With the fast approaching Blog Action Day (Oct 15), the website Learn About Poverty has launched a competition looking for the best three blog posts about poverty.
The competition is sponsored by World Vision Australia and is only open to Australian residents, but we would still love all of our readers to get involved and share their posts.
As you all know, WooThemes loves collaborating with industry-leading, creative designers and launching stylish and unique WordPress themes every month. They also love seeing how their fantastic community of users customize and implement themes. Check out Woo Themes and find out how to enter!
Altec Lansing and Plantronics would like your help in designing the world’s sexiest speakers. The top designers will net a cool $5000. The contest is broken down into two sections – Future Sound Speakers and Stylish Sound Headsets. The contest is open till Oct. 20/08.
iStock is running a ‘design your own iStock t-shirt and win swag’ contest. Throw together a great looking 3 color tee and win $500 to spend on something you don’t need. The contest is only open till Oct 9/08, so get your designs in quick!
Design/ers for Obama was created when Design Observer essentially asked the question, “how can graphic designers best support Barack Obama?” Our answer ended up extending the question to cover visual communicators at all levels. In addition to supporting Obama for America we jumped at the opportunity to bring the spirit of grassroots style organizing and collaboration to poster design which, to us, meant not only forming communal bonds but sharing the fruits of our efforts equally and in such a way that anyone can enjoy and benefit from (because most of us do not own our own printing presses).
World famous FutureBrand who do work for such giants as British Airways, Nissan and Tesco are hosting a student contest to design a brand for the United States of America for their CountryBrandIndex.
Frankly I have no idea what their CountryBrandIndex is, but I do know that contests like this are not only good for practicing your skills but also look fantastic on your resume when you graduate. The prizemoney ($1000) probably wouldn’t go astray either!
You can get details on entry (they close on Oct 10th) from the Contest Site
At one time, you needed a desk that could handle a mountain of paper, a two-foot-deep monitor, a printer, and a CPU the size of a Labrador. Today, your entire computer is an inch thick and your printer is in your closet connected to your WiFi. You have moved forward. It’s time your desk caught up. Desk by Heckler Design.
FutureBrand, a leading global brand consultancy with 20 offices in 16 countries, invites you to enter our BrandAmerica student contest.
Fonts are a designer’s bricks’n'mortar, so it pays to know your fonts. They help you select the best tool for the job, and often give your whole design its personality. Over at everyone’s favourite typography blog ilovetypography, there is a very cool little identify-the-font game where you are shown 34 randomly selected typefaces and asked to choose from a multiple choice selection to correctly identify the font.
Today’s my 29th bday which means this is the last year I’ll going to be eligible to enter the Young Guns award. Of course since I’m not in advertising, so it’s not really for me. But if the monikers “under 30″, “advertising” and “awesomeness” all apply to you, then you’ve got just under a month to get in there.
There’s a pretty hard to use website up with details, entry forms and some extra randomness to flesh it out over at YGAward.com.