Works carried out by students usually disappear into drawers after presentation to a relatively small college audience. There the work remains invisible. :output, the biggest international competition for students in design and architecture, wants to change that. The works selected by the jury will be published in the yearbook :output. The Deadline for submission will is 15 February 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Anyone who is currently studying communication design, product design, architecture, interaction design or film at a university or a college is eligible to participate. Students who have graduated within the last 12 months may also submit final degree works. Any work, which has been produced as a student project, is eligible for submission. The work may not be older than one year. The project does not have to be published. Work related to any area of design and architecture, such as: graphic design / architecture / product design / typography / photography/ illustration / typeface design / multimedia, moving image and television graphics / experience design is eligible for submission.

Latest date for submissions is 15 February 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Well, the image above says it all, but I’ll repeat some of it here for you. Get your art showcased in one of the hottest, best, and widely respected CG portfolio books created by Ballistic Publishing. You get a hot reputation yourself if your work is selected, as your art will be seen by studios, art directors, and fellow artists.

Images can be created in any 3D or digital illustration application. Photoshop and digitally manipulated photography is also welcome. They are interested in digitally-created fine art, whether it be 2D or 3D, for commercial use, or personal satisfaction.

There is no cost or limit to enter work for inclusion in EXPOSÉ 6. Deadline for entry is Monday, 25 February 2008 at midnight GMT. Visit the site to learn more.

To celebrate the flair, colour and creativity of their Brasilian origins, Brahma beer is launching VISTOBRAHMA, a design competition which offers up and coming creative minds the chance to get their work seen. There is a main cash prize of £5,000, as well as the chance to see your design on our packaging throughout the UK.

All types of work are welcome, whether its painting, illustration, photography, street art or anything in between, we want to see it. You can see examples of artists work for Brahma throughout the site and in the gallery.

This competition is open to all residents of the UK who are over age 18 (except employees of the Promoter and their immediate families, the Promoters advertising agency and sales promotion consultancy, and anyone else connected with the creation and administration of this promotion). The closing date for the receipt of all submissions is the 25th January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

Submissions are now being accepted for consideration by the judges for the 2008 Will Eisner Comics Industry Awards. Publishers wanting to submit entries should send one copy each of the comics or books and include a cover letter indicating what is being submitted and in what categories.

The tentative categories include best single issue, best short story, best continuing comic book series (at least two issues must have been published in 2007), best limited comic book series (at least half of the series must have been published in 2007), best new series, best title aimed at a younger audience, best humor publication, best anthology, best graphic album-new material, best graphic album-reprint, best reality-based work, best archival collection, best U.S. edition of foreign material, best writer, best writer/artist, best penciler/inker (individual or team), best painter (interior art), best lettering, best coloring, best comics-related book, best comics journalism periodical or website, and best publication design. The judges may add, delete, or combine categories at their discretion. The cover letter should include both a mailing address and an e-mail address.

Entries are also being accepted for the category of best webcomic. This category is open to any new, professionally produced long-form original comics work posted online in 2007. Webcomics must have a unique domain name or be part of a larger comics community to be considered. The work must be online-exclusive for a significant period prior to being collected in print form.

All submissions should be sent to Jackie Estrada, Eisner Awards Administrator, 4657 Cajon Way, San Diego, CA 92115, before the deadline of 14 March 2008. Visit Comic-Con 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.

Let your talent shine! Now in its 17th year, this competition is open to photography and illustration professionals and enthusiasts from any country.

Why should you enter? Exposure, exposure, exposure. Winners receive exceptional year-round recognition in three high-profile vehicles:

• Featured in the glossy, 200-plus page Photography & Illustration Annual, now being published in May. This much-anticipated annual is read by more than 60,000 of your clients, colleagues and competitors.
• Year-round our site features the winners in the Award Winners Gallery, which attracts more than 200,000 unique visitors annually.
• FURTHER EXPOSURE! All winning work will be displayed at the Awards Winners’ Exhibit in Toronto. This unique gallery show is expected to draw more than 1000 attendees. (Date and Location to be announced.)

All entrants receive a complimentary copy of the Annual ($30 value). For winners, an additional complimentary copy will be issued. Winners also receive approximately 50 tear sheets of the page on which their work appears, and Awards Certificates for each winning piece. Deadline is 1 February 2008. 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.

Presented by Antimotion + Floating Gat, FUTR WRLD is an open source collaborative effort among artist to create a conceptual rendering of earth and its inhabitants in the year 2060. Antimotion is asking artists from all over the world to participate. Chosen submissions will be showcased in a limited edition art-book and on view in a gallery show in NYC.

Deadline is 1 January 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

The Adobe® Design Achievement Awards celebrate student achievement reflecting the powerful convergence of technology and the creative arts. The competition - which showcases individual and group projects created with industry-leading Adobe creative software - honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, developers and computer artists from the world’s top institutions of higher education.

The 2008 Adobe Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the creative license to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, over 60$K US in cash prizes will be awarded in New York City.

Submissions close 2 May 2008. Visit Adobe to learn more.

The Idea: Everyday we meet people, talk to people on the web, watch beautiful faces on ads and tv. At the end of the day we often resume that there was lots of communication but we don’t know anything about each other.

Toca Me wants you to allow them a view behind your nice face. Show them your thoughts and feelings, your fears or pleasures, what you are occupied with in your daily life from sadness to happiness, from global issues to personal thoughts.

The technique could range from photography to graphic design, from illustration to typography. You are all free - just use your preferred style for your interpretation of the topic. Deadline is 1st December 2007. Visit the site to learn more.