The Army Ten-miler (ATM) has just announced the dates for its annual Official Race T-Shirt Design contest. Submissions for the contest will be taken from May 6 to June 6, 2008. The first place winner will receive $1,000 and the winning design will be printed on over 26,000 runner and volunteer t-shirts. The second and third place designs will win $500 and $250 respectively.

The top five entries as selected by a Blue Ribbon Panel will be posted on the Army Ten-Miler web site. Registered runners only will be eligible to vote for the top design from June 17 - 24. Last year over 6,840 runners voted for the winning designs. Winners will be determined by the greatest number of online votes. Winners will be announced on the ATM web site on June 26.

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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.

The National Organization for Women Foundation is hosting a poster contest to celebrate the Love Your Body Campaign. The grand prize winning poster will be used as part of a national campaign to challenge the media’s use of violent, drug-addicted, starved, surgically-enhanced images of women and to fight against industries that profit from women’s dissatisfaction with their bodies. Entries are accepted from all countries.

Prizes vary for different categories. One category prize winner will be selected as the grand prize winner to be reproduced and distributed nationwide as the official 2009 Love Your Body Campaign poster and featured on the NOW Foundation web site. The grand prize winner will receive an additional cash prize of $600. Deadline is 1 December 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” project embodies a number of activities which are meant to contribute to a graduate improving of the society as a whole, giving special attention to the young population between the age of 18 and 28. Its goal is to bring the ideas together, giving the youth a chance to express their beliefs and thoughts through “Tolerance – A Global Challenge” by creating a ‘poster.’ It will have a direct effect on the society by opening new horizons and giving a strong motivation for the youth to work towards a better future. This project should promote the poster as a mean of expressing these ideas among the youth.

The competition is open to art and design students registered at an educational institution for art and design including disciplines such as fine arts, graphic design, communication design, visual communication, media design and other related disciplines. There’s no limit for nationality. Entry deadline is 15 May 2008. The poster should preferably be in English, German or French; however, poster texts in all other languages will be accepted. Prizes are award in Euro. Visit the site to learn more.

DESIGN 21: Social Design Network announced “Ichimatsu,” by Trent Jansen of Sydney, Australia, as the winner of its design Challenge “Kobe G8 Environment Ministers Meeting Furoshiki.” The Challenge was hosted by the web site and organized by Felissimo and the City of Kobe. The winning design, which receives $2,500, was chosen from 157 entries from 35 countries. It will be produced and distributed to all delegates at the Environment Ministers Meeting in May (shown at right).

The “Ichimatsu” design captures the essence and significance of this historic event in a beautifully simple and traditional way. “Ichimatsu” is the Japanese name for a checker pattern, but Jansen also notes how, separately, “Ichi” means city/community in Japanese and “matsu” means pine tree. The designer uses these alternate meanings, literally, by creating a checkered pattern of pine trees to form an image of natural harmony. As the judges note: “The groups of pine trees suggest that nature (represented by the trees) and developed land (represented by white space) co-exist in perfect balance to create a beautiful pattern. Upon closer inspection, one sees that each checker has its own unique size and uneven lines, but together, the checkers produce an orderly world, bordering, surrounding and protecting each other.” The natural balance depicted in Jansen’s design represents the ideal world that the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting pursues.

Felissimo collaborated with the City of Kobe to organize this inaugural DESIGN 21 Challenge to support the goals of the G8 Environment Ministers Meeting being held in Kobe this May. The challenge tasked designers to design a furoshiki, a traditional Japanese wrapping cloth which can be used to carry things and is known as one of the oldest “eco-bags.”

To read more about the winning design, judges’ comments, and view all entries please visit http://www.design21sdn.com/challenges/12.

The competition invites this year all designers to set their imagination free and talk about their dreams, whether these are images and feelings the human mind creates while we sleep or their hopes and wishes. Therefore, the term “dream” can also be used metaphorically, it can be the “starting point” of an idea or be the main theme for the final piece.

The ten best entries will be printed into banners with dimensions 2m x 60cm and will be hung along Ithaca’s promenade for the entire summer of 2008. Their creators will have free accommodation in Ithaca on the weekend of the exhibition’s opening (July 2008).

Each individual or group may submit up to two posters. In order to enter the competition, each artist has to register through this website. Each piece must have dimensions of 40cm height x 12cm width (15,75’’ height x 4.73’’ width) and must be uploaded as an electronic file (pdf or jpeg), resolution 360 dpi, maximum file size 10 MB.

Entries can be uploaded until 31 May 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The Shahneshin Foundation (SF) is pleased to announce that the distinguished jury of the Shrinkage Worldwide Awards after careful review and considered assessment of entries chose the works by Elena Giacomolli (City Empire), David Holt (untitled), Christopher Patten (Picnic), Stephanie White (Vital Fluid), Giovanna Zanghellini (Time is running out), have been selected from a highly-regarded worldwide practices and institutions in the Shrinkage Worldwide Awards this year to design a multi-purpose poster capable of delivering the shrinkage nature.

The entries came from Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Croatia, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, and from an array of diverse fields -both academics and practitioners- in arts, architecture, graphic design, industrial design, landscape-architecture, planning, product-design, publicity, robotics, and so-forth.

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Shake your Rights! This is the 60th anniversary for UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights). In partnership with ART for the World and NABA Nuova Accedmia di Belle Art - Milano, and with the patronage of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), this event demands a worldwide contest open to students enrolled in fine arts colleges. The contest promoters want to celebrate the Declaration through six main themes: Dignity and Justice, Gender, Participation, Development, Culture and Environment. Artists must evoke these themes through the realization of creative posters. The winning poster will be printed in different languages and distribute by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) to all its offices.

Deadline for this contest is 14 September 2008. Visit the www.shakeyourrights.org to learn more.

FindYourArtSchool.com announced the launch of an innovative and community-driven online art competition. The competition is taking place at: www.findyourartschool.com/contest/

The art contest will allow submissions through June 15, 2008, and is giving away $3,500 in prizes. The online art competition is targeted to younger adults ages 16 - 35, and uses community-based voting to help determine the winner.

“The contest is founded on democratic principles. The more votes and the higher the score of those votes will directly increase the probability of an artist being a finalist,” stated Elliott Easterling, chief judge of the competition. Users can also promote artists they like through social bookmarking services like Digg and reddit.

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When nearly half of all pregnancies in the U.S. are unplanned, perhaps the news about saying ‘no’ needs to be more…er…transparent. In addition, recent statistics published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that one in four female adolescents in the U.S. have a sexually transmitted disease, so this timely campaign tackles this public health issue head-on.

The campaign wants people to talk about protecting themselves BEFORE they get naked – and asks anyone to design a pair of boxers, panties, or a t-shirt with a message about playing it safe. ISIS will award scholarships and personalized undies for winning entries. Go to the site to download the templates and design away to win a $1000 scholarship. Contest ends 15 May 2008 at 11:30 pm PST.