Yesterday Introducing⦠3 new color tools for PS, AI CS3 & Processing-
Looking for beautiful colors? Dr. Woohoo introduces three new color tools to create instant palettes: Search Flickr. Capture images with your WebCam. Or drag-n-drop images from your computer. Just click a magic button, and the colors are saved to Illustrator, Photoshop or as an XML file for Processing.
More info.
Source: DrWoohoo... (more)
- Yesterday pause nyc
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The FITC team has been working hard for a long time on a new event, pause ; an exploration of concept and design within Broadcast and Film. Held on November 10 & 11 at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center , there will be twelve speakers, nine have been been confirmed: Digital Kitchen , Hush , Smith & Foulkes , Kyle Cooper , Joseph Kosinski , Buck , UFO , GMUNK and Brand New School .
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- Yesterday Peppermelon.tv
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Tomas and the crew at Peppermelon have been hard at work and it shows in the three new projects they just uploaded, including their contribution to the Advanced Beauty DVD, curated by Universal Everything :
The Fabulous Farting Valley of Fat-Farts
Advanced Beauty
Milk Crises - Go Team!
all well worth checking out.
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- 3 days Type & Form â Print Magazine
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Print Magazine invited Karsten Schmidt (aka Toxi) to create the cover image for their August 2008 issue.
You can read Karsten's blog entry on the creation process or Print Mag' feature on it and check Karsten's Flickr photoset detailing the process
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- 3 days AirForce Experience
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Luchtmacht Experience
A stunning website created for the Dutch AirForce.
Credits:
Concept and Project Lead by ARA
Design and Flash by Momkai
3D, Flex and Flash by INDG
Source: brkn... (more)
- Cocoe | MicroPoems laSexta
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TV Identity for laSexta with the micropoems by Ajo, the music from Mastretta and the great illustrations & characters by Jean Duprez from Cocoe.
+ Cocoe | MicroPoems laSexta
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- Jeremy Geddes
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Jeremy Geddes spends his days smearing pigment onto pieces of wood, in between playing air guitar and drinking coffee. He has been a professional at this for 3 years, picking up a Spectrum Gold Award and a Conflux #3 Award. His book 'The Mystery of Eilean Mor' with Gary Crew was selected as a notable book by the CBC, shortlisted for the Aurealis Award and won the 2006 Crichton award.
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- Evgeny Parfenov
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Evgeny Parfenov is a freelance illustrator from Moscow, Rusia.
+ Evgeny Parfenov
+ Evgeny's blog
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- Studio KXX Update
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Another news straight from Poland. This time Studio KXX updated their portoflio with some new amazing illustration, web and branding projects.
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- Florian Bayer
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Florian says about himself: "With my mates from the Shake Your Tree Network I bring you lots of eye opening design, magazines and exhibitions for you. For myself illustration is the main thing. I do it everyday. In my work I try to combine the enthusiasm I had for drawing when I was a child with new techniques, cutting the edge skills and new contexts to find the best way of delivering information to the audience. I am living in Brighton, United Kingdom, at the seafront."
+ Fl... (more)
- days off
- No new post until thursday july 10
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- Tree of Signs
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Tree of Signs
a collaborative project between Gabríela Friðriksdóttir and M/M
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- Golden Age
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Golden Age: Highlights of Dutch Graphic Design (1890--1990)
European tour
Golden Age, now in Breda, was previously on view in Madrid, Bucharest, Sofia and Budapest.
The exhibition will continue to tour major European cities until September 2009.
In each location, it will be accompanied by an extensive programme of workshops, lectures and tours.
After Breda, the posters will move on to Istanbul, Ljubljana and Warsaw.
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- Jennie Hancock (updates)
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Jennie Hancock
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- Bree Apperley
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Bree Apperley
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- Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne
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Thorbjørn Ankerstjerne
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- Caroline Fabès
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Caroline Fabès
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- Ben Smith
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Ben Smith
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- Manystuff exhibition REFLET
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Hey Ho
Jean Jullien
Pierre Vanni
Damien Poulain
Le Club des Chevreuils
Benoit Lemoine
Yoann Dovier
Superscript
les graphistes présentent leurs projets ici
More pics here
photos by Julien Lelièvre
More informations about the exhibition here
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- Thomas Mailaender exhibition
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Thomas Mailaender exhibition
July 3 - 26 2008
KK Outlet, London
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- aiga
- AIGA
Official Description
[Source: aiga.org]
AIGA, the professional association for design, is the oldest and largest membership association for design professionals engaged in the discipline, practice and culture of designing. AIGA's mission is to advance designing as a professional craft, strategic tool and vital cultural force.
Founded in 1914, AIGA is the preeminent professional association for communication designers, broadly defined. In the past decade, designers ... (more)
- esdi
- ESDI
Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
ESDI is a college of higher education in design, linked to the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Founded in 1963, it is the oldest design college in Brazil and in Latin America.
Design is the field of knowledge dealing with the planning, programming and construction of the objects of daily life as well as the environments in which we conduct our lives. It covers a broad range of activities and can be subdivi... (more)
- playground
- The Playground
Use this space to test your Wiki syntax prowess. You may also use this space as a springboard to create links in order to start new pages.
This page will be cleansed every now and again.
Phaidon & Wallpaper Travel Guides
Testing… 1, 2… Testing
Give the wiki a whirl in this space. We will clean it up every now and then so don’t worry about making it not pretty.
Adrian Frutiger
Dutch Type Library
Christopher Simmons
Josef Muller-Brockma... (more)
- memefest
- Memefest
International festival of radical communication
Founded in 2002, Memefest is a complex international, semi-online project that uses the form of a festival as a tactical, educational, research and communications tool. It encourages students, academics, artists, professionals and activists to interrogate the commercialization of everyday life and critically analyze current dominant media and communication practices. Through an annual competition that transpires on the... (more)
- wishlist
- Wishlist
Entries that need content:
Companies
adidas / Air Canada / Alamo / Allied Domecq / Amazon / American Airlines / American Express / Apple Computer, Inc. / ATA / Audi / Banana Republic / Bed, Bath And Beyond / Benetton / Berlin Transit / BMW / Bodum / British Air / Businessweek / Bythebooth.Com / Campbell's / CBS / Cingular / CNN / Coca-Cola / Comex / Corbis / Crate And Barrel / Dairy Queen / Decorational / DHL / Dick's Sporting Goods / Dominos Pizza / Dove / Duesseldorf Airpo... (more)
- society_for_news_design
- Society for News Design
The Society for News Design encourages high standards of journalism through design. An international forum and resource for all those interested in news design, SND works to recognize excellence and strengthen visual journalism as a profession.
The Society for News Design (formerly the Society of Newspaper Design) is an international professional organization with more than 2,600 members in the United States, Canada and more than 50 other countries. Their membershi... (more)
- fred_smeijers
- Fred Smeijers
Official Bio
[Source: ourtype.com]
Fred Smeijers is a type designer, writer and educator. He specializes in typographic research and development for product manufacturers. Among his typeface designs are FF Quadraat and FF Quadraat Sans, TEFF Renard, DTL Nobel and OurType Arnhem, OT Fresco and OT Sansa.
Born in the Netherlands, Smeijers studied graphic design at the Academy of Art in Arnhem. His first practice came in the mid-1980s with the firm of Océ, just t... (more)
- ourtype
- OurType
About
[Source: ourtype.com]
OurType is an independent type foundry founded in 2002. OurType develops and retails premium typefaces, that respect traditional values yet tailored to contemporary needs.
OurType is run by three partners: Fred Smeijers, Corina Cotorobai and Rudy Geeraerts.
The core products of OurType are fonts designed by Fred Smeijers. Well known for his FF Quadraat (1992) and TEFF Renard (1998), by now Smeijers has a whole range of distinctive typ... (more)
- jennifer_sterling
- Jennifer Sterling
Jennifer Sterling is a graphic designer based in San Francisco whose delicate yet bold work is a synthesis of classical typefaces in unusual compositions and combinations with images and organic shapes. Having produced a wide range of work including packaging, book design, corporate literature, identity and film titles, her designs are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum and the Library of Congress... (more)
- tibor_kalman
- Tibor Kalman
Born in Budapest, Hungary, Tibor Kalman emigrated to the US at age 7. He was raised in upstate New York, interviewed Timothy Leary for his high school newspaper, and left New York University for Cuba in 1970 to cut sugarcane in the Ten Million Ton Harvest. Kalman was educated in journalism. While working in New York as a clerk for Barnes & Noble, he arranged a window display one afternoon when the designer called in sick. His success and interest in the project eventually ma... (more)
- Letterhead Fonts release Ragged Brad into the wild
- LHF Ragged Brad (NEW!)
Pin striper Brad King’s first LHF font
is complete. Having hand painting this
freestyle script for years, it is now
ready for you to use in your own projects.
CUSTOMERS ONLY:
Receive $5 off LHF Ragged Brad until July 13.
Use promo code: RAGBRAD
Check out samples and download it here:
http://letterheadfonts.com/fonts/raggedbrad.shtml
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- Hubert Jocham summertime discounts
- Hubert Jocham Type, Summer Discount
minus 20 Euro per font
Over the summer every few days one of my typefaces will have a price drop
of 20 Euro per single font (approx. 30 USD). The prices will stay low till autumn.
Summer Discount will start right now with NewLibris.
http://www.hubertjocham.de/item.php/type/sans/NewLibris/... (more)
- [P22] A new deck of font playing cards
- Back in 2004, P22 produced a specimen deck of cards that featured 52 different fonts on a standard regulation deck of playing cards. These were gobbled up quickly, so we held a contest to have guest designers complete a second deck. Briefly lost in the vortex of too many other things, deck #2 is finally finished with all new designs and, dare we say, it’s even better than the first one!
http://www.p22.com/products/deck08.html
While supplies last, you can get a deck free with any purchase o... (more)
- Memoir by Stephen Rapp
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Taking inspiration from 18th century handwritten letters, journals and documents, Memoir is a romantic yet robust design. Its textured profile speaks of surface and age, but this face will look very much at home in contemporary design. Useful for menus, cards, packaging, and logos, its versatility will prove its worth. Unlike signature fonts from that era, Memoir is designed to set in a manner that connects fluidly as if it were actually written.
Designers will appreciate the many great typogra... (more)
- Hyphen Press releases Jost Hochuli's *Detail in typography*
- Detail in typography
Jost Hochuli
— a concise work of introduction and reference
— the book is an immaculately produced demonstration of its topic
— written with a light touch
In *Detail in typography* a master book-designer provides a concise guide to setting text. Opening with a consideration of how human beings read, he works from small to larger: from the letter, and the word and word-space, through the line and line-space, and on to what makes whole paragraphs work as car... (more)
- Say hello to Exemplar Pro
- Dear Typophile,
You may or may not know that I've been working on a typeface family called Exemplar for the past years but today I'm happy to tell you that this typeface family is released and available via the website of PSY/OPS in San Fransisco. Totally eight weights with a lot of OT-features.
This project has been very dear to me and it feels like giving up a child or something now when it's finally released.
I've prepared a PDF specimen that shows the family and its OpenType features togeth... (more)
- Underware news June 2008
- 1) Hot from the press: METROPOLIS POSTER
Illustrator Pietari Posti hooked up with Underware and explored the lost art of the film poster. The result is a super-size-glow-in-the-dark poster, which is printed in a limited edition of 100 (numbered) copies only.
Buy the real poster, before it’s too late. Op=op.
Or get this poster for free when purchasing the Underware library.
See the real poster: www.underware.nl
2) ROCK WITH FAKIR
Passed out. Big thanks to all rockers & designers who con... (more)
- KNOWLEDGE-IN-ACTION: A graphic design research symposium
- KNOWLEDGE-IN-ACTION
A graphic design research symposium
Wednesday 17 September 2008
1.30pm--5.00pm
The symposium has two main aims:
(a) to demystify the process of embarking on a research degree;
(b) to encourage PhD level research in graphic design, and its related
subject areas.
The event presents an opportunity to hear from speakers who have
developed a
career in research, education and practice, since completing their PhD.
Reflecting on their experience, they will discuss a range of academi... (more)
- Sudtipos new releases
- Sudtipos is proud to announce the release of two new fonts
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Primavera is a fresh and spirited take on casual handwriting. The usual playfulness and expertise of Angel Koziupa’s forms, along with the smooth, crisp outlines of Alejandro Paul, provide a humorous and lively typeface in two styles that fit perfectly on food packaging labels, greeting cards, journals or wherever a design needs to convey freshness, young spirit, and... (more)
- Old type specimens on DVD
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spatium Magazin (without an e) in Germany has just released a DVD containing a collection of ca. 3,000 images scanned from the pages of a myriad of 20th century German type foundry catalogs and specimen.
This roundup by Hans Reichardt is the first of a series of four DVDs illustrating the diversity and beauty of type specimens and reflecting technical advances made in the printing industry during the 20th century. Included are scans of type specimen cards, brochures, and catalogs from various f... (more)
- Thoughts on Democracy, July 4 2008
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- Becky Neiman: Taking Things Seriously XIII
- ... (more)
- John Thackara: We Are All Emerging Economies Now
- I recently received an invitation to discuss design and development with a wonderful group of design peers in a beautiful location. But I have decided to decline the invitation. Why?... (more)
- Branding Youth in the Totalitarian State
- Youth may be wasted on the young, but under the totalitarian state they were not forgotten. For the state to prosper, youth was turned into a sub-brand that both followed and perpetuated the dominant ideology. Graphics played a huge role in making this happen in Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union.... (more)
- Books Received: Summer 2008
- New books have been piling up here at Design Observer. We thought we'd share some of the many recently published titles we have received over the past couple of months...... (more)
- Reflections on the Ephemeral World, Part Two: Food
- Ever since the 16th century Italian Mannerist painter Archimboldo made portraits from the detritus of his dinner, the relationship between the visual and the edible has been something of a puzzle. Welcome to the world of foodistry: design with food.... (more)
- A Critical View of Graphic Design History
- Now comes yet another historical survey, Graphic Design History: A Critical Guide by Johanna Drucker and Emily McVarish. Denise Gonzales Crisp and Rick Poynor have been marking pages, making notes and exchanging views...... (more)
- Paul Maliszewski: Taking Things Seriously XI
- ... (more)
- Over the Rainbow
- June marks the start of a month-long series of LGBT Pride celebrations in cities around the United States and the world, as well as the 30th anniversary of the rainbow flag ??? the de facto symbol of the LGBT community. While the visual and media focus of the celebrations have been the parades, the most enduring element is perhaps the rainbow.... (more)
- Graphic Design at the Museum
- The work of Graphic Thought Facility, a London-based graphic design consultancy, is on exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago until August 17. It???s the first time the Art Institute has staged a show solely on contemporary design...... (more)
- Yesterday Letterpool [webdesign]
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Letterpool is a brilliant community art project built around uncovering exceptional typography found throughout the streets of Liverpool. Powered by the public, this interactive exhibit calls upon users to send in their own photographs of f... (more)
- Yesterday Gateway to Lithuania [webdesign]
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For a publicity and marketing site for Lithuania, this "unofficial" gateway site for the small eastern European country has some great information design. In one compact package, it wraps up important business and tourism information and pr... (more)
- 3 days Adam&Co. [design companies]
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Our dear Adam Larson is an award winning designer from Boston, MA, who has worked full-time for Rykodisc, Razorfish, Toth Brand Imaging and Arnold Worldwide. When he left Arnold, where he was a Vice President, Creative Director, in December... (more)
- Brandwide [design companies]
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Brandwide is an inspiring design firm from Poland that specializes in creating visual identification systems for brands and products. What we really liked the raw minimal look to their site, which gives the allusion to a simple light box or... (more)
- ground [webdesign]
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Ground is an emerging design firm that designs green architecture, creates public art spaces and engages in land planning. Their focus is on the exceptional and artful, as they tackle a broad range of project types -- specifically crafting... (more)
- Eden Organix [webdesign]
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The first site in our new web design category of "green" design, Eden is a shop that carries over 20 different hand-picked brands of eco-friendly cosmetics and beauty products. The site design strikes the right notes with some very neutral... (more)
- Steele Bonus [design companies]
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Steele is a 24 year old designer with a very minimal and witty edge to his work. He hails from Australia and has -- at a young age -- already worked on various projects across advertising, print and the Web. To say we are impressed with... (more)
- Departement Design Interactif [design companies]
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Built up of a three-man team, and located in Montreal Canada, studio DDI seems to be a synergistic team of talents whose work is clean, creative, colorful and captivating. Their work tends to bleed towards motion and video when possible, bu... (more)
- Converse - Germany [webdesign]
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Five solid series of designs bringing together the various sections of the Converse sneakers site for the German market. From history, to clothing & campaigns, the design style is unified by a consistent navigation style and appearance. The... (more)
- coa [design companies]
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coa is primarily a print design shoppe. A boutique, if you will... A two person studio, that puts out some fantastic and diverse work; from edgy Moby album cover designs, to more "traditional" Bloomingdale's work. Between the two principals... (more)
- 3 days The Death of My Little Dead Dick
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My Little Dead Dick is no longer!, cries the online photo community. What? To recall the love romance 2.0 that rose to blogger fame: In the Summer of 2006, photographers Madi Ju from China and Patrick Tsai, an American living in Taiwan met online, hooked up in Macau and after a couple of days, [...]
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- The Maker of Balloons
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It’s summer and Water balloons are beautifying the Japanese festivals. Okay, you can also throw them at people, we know… Remember as kids, we were enthralled by their wonderful squirt designs and we knew that, especially for us, the balloon makers must have put a lot of effort into creating wild Jackson Pollock-style patterns. For [...]
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- Studio Visit: Airside
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Chic restaurants and cafés line the plush streets of London’s neighbourhood of Islington, and this is right where Airside, THE super sweet creative studio that handles all sorts of media works (such as publishing, website and TV ads) has recently relocated its headquarters to. Some of you might recognise the name from one of its [...]
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- The God of Fountain Pens
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Oh, it’s Tuesday, so usually no Ping post. However, from today, every first Tuesday of the month we will feed you with some of the loveliest bits from our sweet little sister, PingMag MAKE. As starter, we serve you our long-time favourite about The God of Fountain Pens: As computers become more and more prevalent, [...]
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- Parashell: The Bio-mimicry of an Umbrella
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Ah, tsuyu, rainy season, is upon us. Our flimsy umbrella succumbed to the rain this morning, a reminder of how much better it feels to face this weather with a sturdy one! Especially in Japan with a huge umbrella culture! Naturally, umbrellas are all about portable shelter. However, Parashell umbrellas and parasols by Canadia-born, Tokyo-based [...]
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- 3 days Slogan & Logo Design Contest
- I need a slogan and a logo for my business and I can't come up with one, so, please help! Create a slogan and/or a logo that best fits my photography business. Potentially you could win both the logo and the slogan prizes! Anyone is eligible to enter. There will be two first place winners and 10 runners-up prizes at total of 12 prizes adding up to 42,250 USD in cash. The entrance fee is $100 per entry. You can enter both the slogan and the logo, but will need an entrance fee for each one.... (more)
- 3 days Wallpaper Art Contest
- In the month of July, we will have a wallpaper of the month competition. We will select 3 wallpapers based on the highest average rating as well as some other factors, like total views,minimum number of votes (at least 20 unique votes) and final admin score.... (more)
- HellBoy 2 PSA Contest
- Love fairies, trolls and demons? Share with the world. Create a PSA letting everyone know how precious these creatures are.
Upload your PSAs for others to view. Because we love to reward, 10 people will receive a special thank you prize.... (more)
- YayArt Weekly
- YayDay is a competition where you can submit your graphic work, the submissions are up for votes in 14 days and every Tuesday, the best voted artpieces will enter the shop and recceive 8€ in royalties per sold artpiece. You can submit all works that are digitally produced. It's free to enter, but you can only submit 5 pieces each week.... (more)
- Young Illustrators Award
- The Young Illustrators Award is initiated by the Art Festival Illustrative and the Swatch company. The aim of the competition is to award innovative tendencies and individual artistic approaches of young talents. Hence are we not looking for "the best commercial illustration", but a freelance artistic work with illustrative or graphic background.
Categories: Illustration, Animation, Bookart. Entry fee: 30 Euro.... (more)
- RotoVision No Rules! Logos Contest
- Too often, design, particularly logo design, is reduced to a prescriptive set of rules. But we all know the best design is often rule breaking.
Any logo design created within the last three years is eligible. There is no entry fee.... (more)
- Michael Konjevic Favicon Design Contest
- The Michael Konjevic website's favicon needs a redesign, upload your Favicon-Design as Gif and you could win 75 USD. The winner gets paid via Paypal.... (more)
- Wix Website Design Contest
- The new web publishing platform called Wix is proud to announce the first Wix Website Design Contest.
The contest is opened to any level of Graphic/Flash designer.
All the participant has to do is use Wix to create a website with a simple drag & drop editor.
First prize is $700. The runner up will receive $300.... (more)
- Live at Barbès Album Cover Contest
- Calling all graphic designers! In just a matter of months One Ring Zero will release a new live album titled " Live At Barbès ". We want YOU to design the cover art for us. There will be one lucky winner!... (more)
- The Create Awards 2008
- The Create Awards is open to all creative professionals and students. All work accepted into the Create Awards must have first appeared in the marketplace between April 1, 2007 and May 30, 2008. Excluding Student and Self Promotion entries, all work must have been produced for commercial purposes and be the result of paid or pro bono creative services. Entries may be submitted by any business or person involved in creating or producing the work, granted proper permissions are obtained and copyri... (more)
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