Don’t Panic are currently running a clothing design competition with New Era to create a new 59Fifty cap for them, and we’d like to see what you can do.

New Era pretty much have the market cornered when it comes to caps. As such, they’ve had literal boatloads of high & mighty guest designers, including Spike Lee, Danny Way, Travis Barker, Gym Class Heroes, Fat Joe, Dizzy Rascal, and Jake Burton. We’d like talented new designers and students to add to their catalogue with their hot headwear designs, so we’re opening this competition to give you the chance.

The winning design will become the next Footasylum exclusive and sold at Footasylum stores throughout the UK. We’re also offering two runners up 12 pieces of their own design.

Pick up a Design Template in store at Footasylum or apply online at Don’t Panic where we have a live interactive voting gallery. Entries open worldwide until 15 Nov.

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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

Round 4 of the HUGO Create challenge is open for entries!

HUGO Fragrances invites artists working in any medium to submit their graphic designs, illustrations or photography to the HUGO Create contest website: www.hugocreate.com.
The 4th round of HUGO Create is now open for entries. This round runs until September 5, 2008.

A lot of music aficionados not only listen to music, they also love their album sleeves and concert posters. While listening to their favorite tunes, they look at the illustrations and photographs on the sleeves or embrace the memories that come with the concert posters on their wall. Sometimes the visual image is as important as the sound.

The dream of many up-and-coming artists and designers is to be commissioned to do a record sleeve or poster for their favorite group or singer. With Round 4 of the HUGO Create contest, HUGO Fragrances challenge creatives from all over the world to design a Vinyl Cover or Music Poster, starring the HUGO Man Bottle.

The choice of style of music is completely up to you and your image may contain illustration, painting, photos, collages, typography, … If your work is a Vinyl Cover, your finished work should be in a square format (672 x 672 pixels), if you create a Music Poster your final image will have to be a portrait poster format 672 pixels large x 960 pixels high. Please make sure that your file is max. 0.5 MB big. In case you become one of the winners, HUGO will need a hi-res version of your visual.

Prizes include 10 x $500, exposure on the HUGO Create website and the visual of the round winner will be featured in i-D Magazine.

Adam Mathew Lipton, Round 3 winner

Leslie Pinto

We all enjoyed the first round of the HUGO Create challenge when we were inspired by Urban Skylines and we sure do like Round 2 that is now up and running: Urban Thrills - Music & Nightlife.

Today creative individuals are mixing their multi-disciplinary skills and talents to go beyond the traditional paths. HUGO Fragrances takes traditional design contests a step further by offering upcoming talent a global platform. The HUGO Create challenge is to give designers, illustrators and photographers the chance to show the world their abilities by the creation of a stunning tribute to the iconic HUGO Man bottle. It all comes down to strong ideas and pure skills.
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