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Call For Submissions: THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT

admin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:05:05 +0000

THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT seeks limited edition sets of posters from artists, designers and design firms from around the world. The donated posters will be sold online to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. As designers, we have the collective ability to do what we love, AND to create a difference. THE HAITI POSTER PROJECT has been conceived as a collective effort by the design community to unite and effect change through our work. In order for this project to be successful, we are counting on designer participation.

DEADLINE: March 15th.
thehaitiposterproject.com

2010 Suicide Prevention Project

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:47:04 +0000

What can you create that will cause someone, at the very least, to stop and think?

The simple act of engagement can draw in the outcast, help prevent loneliness and discourage destructive behavior.

This call for submissions is open to university and college students, staff and educators.

The Engagement Project is a program of the University & College Designers Association, but you do not need to be a UCDA member to enter.

Suicide prevention should be the focus of the entry but it is open to interpretation for meaning and message.

Entries may be posters, written works, videos, audio files, websites, or other media.

Selected entries will be posted online and may be distributed freely to on-campus areas to highlight awareness of this important issue.

Although this is not a competition and there is no monetary award, the project is a chance to do creative work for this good cause.

Entry Deadline: March 1, 2010
Entry Form

Common Interest: Designs for a Good Cause

admin — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 01:15:31 +0000

Index Book announced call for entries for the new book title Common Interest by EMMI studio, on good cause-related graphic design.

The book will feature documents that have been designed with the environment in mind and/or have unique folding and printing solutions – including brochures, leaflets, flyers and booklets that have been designed for the charity, academic, arts or culture sector.

Participation is free and if your work is selected, you will get a free copy of the book.

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2010.
Indexbook.com

Basic Identity: Call for Entries

admin — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:40:59 +0000

Index Book announced call for entries for the new book title Basic Identity.

Basic Identity is the second book of the Basic series about the essential subjects in Graphic Design.

Participation is free and if your work is selected, you will get a free copy of the book.

The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2010.
Indexboox.com

LogoLounge 6: Call For Entries

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 22:02:53 +0000

LogoLounge announced the LogoLounge 6 Call for Entries, open through February 15, 2010.

The announcement marks the beginning of a worldwide search for the top 2000 newest logos as determined by a prestigious panel of judges.

The competition is open to all LogoLounge members, whose membership fee of $100 includes unlimited entries into the competition.

There are no additional entry fees or forms required to enter.

All logos that are submitted to LogoLounge website between June 30th, 2008, and February 15, 2010, will be judged for the publication of LogoLounge Book 6, to be published by Rockport Publications.

Graphis Advertising Annual 2011: Call for Entries

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:46:43 +0000

Graphis Advertising Annual 2011 presents the best advertising campaigns of the year, selected from thousands of international entries.

With two hundred of the most compelling advertisements selected as Graphis Platinum and Gold winners, this is an essential reference for corporate Advertising professionals and prospective clients.

Deadline for entries is February 15, 2010.
Graphis.com

365: AIGA Annual Design Competition 31

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:39:06 +0000

The selections in AIGA’s annual juried competition represent the best work across all disciplines of communication design created in the past year.

Chosen by a distinguished jury of design peers, all selections become part of the AIGA Design Archives online and at the Denver Art Museum.

Each year’s selections also become part of a traveling exhibition that debuts at the AIGA National Design Center in New York.

Enter “365: AIGA Annual Design Competition 31″ to take your place in design history!

Submit all types of communication design work used in the marketplace during 2009.

If your work is selected, countless future designers and potential clients will have access to your creative legacy.

Deadline for entries is March 5, 2010.
AIGA.org

Life after graduation?!?!

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:57:58 +0000

I came across this article by Christian Romer about her transition from student, to intern to employed designer that I want to share.

I am an International employee of AgencyNet from Freeport, Grand Bahama, Bahamas. As I finish my first year of employment at AgencyNet, I find myself reflecting on the personal and professional transformation I have experienced: the transition from intern (previously a student of The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale) to an employee. My transformation has required me to go through a sort of “professional metamorphosis”.

Looking back at my first unsure and timid stroll through the doors of AgencyNet, I’ve realized that there we’re certain key lessons that I had to grasp before I could consider myself a true AgencyNetter.

You can read the rest of the article here.

Designers Can’t Write

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:46:06 +0000

…most designers cannot write. I don’t mean they can’t write like Faulkner. I don’t mean they don’t have a discernable prose style. I mean they cannot WRITE. They do not know where to put a subject and a verb and a capital and a period. They are functionally illiterate. Only the very top echelon of designers write. And let me tell you, that top echelon writes like the wind: read Stefan Bucher, read Michael Rock, read Michael Bierut, read Jessica Helfand, read Sagmeister–these people are not only literate, they are wonderful writers and they get their ideas across in ways that inspire people to agree with them. It should be noted that two of these people are writing in a second language.

Click Here to read the rest of the article.

2010 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards

admin — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:29:27 +0000

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.

Contest begins on November 30, 2009, and ends on June 4, 2010. All entries must be received by Adobe no later than 5 p.m. Pacific time on June 4, 2010.