Do You Know a Young Aspiring Artist? While most design contests are geared towards working professionals or those in college, the Shaping Your Community for a Greener Future Competition is for those between the ages of 13-18.
Perhaps someone in your family or a friend’s family has an up and coming artist in their house. If so, this contest is just for them.
What the Contest Is About Sister Cities International has served as a showcase for young artists and designers for over 20 years.
“Your artwork may highlight a problem, issue, or solution important to you, your community, or the world at-large.”
What to Submit There are specific rules and guidelines concerning submitted entries. According to the contest site some of them are:
“Only two-dimensional artwork, no larger than 24″ x 30″ (60cm x 75cm), including matting is accepted. Watercolor, oils, pastels, pen and ink, charcoal, photography, two-dimensional mixed media, as well as computer generated art, are all acceptable media.
* Entries that use copyrighted or trademarked images will not be accepted. * Entries must not be plagiarized, stolen, or copied from any other source. * Entries from previous years will not be accepted. * Entries must not defame or invade the rights of any person, living or ….dead. * Entries not adhering to these guidelines will not be considered. * Entries originating from a “sister cities” are eligible for this contest. * Only artists from the ages of 13-18 are eligible for this contest
Prizes Ten finalists will be selected from all entries. These final entries will be displayed at the 2011 Youth Conference in Eugene and/or continue on a traveling exposition to other sister city locales.
One national winner and one international winner will be selected from the finalists. Each winner will receive:
“…a complimentary registration for the 2011 Youth Leadership Conference in Eugene, OR, along with $1,000 toward airfare to the conference or as a cash prize.”
Other Information and Contest Links If you wish to have your entry returned to you, there is a $20 processing and shipping fee, however, there are no entry fees for this competition. This contest will end on April 29, 2011.
To find out if your city is part of the sister city program, contact Laura Giroux, Membership Manager at lgiroux [at] sister-cities.org for further details.
Lights, Camera, Action! Life Just Is, an independent feature film that completed shooting this November and is now in post production. The film is about four recent university student graduates and their struggles to adapt to the “real world.”
The Life Just Is - Poster Design Competition is seeking entries from design students and college graduates that can interpret the spirit of the film and be used as a vehicle to promote it.
After you have been approved you will be notified by email and will be provided a link to specific marketing images, information about the film, and other pertinent details for use in the creation of your poster design.
Judging and Prizes The poster designs will be available on the film’s Facebook page where individuals may vote for their favorite poster. The top three posters from the highest vote counts plus a top three list by a panel of judges will be used to select the winner.
There are no cash awards for this contest, however the winning entry will be used “…for marketing the film and potentially for the DVD cover. The [artist] will be credited for their design.”
For those who want to beef up their resume/CV this is a great opportunity to add more credentials to your list of accomplishments.
Contest Links and Additional Information The following links will provide more details about the contest and movie:
Do You Want to Space Out? Are you a part of a university or science community team or a graphic designer that has an eye on the future as far as renewable energy solutions? If you can answer “yes” to any of these questions, the International SunSat Design Competition may be for you.
Design a Satellite SunSat is an international competition that is seeking designs for the next generation of satellites that will be able to collect energy in space and transmit it to Earth for electricity production.
This competition is also an exercise to investigate the benefits and possible limitations of this sort of technology.
The sponsors state: “Winning designs will be high-impact digital art, supported by credible science, engineering and business plans.
“[They will] best promote media understanding and public acceptance of a path forward in using space satellites to deliver energy on-demand to any and all places on earth.”
Here is a video of the concept behind the development of these energy beaming satellites. . …………….
How to Submit Those who are in graphic design may need to contact the SunSat sponsors in order to get guidance and mentoring on the “hard science” and feasibility of their concepts. All submissions must be registered at the official website to enter the contest.
The contest administrators will alert entrants about the status of their submissions within seven working days.
Prizes The hope of the contest sponsors is to raise $100,000 in prize money for the winners of this event. The money will go to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for research project purposes.
Please note that no entries will be accepted unless all pertinent required information is provided according to the registration guidelines.
Other Contest Information and Website Links For questions about this contest direct your queries to bwoods [at] gridab.ohio.edu. (Replace [at] with the symbol “@”.)
The deadline for this contest is January 19, 2010. Winners will be announce sometime during May 2011. This contest requires no entry fees.
For more contest details and info, follow these links:
There’s No Place Like GNOME Yes, that was an incredibly bad pun but as they say, it was too good to pass up. Aside from the pun, there is a graphic design competition that may appeal to your artistic senses; the Gnome T-shirt Design Contest.
The Gnome Foundation is a non-profit organization that is responsible for GNOME, a computing platform for use in the development of free software applications.
The sponsors (zazzle.com) of the GNOME T-shirt contest want your design ideas for a t-shirt that will celebrate the release of GNOME 3.0, (GNU Network Object Model Environment). . Contest Details You may only submit one entry to this contest. Be sure to visit zazzle.com to see the different t-shirt styles and colors in order to gauge how you design will look on the final product.
Submit your designs as an SVG file or compressed file.
Judging and Prizes Three winners will be selected by a contest jury comprised of GNOME Project experts. According to the contest rules the prizes will be:
* First Place: $100 USD and two t-shirts with your winning design. * Second Place: $50 USD and one t-shirt with your winning design. * Third Place: One t-shirt with your winning design.
Other Information and Contest Links The deadline for entries is January 15, 2011. This contest has no entry fees. All designs for this t-shirt contest must be in English.
Follow these links for additional contest information:
Have You Ever Sent a Postcard? Postcards are one of the preferred methods of communication by vacationers and globetrotters to friends and loved ones. It’s a great way to send a photo with a personal message.
The words “wish you were here” is sometimes tagged on to the end of these greetings and has become somewhat of a cliché in popular culture for those on the go. . The Jura Wish You Were Here Photography Competition is about images from around the world and what makes them so inspiring to the photographers.
The Contest Overview Send in an image that depicts a special and meaningful place you have visited.
The contest sponsors state:
“…create a postcard of a place which inspired you. Use our postcard template to upload an image and insert your story.”
Submitted images will be voted upon by members of the Jura website. Final winners are selected by the contest jury.
How to Submit Your Photos There are three steps in entering this contest:
Register with the Jura Website- After registration you will be allowed to view the needed contest information and other contest details. Certain age restrictions apply.
Upload Your Image- Choose a photograph that best represents your best shot and upload this to the postcard template located at the contest submission site.
Write a Description - In 50 words or less describe how this location inspires or is so memorable to you.
Prizes There will be three winners selected; one from the UK, one from North America, and one from the rest of the world.
According to the contest rules, each of the three winners will win:
* A week’s trip for two to Jura Lodge Scotland worth approximately £3000 ….(4,015 USD) * Flights, travel and accommodation paid * VIP guided tour of the island and distillery * A photography master class with National Geographic’s Jim Richardson * Your photograph turned into a postcard for sale (including a percentage of ….sales) * An Olympus E-PL1camera worth £500 (669 USD) . . For the duration of this contest, one winner per month will be chosen to receive an Olympus FE camera.
Other Contest Information The deadline for entries is January 21, 2011. There are no entry fees for this contest.
To register and be eligible for this competition, follow this link to the Jura website:
What Do You Do? People in different cultures greet each other in unique ways. The Chinese ask if you have eaten yet. In Iceland they say “happy.” But in other countries sometimes a hello is connected with “So what do you do?”
The Panasonic Lumix Award Competition asks this very question, but with a slight twist. It wants to see photographs which depict what people do for a living instead of just a verbal answer.
The contest sponsor states:
“Panasonic wants to see what extraordinary jobs and professions can be found and captured on camera.
“Night or day, it doesn’t matter where you are in the world or what time it is: there’s always somebody on the job.
“…This is your chance to show the extraordinary work people do to earn their livelihood.” . . . The Contest You may send in one digital image per month until the deadline of the contest.
Entries will be posted on the official contest website where the public will vote for their favorite images.
A jury will select the top 100 entries with the highest vote totals and select one winner per month until the conclusion of the contest.
The theme of this contest is “Work.life.”
Contest Guidelines Some of the general rules for this contest are:
* Submitted images must be a minimum size of 800×600 pixels. * File size of single images must not exceed 10MB. * No scanned images of hard-copies are allowed. * Certain restrictions apply regarding eligibility. See contest rules.
Prizes According to the official contest announcement the awards will be:
Grand Prize One LUMIX DMC-GH2 digital camera and one Lumix G Vario HD Lens H-VS014140.
First runner-up One LUMIX DMC-LX5* digital camera
Second runner-up One LUMIX DMC-LX5* digital camera
One monthly winner will be announced from now until the end of this contest. These winners will receive one LUMIX Digital Still Camera DMC-ZX3.
Contest Information and Links You are allowed only one submission per month. If a submission is rejected you may resubmit another entry.
In order to participate in this contest you must register at the official Panasonic website.
The deadline for this contest is April 30, 2011. Winners will be announced sometime in May 2011.
Do You Know a Young Aspiring Artist?
There are specific rules and guidelines concerning submitted entries. According to the contest site some of them are:
Other Information and Contest Links
Lights, Camera, Action!
Judging and Prizes
Do You Want to Space Out?
How to Submit
Other Contest Information and Website Links
There’s No Place Like GNOME
Judging and Prizes
Other Information and Contest Links
Have You Ever Sent a Postcard?
The Contest Overview
Prizes
What Do You Do?
Contest Guidelines
Contest Information and Links