The winners of the first annual design competition from DesignFirms.org have been decided. The competition was open to designers around the world for a chance to win one of three great prizes.

Butler, KY (PRWEB) September 20, 2007 — Each year, millions of websites are built, maintained and promoted, but which ones deserve recognition for how cool and well-built they are? Among the universe of award sites, DesignFirms.org has conceived a new breed of [annual web awards — one category, and the first year’s best have been decided.
View the 2007 Web Design Award Winners .
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Planet Billard Wins Best Photography Web Site at the 2007 WebAwards Competition

Mass Transmit-produced PlanetBillard.com receives Best of Industry at the Web Marketing Association 2007 WebAwards competition.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 20, 2007 — Web Marketing Association’s WebAwards named Planet Billard (www.planetbillard.com) as the Best Photography Web Site in its 2007 competition. With the judging results placing the site at the top of the Photography category, Planet Billard was also awarded “Best of Industry”.

Planet Billard is the web site for George Billard, a leading Producer, Director and Cinematographer. The web site is a showcase of Mr. Billard’s video and photography from around the world and includes a Biography, Stock Footage, ongoing Dispatches from his world travels and a Video Blog.
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Mumedi (Mexican Museum of Design) calls designers, students, teachers, professionals and anyone interested in the subject (over 18 years of age), to participate in this International Poster Contest. Theme is “To Death with a Smile” to promote the exercise of good design, to stimulate creativity, so they might see the diversity and language richness in different cultures around the world.

Lots of prizes, and the best entries will be exhibited at the Mexican Museum of Design from October 2007 to February 2008 in the Downtown Historic Center of Mexico City. Deadline for entries is 14 September 2007. Visit the site to learn all the details.

In each issue, Creative Quarterly features the best student work from across the country, so here’s your chance to enter. Enter and you’ll have the opportunity to be published and seen by some of the industry’s top decision makers. Entries will be judged in four distinct categories by some of the top people in their respective field.

Entries in graphic design, illustration, photography, and fine art must be postmarked by Friday, 26 October 2007. Undergraduate or graduate students currently enrolled in a college, university or art school in the US or Canada may enter. Recent graduates may enter personal or unpublished work for the remainder of 2007. Visit the site to learn more!

Elvis Impersonators, Tribute Artists and fans are all ’shook up’ at the chance to make the Worlds Greatest Elvis YouTube video.

London, England (PRWEB) August 14, 2007 — As part of worldwide celebrations to mark to 30th Anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, and to promote the worldwide search for The Worlds Greatest Elvis, a special Elvis Tribute Video Competition has just been launched on YouTube.com.

The website promoting the competition, TheWorldsGreatestElvis, originally planned to commission the production of a professional video to launch their search for The Worlds Greatest Elvis.

However, after talking to Elvis fans and having seen the range and quality of videos on YouTube.com they decided to let Elvis fans and YouTube users create their own tribute videos and pick the winning video.

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Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq:ADBE) today announced the winners of the seventh annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards. The premier student design and film competition honors the most talented and promising student graphic designers, photographers, illustrators, animators, digital filmmakers, and computer artists from the world’s top educational institutions. Using the latest Adobe products, more than 2,500 students from 30 countries competed in the program.

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The Communicator Awards, a leading international awards program recognizing creative excellence in the communications field, has announced Bonfire Communications, an organizational communications agency specializing in employee engagement and strategy implementation, among its winners for the 13th annual print media competition.

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In line with its vision to further develop the professional discipline of software testing, Transition Consulting Ltd. are very pleased to announce the addition of four new scholarship students to their program at Bristol University.

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An IT Security manufacturer has just announced sponsorship of a “Hacker Challenge” and a $10,000 challenge to all computer hackers and security engineers. The winner will receive $10,000.00. The winner will be determined by being the first one to compromise the protected network. The terms of the contest are found on the web site “thehackerchallenge.com”.

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The Award is the first of its kind to honor and reward designers’ creativity, from around the world, for their excellence in the disciplines of branding, print, packaging, environments, fashion, photography, art, and design green.

All designers who participate in this unique competition will be part of the solution to the Global Warming Crisis by replacing one of their old light bulbs with a compact fluorescent light bulb provided by The Design Green Project. Additionally, there will be a tree planted in their name and 50% of all proceeds will be donated to the StopGlobalWarming.org fund, just for entering.
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Have you ever thought how to take a shot of elusive things like fragrance, sight, flavour or sound? .psd team wants to give you the chance to show your idea of how the senses might look like!
The whole contest includes four stages:
1. Open Your Eyes
2. Photo Fragrance
3. Photo Flavour
4. The Sound of your Photo
The first stage of Sharpen Your Senses contest relates to the sense of sight. The theme is very broad, so you can make it very personal and imaginative!

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Newly launched TeeJuice.com (www.TeeJuice.com) is your portal to an exciting world of competition, inspiration, and exhibition of artwork with an innovative new product. Artists, students (and everyone!) can enter artwork on this artist contest website with weekly prizes ranging from $100 to $1,000 cash every quarter!

Ever since Tee Juice markers arrived on the arts and crafts scene, regular fabric markers just don’t seem to make the grade any more. These amazing new markers are an innovative improvement on the fabric markers that are currently available. What makes them so unique is not only do they come in two different sizes so you can be confident that there will be a solid color consistency between the broad areas designed with the large size markers, and the detailed areas that can be designed with the smaller size marker. Color consistency isn’t the only benefit though since, unlike other small fabric markers generally used for detail work, TeeJuice markers are permanent and washable once the dye is fixed in a quick few seconds with an iron.
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The inaugural Spark Awards prove great design is global — and green. Award-winners include the Chevrolet Volt, a hydrogen-powered concept car; a Dutch rental-bike dispenser; the ergonomic Spring Chair, made from sustainable bamboo; and Pittsburgh’s new West End pedestrian bridge, connecting three downtown rivers.

Speaking for the board, sponsors and executive team, we’re very proud to be associated with all of the designers who have worked so hard, body and spirit, to light the Spark.
The Spark Awards’ independent and multi-disciplinary jury of 15 design experts judged hundreds of submissions, nominating 62 designs that rank among the best of the world in seven categories from mobility to architecture.

Entries ranged from luxurious watch designs to an innovative creeper that lets mechanics work safely under a vehicle. The 15 entries that clearly stand above their peers received The Spark Award. A complete list of winners appears below.

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The is a contest for the creative to showcase their artistic works and compete in 123RF’s friendly and supportive community. Anyone can join! Designs submitted must incorporate images from 123RF.com. This contest gives you the opportunity to express your creativity and win some fantastic prizes at the same time.

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Academy of Art University students from the digital arts school took home awards from the Space-Time Student Competition & Exhibition at SIGGRAPH 2007. Kyle Yugawa won first place for his project Verve and Molly Quan won one of the four Honorable Mentions for her project Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought both in the interactive category. This is the fourth year in a row that an Academy of Art University Graduate New Media student has taken the first place title at the Space-Time Competition.

Verve, Yugawa’s MFA thesis, is a web tool that lets artists and musicians compose, orchestrate, and illustrate using sound, shape, and motion. According to the Verve website, the project “strives to mold techniques of painting/illustration, music, and kinetic performance into a single fluid process.” It developed from his frustration as a new media designer to have to learn so many different applications and processes.

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Photoshop artists with a flair for the satirical can now win awards for their humorous photo edits, or “chopz,” thanks to a newly-launched series of weekly and monthly themed design contests from the Photoshop community, PhotoChopz.com. The new contests aim to reward already active members and designers for their spoof, sarcastic, and humorous alterations to chosen monthly photos or themes where designers can choose their own photos.

“We already have over 18,000 threads with over 340,000 posts to date, and the forum only launched in May 2006,” says Josh Bond, owner of PhotoChopz.com. “Many of our founding members had a passion for funny spoof-style designs of user-submitted photos and pictures they found around the net. Now they can earn money for doing just that with our new contests. We have plenty of chopz already, but the contests are a way for us to give back to designers who are here doing what they love and sharing their skills.”

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URBANTINE PROJECT
In our rapidly changing world the workspace has to evolve, mutate, be fluid - does there need to be a Fast Architecture to respond to this condition?

Project Aim
The Urbantine Project emerged from the realization that there are limited opportunities for unrecognized architects and designers to showcase their ideas and philosophy in the UK. The Urbantine Project at Tent London provides an opportunity to readdress this issue, affording the winning entry the opportunity to put their design in front of thousands of the most influential designers, companies and design-savvy consumers during London Design Week at Tent London, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane. The winning entry will also have the opportunity to engage with an organisation, Workspace Group, which aims to provide progressive, appropriate, affordable and considered workspace accommodation for London’s creative industries.

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Cut&Paste is hitting eleven cities worldwide this Fall 2007, we’re out to prove that immersive design is good cause for cultural gathering.

Watch as eight designers go head to head, Wacom to Wacom. For the crown, they’ll have to spin an idea with their own style in three, 15-minute rounds as projectors stream their living designs across the venue. Each designer is equipped with an Apple® MacPro Workstation, Adobe® Creative Suite 3, and a Wacom® Cintiq® interactive pen display. Try your own round at a workstation onsite for a shot at our Audience Design Contest. If you’re stuck at home, tune in via global webcast. Five all-star judges will make the call for the Jury Prize, but all will have the chance to vote for an Audience Prize online or by SMS.

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XO Create!, an Alpharetta-based firm becoming known for their brand transformation skills, entered the 2007 SEED Awards with a case study on Heritage Playsets and won. “It is a rare opportunity to compete on the business level when it comes to design as many have a misunderstanding of the impact design strategies have on a business,” says Jim Stringer, Creative Director and Partner at XO Create!.

On June 11th the Atlanta chapter of the AIGA, a professional association for design, held the 2007 SEED Awards Gala at the Woodruff Arts Center. This is where Southeastern design professionals are recognized for outstanding design achievements.

Everyone was excited to see a new category in the mix this year; case studies. “It is a rare opportunity to compete on the business level when it comes to design as many have a misunderstanding of the impact design strategies have on a business,” says Jim Stringer, Creative Director and Partner at XO Create!.

XO Create!, an Alpharetta-based firm becoming known for their brand transformation skills entered the competition with a case study on Heritage Playsets. The firm was given strategic and creative freedom to transform Heritage Playsets, a premium wooden toy line, from “cheap import” to a premium shelf product that higher scale stores would be interested in carrying.

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Apple on Tuesday evening announced the winners of its annual application design awards at WWDC. Separated into seven categories, the 12th annual Apple Design Awards 2007 recognize technical excellence and outstanding achievement in Mac OS X software design and development; they were announced in March. The ‘Best Mac OS X Leopard Application’ was Delicious Monster’s Delicious Library 2.0a, which allows users to catalog, browse, and share books, movies, music, and video games. Written using Objective-C 2.0, Delicious Library 2.0 (alpha) uses many new Leopard technologies, including Core Data, Core Animation, Calendar Store, Scripting Bridge, Spotlight, Core Image, and Image IO. The runner-up was IGG Software’s iBank 3.0a.

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