The purpose of this competition is to create an online campaign design for Millennium Promise, a non-profit organization with the mission to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals – eight globally endorsed objectives that address the many aspects of extreme poverty – in Africa by 2015. Millennium Promise works with impoverished communities, national and local governments and partner organizations to implement high-impact programs aimed at transforming lives on the African continent and engaging donor nations, corporations and the general public in the effort.

This competition calls for the design of a new media campaign that promotes public awareness of the Millennium Development Goals (”MDGs,” provided at the competition site). The aim of the campaign is to prompt the general public to do what they can to support the cause and urge their leaders to stick to their commitment to the MDGs. The campaign needs to be web-based. It should be designed to reach as wide and global an audience as possible on the Internet, and as such anything of a “viral” nature is encouraged – but the campaign can only be represented using the Entry Provisions stated at the site and in the Entry Rules.

Early entry deadline is Tuesday June 17 2008 at 6:00pm UTC (Universal Coordinated Time).

Students, instructors and administrators: Submit your students’ latest design, advrtising and photography work to Graphis New Talent. Get the recognition you deserve, and share your work with peers and hiring industory professionals. Every student included earns a Graphis Gold Award, and standout instructors earn the Platinum Award.

Register online with this link, and click on the Call For Entry link on that page. Complete instructions, forms, art specifications, shipping and payment procedures may be obtained online at the entry Web site. All entrants and subscribers are eligible for a 40% discount on the annual. Deadline is 26 May 2008.

Enter your work in the HOW International Design Awards and join the ranks of award-winning designers from around the world. One Best of Show winner will score a free trip to the 2009 HOW Design Conference (round-trip airfare, hotel and conference registration) and an award to be presented at the conference. All winners will see their work in HOW’s April 2009 International Design Annual, get $100 discount to the 2009 HOW Design Conference and receive a nifty certificate.

Categories range from annual reports to letterhead, and from miscellaneous promos to 3D objects such as gifts, wearables and more. Work must have been created between 1 January 2007 and 1 September 2008. Deadline is 1 September 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

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.

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.

Show off your creativity and promote the many benefits of your favorite browser as part of the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest. The winning design will be featured as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt in the Mozilla Store. You will receive worldwide recognition for your work, and an opportunity to win prizes!

Are you up for the challenge? We want to see your designs!

• First, create your T-Shirt design. View the sections on Submission and Design Guidelines for more details.
• Upload your design to the contest-specific Flickr group FF3 T-Shirt Design Contest for review.
• An internal team at Mozilla will conduct first round judging to select the top 5 designs.
• These designs will be posted online at the Mozilla Store for public voting. You determine the winner!
• The winning design will be printed on 100% organic T-Shirts, as the official Firefox 3 T-Shirt and featured in the Mozilla Store as an exclusive item!
• For contest details including eligibility, terms and conditions, please read the Official Rules.
• If you have any additional questions, check out the FAQ or post a discussion topic.

For official rules and entry details, please visit the site.

The Caribbean Advertising Federation (CAF) has announced their call for entries for the 2008 ADDY Awards. The annual competition recognizes creative advertising excellence in the Caribbean in all media — print, broadcast, multi-media, online, out-of- home and public service advertising.

The ADDY Awards competition is a three-tier local, regional and national competition, conducted annually by the American Advertising Federation (AAF). Local winners from the CAF will compete in the American Advertising Federation’s 4th District competition in Florida. The winners
of that competition will then be eligible for the ultimate prize — a National ADDY Award, announced in June 2008.
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The annual YCN Design & Communication Awards exist to inspire, support and showcase emerging creative talent, and to connect it with the creative industries. The awards centre around a collection of Live Creative Briefs, written each year by partnering organizations, and spanning broad creative disciplines. Every Summer, an exhibition of all Commended work is hosted in central London. The event presents all work Commended as part of the most recent awards, alongside much
more besides. The intention, as ever, is to put Commended work in front of as many senior figures from across the creative industries as possible – with a big celebratory Private View.

Categories include artwork, films and animation, interactive work (Mac-readable format DVD or CD with full URL), and any accompanying scripts. Submissions are invited from anyone aged 30 years or under at the time of their entry, and not working full time in a creative department (i.e at a design or advertising agency). If you are undertaking work experience or a creative placement then you are welcome to enter. Submissions are welcomed from overseas, and there is no entry fee. If you are in full-time education, there are no age restrictions. The deadline for submitting work is 6pm on the 28th March 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Don’t miss the 18 January 2008 entry deadline for Professionals and the 31 January 2008 deadline for Students from the Art Directors Club. It’s your chance to win a Gold Cube in the 87th Annual Awards. Enter your Advertising, Design, Interactive, Photography and Illustration, even unpublished work in Playground. There are also breakout categories, ADC Hybrid and ADC Design Sphere, and sponsored awards from Corbis and Yahoo! Visit the site to learn more.

This competition is now going into its sixth year and open to full and part-time students in creative advertising, graphic design, interactive design, photography and illustration from any country. Work that has been entered in past competitions is not eligible.

In today’s highly competitive market, the challenge is how to get noticed. One of the best ways is to promote your talent to Canada’s creative community and potential clients as a winner in the country’s biggest and most important awards contest.

Winners receive exceptional year-round recognition in three high-profile vehicles:

• Applied Arts is North America’s leading magazine for visual communications, with 65,00 readers, most are potential employers, who will keep Awards issues as invaluable references and sources of inspiration.
• Entering the Student Awards is a good career move, offering great portfolio exposure and you could possibly get hired.
• See how your work stands according to the highest standards in the industry, and a chance to see what’s expected of you once you graduate.
• Year-round our site features the winners in the Student Awards Gallery, which attracts more than 200,000 unique visitors annually.

FURTHER EXPOSURE! All winning work will be displayed at the Awards Winners’ Exhibit, held Nov. 2008, in Toronto. This unique gallery show is expected to draw more than 1000 attendees. (Location to be announced.) Deadline is 4 April 2008. Visit the site to learn more.