Applied Arts Interactive Awards is proud to announce the Call for Entry for the 2008 Applied Arts Interactive Awards. Now bigger, better and offering more categories than ever, it will, as always, be judged by a panel of respected interactive professionals.

Winning work, with complete credits, will be published in the annual Applied Arts Interactive Awards issue, in March 2009. It will also be posted online in the Winners Gallery of the Applied Arts Website (www.appliedartsmag.com). Finally, you will also receive a suitable-for-framing (i.e., hard copy) Applied Arts Winners Certificate - an enduring testament to your accomplishment in elevating this new and still emerging art form.

All entries must be received by October 10, 2008. Entries must have been “live” between August 2007 and September 2008. Full contest rules, regulations and requirements, along with an expanded list of categories, can be found at www.appliedartsmag.com/interactive_awards.

Inspired by the wild, Durban Wild Talk Africa is a premier international wildlife, travel and cultural film festival and conference which takes place in South Africa. It attracts the global wildlife, travel and cultural filmmaking industry by offering a forum for delegates to meet, network and negotiate with Commissioning Editors, Distributors and Producers. In a celebration of natural history, eco-tourism and cultural filmmaking, the ROSCAR Awards will be awarded to filmmakers at a prestigious gala event during the Festival.

The ROSCAR Celebratory Awards are open to new or established film and television production companies, broadcasters and independent filmmakers, from anywhere in the world. To qualify, productions must have an aspect of the natural world as the central focus such as revealing new facts about animal behaviour, a natural habitat, ecology, travel, culture or humankind’s relationship with the natural environment and with animals. Productions may be of any length, and must have been completed after January 2007.

The deadline for entries and payment, to reach the office in Cape Town, South Africa is 28 November 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

At last, a class created for Mac-based designers ready to make the switch to InDesign. We’ll plunge you into InDesign’s features and capabilities and get you up and running quickly. In this class you’ll learn how to:

• Create an InDesign document, add bleed lines, and create templates
• Manipulate type, change fonts, kerning, and leading
• Use and change Master Pages and automatic page numbering
• Properly use and apply style sheets - paragraph, character, nested, and object
• Work with multiple pages and files
• Preflight, package, and PDF your jobs

The class will be held in Midtown West, NY on Saturday, October 4 & Sunday, October 5, 10 am-4 pm. Visit the site to learn more.

One winner will have his/her work featured on a prominent billboard in the arts district of the major city from where they reside. In addition to this, win the $10,000 cash prize to help further your career. Five runners up will receive complimentary printing of their artwork/design onto a 1800 Tequila glass bottle. Must be over age 21 to enter the site and to compete in the contest.

Chances of winning are based on the number of submissions received in a three month period beginning on September 14, 2008 (so, consider the deadline as about 14 December). Visit the site to learn more.

Ooprint, your online printer, is proud to announce its second Holiday Greeting Card Design Competition, based upon the success of its first ever competition in 2007. The idea is to create a greeting card with the theme Happy New Year or Happy Holidays that will be offered for sale online on the Ooprint websites. The First Prize winner will be selected based on sales, and the Jury Prize will be awarded for excellent artistic merit.

Participants will compete for over $5000 in prizes. The deadline for entries is 20 October 2008. For competition details please visit the site.

In recognition and celebration of the many artistic mediums employed by Gordon Parks to critical acclaim, the Delaware Art Museum is partnering with the Christina Cultural Arts Center to launch the “Eye/I Witness Gordon Parks Art Competition.” The competition’s categories are Photography, Poetry, and Film.

Submissions should reflect the significant themes found in the works of Gordon Parks. “Eye/I Witness” is open to all interested participants, and no entry fee is required. Selected works will be recognized at an evening celebration at the Delaware Art Museum on Friday, November 7.

Submission period is September 1 through September 26, 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

It is not always the subject, but the Negative Space around the subject that makes a photograph truly stunning. This exhibition will highlight the compositional element that makes up the space not commonly seen.

This exhibition 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 October 14, 2008. Visit the Center for Fine Art Photography to learn more.

New for 2009 is the ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition which provides a venue for emerging designers to pitch their concept to a jury of established professionals. Participants in this event are challenged to excite the imagination with a description of the game they want to build.

These proposals are entirely conceptual - but tight organization is a must as these entries cannot exceed 200 words in length. Semi-finalists for the ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition will be announced in mid January.

These semi-finalists will then construct a three-minute slideshow presentation that graphically illustrates their concept. Finalists will be chosen to present at the event after the jury reviews these slideshow presentations.

There is no fee to enter the Game Design Competition, however, each person may only submit two proposals. The entry process runs through Friday, December 5. Visit the site to learn more.

This is an open call to students around the world: Use your creative talent and strategic design skills to address the global water crisis. The Aspen Design Challenge is an annual call to students worldwide, inviting them to address an international problem that is not only crucial in today’s world, but critical to our survival and the world that we will one day inhabit.

The Challenge is a partnership between AIGA, the professional association for design, in the United States, and INDEX:, a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to changing global mindsets by exploring and showing how design can improve life for people. This year’s challenge, “Designing Water’s Future,” is a collaboration between Circle of Blue - the international network of leading journalists, scientists and communications designers that reports and presents the information necessary to respond to the global freshwater crisis - and COLLINS:, a communication design and innovation firm based in New York City.

An online entry system will be available October 1, and December 15, 2008 is the deadline for entries. The guidelines are too extensive and too eloquent to cut, so I suggest you go to the site to learn more.

Nature is beauty, majestic and inspiring. The Art of Nature will illustrate all aspects of nature in it’s many tableaus: landscape, seascape, wildlife, floral, water, environment and weather.

This exhibition 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 September 16, 2008. Visit the Center for Fine Art Photography to learn more.