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GRAPHIC DESIGN COMPETITIONS
3DLuVr Competition - Competition is open to everyone, worldwide. Submissions must be created by a single artist and only one entry per artist is allowed per contest. No team work submissions can be made. No multiple submissions are permitted either. This contest is open to all 3D applications. You may use any 3D application of your choice or combination of several, but no pre-made models allowed. Creating textures in 2D paint programs or using premade textures is permitted, limited Photoshop and alike activities are permitted (corrections to contrast, brightness, noise) but nothing fancy. The submitted image should be in JPG format with the maximum resolution of 800x600. Artists are required to supply their full name, valid email address, country of residence, and the name of the 3D application used to create the submission. Winners will be notified by email of their prize/win within 72 hours of publishing the results of the voting. The image will remain the property of the artist, but the artist cannot claim or demand any compensation for having his/her image displayed on 3DLuVr sites, or while the image is being used for sites promotional purposes.
Anti-War Graphics - As creative individuals trained in methods of mass communication, we can make a real difference by providing clear anti-war messages. Use your talents for the anti-war effort and create anti-war graphics for free distribution to activists worldwide. You can submit your work as PDF, TIFF, GIF or JPEG. Resolution: 300 dots per inch (dpi) for print-based works, 72 dpi for online works. Size: 2.5 megabytes (MB) or less. For higher-quality scaling and smaller files, consider outline (vector-based) output.
Communications Arts Graphic Design Annual Competition - Juried by nine top design professionals and attracting entries from 20 countries, each year’s Design Annual features 250 pages of the best work in posters, brochures, packaging, trademarks, corporate identity, annual reports, catalogs, letterheads and signage, and is fully indexed for reference. Published each November, 76,000 copies of the Design Annual will be sold and distributed worldwide, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work. Deadline is June 03, 2005.
Graphic Competitions - Graphic Competitions provides an annotated directory of international graphic design competitions, events and much more
Communicator Awards - An International Competition Honoring Excellence In Communications ... Advertising, Public Relations, Corporate Communications, Graphic Design, and Web Sites
Design Challenge - allows visitors to vote on selected site links, and the one with the best ratings at the end of each year will be awarded the top prize.
Dexigner - Graphic Design News and Competitions.
Dynamic
Graphics Training - Dynamic Graphics Training
offers a complete range of continuing education courses,
seminars and conferences for graphic design professionals
from beginner to highly-skilled. Courses offered range from
Design Fundamentals for beginners to Typography and Design
to Photoshop CS and OS X software courses.
HOW
Perfect 10 Awards - HOW is currently accepting
entries for the Perfect 10 Awards. This competition will
recognize the perfect harmony of printing, paper and design—all
in a single printed piece. Download rules and an entry form
here.
HOW Self-Promotion Competition - If you've ever wished that your promotion designs worked a little harder, HOW might have the solution. Enter your best promotions—for you, your business or a client—in HOW's 18th annual Self-Promotion Competition. The winners will be featured in the October 2005 issue of HOW, the Self-Promotion Annual, to be seen by thousands of potential clients or employers. It's free promotion for your promotions. Download rules and an entry form here.
In-House Design Group of the Year Award - Do you work in a corporate design department? If so, you qualify for a unique award from HOW magazine: the In-House Design Group of the Year Award.
Lessedra World Art Print Annual - An international print annual with the premise that no art form has broader implications in contemporary society than that of the print. The aim is to gather and exhibit contemporary art print works from all over the world and to contribute to the contacts and the exchange between artists, art lovers and collectors and to stimulate the research into paper, inks, and other materials used in printmaking. Each artist should send no more than 3 works: original prints. Entries may feature any type of method of printmaking and should be signed and numbered by the artist. The maximum dimensions of a work are 29 x 23 cm. (paper size). Participation fee is 50 EUR for all European and 50 USD for all another countries and it covers catalogue production, organization of the exhibition, invitations, posters, advertise materials, print return and catalogue postage. LESSEDRA Gallery & Contemporary Art Projects will publish an exhibition catalogue including all participating artists and works. Every participating artist is kindly requested to send a brief biography on CD or via E-mail and a personal photograph. Exhibition with all the works will be organized in The National Palace of Culture in Sofia, Bulgaria in June 2005. The works will be returned within five months from the closing date of the exhibition.
Nodus Logo Competition - Nodus Design are giving you the chance to win free, premium, high visibility advertising on their site until 2006. For the next 3 months they will be running a competition to design the logo for their new company brand. All entries must be original and must be not copied, wholly, substantially or partially from any other work. The competition will run in a single stage format and is open to everyone. You can submit your entry in the following file formats: jpg, gif, bmp, tif, png, psd, cdr, ai, pdf, eps and tga. There's no entry fee. Deadline is March 31, 2005.
Print Regional Design Annual - The 2005 Print Regional Design Annual is currently accepting entries. Download rules and an entry form here.
Third Peugeot Design Competition - The 3rd Peugeot Design Contest is an international competition that is open to anyone aged 14 years or over. Everyone is welcome: amateur designers, design schools students, professional designers apart from the automotive industry. This year’s theme is to design a personal ideal automobile. The projects will be judged on its consistency with the theme, how well it relates to the values of the Marque, its innovative and surprising character, its potential appeal and the quality of the final project. Any person who submits a design with the intention of entering this contest certifies and guarantees that they are the sole author of the work and that no third-party rights have been breached either directly or indirectly. At the end of the contest, Peugeot will build a full-scale model of the winning design, which will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2005. To the winner, in addition, a sum of 6,000 € inc. VAT. Web users will be able to submit their design by e-mail only between 15th October 2004 and 8th December 2004 at 12:00 am (midnight), French time. By taking part in the contest, entrants grant free and non-exclusive license on their design. Entry into the contest is free of charge. Deadline is December 8, 2005.
'Smart'
Design Contest - "How about creating your
original smart? Let's paint our original smart!". Anyone
can take part in this contest. Currently there is no prize.
There is no deadline.
GRAPHIC DESIGN CONFERENCES
The Big Brand Theory - Creatas presents a half-day seminar where you’ll learn the backstory behind the best brands, understand the trends that affect your trademark, and discover the evolving role that emotional connections play in a brand’s success. Creatas has invited three industry leaders to report on and share their knowledge from three distinct areas of the branding process. Since the development and implementation of the process gets more sophisticated everyday, you need to know what’s going on with brands—now—and how to use that knowledge in your work.
Stretch Design Conference - Step Inside Design Magazine presents Stretch, a 2 Day Conference that combines inspiring and passionate design presentations with hands-on learning opportunities for Creative Professionals at every skill level. May 5-7, 2005 Austin TX
ADIM 8 - Join forces with your fearless peers at the eighth annual Art Directors Invitational Master Class (ADIM 8), April 7-9, 2005 in Santa Monica, CA. Take your place among the assembly of top designers, illustrators, art directors, and photographers to learn about the latest creativity tools, tips, and techniques. Learn, experiment, and network in a fun, stimulating, and creative environment during this mighty three-day instructional event. Leave inspired and ready to do YOUR part to make the world of design a better place for all.
Brand Identity & Package Design Conference - New York, New York/April 18-20...Brand Identity & Package Design Conference April 18-20, 2005, The Plaza, New York City
Design is Kinky is proud to announce the launch of the SEMI-PERMANENT Design Conference, the first event in what will hopefully become a series of conferences world-wide. We have invited over 20 talented international and Australian individuals from various creative fields such as, Graphic Design, Web Design, Broadcast, Illustration, Film Making and Graffiti to speak at the event. With this diverse range of creative talent on hand we believe that no matter what level of designer you are, from student to creative director, you will benefit from the insight and experience of each speaker.
Graphi Expo and Converting Expo - October 10 - 13, 2004 - McCormick Place South, Chicago, IL - and September 9 - 15, 2005 McCormick Place Complex, Chicago, IL - Thousands gathered at GRAPH EXPO and CONVERTING EXPO, the largest, most comprehensive prepress, printing, converting and digital equipment trade show and conference in the Americas. Over 40,000 industry professionals attended to see over 600 exhibitors. View highlights of the show and search for products and services from the exhibitors.
Graphics of the Americas - premium conference for graphic communications professionals (printers, publishers, & creatives) to learn the latest technology and stay competitive. Stay tuned to find out more about our conference and seminar programs. Check out dates on their site.
HOW Design Conference - Like HOW magazine, the HOW Design Conference recognizes that graphic design is a business as well as an art. HOW launched this annual event in 1991 with the goal of providing a hands-on, educational program to enable designers to better balance the three key components of graphic design: creativity, business and technology. Conference sessions cover a mix of these three critical design issues, with particular emphasis on creative and business topics. Visit howconference.com to obtain complete information on future events.
InDesign Conference - The InDesign Conference is the Adobe InDesign event that all design professionals must attend to learn and talk to the largest group of Adobe InDesign experts in the world. Come see InDesign CS demonstrated and customize your personal InDesign training event!
MacWorld Expo - Discover the latest innovations, tips and tricks from the most knowledgeable industry experts who are leading our world – renowned conference programs and activities. Learn great things from the best. Visit site to see dates of expos.
Mind Your Own Business Conference - The Mind Your Own Business Conference is sponsored by HOW magazine and ReCourses, Inc., a management consulting firm that works exclusively with small service providers in the communications industry. Together, HOW and ReCourses recognize making the transition from successful artist to successful businessperson can be challenging. At the Mind Your Own Business Conference, attendees get the business savvy they need from people who specialize in working with creatives. We invite top thinkers in the business world to a resort location, and we limit the number of attendees so they can comfortably network with speakers and peers during this mini-sabbatical. Visit myobconference.com to obtain complete information on future events.
PhotoshopWorld - March 8-10, 2005—Las Vegas - PhotoshopWorld Conference and Expo is the annual convention of the National Association of Photoshop Professionals (The trade association for Adobe Photoshop users, and the world's leading resource for training, education, and news) and has become the largest Photoshop event in the world. It features more than 60 conference sessions for photographers, designers, video editors, Web designers and more. Ben is a favorite speaker at PhotoshopWorld and his sessions are often standing room only!
Seibold Seminars - Seybold Seminars announces new line-up of events for 2005. Click here for dates and locations of upcoming conferences.
SIGGRAPH 2005 - Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA - July 31 - Aug. 4, 2005 - Billing itself as "the world's largest marketplace of computer graphics and interactive techniques," SIGGRAPH is holding its 32nd annual conference this year in Los Angeles. Get up-close and hands-on with the newest hardware systems, software tools, and creative services from hundreds of companies. SIGGRAPH 2005 hosts the year's largest, most comprehensive exhibition of products and services for the computer graphics and interactive marketplace, featuring the industry's established leaders and emerging challengers.
TAGA - To provide a worldwide forum for sharing and disseminating theoretical, functional and practical information on current and emerging technologies for Graphic Arts print production and related processes. Visit TAGA for conference dates.
Thunder Lizard - delivers conferences with content, not empty sales pitches and visionary "future of the Web" commercials. Join your colleagues—the world's best Web masters, designers, developers, and artists—at Thunder Lizard’s nationwide events ...
This article was written by the very talented, Mark Misenheimer of Misenheimer Creative, Inc. Mark is an expert freelance graphic designer who has been in the design business for years. He has documented the design of a logo from start to finish in order to help other graphic designers. I know that you will learn something from this tremendous logo design article.
The Graphic Design industry is very competitive, and trust me, it can certainly get stressful and frustrating at times. However, it doesn?t always have to be that way. Here, I have broken down my design process. This is how I create my design layouts from start to finish. Basically, with some focus, structure, and a little bit of talent, creating rewarding and professional design work can be produced more efficiently and with less stress.
As a designer everyone has experienced a point where they just can no longer think of anything worth while. It?s in these situations when you have to reevaluate your perception of what works and what doesn?t. Use the following 20 tips to avoid and get through a tough designer's block.
Graphic Design and Typography are deeply connected. For that reason, I figure that most of you are going to love these free online font and type tools. Most, if not all, of these are very useful and I recommend that you use them when you have a chance. Below you will find the huge list of free browser-based font and type tools.
I have found a load of design related podcasts that I am sure will peak your interests. Just think of it as radio shows geared towards you and your love of design. You will even find Podcasts on Photoshop, Illustrator, Typography, Freelancing, as well as Web Design and Graphic Design.
I love Vector Magic, a free online vectorization tool. It is a really cool browser-based tool that can be used to turn a photograph into an illustration. It doesn't always succeed in getting that look that you might be looking for, but it does a pretty good job. I usually just use it to play around with photos to see what Vector Magic can do with it, but it also can be very useful if you want to convert a photo into an illustration. I started to wonder how many other vectorization tools and software packages there were out there and I was surprised to find out that there are a ton o them. Basically, most of these tools turn Raster / Bitmap / Photo Images into Line Art / Illustrations / Vector Art.
I am in love with vector shapes right now. I think they are so handy to have around when you are building a site. The way that you can stretch vectors without creating jaggy edges, makes them incredibly useful. Most of the time I just land up breaking them apart to use a curve that I like. I also love using them for as badges or buttons on web sites. I have collected a huge selection of free custom Photoshop shapes. If you download every single one of these, there are probably close to 15,000 free Adobe Photoshop shapes. There are more to come in Part II. Enjoy.
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Whether you?re right out of high school, a Mom looking for a career she can do from home, recently out of the Military or simply someone who feels they have a knack for design and is ready for a career change, consider that you have a few options on how to gain the skills you will need to pursue your dream job. But first, ask yourself some questions
As Graphic Designers, we are all creative individuals. I thought that most of you would love to know about all of the fantastic online drawing and painting tools that are available online. Not only are they fun, but they are also quite useful for sketching out some of our ideas. Some of these tools can also be used as design collaboration tools to use with your co-workers, clients, friends, teachers, and family. Enjoy and don't hesitate to send me links to online drawing tools that I might have missed.
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6 Million Downloadable Clipart Images for Graphic Designers
The Clipart.com collection of more than 10 million royalty-free clipart images, photos, illustrations, fonts, sounds and Web graphics provides creative professionals with the most choice at the best price. With a Clipart.com subscription, you pay one fee and download what you need.
May 27A New and More Accurate Search Engine for Finding Free Clipart
As graphic designers, we are always on the hunt for quality free clipart images to use in our designs. The problem is that often searching for clipart often brings back very inaccurate search results. Well, thanks to one of my friends, I have found a new site called Find Free Clipart which will make my life much easier the next time I search for clipart online.
Apr 26Podcast for Freelance Graphic Designers
Lindsay Marsh, owner of Marsh Graphic Design has created several audio and video podcasts she calls the Freelancer. They cover various topics related to the freelance graphic designer. She plans on doing these pretty regularly and from what we see there is a lot of potential here. I suggest you check them out. The [...]
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Web Design for Motor Sports Community
Describe your project in as much detail as possible: building a motor sports community. The site will have members profiles, blogs, photos they can post, classifieds, an event calendar, forms, artic? Client is in , IA
Website Redesign for Online Market
We are an online supermarket, located in Europe, and have a functioning website. The design of the site is fine and we`re quite happy with our logo and some of the design concepts. However, we are loo? Client is in Frederiksberg,
Design Images for Social Community Websi
We are in need of an illustrator/animator to produce images that will be used as categories headings on our new website. We will provide an attachment that will help explain what we are looking for. T? Client is in New York, NY
Website Design for Internet Music
Number of pages (approx): 9 My Industry: Music Background: White Features: Flash, wordpress blog integration, picture slide shows I would like to have a blog integrated into the site. One flash pa? Client is in New York, Ny, NY
Flex UI Designer
I am looking for a flex designer to re-do the graphical component part of our Flex application. ? Client is in Kowloon,
Redesign of Site with Interactive Functi
Number of pages (approx):? My Industry:jewelry/wholesale/retail/online only incorporate existing search engine (i will furnish) into new look, and functions, similiar to bluenile.com, or kebutler.co? Client is in Dallas, TX
Web Design: Law Enforcement
I am looking to start an informational website that would allow me to eventually expand into a search engine. I have a general idea of what it will include and am looking for design & maintenance assi? Client is in Auburn Hills, MI
Web Design:
Information Site: checked Ecommerce Site: checked Flash Animation: checked I would like to creat a website for on-line shopping. Right now - I have at least 60 products. I do like qvc website. How? Client is in N. Hollywood, CA
Web Design for Two Sites
I will only require basic designs for 2 sites: Site 1 (Vacancy Portal) Site 2 (IT Company) Vacancy Portal ? Client is in , Amstedam
Website Redesign for Weddings and Events
Number of pages (approx): 5 My Industry: Weddings Local Roswell Web designers only. SStudents and beginners welcome as well. We have a website, but it needs to be redesigned. It looks very old,? Client is in Roswell, GA
Flash Design for Video
I prefer to work with designers located: denver Number of pages (approx): 8 with video inserted in flash My Industry: infrared saunas We need a video designed for our website. We have the photos th? Client is in Denver, CO
Website Redesign: Architecture Study Gui
I need someone to update and redo my website. I need to reduce the number of products on the site, increase the number of seminars listed. I would like for people to be able to order the products onli? Client is in Las Vegas, NV
Web Design for Music and Record Label
Number of pages (approx): 10 My Industry: Music/aandr/record label I am looking to create an HTML site rather than the flash that the site currently operates. I am looking to keep the same colour sc? Client is in Edinburgh,
Website Redesign for Wholesale Luxury Wa
Number of pages (approx):15 My Industry: Wholesale I need to change some of the pictures on the site as I don't carry all of the products on there any more. I want to update the text, which I will p? Client is in Wyomissing, PA
Logo Design for a Window Cleaning Compan
I prefer to work with designers located: tarrant county/ dfw Planning to start services once we finished our safety certification. We are going to provide the following services: Storefront Window ? Client is in Keller, TX