Dazed Lets Fashion Masses Create their Cover

The open source graffiti project - “The Free Range Duck Project” once again lets you design the next sticker.
The winning design will be sent round the world for free - a great chance to spread your work!

www.freerangeduck.com/?p=46

Don’t Panic and the Design Museum have partnered with Flickr to invite you to share your photography on the theme of Design Cities.

The new Design Cities exhibition at the Design Museum commemorates seven key cities at their creative heights through contemporary design - London, Paris, Vienna, Dessau, Los Angeles, Milan and Tokyo.

We don’t mind where you come from though - we’d like to see contemporary design in your cities, so show us your favourite contemporary design, whether it be architecture, furniture, vehicles, technology or fashion. We want to know what makes the metropolis personal to you, so surprise us!

A panel of 3 judges (to be announced) will select 20 photos to be printed and exhibited in the Design Museum in January 2009. One photograph will be selected to be printed on 80,000 Don’t Panic posters and distributed across the U.K and some major international cities.

Please submit entries to www.flickr.com/groups/designcities/

3 Mobile and Don’t Panic are looking for a designer to create a poster as part of a street ad campaign, and there’s a prize of £500 ($900).

Mobile Broadband is a service offered by 3 that gives customers access to the internet on their PC or laptop using a USB modem and 3’s HSDPA network. Mobile Broadband and dongles are becoming more widely understood but there is still an education job to do to communicate their benefits, and that’s where Don’t Panic comes in.

We wanted to organise a competition that allowed artists and creative types as much freedom as possible, while still creating a visual message which related to 3’s mobile dongle (they are offering you £500 after all!). We want you to create a personal, unique piece of work representing freedom, communication, locality or whatever you can draw from 3’s mobile-broadband Dongle. You can take any part of it as your inspiration: it’s name, it’s functionality, it’s colour scheme, mobilisation, the internet, whatever.

As well as a £500 cash prize, the winner (as selected from a publically voted shortlist) will also have their work reproduced as part of a limited edition collection of posters available through east London, as well as being used in a flyer poster campaign and included on stickers inside the Don’t Panic packs. The collection will be exhibited in the Truman Brewery in October where the winner can come down and showcase their skills in a live art studio with some of the UKs leading creative artists.

This is a chance for you to shine, to create something cool, desirable and beautiful and have it seen via various media throughout the world.
If you’re interested in submitting a piece of work, please head over to www.dontpaniconline.com/threestreetwork/ for the full brief.

The competition opens for submissions worldwide on 1 Sept and run until 28 Sept

Australia’s Virgin Mobile has half-filmed three TV commercials for its All You Can Eat campaign, based around bizarre events happening at a 1950’s American diner, and has launched a competition calling for entries to the endings.

You can storyboard the endings to “Mafia Kidnapping”, “UFO Abduction”, or “Police Getaway”, and win a road trip adventure, complete with one-way flights for 2 to Cairns, $5000 cash, a Canon HD digital video camera, a phone… and that’s on top of them making the winning ad and it going on TV! There are also tons of runner-up prizes.

As a creative tool, they’ve designed a very nifty flash app to sketch on top of the TV commercials, complete with kapows, thuds and bang-bangs-bangs.  You can even change the film genre to a Spaghetti Western if you like. Entries close August 31.

Check out the 15-second TV ad stubs, the gallery of entries already submitted, and the very sweet prize right here! http://www.whathappensnext.com.au/

Getting a job as a game designer proving tricky? Don’t Panic want you to create a character for the upcoming PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet. The winning entry gets massive exposure and a glowing sense of pride (plus a copy of the game and a PS3).

The competition is open until 4^th August 2008. Trailer here…

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