Today THE KDU 2009-
New KDU site. Crazy, crazy stuff... The KDU - Always inspiring work from Gensler, Aerosyn, & crew.
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- Today Road Safety: Bleeding Billboard
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Advertising Agency: Colenso BBDO, Auckland, New Zealand
found at ibelieveinadv.com
Source: Fil... (more)
- Today MTV Identity Reboot
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Tronic , Zeitguised , Universal Everything and many others, deliver a fresh look and approach to MTVâs Identity Reboot . From FWAtheater : âMTV Networks International (MTVNI) is refreshing MTV with a single look and feel. The intent of the refresh is to embrace change and express what MTV means today.â
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- Yesterday Visvim
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Visvim.tv
With the growth of the internet, the world around us has changed very quickly. Communities and markets that share a similar concept of value are no longer bound by national borders or language. What sort of platform would be ideal for the dissemination of information? What kind of website would be inherently Visvim? It has all finally come together.
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- Yesterday Fiction Department Vs. Si Begg
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Fiction Department has created 2 x 25 Hand printed & manufactured limited-edition, box sets as numbered series for the new Si Begg EP 24-Bit Error Collection
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- Yesterday Pleats Please, by Taku Satoh
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Taku Satoh Design Office made these beautiful campaigns for PleatsPlease . In fashion industry, in the late 80's, Issey Miyake is at the birth of a new technique of pleating garments to make them more flexible. A dedicated brand called Pleats Please were created.
Via View On Fashion
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- Yesterday Clusta Update V7
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Take a look at the latest update from Clusta. I have been following Clusta's work for sometime. This update sees some impressive work and an impressive client list gained over a decade.
clusta.com/v7
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- Yesterday Blue Thousand and One
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âBlue Thousand and Oneâ is one of the latest video realized by Blue Man Group: a beautifull Slow Motion HD Work. Just check it out!
Blue Man Group Update
Source: Fabrik... (more)
- 3 days Vancouver 2010
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The Official Posters Set of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games has been revealed and it is SCRUMPTIOUS.
No need to say that these games will be the most interesting for graphic designers â probably since Munich 1972. There are already plenty of nice goodies to purchase on the Official Olympic Store.
Edit : our reader FKNC point outs the cute mascots â Sumi, Quatchi and Miga â designed by Meomi.
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- 3 days Box Tops and Finger Puppets
- Behind the Scenes Josh Thacker adds a little doll-shoe polish
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- Yesterday (New) Generation Press website--
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We are very pleased to announce that the new Build designed Generation Press website is now live! The new site also has it’s own iPhone specific version. Generation Press intend for the site to become not just a showcase of the great print that they produce, but a forum for discussion so please get involved. The site is built using a customised WordPress engine and is fully updatable/controllable by the guys at Generation Press. Big thank you to Ben Wise at Kleber for the build, and patie... (more)
- 3 days Get Involved!--
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The Get Involved Poster Show--
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This from the show’s press-release -- “The posters produced during Get Involved’s three year tenure at central London venue The Social, collected & exhibited for the first time at Concrete Hermit. Designed by some of the most in-demand image-makers working today such as Build, Anthony Burrill, Jon Burgerman, Dave The Chimp, James Joyce, Jeremyville, Kate Moross and Ian Stevenson”.
(Full line up below)--
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Accept & Proceed / Ali ... (more)
- 3 days From JT--
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Nice little surprise (reminds me of the days back at school bringing your photos home in cheap foil-blocked cardboard frames) through the post from Jason Tozer, made me smile. Thanks JT!…
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Picture (Taken by Jason) from/for the cover of an experiment we did with Creative Review called ‘A Month In The Life Of A Graphic Designer‘.... (more)
- Wow--
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Full size here.
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Full size here.
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I really recommend you view these at actual size, amazing.
Images from the NASA book -- ‘Apollo: Through the Eyes of the Astronauts‘.
July 20, 2009, marks the 40th anniversary of the first human landing on the moon by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins of Apollo 11. A direct result of President John F. Kennedy’s mandate to land a man on the moon by the end of the 1960s. The achievements of the Apollo missions have since become ... (more)
- Marco Brambilla--
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--Civilization.... (more)
- Desire lines--
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A desire line (or desire path) is a path developed by erosion caused by animal or human footfall. The path usually represents the shortest or most easily navigated route between an origin and destination. Why do we feel the need to get everywhere as quickly as possible?... (more)
- Eric Tillinghast--
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Just had an email from my friend (and fellow flattened box enthusiast) Kelvin Soh showing me the lovely work of Eric Tillinghast. This from the Centre for Contemporary Non-Objective Art -- “Empires" is the latest group of works in colour by Eric Tillinghast. All of these paintings are made on small, unfolded cardboard boxes and packaging material. As different as each is from the next, they are all a means to the same end: a man-made container, and yet the shapes and varieties employed to... (more)
- Round & Round--
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Video for ‘Round & Round‘ by New Order (1989) – FAC263.
I had completely forgotten about this video, I remember seeing it when the track came out (20 years ago), and being blown away by it (showing my age here). Still looks incredibly fresh to me…... (more)
- Bb 2.0--
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In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.
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The videos can be played simultaneously, the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.
Link -- Tom Crabtree (Twitter).... (more)
- Coast Modern--
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Filmmakers Michael Bernard and Gavin Froome take you on a journey through three generations of modernist movements on the West coast of North America.
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From Rudolf Schindler and Richard Neutra’s 1920’s Hollywood, through to the second wave of post WWII America to today’s current modernist renaissance.
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This film speaks with the architects and their patrons and asks if Modernism’s time has come or did it ever really go away.... (more)
- 3 days Theorem release
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Hello everybody from a really cold Argentina. We are happy to announce the release of Theorem. Its a small breath from the scripts!
Theorem is an interesting change from the usual calligraphic work of Koziupa and Paul. An art deco font with a twist in its capitals, Theorem’s lowercase characters were designed to automatically achieve the ... (more)
- Analog Source: Letterpress in an American Design Education (St Bride Library)
- * An illustrated talk at St Bride Library
* Tuesday 30 June 2009 at 7pm
* In the Bridewell Hall, St Bride Foundation
* Admission £7; concessions £5; Friends of St Bride £3
* Pay on the door
Many examples of student work from the Visual Communications Program at
the University of Delaware are intended to insight a lively conversation
about the value of letterpress in contemporary design education. Ashley
John Pigford and William Deering will speak about the Raven Press at the
University of Del... (more)
- Rebus Script - a seriously fun OpenType font introduced by Ascender Corp
- Elk Grove Village, IL — June 24, 2009 — Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced their newest OpenType font called Rebus Script to showcase the advanced features available in OpenType fonts for creative applications. Rebus Script is a handwriting style script font that includes a set of pictorial symbols that can automatically replace certain words and syllables. Rebus Script uses the Contextual Alternate feature that is available in many Op... (more)
- Gerald Giampa R.I.P.
- I never had the opportunity to meet him in person but we did exchange email from time to time. The person I got to know was both a gentleman and a character. More information about his passing on P22’s blog.... (more)
- TypeTogether releases additional weights for Skolar
- The successful typeface Skolar, by David Březina, has been expanded by 2 more essential weights, Bold Italic and Semibold Italic.
We offer an upgrade from the previous bundle for only €30. Please contact TypeTogether for details.... (more)
- TypeTogether releases Adele
- TypeTogether is proud to present it’s new release. Adelle is a 12-weight slab serif typeface conceived specifically for intensive editorial use, mainly in newspapers and magazines.
It’s personality and flexibility make it a real multiple-purpose typeface. The unobstrusive appearance, excellent texture and slightly dark color allow it to behave flawlesly in continuous text setting. As it becomes larger in print, Adelle shows its personality through a series of meassured particularit... (more)
- Powerful Font Editor for Professional Graphic Designers and Hobbyists
- De Bilt, Utrecht June 17, 2009 — High-Logic B.V., a leader in providing font editing software, today announces FontCreator 6, the world’s most popular font editor. This version delivers powerful tools such as direct import of both raster and vector based images. With FontCreator 6, font designers can create and modify high quality TrueType and OpenType fonts faster than ever.
Custom Fonts for Business People and Hobbyists
With FontCreator, users can tailor customized fonts to meet t... (more)
- New Microsoft Fonts Available from Ascender Corp
- Elk Grove Village, IL — June 17, 2009 — Ascender Corporation, a leading provider of advanced font products, today announced the availability of an expanded selection of fonts licensed from Microsoft Corporation. The new offering includes many of the newest fonts included with Windows and Microsoft Office.
Microsoft fonts are renowned for their on-screen quality and extensive character sets. The new fonts available from Ascender comprise a diverse collection of Latin and multilingual ... (more)
- Modern Cyrillic: Type Design Competion by ParaType
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The competition is held by ParaType with support by the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of Russia. It's dedicated to the Tercentenary of Russian Civil Type -- Peter the Great's historic reform of Russian typography (1708--1710).
Cyrillic typeface projects and completed typefaces created and/or released after January 1, 2006 are eligible.
Русская версия
Press-release in PDF
Entry form in text format
There will be online registration with upload service later on the... (more)
- Palm Pre Launches with System Fonts by Font Bureau
- June 10, 2009 - Boston.
The Palm® Pre™ is already selling out -- after great reviews. The revolutionary new user interface is enhanced by new fonts from the Font Bureau.
This past weekend's notable release of the Palm Pre also saw the debut of custom fonts developed especially for the Pre by the Font Bureau.
To build a unique visual experience for the Pre user, Palm commissioned a suite of fonts from the Font Bureau, a type foundry noted for its many custom designs for major publications and ... (more)
- Yesterday New Film by Jeff Scher
- The Parade, a new film by Jeff Scher, celebrates a random sampling of some of the "flickering watercolor ghosts" observed on a summer afternoon in midtown Manhattan. [JH]... (more)
- Yesterday Job Board Update #design #graphic design #jobs
- Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in Singapore, Pasadena, Berlin, NYC, Chicago, SF, Philadelphia and Madison. Companies hiring include Razorfish, AAA, Art Center, Procter & Gamble, Macy's, Method and Blizzard. Remember you can post jobs here too. [JSC]... (more)
- Yesterday Spectacular Origami by Sipho Mabona
- Spectacular, one-of-a-kind origami constructions by Sipho Mabona.
[JH]... (more)
- 3 days Hartford Courant Goes Horizontal
- After reader protests, the Hartford Courant ditches its vertical nameplate. (Thanks to Luke Hayman.) [MB]... (more)
- 3 days Wall-E End Titles Interview
- A great interview with Wall-E's end title sequence director Jim Capobianco and animator Alexander Woo. [MB]... (more)
- 3 days Caplan on Design and Empathy
- "The 19th-century critic John Ruskin coined the term 'pathetic fallacy' to describe the predisposition of painters and poets to attribute human qualities to inanimate objects. Designers naturally do it all the time, but in their case, it is neither pathetic nor fallacious." Ralph Caplan on design and empathy. [MB]... (more)
- 3 days Book Covers From Japan #design #book design #japan
- Extraordinary early 20th century book covers from Japan. Beautiful! (Thanks to Yotem Hadar.) [JSC]... (more)
- 3 days How We Meet and Tweet Now
- How social media are changing design conferences: "We assume that speakers are already crafting 'tweetisms,' counting characters to make sure they don’t exceed the 140-mark." [MB]... (more)
- 3 days WWIII Propaganda Posters
- "Loose Tweets Sink Fleets" and other classic World War III propaganda posters. (Via MeFi.) [MB]... (more)
- Feast on Design Hosted by William Drenttel #design #NYC #conference
- Gear up for the October 1, Feast Conference by attending the July 13 Feast on Design, hosted by our very own William Drenttel. [JSC]... (more)
- Today Hypertexte
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Hypertexte
La revue Hypertexte observe, produit et diffuse des formes entre exposé et exposition.
Par là, elle soutient ou participe à des expériences critiques et curatoriales.... (more)
- Today Fogelson-Lubliner
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Fogelson-Lubliner... (more)
- Yesterday SEOK JAEWON
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SEOK JAEWON... (more)
- 3 days Pinar Demirdag (updates)
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Pinar Demirdag... (more)
- Werkplaats Typografie (End) Exhibition 2009
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Werkplaats Typografie (End) Exhibition 2009
Public Lecture by AA Bronson
[Printed Matter, Inc. NYC, General? Idea (1969 -- 1994), FILE Magazine]
Saturday 4 July at 17:00H / Drinks from 18.00 -- 20.00H
Works by the Current and Graduating Participants of Werkplaats Typografie:
Year 09 / Marco Balesteros, Cecilia Costa, Alex DeArmond, Jaan Evart, Jeremy Jansen, Julie Peeters
Year 10 / Joris Van Aken, Marc Hollenstein, Hyo--Jung Kwon, Julie Van Severen, Astrid Seme, Stephen Serrato, Dries W... (more)
- Projektil
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Projektil is an international series of lectures at Bauhaus--University, Weimar. Student initiated the project in 2007, due to the lack of a graphic--design professorship.
Once again, a couple of international Designers and Artists agreed to come to Weimar. Like in the past years the lectures and workshops are for free. The following Speakers will hold a lecture and a Workshop for Projektil 2009: Marcus Weisbeck, Jason Dodge, Körner Union, vier5 , Clemens Habicht
13 – 17 of july
Bauhaus... (more)
- BAT (Books, Art & Texts)
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BAT éditions
BAT est une structure d’édition indépendante, associative et donc a but non lucratif, ayant pour objectif la publication d’ouvrages sur l’art contemporain, de livres d’artistes et d’éditions résultant de pratiques et de recherches liées à l’objet imprimé.
BAT vise à publier des travaux d’artistes et d’auteurs en leur permettant de concrétiser leurs recherches plastiques, historiques, théoriques, critiques ou scientifiques a... (more)
- Masahiro Karino
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Masahiro Karino... (more)
- Type and Media graduation show – Royal Academy of Art, Den Haag
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Type and Media graduation show
Eindexamenexpositie Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
2009 Graduates: Charles Mazé, Dan Milne, Ondrej Jób, Abi Huynh, Laure Afchain, Khajag Apelian, César Puertas, Ján Filípek, Marta Bernstein, Sueh Li Tan, Holger Königsdörfer
June 27 to July 4th, 2009
Opening: Saturday, June 27th, 2009
Royal Academy of Art
Koninklijke Academie van Beeldende Kunsten
Den Haag... (more)
- VANCE WELLENSTEIN (updates)
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Vance Wellenstein... (more)
- IBM - Smarter Planet [webdesign]
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IBM leverages its branding power and smarts to try to make the planet a better (and smarter) place to work, live and do business. If you are looking for new grid designs and graphs, you'll find clean pages, graphs-a-plenty, and a very snazz... (more)
- Kiss Me I'm Polish [design companies]
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Of course we'll lay one on you... as pretty as you are! We just can't resist this boutique-size strategy and design firm that specializes in branding for web and print. Great portfolio layout with just the right amount of confidence, and co... (more)
- James Adamé [design companies]
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Yes, the site is sh*t (self professed by the author himself) but the work speaks for itself. While it's not our usual fare to post something so raw, it's really quite an outstanding portfolio of edgy work from a typrographic and motion desi... (more)
- Transcendental Meditation [webdesign]
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Open up your consciousness to the Transcendental Meditation Program in this peaceful and enlightened design. Highs include the clean blue and white color scheme, clear breakdown of information, simple typography, informative research graphs... (more)
- Ask Nature [webdesign]
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Why not Ask Nature for the best answers to all of our major design problems? What if evolution has already developed and created the perfect designs, and all we had to do was emulate mother natures' wonders to improve our lives? In this tim... (more)
- Nick Jones [design companies]
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Compose some really large-screen collages and designs, throw in a smear of typography, illustration, and make it all interact with scripts and time-lines, and you have a pretty good picture of the day-in, day-out life of a Flash designer. B... (more)
- Coraline [webdesign]
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Based on a novella by Neil Gaiman, (Sandman comic books) and directed by Henry Selick (Nightmare Before Christmas) this new stop-motion film promises to be an inspiring tale and visual treat. This creation took about 10 years to evolve from... (more)
- Me and Mister Jones [design companies]
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This little gem is the online portfolio of Tom Merckx and Fanny Khoo, two print designers who keep a very fine focus on the details. Their work is intricate, with fancy illustrative collages that maintain the delicacy of lace in 2-dimension... (more)
- Once Upon a School [webdesign]
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There's just not enough saints, givers and teachers in this world... but you can help make a difference. It's a time of service and sharing, and Dave Eggers has recognized it -- and provided us with a platform for making a difference in ou... (more)
- Schematic [design companies]
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Schematic is a top agency who value their success in their ability to be cross-disciplinary, and by excelling equally at a network of interwoven fields. They specialize in everything from strategy to QA, copy writing to design, and technolo... (more)
- Today ISCAs Anniversry Poster Design Contest
- The International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) is celebrating its 10th anniversary. For this reason, ISCA open a contest for an ISCA 10th anniversary poster design.
The contest is open to everyone internationally. The deadline for receiving submissions is 20 July 2009. Once a winner has been selected, ISCA will have the chance to polish the winning poster design with the winner (if needed). The only constraints on the design of the poster are 1) that it should celebrate the 10th anniv... (more)
- Yesterday Design By Humans 10K T-Shirt Design Contest 2009
- Design By Humans has just announced the start of their newest 10K contest, in celebration of the site's 2nd birthday. This is the most wide-open t-shirt design competition on the planet, with the only real restriction being originality. Over-sized prints, mixed media, and up to 14 ink colors are allowed. The contest is open to everyone worldwide, with no entry fee. One Grand Prize winner will earn $10,000, and four runners-up will each receive $1,000.... (more)
- 3 days Sennheiser Headphones Design Competition
- Sennheiser creates the greatest and most exciting unique sound experience for people worldwide -- whether at home or out and about; on stage or behind the DJ console. Sennheiser is now launching with Eyeka a Heaphones Design contest to design eye catching surface prints for their new product HD 418. A file design template (.AI) will be made available to you which you must use for your designs. 45 winners will each take home a customized, limited edition HD 418 headphones with their own winning d... (more)
- Taiwan International Poster Design Award 2009
- The Taiwan International Poster Design Award is hosted by the Department of Commercial Affairs, MOEA to promote Taiwan's commercial design and to continue the exchange and interaction between our commercial design services and the international world. This competition will select outstanding works of international standard, raise the visibility of Taiwan's design potential and broaden the horizon of Taiwan's design industry.
The competition is open to designers from all regions and countries. Al... (more)
- 2009 Digital Art L.A . International Call For Artists
- The L.A. Center for Digital Art announces an international call to artists. All styles of artwork and photography where digital processes of any kind were integral to their creation are acceptable: digital art stills of any kind, digital photogaphy, short experimental time based video, video loops, mobile media, interactive media, and internet art. Selected winners will be exhibited as the central focus
of the "DigitalArt.LA" expo in a large group exhibit at the LACDA gallery, August 13 - Septem... (more)
- Tacoma Film Festival Poster Contest
- Here's your chance to shine as an artist and have your work displayed all over Tacoma. The Grand Cinema, Pierce County's only non-profit art house film theater, is once again turning to the artistic community to design this year's Tacoma Film Festival poster. Last year's contest was so successful we are so excited to see what you artists come up with this year! All entries will be displayed at the Grand Cinema and a winner will be chosen for this year's festival. The contest is designed for loca... (more)
- London International Creative Competition
- LICC invites passionate visual artists, regardless of experience or nationality, to submit their innovative artwork for inclusion in the LICC competition. The artwork is juried by a board of internationally esteemed artists, writers, curators, gallery owners and other luminaries of the visual arts. The jury-selected finalists and shortlist will be published in the LICC Annual Awards Book, on this website and will be announced to the creative arts and media outlets worldwide. The 15 finalists wo... (more)
- OnAngels Magazine Art Literary Contest
- OnAngels Magazine is dedicated to promoting creative talent and the interaction with humans by Angels globally. Through our magazine, website and contests we will showcase some of this talent and introduce the world to new and emerging artists, photographers and writers.
OnAngels Magazine Art & Literary Contest 2009 is open to several mediums of art and literature. There are six categories of art; Painting , Computer Graphic Art, Sculpting, Drawing , Mixed Media and Photography. There are three ... (more)
- The Good Design Book
- Get Published in a new design book. The renown design firm MINE™ is looking for work to feature in a new book, authored by Chrisopther Simmons. The book, to be published in Spring 2010 by HOW Design Books, will feature the best examples of design work that engages and addresses critical causes. This can include paid or pro bono work for non-profits, political causes, social justice, the arts and education as well as self-initiated projects that support the greater good. Work can be in any medi... (more)
- Inkfruit Tee Attack Contest
- Inkfruit is Asia's first democratic merchandise brand. By participating at Inkfruit, you stand the chance to have your name and logo on every product made with your design on it. Tee Attack is Inkfruit's latest attraction for designers and gamers across the world. Its all about creating the most awesome graphics on a t-shirt for all the gamers out there.
Designers are requested to create their entries as psd or corel files. You must submit it in the contest as a simple jpeg file at Inkfruit.com.... (more)
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