2008 green earth graphic design competition result

Sorry! Very sorry!!! Post the wrong (last year) winning result. Here's this year (2008) green earth competition winners...

1st prize
name of design : greening (pop-up card)
design by : ji yoon Yang from korea

2nd prizename of design : recycle at xmas
design by : Benjamyn Cox + Lloyd Moffat from uk

3rd prizes (x3)name of design : Plain Cloud
design by : glen baghurst + matthew cullin from australia


name of design : santa's readjustment
design by : camila gimeno from chile


name of design : christmas wreath- green messages
design by : felicia lee from taiwan

(picture and text taken from designboom.com)

Click on link to visit designboom.com read all the winning designs national and view other shortlisted entries.

Related post:
Green Earth International Graphic Design Competition

love your earth competition results

And the winner goes to...

1ST PRIZEname of design : sprout: symbols to cultivate change
design by : Savio Alphonso + instructors for my mfa thesis: theron moore + john t. drew + sergio lizarraga from usa

2ND PRIZEname of design : a tree is not just a tree
design by : agasuke , + jun tashiro (agasuke) from japan

3RD PRIZE (X3)
name of design : one love
design by : jakub stepien from poland


name of design : fossil fuel
design by : sei shimura from japan


name of design : thou shalt love thy neighbour
design by : albrecht marius from switzerland

For more info please click on link to visit designboom and view the shortlisted entries. (text & picture taken from designboom.com)

Related post:
Green Earth International Graphic Design Competition

iStock t-shirt design Contest: Screen Yrself

Entry date: Sep 11, 2008 - Closing date: Oct 09, 2008

Design your own iStock t-shirt and win swag. We're holding a 3-color rumble: five winners get 500 bucks each, plus a sample of their own wearable design that will be printed and sold to rabid iStockers all around the world. Estonian punk-rock photographers, South-African Flash gurus, Alabama soccer moms, and weird basement Linux guys will all be forking out cash for your t-shirt.

• Download the .zip source files with the iStock logos and specs.

• Design a 3 color, screenable T-shirt and upload a 600 x 800 jpg here.

• Win. See your design splashed across the collective iStock chest. Spend your $500 on something you don't need.

Important! The winning design must be no more than 3 colors (no gradients), suitable for silkscreen printing, and utilize at least one iStockphoto image (include file#) plus the iStockphoto logo. Final artwork must be provided as a layered file (Photoshop, Illustrator) with all colors separated on layers.

Click on link to read the complete rules and regulations here.

(picture and text taken from istockphoto)

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Green Earth International Graphic Design Competition

Following the success of last year's 'love your earth' competition, designboom and the DA design association japan have joined together, along with TOBU DEPARTMENT STORE to organize the 'green earth' international design competition...

Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world, to professionals, students, and design-enthusiasts. Free registration required.

The subject of the international competition is
green earth

TOBU DEPARTMENT STORE is affiliated with world heritage kew gardens and helps organize campaigns to help raise awareness and protect the earth. For the competition 'green earth' you are asked to enter projects in to one or both of the following 2 categories:

'green'
Create a graphic artwork that illustrates the environmental protection and how human beings and nature could coexist in a greener world.

'earth'
Give the gift of a greener world at christmas. create a graphic artwork that will make this festive time of the year a moment to consider what we can do to help our planet's survival. You can use iconic christmas motifs in your design for example reindeers, trees, etc.

Awards
The designers of the 5 winning entries will be granted with cash prize awards :
- 1st prize: ¥500,000 YEN
- 2nd prize: ¥200,000 YEN
- 3 x 3rd prize(s): ¥100,000 YEN (each)
TOBU DEPARTMENT STORE will use a selection of the shortlisted entries for disposable shopping bags and for other promotional material. The eco-bags will be also presented during the tokyo designer’s week 2008.
Designers will be fully credited when their work is used. And as always… designboom will publish an exhaustive results report.

Design Criteria
Your designs must satisfy the following criteria:

Original/innovative design
avoid the obvious, fashionable fads and styles, illustrate what is most important to you.

Attractive design
Good sense of color, typography, illustration, photography etc.

Communication
Your design should be related to the theme 'green earth'. Deliver an instant message with your image.

Flexibility
It should be easy to adapt your design for different types of mediums, flags, stamps, posters etc.
Your design could be used in a single color.

Registration deadline
Application registration will be accepted from june 17 through august 26, 2008.

Submit your entry / entries
Whether you're an individual or group, you can only submit a maximum of 3 works.

For each entry you are required to prepare a hi-res file of your design approximately 50 x 50 cm (vertical format) , 300dpi (the original hi-res image(s) of your entry will be requested if your work is shortlisted.)

Up to 3 files for uploading to our server each entry should consist of maximum three images:
please note: use only .gif, .jpeg, (72 dpi) max 100 KB each file, RGB color mode.
maximum image size for uploading is 600 (width) x 700 (height) pixels..

The original high-resolution image(s) will be requested if your work is shortlisted.

Explanation of ideas
You have the possibility to explain your design by entering a brief description, in the text entry fields (english text only, explanation is expected to be concise).

You will be requested to accept the competition guidelines
Competition guidelines: projects participating to the competition, must be original works. Projects must be free from copyrights and any kind of obligation. the design shall not in any way infringe any third party’s right, including but not limited to copyright, logos, trademark, trade names, or other proprietary rights of publicity or privacy.
Only entries with a declaration of authorship are accepted ! (when submitting your design you will be asked to tick a box of declaration)

Deadline for submission of entries
Works can be submitted through august 27, 2008.

Copyright
Any moral and paternity right regarding the project sent in for application is designer’s property. However by participating in the competition, all participants authorise DESIGNBOOM and TOBU DEPARTMENT STORE to publish and exhibit all the designs (including project data submitted) – waiving compensation – at exhibitions and events and / or to use them for disposable shopping bags and for other promotional material that the organisers may deem suitable and/or necessary.
Designers will be fully credited when their work is used.
(text & graphic taken from designboom.com)

For more details, please visit designboom.com

Wacom 2nd Anime/Manga Contest :: My First Love

Here's a good news for all the anime and manga lover. Enter the Wacom 2nd Anime/Manga Contest and win some exclusive prizes.

It's that time of the year again when school kids in Japan return to school beneath the showers of cherry blossom petals, and hearts on envelopes containing love confessions to their future sweethearts (a few heartbreakers too...but we're optimistists here at Wacom). We'd like to invite you to illustrate your own anime/manga scene of your first love for the 2nd Wacom Anime/Manga Contest on the Wacom Community. Good luck!!

Rules: All submissions must abide by the contest and submission rules of the Wacom Community. In particular, submissions may not contain any nudity, adult situations, violence or other obscenities, and must be original. Submissions of fan art or other copyrighted images or characters will not be considered. Wacom reserves the right to reject, remove, and/or disqualify entries at its discretion.

Eligibility: All residents of Wacom Asia Pacific countries (does not include China, Hong Kong or Japan). Limited to one entry per person. No entry fee necessary.

Submission Deadline: May 31, 2008 (Contest officially ends at midnight, Tokyo time. Please be aware of time differences when submitting.)

Entry guidelines: JPG, GIF, PNG format, 72dpi / Max 1MB

Grand Prize: Intuos3 9x12 or 6x11
Most Romantic Moment Award: Intuos3 4x6
Kawaii (Cute) Award: Bamboo Fun medium white
Prizes will be judged on originality and artistic merit by Wacom.

One of participant's entry (by Krenz Cushart, Taiwan)

For more details, please click on link to visit wacom-asia.com

HyperXgirl character design contest

For those who like character design, here's a good chance to show the world how good you are and win some attractive prizes. Kingston is having a HyperXgirl character design contest.

Contest Period
March 17, 2008 – April 30, 2008 23:59 Taipei local time (GMT+8:00).
Names of winner will be announced on Kingston website on June 5, 2008

Eligibility
Entry is open to residents of Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand , Vietnam and other countries in Asia.

How To Enter
All contestants must enter their personal information and upload the artwork via this website .
Contestants may be an individual or a group.

File format
JPEG format of no less than 90% of quality, 800x600 Pixels, 72 dpi resolutions, file size does not exceed 1 MB, and same artwork up to 3 different angles.

Online Voting
Voting period:May 5, 2008 – May 20, 2008

Prizes
Amateur Group
One (1) Grand Prize -an award certificate, cash prize of USD $1,000,
Kingston products valued at USD $200.
One (1) Second Place - an award certificate, cash prize of USD $700,
Kingston products valued at USD $150.
One (1) Third Place -an award certificate, cash prize of USD $500,
Kingston products valued at USD $100.
Twenty (20) Excellence Award - an award certificate,
Kingston products valued at USD $100.


Professional Group
One (1) Grand Prize - an award certificate, cash prize of USD $5,000,
Kingston products valued at USD $300.
One (1) Second Place - an award certificate, cash prize of USD $3,500, Kingston products valued at USD $200.
One (1) Third Place -an award certificate, cash prize of USD $2,000,
Kingston products valued at USD$100.
Three (3) Excellence Award -an award certificate, cash prize of USD $1,000, Kingston products valued at USD$100.

Click on link to visit the Official Website for more details.
Kingston HyperXgirl contest Official website