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
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 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
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.
…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.
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.
