Artist Alley Comic-Con International
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.
One who Creates Forms, Structures, and Patterns, as for Works of Art or Machines
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.
Show it in Photography
The world wants to see what you are experiencing. Through international traveling exhibitions and educational outreach in communities and schools the Aftermath Project which is a non-profit organization committed to giving a yearly grant to photographers worldwide covering the aftermath of conflict. Tell the other half of the story of conflict, the story of what it takes for individuals to learn to live again, to rebuild destroyed lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war while struggling to create new avenues for freedom and peace.
Launch Your Star
This time it’s all about developing a new corporate identity for an Italian project. The project is aimed at creating career opportunities for the high-skilled labor market, by concretely forming the ruling class of the near future. The graphic identity will be used for the marketing campaign, on online products. So, your to design will launch your creative star and the brand identity will also be used to raise future top talents. This is an international opportunity.
Pick Up Your Camera & Click
The concept of walking around with your camera and shooting photographs is applicable. Ricoh is now celebrating its 11th year of encouraging communication with people who enjoy taking pictures and who want to become even more familiar with photography.
The theme is “Radiance” based on an unrestricted sensibility. Submit photographs that cover a wide variety of subjects based on new perspectives. They are looking forward to receiving a lot of different submissions not only from photographers within Japan but also from all around the world and hope to give a variety of people opportunity.
The Art Of Enjoyable Living
Design a spa for Venier Mobilificio Italian Spa. You get your choice of preparing creative and innovative ideas for a Classic Children room or Modern Living room. Both have to be technically feasible and mass-producible. The aim is of establishing a long-lasting and stable relation with young designers and creative incubators of the world of design.
Open to designers, individuals or groups, not older than 40 years of age. Architects, Designers or Students or members of High Schools of Designs, and Faculty of Architecture.
Street Furniture Design
Seating, shelters, signs, containers, etc.; the City of Lissone is inviting you to submit your designs for 2011 Street Furniture Design in Italy. Your design must be durable, attractive and have a metropolitan flair. Today landscapes are complex and utilized daily by thousands of people — some local, along with travelers, or tourist who may not live in the environment permanently but outdoor furnishings nevertheless gets used regularly sometimes 24 hours a day.
Of Children’s Books
Ilustrarte wants to see the world’s best illustration and to bring together illustrators, writers and readers of all ages in Lisbon. Ilustrarte 2012 is already on the 5th edition, so Illustrators from all over the world are invited to send 3 original illustrations, unpublished or published.
The NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program 2012
Now open to applicants from the U.S. and to the international community; the NARS Foundation International Artist Residency Program is seeking applications from both emerging and established artists, for appointments as residence artists. Those who are interested in traveling to a different location for new inspiration and to make a significant impact on their careers.
If you want to change environments or be creatively stimulated by new surroundings then this opportunity is perfect for you.
From our Ideas of Inspiration Series
Inspiration can come from just about anywhere and in a big picture (like our world) one could focus on one element and magnify that and brainstorm new purpose. Like a grain of sand, focus in on the intricate details. Here is some creative thinking from entrepreneurs who have done just that, or in the least, examples, to draw inspiration from. We must warn you, some are pretty incredible and meant to give you a creative jolt.
What Sparks Your Imagination?
Nvidia wants to know how the evolution of (portable, mobile, thinner, lighter) technology empowers you. Where do you take your devices and how do they integrate within the daily human experience. Not just the normal applications people use electronic devices for but revolutionary, realistic, tangible ways.
What groundbreaking new usage do you have for the utilization of your devices and what unique methods do you use to perform everyday tasks? At home, work, or on the go. What gives your imagination the power to think bigger? Whatever it is submit it as NVArt.
Engaging, Provocative & Result Oriented
Can you create it, not, just for your own venture but for someone else too? Sometimes it is easier to conceptualize how to create buzz for a product or service which may not be your own. You get that opportunity, an on demand subscription mobile video service and entertainment platform, launched in the U.S. in early 2010, which allows users to watch their favorite TV shows, anywhere and anytime, across various digital platforms (mobile, computer and tablets).
Tools of the Trade
For any job, project, or undertaking it is important to have the right gear. You get to produce some eye catching eye-ware. Royalty producing for you, and marketable, sellable eye-ware for Polaroid. Produce the coolest sunglass designs for the “Best Under the Sun” a signature sunglass collection for Polaroid, to be launched globally in spring 2013. Anyone with design ability can participate and here is a little creative inspiration.
In case you missed the chance to respond to some of the opportunities available to help you progress, market your creative content, promote your business or obtain seed money. There are plenty of opportunities still available to respond to, and 2011 is turning out to be a very good year to move forward and to hit an international stage. One Poster Or Video
Use them to illustrate the dangers and the negative impact of making counterfeits and illegal copies, not necessarily related to money but from a broader perspective. Bring forth your most innovative proposals and produce high-impact “viral” designs or possible marketing tools that will reach a modern audience for print, using social networking as tools, and achieving high Internet exposure.
In a Global World
We live in a multifaceted, diverse, world where everyone across the planets inputs towards our overall human sustainable life experience. There is no way of not recognizing there is a diverse mixture of people in society. To celebrate each other and that factor, you are invited to submit what diversity looks like in photographic form, so bring forth anything that celebrates this in striking digital imagery — simply by highlighting cultural diversity in everyday life.
Exhibition Venice, Italy
The Italian Cultural Association, Modern Contemporary Art (MoCA), in collaboration with Arte Laguna, is putting together the organization of an important collective exhibition in Venice, Italy and you are invited to submit your creations.
There will be exhibitions in Art Galleries, Art Residences and the publication of the official art catalogue. This is an international opportunity the award is 150,000 euros or approx. $217, 000 usd to be divided between the five mediums of painting, photographic art, sculpture, video art and performance.
Keep It Active & Ready for Performance
Put together some “Active Performance Sportswear” make it useful for competition, endurance, training & exercise or fitness sports and overall physical activity. Find the right balance between function an fashion. Your design should also make a meaningful statement and be an appropriate design, encompassing all elements of: the sport’s discipline and skill level and you can focus on either professional or amateur as your choice.
Technology Around the World
Again we are back to the awe-inspiring. Whoever said they were tired of web duplications will find these findings inspirational. Some of these should kick start your own brain waves into high gear. It is amazing what inspiring minds can come up with, not only to help themselves but to help others as well. Whatever your venture, make incredible.
You Get to Be the Creative Boss
For a dynamic massive multiplayer online role-playing game, deviantART is challenging you to create a new colossus (a boss) for the new multiplayer online game RIFT.
Choose one of the six planar themes: earth, air, fire, water, life, or death and create concept art of a colossus (a boss) using one of these themes where forces battle for control in an ever-changing landscape. This is an international opportunity
Showoff your Creative Thinking, Approach to Environmental Influence and Perception
In an unprecedented opportunity you get the chance, to input, greatly and be handsomely awarded for your ability to conceptualize creatively. For an incredible $70,000 award going to the top visionary, and for a total of $100,000 in all, if, you can design an ideal 21st century city. Start by doing a little research on how societies were brought into being (Rome wasn’t built in a day) and imagine the task faced by those whose job it was to decide how the capital of such a civilization would be created (the ancient Egyptians were true visionaries). Now envision the kind of pressures and influences of, if the city were being planned today, needing to balance cityscape with nature to allow for low negative environmental impact…
Create a Solution to Bridge Environment, Demand, while Blending Cultural & Historical Perspectives with Landscape
Ok, that was a mouthful and you are literally invited to help build bridges.
This Summer Showcase Your Business, Hobby, Cause or Website
This is a free advertising opportunity for all designers, artist, creative thinkers and statement makers. What’s the catch? You have to come up with a winning design. Do you have an idea for a t-shirt or want to promote your business, hobby, cause or website?
You can see your design in print on t-shirts at events this summer along with other websites, blogs and social networking sites.
Design the Official International Human Rights Logo…
The International Human Rights Organization is now crowdsourcing worldwide looking for designers and humanitarians, to come up with the perfect image, for an official logo. Several other organizations have partnered with them on this effort Google, Typo London, Universität der Künste Berlin, crowdsourcing.org, Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte, Typo Berlin, Cinema for Peace and CIDSE to name a few. Your work will be widely seen, long-term. Logos are coming in but none with the high impact design they are seeking. They are waiting on your logo submission which should reflect group organization and be a great design solution. Until someone comes up with the right design there is no globally recognized logo for human rights — anyone can participate internationally.
