs featured on Infectious products.

The idea of presenting this personal information gives a community feeling to their business and helps customers to get to know the artists behind the artistic creations.

On August 26, 1959 a small little car was imagined and designed in the mind of its inventor, Alec Issigonis. The car is known worldwide, has been featured in movies, and its name — the Mini Cooper.

Now fifty years later minispace.com, dedicated to all things about the “creative use of space” and acting as a gathering place for creative people and designers, is announcing its open call for the MINI Space Design Competition.

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What to Submitt

• Content should be created for use as a background image for the minispace.com website and as a stand-alone image
• Designs can incorporate any still media such as photos, illustrations, graphics, or digital content as long as the rights are owned by the designer of the piece
• The design may include MINI elements, but is not required. Including MINI material will not increase your chances of winning
• Do not use the MINI car logo in your design
• Entries should be 1280 x 800 in dimension and in JPG format
• Up to 9 entries may be uploaded to the contest site

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Positive Posters is an international poster design competition. It is asking for entries for its current contest theme: Change.

The event is open to all graphic design students, illustrators, and professionals.

The contest is held two times a year. The winning poster is printed and displayed throughout the streets of Melbourne, Australia.

The runners up submissions will be displayed in an exhibit featuring the top 30 entries.

Judging
Five judges will review all submissions to the contest and select the top 30 entries. From these, one winner will be chosen.

The winner will be contacted by email. The entries are judged upon how well the artist has interpreted the theme, the visual impact of the image, and how well the theme is communicated through the poster art.

Prizes, Deadlines, and Entry Fees
There is no entry fee for this contest. The first place winner will receive Adobe CS4 plus a Wacom graphics tablet.

The deadline for entries is 5pm Thursday 29th of October AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).

National Geographic Magazine has long held a reputation for stunning photography and images.

Now is your chance to throw your hat into the ring and compete for a spot as a winner in the National Geographic International Photography Contest.

If you are selected as a winner, you’ll receive a digital camera kit (valued at $1,000), entry into the upcoming Worldwide International Photography Contest sponsored by National Geographic, plus having your photo image published in the magazine.

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Up to six submissions may be entered in the following categories: People, Places, and Nature.

There is an entry fee of $12 per photo submitted. To submit your photos, click here to register.

A partial list of requirements for submission is stated by National Geographic:

*All digital files must be 5 megabytes or smaller, must be in JPEG or JPG format, and must be at least 1,600 pixels wide (if a horizontal image) or 1,600 pixels tall (if a vertical image)

*Photographs must have been taken within two (2) years before the date of entry and may not previously have won an award in the National Geographic International Photography Contest or any National Geographic Traveler photo contest in the last three years

*Minor burning, dodging and/or color correction is acceptable. Hand tinting is acceptable, as is cropping

*Photographs that include sculptures, statues, paintings, and other works of art will be accepted as long as they do not constitute copyright infringement or fraud

*The photograph, in its entirety, must be a single work of original material taken by the Contest entrant

*The photograph must not, in the sole and unfettered discretion of the Sponsor, contain obscene, provocative, defamatory, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable or inappropriate content

Full contest rules and submission guidelines can be found by clicking here.

The deadline for this contest is October 15, 2009. Winners will be posted on www.ngphotocontest.com after December 1, 2009.

Mimobot is a company that makes designer flash drives and it has joined with FriendsWithYou to present the Mimobot Flash Drive Design Contest.

Flash drives are becoming indispensable for many people because of their ability to store great deals of data in a small, easy to carry device. But one thing lacking about thumb drives is the utilitarian look most of them have. For some, this needs to be changed.

Mimobot thinks that flash drives should not only work as memory devices, they should look interesting as well. They are asking for ideas from designers to create the next fabulous art design for a flash drive.

There are only a few rules to follow:

• You must use the template they provide to submit your design and you must show the front and back design
• You can choose any colors you want to use, but the limit is 8
• If you are the grand prize winner, you agree to assign exclusive rights of your design to Mimoco
• Use only solid colors in your design. No gradients.

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GRAND PRIZE
$1000 in cash plus five 2 GB, three 4 GB, one 8 GB and one 16 GB MIMOBOT Flash drive of your winning design and one 8 GB MIMOBOT Flash Drive of your choice. An Infectious Prize Pack (one laptop skin and one iPhone or iPod skin of your choice).

5 Runners-Up Prizes
Each runner-up will receive a MIMOBOT Runner Up Prize Pack worth $160 (one 2GB and one 16GB MIMOBOT Flash Drive of the winning design, and one 8GB MIMOBOT Flash Drive of your choice. An Infectious Prize Pack (one laptop skin and one iPhone or iPod skin of your choice).

A full list of contest guidelines and FAQs about how to submit and what format to submit your designs in can be found by clicking here. To submit your entry, click here.

The contest deadline is October 6, 2009