TextileRepublic.com is an interactive community for designers from around the world. Textile Republic also is an ongoing design competition where winning designs and logos will be used to create a line of fabrics, clothing, wallpaper, stationery, and other merchandise. Winning designs will receive $1,000 cash and a 5% royalty. Designs will be picked for production every 2-3 months. Designers who wish to participate must register at the site to learn more.

The 20th annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair will be held 17-20 May this year at New York’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. North America’s singular showcase for contemporary design, this Fair draws the most intrepid seekers of design truth and design trends to an extraordinary exhibition of the most inspired models of design on the forefront as well as thought-provoking programs and a schedule of supplementary exhibits and features.

View and draw inspiration from displays of furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, images, accessories, textiles and kitchen and bath. For more information, visit the ICFF site.

Textile Republic provides a place for textile designers to share their designs with the worldwide textile community. For this competition, winning designs will be used to create a line of fabrics, clothing, wallpaper, stationary, and other merchandise. Preference will be given to submissions that seamlessly tile. File must be a Jpeg Image no larger than 800kb. Also, they will need a Tiff, PSD, EPS, Illustrator or PDF of your design if you win. Winning designers will receive $1,000 cash and a 5% royalty. You need to register for free to enter the contest. Deadline is 1 February 2008. Visit the site to learn more.

FESPA has announced its FESPA Digital Print Awards 2008, with the continued support of HP, a market-leading supplier of wide- and super-wide format printers and consumables.

First launched at FESPA Digital 2006 in Amsterdam, the FESPA Digital Print Awards set out to recognize and reward best practice in the digital printing sector, judging entries not simply on their print quality, but on their creativity and the use of digital technology to deliver definable advantages to the client.

New features: The FESPA Digital Print Awards program is being simplified and energized with the launch of a new, interactive web site at www.fespadpa.com. The site will function as the fulcrum of the Awards program, providing printers with access to essential information and terms and conditions for entry, as well as a simple, online entry mechanism.

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George Li..le Management, LLC (GLM), producer and manager of the ICFF, and Bernhardt Design announce a call for entries. ICFF Studio invites submissions from designers working on any and all the product categories exhibited at the ICFF: furniture, seating, carpet and flooring, lighting, outdoor furniture, materials, wall coverings, accessories, textiles, and kitchen and bath. Selected designers win a spot to display their prototypes at ICFF Studio, a group area with individual booths on the exhibition floor.

For consideration, submit: a completed Entry Form; photo prints of up to three product prototypes for possible exhibition at the ICFF; and, supporting information including a biography. Deadline for entries is 15 January 2008. Download the PDF for entry and more information.

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