Category: Competitions & Calls

Tenerife design festival second edition, warming up

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This event dedicated to the design and innovation will take place at different locations on Tenerife’s island from 13 to October 23th.

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After the success achieved during the first edition (2009), Tenerife Design Festival comes for second time. The program is full of new things and projects about design and experimentation, always under the three main pillars of the festival: local identity, contrasting landscapes and tourism.

The festival proposes the design in a dynamic way through five interconnected areas, including cooperation and experimentation, conferences, exhibition, competitions, workshops and urban interventions. The designers and creators are national and internationally prestigious.

One of the main news this year is the area called “TDFLow Island”, which focuses on a series of experimental projects between design and cuisine. The development will take place in Low Island –hence the name- area, mainly in Garachico, town of great historical and artistic importance. TDFLow Island lands in this region in order to mix culture and gastronomic traditions with contemporary design.

The other areas of the festival have a large variety and kinds of activities. TDFAward focuses this year on Fuentealta competition. Basically, the image of the bottles of water must be changed or reinvented by designers.TDFAtmósfera comprises several exhibitions and urban interventions that can be seen at various points of the island. TDFLab will be composed of experimental workshops aimed to designers and design students. Finally, TDFSolution will be the platform to spread the design from a theoretical point of view.

About TDF 2009

The first Tenerife Design Festival was held between 19 and 25 October 2009 in Santa Cruz of Tenerife. The attendance was over 6000 people, including professionals, students and general public. They could enjoy the workshops, conferences, exhibitions and other activities that the event involved.

TDF is a gamble designed by CTND NoQuietDesign, formed by Yapci Ramos and Samuel Cabrera. It’s created to innovate, taking our own traditions, sharing international design trends with local resources. Innovation and creativity to make a global awareness, encouraging and valuing the design as a tool for changes and economic impulse.

Further information:

www.tenerifedesignfestival.com

The first permanent collection What’s More Alive Than You

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On air at WMATY.COM the entire first shoes and bags PERMANENT COLLECTION, branded WHAT’S MORE ALIVE THAN YOU®.
This PERMANENT COLLECTION is the first real step towards a new perspective of fashion; it will be available online exclusively on WMATY.COM by next November with the second collection which will feature the new authors selected by the second creative call ended last June.
PERMANENT COLLECTION comes from the experience and professionalism of all those taking part in the several stages of development for the products: who creates the design, selected from thousands around the world, to those who, thanks to the skill, develops and realizes our artwork.
The production of the first PERMANENT COLLECTION lasted months and it was the result of a long search for materials by special texture, resistant, recycled or reused.
It also needed to manual and high-quality manufacturings, realized, in every stage, entirely in Italy.
This collection, as the others will follow, are in balance with the nature while minimizing the use of materials for the development and realization of the artworks as well as control the movement and transport of goods.

www.wmaty.com

Shift 2011 calendar released !

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The Shift Calendar Competition started in 2003 with an aim to discover fresh creators by SHIFT. For the 8th competition of this year we have received 1,623 entries
from 35 countries. 12 carefully selected works will decorate each month of the Shift calendar, which will be on sale from October 1st and appeared in shops and
galleries around the world.
Taking as an important role in making opportunities for worldwide creators to extend the stage for their activities, Shift calendar competition has delivered a number of
visual works through these 8 years and the number of them counts 96 works. We believe the calendar competition will take many creators to various places where they
can meet and discover, and will outspread the circle of creation derived from there.
It is time for seeds to begin to sprout for 2011. Enjoy the 12 visual works selected for the calendar created by artists and designers who are waiting to be flowered.

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SHIFT 2011 CALENDAR
Spec: All colour / 28p / 210×297 mm
Price: 1,260 yen (tax included)
Produced by Shift Factory
Printed by Syoubunsya

http://www.shift.jp.org/en/
http://www.shift.jp.org/en/archives/2010/09/shift_2011_calendar.html

Join Revolutionart 27! :Underwater Life

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Submerge yourself into cold water, dive into the Artic Ocean, swim between fishes and corals. Surf with dolphins. Look for Kraken, Nessie and Neptune.

Unleash your imagination in the parallel underwater world below us because it is an incredible source of life and inspiration for the next theme: UNDERWATER LIFE.

Deadline: 15th Oct.

More info: http://revolutionartmagazine.com/how_to_participate.html

Best digital art: Annual Design Awards 2010

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Revolutionart sponsored the category BEST DIGITAL ART in the worldwide prominent event: Annual Design Awards 2010.  When  the results were published we had the opportunity to met our new winner. http://www.annualdesignawards.com/winner/best-digital-art-2010.html

Steve McGhee will be one of the special guests for “Revolutionart 26 – Internet” when we will show a high resolution the special poster he created for Revolutionart and other awesome masterpieces.

Revolutionart The Awakening Poster by Steve McGhee

The deadline for Revolutionart 26 is coming.  Send your artwork now!

Calling for Revolutionart 26

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iNTERNET design

INTERNET.
One of the most important inventions of the humanity.
Find out how access to information through Internet is
changing the way we think, the way we do things, our
communities and our civilization.
…a tool for democracy?
…a new weapon for crime?
…the liberation of culture?
…a social meeting point?
What is INTERNET for you?
Follow the guidelines and join Revolutionart 26:
http://revolutionartmagazine.com/how_to_participate.html
Deadline : 15th August -  Send your work now!

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An Egalitarian Design Award Opens Doors For The Global Design Community

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Winners of the first Annual Design Awards announced

 

From 100s of entries, the winners of the first AnnualDesignAwards (ANNDAS) have been selected by a leading panel of designers and will be announced at 8pm on 22nd June 2010 on www.annualdesignawards.com.

The motivation to set up the awards was to create a design award that was open to everyone with design passion and creativity. The entry fee for the competition is set very low to make it accessible for freelancers and corporate professionals alike.

ANNDAS comprises eleven categories and a special award for design innovation. Categories include Best Product Packaging, Best Poster, Best Book Cover, Best Website (Flash) and Best Website (Non-Flash).

Eleven highly respected designers from the international design community judged the awards. These include Chuck Anderson and Laura Smith, who have both created designs for software giant Microsoft as well as many other household name brands.

All entries were rated and the top 12 designs for each category qualified for the Finals. Designs were judged on the criteria of creativity and effective communication. Websites were additionally judged on usability.

Each winner will receive a handmade engraved trophy designed by Digital Dreams.

The Official Partner of the Annual Design Awards 2010 is web developer Active Webdezign, who designed the website www.annualdesignawards.com. Director Mike Yan says:

"Webdezign is very committed to ANNDAS. We are proud and excited to be involved from the beginning in a project that we are confident will develop into an important platform for the design community."

The brand new website is now live and the winners are on display for the admiring design world to see.  The entries have come in from all over the globe and the quality has been truly outstanding, giving the judges a very tough task in deciding a winner for each of the 13 categories.

The festival organizers added: we would like to thank the sponsors, media, supporters, judges and most of all the entrants for making this such a fantastic success and we hope to see you all in September for the launch of the 2011 Annual Design Awards.

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Entry for the 2011 Annual Design Awards will open on 22nd October 2010.

Shift Calendar 2011 Call for entry

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The Shift calendar competition held from 2003 successively, pushes the boundaries between online and off line using a "calendar" as its medium. Entries are invited from all over the world and selected works will be distributed throughout the world in the format of a physical calendar.  Click on one of the following links for details:

ENGLISH / JAPANESE / CHINESE

 

Supported by Revolutionart Magazine

Drawing day 2010 is coming

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Illustrators and artists alike often go unappreciated. The creation of art and illustration captured our minds ever since we were children and our parents turned the pages of our first book. These stories came to life via the illustrations that took us to an imaginary world full of inspiration.

Whether you’re a professional illustrator or you just enjoy the occasional scribble, you can give back to the illustration community by drawing on this day. By injecting more and more illustration and art into our community, we are not only showing our appreciation to our fellow artists, but we are spreading awareness of the joy of drawing. It is important that you contribute – Drawing Day will only be a success if we all participate and make some noise. So, please tell your friends and spread the word.

One day a year, the world stops to remember that joy we had when we first picked up a pencil and created our first piece of art – that’s what Drawing Day is all about. The goal for Drawing Day is simple – to create enough drawings to make some noise worldwide for the sake of art. 2008 was the first year of this initiative.

When is Drawing Day?

Drawing Day 2010 is June 5, 2010. Drawing Day will be held on the first Saturday of June each year.

To participate you can follow the guidelines posted here http://www.drawingday.org/participate.php

Celeste Prize 2010

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Open call to artists who will vote awards!

Artwork is now being accepted directly online.  40,000 euro (circa
$50,000) awards are voted by the finalist artists themselves on 11
December in New York at Brooklyn’s Invisible Dog during finalists’
exhibition.
Entries Deadline – September 30  -  for more info :
http://www.celesteprize.com/prize/

Prizes are equally divided in the following categories:
• Painting
• Photography & Digital Graphics
• Video & Animation
• Installation & Sculpture
• Live Media audiovisual & Performance.

50 finalists are chosen by a 28-person, international jury of renowned
art critics & curators.

Jurors:
Julia Draganovic (Germany) and Mark Gisbourne (UK)

Selectors:
Paz Aburto Guevara (Germany, Chile), Giuliana Altea (Italy), Heather
Anderson (Canada), Jadwiga Charzynska (Poland), Cecilia Freschini
(China, Italy), Fernando Galan (Spain), Adrienne Goehler (Germany),
Gilberto González (Spain), Vardit Gross (Israel), Kati Kivinen
(Finland), Tasja Langenbach (Germany), Renato Miracco (USA, Italy),
Julian Navarro (USA, Colombia), Patricia Pulles (The Netherlands), Asher
Remy-Toledo (USA), Manon Slome (USA, UK), Yuliya Sorokina (Kazakhstan),
Fangling Tseng (Taiwan), Jason Waite (UK, USA).

Selectors for Live Media Prize only:
Digicult, Marco Mancuso (Italy), Eyebeam, Amanda Mc Donald Crowley (USA,
Australia), Forward Motion Theater, Eric Dunlap (USA), Isadora and
artistic co-director of Troika Ranch, Mark Coniglio (USA), Mapping
Festival, Justine Beaujouan (Switzerland), Neural, Alessandro Ludovico
(Italy), Claudio Sinatti (Italy).

The prize is open to any person practicing art, whether full or
part-time professionals, students and self-taught artists from anywhere
in the world. There are no limits for age, sex, experience or
qualifications. The prize encourages participation by artists at every
level.

Organized by Steven Music and Associazione Culturale L’Albero Celeste,
via Sangallo 23, 53036 Poggibonsi (Siena).
www.celesteprize.com