Design the Sci Fi Trophy Base
The premier gathering of authors, artists, fans, dealers, and more in the world science fiction community (Worldcon). Artists and designers from around the world are invited to create a base for the Hugo Award and with a theme appropriate to Chicago and the Midwest.
The Hugo Awards for achievement in science fiction and fantasy have been presented by Worldcons for over 50 years. An instantly recognizable rocket forms the central element of the prestigious trophy, while the base design changes yearly, often reflecting the country, state, or province in which the convention takes place. The winner will receive a full five-day attending membership to Chicon 7 and industry wide exposure. See the previous base designs here.
Young designers from all around the world are being encouraged to enter Young Package 2012! The theme this year is tea. The task of all participants is to pack an object related to tea drinking. It does not have to be tea leaves or tea bags. All packages for objects should be inspired by tea culture, tea rooms or tea ceremonies, etc. The packages should represent this traditional drink in today´s style. 
What kind of disasters might we face in the next decades and how to protect, respond or adapt to future circumstances. We are living in the time of increasing frequency and severity of various disasters caused by nature, technology or human. How are we going to respond? Floods, earthquakes, bomb attacks, devastating fires, drought, extreme weather, climate change, economic collapses, these are just few of the disasters in the 21st Century.
Magmart International Videoart Festival is now calling for entries for its seventh edition. This call is open to all international video artists. This festival is held annually in Naples, Italy. Video artworks should be no longer than 10 minutes, fully realized with digital technology’ Submit your best work. After the end of this call, Magmart will select 30 video artworks that will become part of the seventh edition of the festival.
The National Gallery of Macedonia is calling on all students studying fine arts and design to design a international poster, a visual solution highlighting the global problems concerning “HIV/AIDS”. PLAKART in partnership with Mala Stanica who is offering this opportunity.
Don’t know how to approach it? Like it or not, the world is changing and what is clear is people all over the world are joining in their own way to be a part of it. Perhaps, you don’t see yourself marching or you want to do something in addition to marching, protesting and speaking out for global human rights.
Last night an open call went out for T-Shirts, Sweatshirts, Hoodies, etc. that will help bring forth unity in Occupy demonstrations 
Pictoplasma is the world’s leading organization dedicated to contemporary character design and art in all its many facets and media. By collecting, examining and making available an endless production of figurative images. The latest research project called “The Missing Link”. Pictoplasma is looking for white, hairy, friendly creatures, just feature-less enough to serve as the perfect empty screen for the viewers to project their own narration, yet exactly the right amount of hairiness, to make you want to get into physical cuddle-mode.
The art exhibited at NordArt will feature all visual art media. A non-profit initiative of the ACO Group, Kunstwerk Carlshütte and the towns of Büdelsdorf and Rendsburg, is organizing NordArt, an annual international exhibition of visual arts from June to the beginning of October. The exhibition that started this summer (2011) displayed the work of 250 artists from 55 countries, selected from applications from 72 countries. Join in for 2012 representing your country.
Celebrating the newfound typographic freedom that Web designers are experiencing across the globe to recognize designers and websites that are putting this emerging technology to greatest use.
CGarchitect.com and Autodesk are seeking 3ds Max designers with big creativity and imagination. Submit a scene or design you’ve created using Autodesk 3ds Max or Autodesk® 3ds Max Design software. Your design–final output could be featured on the next version of 3ds Max Design box cover and including the splash screen. The ultimate logo creator of the winning entry will be awarded with a Quad GPU Workstation and $5,000 in cash.
Graphic designers are invited to design the promotional T-shirt and poster print for Yota Space International Technology & Digital Art Festival. The artwork will be used as the visual symbols of the major cultural event produced by Yota. Along with exposure the winning design will receive a free pass to all events of Yota Space festival, which will take place in Spring 2012 in St Petersburg.
Siemens wants to hear and see your story on how sustainable cities can become a reality. Explain how cities can be made more sustainable by using eco-friendly products and implementing innovative energy and infrastructure solutions.
The 2011 International Loupe Awards Photography Labtam Communications is celebrating the best from the world of photography, previously known as the Aperture Awards, and are currently seeking entries. Recognizing the best of the best from medium format fine art which leaves a lot of room for creativity.
Have something you would like to see a mock up of in 3D, now is your chance to get it done. It could be a design for a consumer product you would like to see in 3D print and for use or something creatively innovative one-of-a-kind. Jakajima is organizing 3D Printing at Home Design Comp, to challenge all takers and to see what you can offer up.
Put your cause in design format, here is your chance to be proactive about an issue, tell the world what you think about important issues of our time in your own backyard or someone else. The call is for Positive Posters a shared platform that encourages designers to be proactive in shaping important issues. The shortlist of 30 posters for inclusion will end the year in exhibition in Australia.
“To Death With a Smile” is to stimulate creativity, diversity and language richness in different cultures around the world. The focus is centered-around a controversial subject giving each designer license to input their own special style. It is about death, a personal consideration or approach, the meaning in your own culture, how it is feared, celebrated or dealt with it. It can be reflected in serious or playful way.
Nokia is launching a global crowdsourcing campaign to find the next version of the Nokia Tune. This is the first time Nokia is inviting people to work with the iconic tune with the winning tune to be placed next to the standard Nokia Tune in a selection of the company’s 2012 product portfolio. You get to create your own Nokia Tune using elements of the popular original. This is a opportunity to be part of a unique audio branding history.
Animafest Zagreb 2012 is now accepting entries for its 22nd edition. Short animated films, no longer than 30 minutes, completed in 2010 are eligible for submission. There are four competition categories and lots of big prizes reserved for the best animated films. If you are an animator, you should definitely get to know Animafest Zagreb, with a great international reputation. The 22nd World Festival of Animated Film – Animafest Zagreb is an international festival for short animated films that will be held in Zagreb from May 29– June 03, 2012.
WorldNomads.com and National Geographic Channel are giving one exceptional individual the chance to go on assignment with renowned wildlife photographer Jason Edwards to South Africa. This is your chance to photograph in 
Sports & Fitness, Health Care & Wellness, Automotive, Entertainment, and other products; whatever you can innovate using Bluetooth technology. The Bluetooth SIG is looking for innovative new products that use Bluetooth low energy technology.
A Start up Showcase will be at the inaugural Android Open to highlight start ups and the ecosystem’s creativity and variety. The Showcase will give you a chance to get in front of hundreds of potential users and a couple of high-profile investors. On October 10, approximately 15 startups will be demoing.
Every one can get involved from around the world, sure it sounds vast but the vision and your way to input is simple. Share a vision for algae in our future with design ideas.
International Songwriting opportunity for both aspiring and established songwriters to have their songs heard in a professional, international arena. (ISC) is looking for the next musical talent of songwriters on all levels and is looking to promote excellence in the art of songwriting. ISC is offering exposure and the opportunity to have your songs heard by the most influential decision-makers in the music industry.
Canadian International Digital Photography Award “Photographer in Distinction 2011″ is looking to discover and support new names in professional photography as well as to acknowledge new digital art with cash award of $10,000.
To commemorate 45 years of hard drive manufacturing, Toshiba invites you to redesign the chassis of the Canvio Portable Hard Drive. Win awards and the opportunity to see your design on our limited edition 45th anniversary Portable Hard Drive. Whatever that has already been done throw that off your drawing board. As long as you are 13 years old and up you can present your design.
The online marketplace for high-quality merchandise, is calling all jewelry designers. They are seeking unique jewelry pieces and fresh designs that UncommonGoods hasn’t seen anywhere else.
UNIQLO is inviting you to design a T-Shirt for Coca Cola, the theme is of “Coca-Cola” from countries all around the world. $10,000 will be awarded to the designer who can do it the best. Others will receive $5,000. $3,000, $1,000. The design(s) must be original work created and owned by you and must not have been previously used or publicly revealed elsewhere. Make it likeable, trendy and a must have.
It all started with embracing the idea of starting small and creating something amazing from just a few quick sketches. So DeviantART is remembering those little things that made the 11 years…of creating art, the
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We are all familiar with plans gone wrong, and this opportunity is all about plans gone wrong pandas, lights and pies. Stock images are provided and your job is to combine them in an unusually creative way and in relation with the theme. DeviantART and Fotolia are joining forces and this time they’re challenging you to use the theme of “plans gone wrong” and create artworks. What is on the table, is goodies for 25 semi-finalists, and the selection of three award winning entries.
Create unique body wear for encouraging and promoting jewelry design. Pretty much covering any jewel, metal, gem, jewelry or ornamentation art that can be used on the body, such as glasses, belts, earrings, brooches, pins, rings, pendants, combs, tiaras, cuff links, watches, bracelets, etc for example.
Goal is to demonstrate how awesome life is with the country’s fastest and most advanced 4G network in the palm of your hand and encourage and educate consumers; share experiences about the Verizon 4G LTE network and products. Create a video to be posted on Verizon Insider.com where visitors can view and vote for their favorite videos, possibly yours. Show how amazing life would be with 4G LTE through video. There will be additional opportunities, so social network, and rally your friends to vote for your video so you all could win. Product can be the hero and the center of the story or it can fit into an existing concept and humor is strongly encouraged.
Well, to be clear ”graphic remix” noise. Shaolin Jazz wants participants to submit designs for the next album/cd cover in the series. This is an international opportunity. For those who may not be familiar with the artist, Shaolin Jazz is a music project by Gerald Watson and DJ 2-Tone Jones embodying a unique mix between legendary jazz and iconic hip-hop.
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Bringing greater awareness for animation as an art form, and celebrating the spirit of independent, underground, and experimental animation is the focus for the upcoming 7th annual GIRAF (Giant Incandescent Resonation Animation Festival) at The Plaza Theatre in Calgary, Canada in November.
The Freedom to Create is a celebration of the courage and creativity of artists, and the positive influence of their work to promote social justice and inspire the human spirit. Open to all forms of art, in any creative field and any individual or group of any gender, religion or nationality; 2,000 artists entered from more than 100 countries last year and this year 2011, a total prize fund of US $100,000 will be awarded to the winning artists and their nominated advocacy organizations to further the cause their artwork has highlighted.
At an open air theater a showcase of the best short films from around the world to an international audience of art and film lovers who descend each year for fun, art, and experience. Have your short film screened at this event.
Embracing Our Differences is the theme and artists, photographers, professionals, amateurs, teachers and students are all invited to participate in its 9th annual outdoor art exhibit celebrating diversity, national and international submissions are wanted. The exhibit viewed by more than 1,100,000 visitors.
Join artist alley and your talent gets you there. You can receive sponsorship for Artists’ Alley at Comic-Con International in San Diego as part of deviantART. Comic-Con will be providing two scholarships to emerging artists, for one web-based comic artist and for one traditional comic artist. You will be special guests of deviantART at Comic-Con.
That sounds simple enough, after-all you are only taking what’s in your mind’s eye and putting it on paper channeling/outputting creativity from all you have input. Maybe in the most simplistic explanation of it all, however there is a beauty and magic to it. This challenge is about product design and designing something useful that solves a problem.