the “invisible art” motion graphics
In this case, not so invisible. Film-makers, video artists, computer animators, and graphic designers your task is to familiarize the public with this medium. Motion graphics has been around for decades as a discipline, it has only recently taken leaps forward and is being acknowledged as another art form, and you get to take it to the next level.
Funding, Mentoring & You
Now-a-days for web-technology startups, funding comes with mentoring. The ultimate goal is to help you build better products (or services), attract additional funding and grow more successful businesses. So what is the criterion for attracting funding and for mentoring?
Entrepreneurs these Are Exciting Times…Acquisitions, acquisition and more acquisitions.
Google is coming off a record 48 acquisitions last year (Wall Street Journal). What were they acquiring? Small startups that can be a source of new technology, talented engineers and revenue. Yahoo said they are now coming out with their guns blazing, stating, if you are not acquisitive, then you are strategically less relevant in the future (All Things Digital). What they mean is they are gearing up for a very big year, and, competing with Google (world) who is clearly on a roll.
It’s Just A Matter of Time
Some might say doing something within the right timeframe may net you the most amount of gain. Take Apple for instance, the iPad hit the market at the right time in history because of this Apple reaped great benefits from this occurrence; yet, they did not capture the entire market. If that was case there would be no need for other tablets or mobile devices thereafter. But we are happy they didn’t because they created an entire world of new opportunities, big and small.
Theme “The Right to Education”
While there may be open opportunity for some, unfortunately, this may not apply, to or for all. Whatever country you live in there still may be some limitations to receiving quality education. Here is your chance to visually make a stunning statement about it, in design format, to be seen worldwide. Keep in mind, your education is tied directly to your quality of life and to world progression.
A good way to effect change is to make a major international statement. For example, for students in the United States who may attend schools facing budget cuts or who may be facing rising college education costs this could be an excellent opportunity to illustrate how you feel about it.
Published & Exhibited
While as entrepreneurs it is good to merge with another company or being bought out can be a good thing. The good ones bring to the table offerings of compatible technology, accelerated growth or new potential. However, mergers sometime can go wrong. When two companies offer essentially the same products or services, and there only reason to merger is to increase profits, solely, leaving off or lessoning services and diminishing product lines–as being causalities of that merger. In addition to creating a “too big, too fail” business model or by creating an industry monopoly (for example, the combined merger of AT&T and T-Mobile would serve about 43 percent of U.S. cellphones).Go Large With Your Creativity
Here is your chance to bring urban flavor from around the globe. Create stencil art that will be part of a live session during summer 2011. The most famous urban artists decorate walls and buildings with their work.
Visual Identity
Works of visual identity include logo, letterhead, envelope, icon, website, widget, app, t-shirt, banner, signage, poster and anything depicting visual identity. Design a logo of green design and leave out racial, religious, ethnic or any other form of designator or discrimination.
What’s the Best Way?
We will try to answer this question by saying what it is not. Most of us were excited when the DVR came to TV because that would allow us to pause or stop live TV while we made a refrigerator run or went to the bathroom. With the added bonus of, we could then pick up our programming and whiz past the commercials, with enough bankable time that we didn’t have to sit through the next series of them. Not just having to sit there and watch one after another like fingernails scratching across a chalk board, being held hostage, if we wanted to continue watching our shows. This method now accounts for only 14% of actual purchasers.
The Internet
Now the internet is different with popups, sliders, flashers, blinkers, clickers, rollers, banners and huge black boxes covering content requiring you to perform an action before you can read or access content. There are many more, these are just a few of the methods being employed. Advertising is necessary how else would you get the word out consistently and on mass scale?
Making Digital Noise
It is often said in business, it is best to use someone else’s money to bankroll your operations. So that would hold true for marketing. If so, most of the creative opportunities posted here would allow you to do just that. The name of the game is to get noticed. If someone else is major bankrolling your promotion and marketing efforts wouldn’t that be serving such the same purpose?
Dream, Create, Play
Gaming platforms are moving forward and some are taking a different approach, letting you dream your world and bring to life your own universe, for others to play in. Meaning, Xbox LIVE Arcade is giving you the chance to land a publishing contract.
If you can dream-build-play, more so, create a playable game for Xbox 360 using XNA Game Studio 4.0. you are on your way to splitting $75,000. Whatever you dream world is, make it good because this is another opportunity to tap in big using your creativity. Sure its a challenge but the reward is big. Imagine seeing your creation and knowing your final output is being played by millions worldwide.
Graphics Professionals, New Designers or Design Students
Show your talent by expressing your creativity alongside other designers from around the world. Using advertising or marketing media such as flyers, brochures, logos and other designs related to advertising, marketing and point of purchase (POP) type graphics. Signs, awards or promotional designs, or, any designs that can be used in sign making, engraving, awards, dye sublimation and other related items and materials.
Illustration and fine Art included, anything that is artistic, creative, and unique in design or concept. Last but not least, vehicle wraps for cars, trucks or boats.
Startup Money, Worldwide Exposure, Promotion, Advertising, Marketing & Strategy
First, our monthly round up of seed money and other opportunities that are ending soon. Might as well start off or proceed on a venture with creative recognition, free worldwide exposure, marketing and promotion, along with, cash rewards. It will definitely help to beef up your digital portfolio and put you in the limelight with the other serious contenders. Or, primely, place you for pursuing whatever is your next career, business or entrepreneurial option. Plus, fuse your operation with a little working capital. Any little bit helps. Name recognition goes a long way. Particularly, attached to a worthy cause.
Designers, Art directors, Architects, Engineers, Teachers, Design Firms, Manufacturers, Institutions, Ad Agencies and Entrepreneurs…
Graphics, product or concept designs, transportation and architecture, etc. If you are looking for exposure into new markets and to become a strong presence in the hottest growth markets in the world, including China, India, Korea and Taiwan—with your designs gaining aggressive position. Getting your foot in the door of some of the world’s fastest paced environments. Then this information and business opportunity is for you.
What’s She Like?
If you can capture her (25-49 years old) in a 30 second video multi-tasking, then you are the right creative talent. Your video should be a “video style advertisement” showcasing meal solutions for the modern woman. Mainly, enjoying a nutritional lunch. It should be modern and fun. Your video could garner you $8,000. The meal is not just any type of lunch or any product. But one made with quality veggies and meats, that only takes minutes to prepare and eat.
Publish Yourself
With minimum investment you can add e-publishing as one of your revenue streams. With the explosion of mobile devices currently on the market (105 tablets counting the known and not so well known brand names), and, add the soon to be coming (major brands) to market. Tablets by nature are meant to be consumption (entertainment, mobile, convenience) devices because of their limited ability to allow you to do actual work on them. By the time you add on keyboards, mice or other peripheral devices you have basically a scaled down laptop, pretty close, to the price of a really good one depending upon the tablet or laptop you choose. Also add, you can now buy or read thousands of comics on your iPad, Windows or Android devices (phones and tablets)--checkout ComiXology for one. There is now much more incentive to e-publish.
