Call for Entries: New Talent Annual 2009: The world’s most respected international student competition and showcase. Entry deadline: May 26, 2008.

Students, Instructors, & Administrators: Submit your students’ latest Design, Advertising & Photography work to Graphis New Talent. Get the recognition you deserve, and share your work with peers and hiring industry professionals. Every student included earns a Graphis Gold Award, and standout instructors earn our Platinum Award!

Register online at: www.graphis.com.

Click on Call For Entry. Complete instructions, forms, art specifications, shipping and payment procedures may be obtained at our online entry website.

Entry fees: $40 a piece for a single entry $120 for a series (3 or more pieces from a single campaign)

All entrants & subscribers are eligible for a 40% discount on New Talent Annual 2009. Get 50% off Graphis Books year after year with Standing Orders. Visit www.graphis.com for details.

“Graphis is mega. It’s the holy grail of Design. The golden rule. The mack daddy. Believe me, you want to be in this.” - Douglas Lloyd, Creative Director, Lloyd & Co.

Electrolux Design Lab 2008 invites industrial design students around the world to create tomorrow’s home appliances for the Internet generation, deadline May 30.

Electrolux, a global leader in home appliances and appliances for professional use, launches the 6th edition of its annual design competition via www.ElectroluxDesignLab.com and will select a limited number of entries to compete in Zurich at the international finals October 8 & 9, 2008.

The Internet generation comprises brand-conscious, busy young professionals between 25-35 who are independent, concerned about the environment, and whose lives are intertwined with technology and online social networks. This year’s submissions should be for 2-3 years into the future and address food storage, cooking, and/or washing.

The Design Lab 2008 has a First Prize of 5,000 Euro and a six-month internship at one of Electrolux’s global design centers. The second prize is 3,000 Euro and third prize 2,000 Euro. An international jury will judge the entries based on intuitive design, innovation, and consumer insight.

Entries must be submitted by May 30, 2008 via the website. A limited number of finalists will be chosen by the end of June and invited to Zurich to make a final presentation to the jury on October 8 & 9 where the winner will be announced and the prizes awarded. For more information about the competition, high-resolution photos of previous finalists and their concepts, broadcast quality b-roll, and to watch videos from last year’s competition on Design Lab TV, visit www.ElectroluxDesignLab.com.

Throughout the years, Brandsoftheworld.com has been an excellent resource center for graphic designers and marketing companies looking for high quality vector artwork of nearly all brands of the world, and as part of our ongoing efforts to provide graphic designers the best services and resources possible, they just announced the launch of the BrandsOfTheWorld.com Logo Design Contest!

Participating contestants will be able to choose one or all of the following themes:

• Online Business
• Media Business
• Children’s business
• Food Industry
• Best brands of the World new logo

The contest prizes are set up generously and will award a total of 9 prizes which will be distributed as follows:

• 1 Grand Prize Winner of $ 5,000.00 USD for best logo design.
• 5 prizes of $ 1,000.00 USD for single best logo design in each category.
• 3 prizes of $ 500.00 USD to be given to 3 random registered users of Brandsoftheworld.com who vote on the submitted artworks.

The multinational panel of industry specialists includes the following members:

• Serban Enache
• Niklas Frings_Rupp
• Elke Helbig
• Raffi Tarpinian
• Tom Van Daele

The deadline for the competition is April 4th, 2008. The competition is open to anyone who wishes to showcase their graphic design talents and you may sign up for it by visiting this page:

http://www.brandsoftheworld.com/logocontest/

Deadline: Friday, January 18th, 2008.

The digital media culture competition PRIX MÖBIUS NORDICA takes place on March the 12th 2008 at KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, during the Pixelache festival. The competition is free of charge for the participants and the audience.

Participate and distribute this call!

Please visit www.prixmobiusnordica.net (new address!) for submission guidelines and entry forms.

Prix Möbius Nordica 2008 is open for interactive and innovative culture-oriented productions, products or artworks that have been published or completed in 2006 and 2007, and created by authors based in the Nordic and Baltic countries. Possible formats of the productions and works are for example Internet, CD ROM, DVD, or wireless network. The organizers also welcome productions utilizing new platforms ( e.g. digital television) or new genres (e.g. VJs, virtual communities, software art).

All submitted works should meet high quality production standards, quality of audiovisual appearance and user-interface design, as well as general technical competence. Company presentations, or presentations of the use of technical platforms are not included in the competition.

The winners of the Nordic competition, taking place in Finland, will participate in the international competition PRIX MÖBIUS INTERNATIONAL 2008 held in Paris, France.

Deadline for submission: Friday, January 18th, 2008.

Within 3 years, WIF (Webdesign International Festival) stood out as the main event for Webdesign enthusiasts; whether they are professionals or amateurs.

This international festival is an occasion for revealing talents. Not less than 40 teams made up of the best webdesigners in the world brought together in the heart of Limousin to have a 24hours of non-stop competition.

The online preselections are taking place in less than a month, on January 18, 2008, before the great finale in Limoges from 17 to 19 April. Hurry up!

Link: WIF

Let Your Design Journey Begin !

Travellers everywhere recognise the Samsonite brand for it’s mix of style, quality and reliability. Whilst encompassing these attributes, Samsonite Baby Travel, strives to be progressive and unique in catering to the lifestyle and needs of modern, active parents.

W|H|L, manufacturers and distributors of the Samsonite Nursery Collection has organized a competition for the design of an innovative product in relation to travelling with babies and toddlers.

You are free to chose any subject and product relating to the world of travelling with babies, toddlers and parents, and your design should represent real innovations that consider the mobility, ease of use and comfort of the end users.

Categories you may consider but are not limited to, are:

• Transport
• Sleeping
• Safety
• Feeding
• Play Time
• Bathing
• Changing

Judged by an international panel of 5 judges, from the design and infants products industry.

The total prize money is Euro 11.500, divided as follows:

• 1st Prize Euro 5,000
• 2nd Prize Euro 2,000
• 3rd Prize Euro 1,000
• Judges Special Award 5 x Euro 500

Eligibility extends to all students, designers, engineers, inventors, design studios, companies from anywhere in the world. Contestants must be over the age of 18

Competition Details & Registration at www.baby-travel.com/designcomp

Via Design in Central and Eastern Europe

Communication Arts Magazine announces the deadline for their 14th Interactive Design Competition–January 11th, 2008

Gain worldwide recognition for your finest work by entering the most prestigious juried competition for interactive media, the 14th annual Communication Arts Interactive Design Competition. Any interactive project created for digital distribution on the World Wide Web, CD-ROM, interactive kiosk or handheld device is eligible.

Selected by a nationally representative panel of distinguished programmers, interface designers and creative directors, the winning entries will be published in the September/October Interactive Annual of Communication Arts and on our Web site. Over seventy thousand copies will be distributed worldwide, guaranteeing you outstanding exposure to potential clients and colleagues.

Submission guidelines and FAQs can be found at:
http://www.commarts.com/competition

To download an entry form go to: http://www.commarts.com/CA/download/entryForm_interactive.pdf

In September we wrote about Electrolux Design Lab 2007 competition finalists. Today one of their representatives contacted me and asked to pass further some additional information related to this competition:

Tomorrow in Paris a panel of internationally renowned experts from the environmental, design, and technology communities, are speaking at the International Forum on Design and the Environment presented by Electrolux Design Lab 2007.

Design Lab is an annual global design competition open to undergraduate and graduate industrial design students. This year they are invited to present their innovative ideas for eco-friendly and sustainable household appliances and solutions for 2020.

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Wallsticker Competition Welcome to the design competition of design3000 and DESIGNSPOTTER.com!

Our friends from DESIGNSPOTTER calling all interested to participate in Wallsticker Competition, don’t miss your chance to win!

design3000, founded in 1999, has become one of the leading design shops in the world wide web with more than 3000 visitors per day. Interested users can choose from a range of more than 5.200 products of well known manufacturers. Regular special editions as well as unusual products, which cannot be bought by retail also belong to the wide offering of design3000.

DESIGNSPOTTER.com considers itself as a platform for young and fresh design far from convention and establishment and counts to one of the Top100 design blogs in the web. The online design magazine daily presents the latest trends of international young designers and newcomers. Furthermore DESIGNSPOTTER.com presents itself at shows e.g. at the international furnishing show in Cologne or at the TENT in London, is multiple media partner, and runs a PR- and marketing-agency for designers and architects.

Together, from October 8th until November 23rd 2007 we are looking for the hottest Wall Paper Stickers in the world.

Freshly penned by you and straight to the design3000 shop? Nothing is impossible! If creativity overwhelms you and you cannot sit still because it just wants to come out, if you also want to grab a piece of the fortune cookie, than just register an show us what’s in you!

All for fame and glory? For sure…
But beyond it a total prize money of 1.750 Euro awaits you!

Read the conditions of participation
Click HERE to register

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Design Finland: Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize to Julia Lundsten and Janne Kyttänen

Our friendly Finnish blog Design Finland posted recently an article about winners of Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 prize. They are Shoe designer Julia Lundsten and designer Janne Kyttänen.

Design Forum Finland’s Young Designer of the Year 2007 is very influenting and remarkable in Finland, and we congratulate the winners!

From Design Finland:

The awarded designers have both received their design training abroad – Julia Lundsten in London and Janne Kyttänen in Barcelona and Amsterdam. Lundsten established her shoe-design company FINSK in London, and Kyttänen the Freedom of Creation company in Amsterdam. Based on the designers’ strong personal conception of design and intelligent insight into design and methods of manufacturing, these companies display international promise in both content and business skills.

Read the rest of article on Design Finland