Collar Free is a design community where fashion is created by anyone with an idea. In dependent artists submit to the community a design they would like to see made into a original piece of fashion. Then you help decide what gets made & what gets sent back to the drawing board.

And now they are looking for designers to submit designs and stylish customers to help pick the winner and the thought your blog would be a good avenue to reach the right crowd. The winning designer receives recognition as Fashion Weeks official designer, $500 cash, and a couple other cool prizes. Details are here.

Analog Photography Organization encourages designers to create happy accidents community-centric tee shirt company Threadless.com has partnered up with The Lomographic Society International, a globally active organization dedicated to experimental and creative analog photography, for its latest “Loves” campaign.

Deadline for entries is July 5, 2008. For more info and the 10 Golden Rules of Lomography visit campaign site.

With immediate effect the participation for illustrators, graphic artists and designers in the „Young Illustrators Award“ of the ILLUSTRATIVE is now possible!

Required are up to 8 freelance works, showing an “illustrative character”, which means: being in the broadest sense graphical or drawn. This includes freelance drawings, digital works, printgraphic, animation, book objects or graphical installations. Analog as well as digital works canbe handed in until August 31st 2008.

The 20 winners will be shown at a separate section at the coming ILLUSTRATIVE, the international
festival for contemporary graphic and illustrative art as well as integrated into the artist selection of the Illustrative.
The first laureate being determined at this year´s ILLUSTRATIVE in Zurich in October, is given the possibility to create the new „Limited Edition-watch“ for Swatch and will be integrated into the international campaign.

The best 20 are selected by an international jury. The jury comprises leading editors of graphic and design publications.

Good Luck to everybody who is interested in it!

For more information go to: www.illustrative.de

Hello, Marco!

Obama campaign’s creativities.

Design magazine IdeaFixa released their 11th issue. Devoted to “Desire”. So, meet your favourite designers, photographers and artists!

International Design Event. Madrid, Spain. September 12nd-13rd
Hillman Curtis, Shilo, Farfar, AKQA, Alberto Corazon, Helio Vega, Albert Folch Studio, Lamosca + more!

Design is at war with itself. We are taught that design is about finding solutions. But the success of these solutions is judged so narrowly – Did it ooze desire? Did it shift units? – that we find ourselves implicated in problems far greater than the ones we solve.

We invite you to create a flag – free from language and well-worn clichés – that embodies the idea of global citizenship. A symbol that triggers pride and cohesion, whether worn on a backpack, displayed on a door, or flown on a flagpole. A symbol for anyone to declare membership in a growing and vital human cooperative. We invite you to prove that design has a real role to play in the fate of our world.

Deadline for entries is December 1, 2008.

By Tom Vincent Creative www.hiimtom.com The poster (top) is the 1st piece in a guerilla marketing campaign I created to pitch an event concept to a Charlotte, NC Coffee Company. Its primary purpose was to get traffic to the micro site (bottom). The micro site had an information collection system, barista training videos, latte art tutorials and a number of other cool little features.

“When I finished my head drawing of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” says Janet Hamlin, “it was taken to him per the Geneva Convention rules, for approval, and he asked for me to ‘fix the nose.’ I would not be allowed to move until I did.”

Bevimi.it the most comprehensive wine Web site in Italy.

Hooray! Threadless opened the summer season as a “summer blockbuster sale” giving out tees for lower prices than usual.
More inside the post!

Italians do lust better. From luxury yacht charter and luxury cars to exquisite high fashion, MyEXL covers every aspect of a luxurious italian lifestyle.

The Planet of the Apes poster created for WIWP’s utterly fantastic Now Showing exhibition is now online and available for purchase: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellovon/2544229613/

To see the full Flickr set of the opening night and contributing artwork:
www.flickr.com/photos/keepsmesane/sets/72157601618281265/

PAPER WARS is an exhibition of the Death Machines series of paper reproductions of classic weapons systems at Portobello Road’s Craze Gallery. More inside the post!

Spraygraphic is an online community for creative people from all over the world such as artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, activists and anyone else who enjoys thought provoking culture.

Sign up for a free portfolio to display and share all types of creative projects by uploading images, video, writing, and music.

Hey, friends! Would you like your work to be published in Emil Kozak’s next book, Plenty of Design?

It’s all about “our lives, from morning to night, through objects and spaces around us on everyday needs. From a room wall to a toothbrooch stick, from a t-shirt to a skateboard, an ipod, a shoe, a toy, a flowerpot, an ashtray, a clock, a CD cover, a pack of milk or a blanket cover,… and many other curious stuff.”

You can get more info visiting:
http://www.indexbook.com/nuevo/plentyofdesign.

If you’re interested on appearing at Plenty of Design, you may know that deadline submissions are on 27th May 2008 (book size: 26×26cm, hi-res TIFF images: 300dpi, CMYK).

Scuola Politecnica di Design organizes four summer courses with the participation of the milestones of international design:

Workshop with Ross Lovegrove, 27th June – 3rd July 2008, in collaboration with Serralunga.
Workshop with Fernando and Humberto Campana, 4th July – 10th July 2008, in collaboration with 3M.
Workshop with Matali Crasset, 11th July – 17th July 2008, in collaboration with Microsoft.
Workshop with Marti Guixe, 18th July – 24th July 2008, in collaboration with Alessi.

More info.

To mark FWA’s 8th Anniversary, FWA announces the launch of its biggest additional showcase to date and its latest daily destination…

The FWA Theater

Congartulations from everyone to Rob and his FWA!