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3×3 call for entries!

February 10, 2010Call for Entries, Competitions, Current Students, Illustration Industry, Inspiration3x3, Call for Entries, competition, Illustration, professional, studentsamt

3×3 SHOWS 2010

PROFESSIONAL SHOW – DEADLINE: MARCH 15

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The 3×3 ProShow is the only truly international competition for illustration. No other show is as completely international. While many shows showcase the work of their own country’s illustrators, 3×3 features the best work from all over the world.

Winners will be invited to participate in the next 3×3 Illustration Directory which is mailed out free to a highly targeted list of 6,100 art directors and art buyers in the US.

Prizes

This year they’ll be awarding a cash prize of $1,500 for Best of Show winner and cash value prizes of $750 for each of the gold medal winners. This year all winners will receive paper certificates suitable for framing.

Eligiblity

Open to all art directors, editors, designers and illustrators.

Categories

This year’s categories include: Advertising, Animation, Books, Editorial, Fashion, Gallery, Institutional, Medical, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished.

The Judges

Nicholas Blechman, Art Director, New York Times Book Review

Stephanie Glaros, Art Director, Utne

Martin Colyer, Design Director, Reader’s Digest UK

Matthew Bell, Art Director, Scotland

Sheri Gee, Art Manager, Folio Society, UK

Christopher Silas Neal

Tatsuro Kiuchi, Japan

Nigel Buchanan, Australia

Paul Wearing, UK

If you have any questions please contact Jessica at shows@3x3mag.com, 212 591 2566 or at the studio, 718 435 4047 between 10:30am-6:30pm EST.

STUDENT SHOW – DEADLINE: MARCH 26

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The 3×3 Student Show is the only truly international competition for students majoring in illustration, featuring the best work from all over the world. Top honors in their past two shows have gone to young illustrators in Germany.

Each year they receive entries from all corners of the globe, from every major art school. Whether it’s Art Center, School of Visual Arts, Ontario College of Art and Design, University College of Falmouth, Kingston University, the Royal College of Art or other leading colleges and universities. Work is judged by illustrators who are also educators.

Prizes

This year they’ll be awarding a cash prize of $1,000 for Best of Show winner and cash value prizes of $500 for each of the gold medal winners. This year all winners will receive paper certificates suitable for framing.

Eligiblity

Open to all undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students who were attending school during the 2009 calendar year.

Categories

This year’s categories include: Advertising, Animation, Books, Editorial, Fashion, Gallery, Institutional, Medical, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished.

The Judges

This year’s judges included illustrators/educators:

Andrzej Klimowski, Royal College of Art, UK

Geoff Grandfield, Kingston University, UK

Anke Feuchtenberger, University of Applied Science, Germany Thom Sevalrud, Sheridan Institute, Canada

Pol Turgeion, Université du Québec, Canada

Scott Bakal, Massachusetts College of Art

Marcos Chin, School of Visual Arts

Each entry is judged on a scale of 0 to 4, 4 being the best. To be included in the show an entry must be given either 3 or 4 points by a majority of the judges. To win a Gold, Silver or Bronze medal a majority of the judge’s must give the piece a score of 4 points. To receive a Best of Show more than a majority of judges must give the piece a score of no less than 4 points.

CHILDREN’S BOOK SHOW

The panel for this year’s show is being selected. Details will be posted in late February.

Deadline

3×3 Children’s Show Entry deadline: April 16, 2010

Propose a design for an “Art Works” logo for the National Endowment for the Arts

February 8, 2010Call for Entries, design, Newsart works, design, federal acquisition regulation, logo, national endowment for the arts, NEAamt

Opportunity: Propose a design for an “Art Works” logo for the National Endowment for the Arts and produce a finished design that may be reproduced by the Agency in print and online

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) invites contractors to submit proposals for a design for a new “Art Works” logo for the National Endowment for the Arts and then produce a finished design that may be reproduced by the Agency in print and online, as described in the attached statements of work, under the authority of Part 12 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

Below, you will find a Statement of Work/solicitation that requests proposals for designs that will give a graphic identity to “Art Works,” two words with three meanings that the NEA Chairman has been using to sum up the work of the Agency:

1. “Art Works” is a noun that refers to the works of art that artists create.

2. “Art Works” reminds us that a goal of art is to work on audiences and viewers to inspire, transport, and challenge them.

3. “Art Works” is a reminder that arts workers are real workers who are part of this country’s real economy. They earn salaries, support families, pay taxes. Artists are also entrepreneurs and placemakers, who revitalize towns, cities, and neighborhoods – both the economies and the ethos of them.

Questions concerning this proposal shall be submitted only via email to harrisl@arts.gov before or by 5:00 pm (EST) on Wednesday, February 10, 2010. Please submit your proposals by Friday, February 26, 2010 at 5:00 p.m. (EST) via email to artworksrfp@arts.gov. This RFP in no way obligates the U.S. Government to award a contract, nor does it commit the U.S. Government to pay any cost incurred in preparing and submitting your proposal.

The Government will award a contract resulting from this solicitation to the responsible offeror whose offer, conforming to the solicitation; will be most advantageous to the Government; price and other factors considered. In order to select the winning offeror, NEA will rank offerors from best to worst. In addition to the narrative assessments prepared by the Evaluation Team for each evaluation factor, a point scoring system will be used to rank all technical proposals. The point scoring system uses a rating scale of 100%. However, NEA will not select an offeror for award on the basis of a superior capability without consideration of the amount of its price. In order to select the winning proposal, NEA will rank each offeror by making a series of paired comparisons between them, trading off the marginal differences in capability with the marginal difference in price.

The Government’s estimate is approximately $25,000.00. The period of performance will be at the time of award through submission of the final product.

Proposals submitted in response to this RFP will be received by email to artworksrfp@arts.gov.

Proposals that are faxed will not be accepted. Proposals must be received by the closing date and time stated above. Please refer any questions concerning this request to Latonca M. Harris at (202) 682-5476 or by email at harrisl@arts.gov.

Click here to download the entire NEA proposal/solicitation.

Good luck!

Internship Fair for Current Students on February 3rd

January 27, 2010Current Students, Education, Events, Illustration Industry, Internships, Newsemployment, internship fair, parsons career servicesamt

Attention all current Parsons students: we hope you can join Parsons Career Services at the Parsons Internship Fair! This event is a great opportunity for students to find spring and summer semester internships. Even if students are not eligible to intern this semester or have already found an internship, we encourage them to attend the event and network with industry professionals. Forty employers will be in attendance, including companies that are new to the event such as BBH-ZAG, Delia’s, Disney Consumer Products, Harmonix, Kiehl’s, and Sam Edelman. We hope to see you there!

Parsons Internship Fair
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
55 West 13th Street, Lang Hall, 2nd floor

Employers attending include:

Abercrombie & Fitch

American Eagle Outfitters

A|X Armani Exchange

BBH – ZAG

BCBG MAX AZRIA GROUP

Calvin Klein

CBX

Coach

Colette Malouf

Club Monaco

Delia’s, Inc.

Disney Consumer Products

Eileen Fisher, Inc.

Gucci Group

Harmonix Music

Hyperakt

Interbrand

J.Crew

Johnson & Johnson

John Varvatos

Kenneth Cole Productions

Kiehl’s

Large Animal Games

Limitedbrands

Li & Fung USA

Marvel

Michael Kors (USA), Inc.

Movado Group, Inc.

MTV Networks

Ogilvy

Polo Ralph Lauren

Ralph Appelbaum Associates

R/GA

Sam Edelman Shoes

Stark Design

Stylecaster

Tracey Locke Partnership

Time Inc.

V Magazine / Vman

To participate, students must be currently enrolled in a Parsons degree program (Associates, Bachelors, or Masters program). Students must bring a student id to the event and also several resumes and a portfolio or reel, if applicable. Students who may have questions regarding how to find an internship, determine eligibility to take an internship, or how to register for credit, can go to the following link for further information: www.parsons.edu/internships.

Event sponsored by Parsons Career Services, 2 West 13 Street, room 511, parsonscareers@newschool.edu, 212-229-8940. Please contact the office if you have questions or need further details.

Call for Entries: Student Submissions for Society Illustrators 2010 and American Illustration 29

January 20, 2010Call for Entries, Competitions, Current Students, Illustration Dept. Events, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Inspirationamerican illustration 29, competition, Illustration, jordin isip, Society of Illustratorsamt

(Click on image below to enlarge and get all the important details about how Parsons Illustration students can submit to these important and prestigious illustration competitions!)

Vote for Guillermo!

January 14, 2010Competitions, Illustration Alumni, Newsartistswanted.org, chris weitz, flavorpill, gawker artists, guillermo riveros, helen hsu, power of self, sascha lewis, steve buscemiamt

Parsons Illustration Alum Guillermo Riveros (’09) tipped us off (via email) that he’s involved in a photography portfolio contest, hosted by artistswanted.org. The title of the contest is “The Power of Self,” an international competition celebrating the vitality of self portraiture. A panel of judges including actor Steve Buscemi, director Chris Weitz, Guggenheim curator Helen Hsu and Flavorpill founder Sascha Lewis will award one artist a package of incredible prizes including six months of free living at The Edge in New York City or $7007 in cash. The most popular portfolio as voted by the public will also receive $1,000 cash.

You can view and vote for Guillermo’s portfolio here:

http://www.artistswanted.org/GRiveros

Every vote counts!

Also, make sure to check out more of Guillermo’s work at his website:

www.guillermoriveros.com

Good luck, Guillermo!

Quick Hit: Art for Gifts

November 5, 2009Call for Entries, Current Students, Illustration Alumni, Randomly Intriguingart for gifts, brooklyn, nyc, ouchi gallery, shu okadaamt

ART for GIFTS

Nov. 24th – Dec 13th 20009

“Give an original art piece as a gift” to someone you love, so they can feel closer to art and have art as a part of their life… That is the concept of “Art for Gifts”. With the winter holiday season coming close, Ouchi Gallery will turn into an art store for 3 weeks to exhibit and sell various artists’ works as gifts.　We encourage craft artists, jewelry artists, illustrators, and postcards, t-shirts, prints designers in New York area to submit small to middle size works that will be great for gifts. The joy you feel when your art becomes somebody’s gift. That would be the best gift for yourself too.

DEADLINE: November 15th.

Application Eligibility: Local artists and craft artists who can carry in their art to the gallery.

To Apply: Please email up to 3 pictures of your artwork to be judged including the following information of your submitting works; title, year, size, medium to: info@min-gei.com

[Thanks for Illustration Alum Shu Okada for passing along this opportunity!]

Call for Entries: Illustrators 52!

October 19, 2009Call for Entries, Competitions, Current Students, Illustration Faculty, Illustration Industry, Newsbook, comics, editorial, Illustration, institutional, nora krug, sequential, Society of Illustrators, uncommissionedamt

ILLUSTRATORS 52 is now accepting entries online and Nora Krug, Associate Professor of Illustration, is Chair of the competition this year!

To upload your entries, please format your artwork to these specs:

72 dpi, RGB, JPEG file, 700 pixels on the longest side.

Please provide all of the appropriate credit information for each entry. THIS INFORMATION MUST BE COMPLETED TO BE JUDGED!

ELIGIBILITY

Any illustration created or initially published between October 1, 2008 and November 1, 2009 that has not been accepted in the Annual previously, is eligible. International entries are welcome. Each submission will receive consideration by every member of the jury for its category. Please be certain that the original art will be available for exhibition and can remain at the Society from January through March 2010. High-quality prints will be hung in the case of digitally created art only.

ILLUSTRATORS 52 ANNUAL BOOK

All accepted entries will be reproduced in full color in the Illustrators 52 Annual. Complete credit will accompany the image, including size, media and artist’s and/or rep’s phone number(s). The Hanging/Publication fee is required for reproduction in the book, whether or not the work was displayed in the exhibition.

AWARDS

Gold and Silver Medals will be presented to the illustrators and art directors whose works are judged the best in each category. Medals will be presented only if original art is available to hang in the exhibition. A high-quality print will qualify in case of digitally created work.

GALAS

The Sequential Gala will take place on Friday, January 8, 2010.

The Editorial and Book Gala will take place on Friday, February 5, 2010.

The Advertising, Institutional and Uncommissioned Awards Gala will take place on Friday, March 5, 2010.

Ticket information will follow.

EXHIBITIONS

Sequential: January 6- January 23, 2010

Editorial and Book: January 27 – February 20, 2010

Advertising, Institutional and Uncommissioned- February 24- March 20, 2010

CATEGORIES

All work whether published or not, should be entered in one of the first six categories:

COMICS/SEQUENTIAL
Any multi-image project for which a sequence of images is necessary to fully convey an idea or story. Examples: work that has been produced or published as comics, visual journalism or short visual narratives and picture stories, or graphic novels. Individual images from sequential may also be submitted in their respective categories. Self-published projects must be published in a run of at least 500 copies. Children’s book entries should be entered in the Book category only, not Sequential.

EDITORIAL
Examples: work commissioned by newspapers or magazines, medical and scientific journals or online magazines.

BOOK
Examples: all illustrations originally commissioned for use inside or on the covers of hardbound and paperback books, including fiction and non-fiction; children’s and young adult literature and comic books. Promotional posters or advertisements depicting book art must be submitted in the book category.

ADVERTISING
Examples: illustrations for advertisements appearing in newspapers, magazines or on television; video and CD covers; brochures, fashion, point-of-purchase and packaging illustration; movie and theater posters.

INSTITUTIONAL
Examples: work appearing on merchandise, announcements, annual reports, calendars, corporate projects, government service projects, greeting cards, newsletters, in-house publications, philatelic work and collectibles.

UNCOMMISSIONED
This includes all self-generated work such as portfolio samples, sourcebook ads and uncommissioned stock that are currently unpublished except as promotion for the artist or artist’s representative. Commissioned but un-published work appearing as self-promotion should be entered in the category for which the work was originally created. There will be no art directors or clients credited for uncommissioned works.

ENTRY FEES

$30 per entry for non-members of the Society of Illustrators.

$20 for members of the Society of Illustrators entering their own illustrations.

$35 per entry for non-members of the Society of Illustrators entering Comics/Sequential

$30 for members of the Society of Illustrators entering their own Comics/Sequential

Art directors and designers pay the non-member fees.

Deadline for entry is October 30th!

Illustration by Lorenzo Mattato. Design by Arem Duplessis. Chair: Nora Krug. Co-Chair: Edel Rodriguez

Call for Visual Submissions by 12th Street magazine

October 13, 2009Call for Entries, Current Students, News, Publications12th Street magazine, Illustration, paintings, photographs, visual submissions, writingamt

12streetmagazine

12th Street, the literary magazine published by the Riggio Honors Program: Writing and Democracy, is seeking quality poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. It is also accepting submissions of photographs, paintings, or other visual material that can be reproduced in magazine format.

Prose submissions should not exceed 9,000 words and poetry submissions should not include more than seven poems. Submissions will be read anonymously. Please submit a cover sheet including your name, the title or titles of your works, and your contact information. Your name should not appear on any of the other pages of your work.

12th Street is committed to publishing the literary work of The New School’s undergraduate community. Our mission is to present literature that discusses the artist as intellectual and explores the role of the writer in the world. We want to promote literature as an engine of democracy.

12th Street is widely distributed in bookstores around the country and on the New School campus. Please send your work to juliecarl13@yahoo.com no later than November 15.

Call for Entries: Buckminster Fuller Challange

October 5, 2009Call for Entries, Competitions, Current Students, design, Inspiration, Newsbfi challenge, buckminster fuller, design, energy, humanityamt

The Buckminster Fuller Institute announces the call for entries to the 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge, an annual $100,000 prize program to support the development and implementation of a solution that has significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Here’s the official press release:

We all understand in part or whole the magnitude of the complex challenges facing humanity today; from climate change, energy and resource management, to keeping the ever-increasing human population fed for generations to come. Challenges of this magnitude require bold, visionary strategies; they require what Buckminster Fuller called “a design revolution”. Pieces of the complex puzzle to create an enduringly sustainable future for all are out there, but it will take more than an innovative gadget, isolated technological breakthrough, policy or process development to tackle the problems of our complex and interconnected world.

“We’re looking for comprehensive anticipatory design solutions that address multiple problems without creating new ones down the road – integrated strategies dealing with key social, economic, environmental, policy and cultural issues. Our entry criteria is deeply inspired by what Fuller termed comprehensive anticipatory design science – a methodological approach to solving complex problems that we feel holds an important key to how innovators need to be thinking about the design of strategies if they are to have a transformative effect on the system as a whole.” explains Elizabeth Thompson, Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute.

After decades of tracking world resources, innovations in science and technology, and human needs, Fuller asserted that options exist to successfully surmount the crises of unprecedented scope and complexity facing all humanity – he issued an urgent call for a design science revolution to make the world work for all.

ANSWERING THIS CALL IS WHAT THE BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE IS ALL ABOUT!

-The deadline for entries is midnight (Eastern time) on OCTOBER 30, 2009.

-For the call for entries, instructions for how to enter, reference materials, and much more, visit: http://challenge.bfi.org

CJ Picture Book Awards deadline approaching

September 21, 2009Call for Entries, Current Students, Illustration Industry, Newscj picture book awards, drawing, get published!, Illustrationamt

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Thanks to Andre da Loba for passing along this info!

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