Soft & Furry

Here’s something that may help entertain all you designers on an otherwise dull friday. SOFT&FURRY is a project dedicated to creativity and collaboration. The premise behind S&F™ is to elicit participation in an alternative logo design competition. The winning logo will adorn the packaging and other associated elements of an all new, fully custom, handmade line of designer collectible toys.

Visto Brahma

A few months back we publicized a competition to design the packaging for Visto Brahma. Well, we’ve just found out the winner was Toby Whitebread with the above design. 4 other runners up were picked, and you can see the winning artwork o the Visto Brahma website.

Anyway there is a continuation to this project which involves voting for your favourite of 15 runners up who didn’t make the winning list. These guys are fighting for a place in a UK nationwide Brahma exhibition that will be touring next month. You can go to www.vistobrahma.com and place your vote.

Diesel Wall Art Contest

I’ve been meaning to post this for ages…. but here is another possible outlet for your creative juices brought to you by those lovely people at Diesel.

“FOUR NEW DIESEL WALLS IN NY, MANCHESTER, BARCELONA & ZURICH TAKE OVER THESE SPACES. THESE WALLS ARE YOURS

Launching on March 3rd, the 5th edition of the Diesel Wall art contest continues its tour around the world and reaches 4 new corners of the planet: Manchester (UK), Barcelona (Spain), Zurich (Switzerland) and NY (US).

From March 3rd until July 11th ‘08, any creative, inspired person from any country in the world can apply online www.dieselwall.com and submit his/her designs for the chance to feature in this new edition of the project…and conquer a Wall! The artists will have total freedom in sending concepts: art is above all a means of unconstrained self-expression.

With this philosophy, Diesel created Diesel Wall 5 years ago, a competition dedicated to everyone, anywhere, offering the opportunity to change the urban landscape by showcasing art works on an extraordinary scale on monumental, freestanding vertical walls in the centres of world’s most important cities. The ultimate goal being to salvage what prominent precious public space is left.

Diesel Wall will take your art. Your power of dissuasion. Your ability to disrupt, incite and excite. Inspire and intrigue. Mystify and comment. Make beautiful and real. Make people think again. Artworks - conceived for a specific Wall or for all four Walls - can use painting, photography, video, performance, light, sound, text, experimental concepts including 3D, performance and show elements are also welcome.”

ADC Young Guns 6 Call for Entries

Under 30? Professional designer? Fancy entering your work into a cracking competiton? Then the call for entrants to ADC Young Guns 6 could be for you. Still interested? Read on…

“ADC Young Guns exists to identify today’s vanguard of young professionals across all creative disciplines. Those of you who’ve set your minds to making a name for yourself, raising new standards from within cubicles, conference rooms, cramped apartments, and studios across the world, this is your chance to put those battle cries in action.

Entrants must be 30 years of age or younger and must have been working professionally for at least 2 years (both full-time and freelance work qualify). Entrants can submit both professional AND personal, unpublished work.

Fifty new ADC Young Guns will be chosen!”

Deadline: June 2, 2008

Enter here: http://www.adcyoungguns.org

Thanks to Noemie for the tip!