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88th Annual Art Directors Club Call for Entries!

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The Art Directors Club has posted the official guidelines and deadlines for their 88th Annual Call for Entries.  Here’s a summary:

IL215 MAGAZINE EDITORIAL
IL216 NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL
IL217 COVER, NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE
IL218 BOOK (Commercially Published Volumes Only)
IL219 BOOK JACKET
IL220 CARTOON/COMIC BOOK
IL221 CORPORATE/INSTITUTIONAL (Annual Reports, Brochures, Etc.)
IL222 SELF-PROMOTION
IL223 CALENDAR OR APPOINTMENT BOOK
IL224 POSTER OR BILLBOARD
IL225 MISCELLANEOUS
IL226 MAGAZINE ADVERTISEMENT
IL227 NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENT
IL228 POSTER OR BILLBOARD ADVERTISEMENT
IL229 PHOTOILLUSTRATION

  1. All Illustration entries, excluding books and physical volumes, should be mounted on Bristol boards with a roughly one-inch (3cm) margin.
  2. Illustrations alone will not be accepted: no fine art.
  3. For works less than 24 x 34 inches (metric A1) in size, please submit mounted originals, printed copies, proofs, reprints or tear sheets trimmed as published. Oversized entries may be represented by scaled artwork reproductions or in-situ photographs, mounted on boards.
  4. Non-English-language entries must be translated into English or have a typed English translation taped to the back of the board.
  5. For single entries, tape the printed Entry Label to the back of the board.
  6. Series entries consist of three to five (3-5) components. Please tape the printed Entry Label to the first board in the series and number the back of each board accordingly (1/3, 2/3, 3/3, etc.).
  7. Do NOT hinge, tape or “accordion” boards together.
  8. For Book categories (PH204, IL218), only commercially published volumes are accepted

For a full listing of information, check out the official website here.  Good luck!

3×3 Call for Entries!

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Passed along by Parsons Full-time Faculty Nora Krug, here’s the scoop on 3×3 magazine‘s most recent call for entries:

Mark Your Calendars!  As our 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 5 is coming off the press it’s time to start thinking about our next international illustration competitions. Here is our schedule and a few details.

3×3 Student Show
As always this show is open to all undergraduate and graduate students in all art schools, colleges and universities around the globe. Work must have been completed in calendar year 2008. A partial list of this year’s judges include illustrators/educators Alexandra Kardinar, Germany; Gary Embury, United Kingdom; Clemente Botelho, Canada and Martha Rich, John Hendrix, Nora Krug of the US. Rounding out the judges is artist representative Pat Lindgren, Lindgren & Smith.Entry deadline: February 14, 2009

3×3 ProShow
Open to all art directors, editors, designers and illustrators. Categories include: Advertising, Animation, Books, Editorial, Fashion, Gallery, Institutional, Self-Promotion, Sequential, Three-Dimensional and Unpublished. Our judges to date include art directors Alexandre Lagoet, Amsterdam, Raban Ruddigkeit, Germany and SooJin Buzelli and Darlene Simidian, the US as well as illustrators Roman Klonek and Monika Aichele, Germany, Marco Ventura, Italy and Yuko Shimizu, the US.Entry deadline: March 14, 2009

3×3 Children’s Book Show
Open to all art directors, editors, authors, designers and illustrators from around the world. All published and unpublished children’s books completed in 2008 are eligible. We are in the process of naming our judges for this year’s show. Entry Deadline: April 14. 2009

We will begin accepting entries on January 5 but full details are available online at 3x3mag.com. All entries must be either uploaded or received by the deadline. Winners will be featured in the 3×3 Illustration Annual No. 6 coming out in late 2009.  Full details on both shows are online. Remember you can pay and upload your images online. Children’s book details will be available beginning in February.

Thanks for sending along the info, Nora!

[image by Illustration Alum Jake Messing, who is listed in 3×3’s New Talent Gallery]

Night of 1000 Drawings

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NIGHT OF 1,000 DRAWINGS

Choose from among more than 1,000 original works on paper by hundreds of emerging and acclaimed artists at this signature event to benefit ARTISTS SPACE’s dynamic, artists-centered programming!

Participating artists already include Nathan Carter, Willie Cole, Stefan Kürten, Robert Longo, and Kate Shepherd

Saturday, December 13th, 2008, 3-8 pm

Original Drawings only $50-$100
Admission at the door $10
Participating artists admitted free!
Complimentary cocktails 6-7:30pm

All proceeds directly support Artists Space’s exhibitions and programs. Cash, checks, and credit cards accepted.
We are incredibly grateful to participating artists for their generous contributions of artwork.

PROCEDURE FOR SUBMISSIONS

Artists Space will accept up to two unframed, unmatted works on paper from any individual artist.
Works must be NO LARGER than 11 x 14 inches.
Photographs and digital prints are acceptable as long as they are the original media, i.e, no digital reproductions of paintings, etc.

On the back of each work, write your name, address, and email address. NO Post-It notes, please.

Mail or drop off your work to:

Night of 1000 Drawings
Artists Space,
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013.

If dropping off work in person, please do so during regular gallery hours:

Tue, Thu, Fri & Sat 12-6pm
Wed 12-8pm

Drawings will be accepted from now through Saturday, November 22. If a drawing is mailed in, it must be received at Artists Space by this date to be included; this is NOT the postmark date.

For the return of unsold work, Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.  Please be sure the envelope is of adequate size and has the proper postage.

IF YOU DO NOT INCLUDE A SELF-ADDRESSED, STAMPED ENVELOPE AND THE WORK DOES NOT SELL, IT WILL NOT BE RETURNED TO YOU.

You will receive a thank you letter and notification of sale by March, 2009.

Go here for a list of FAQ and more information.  Good luck!

[Image: Jay Henderson, Untitled, 2008, ink on paper, 11 x 8.5 inches.]

From the Inbox: “Dangers of Debt” Cartoon Contest

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Timothy Marvin, a grassroots organizer with the Consumers Union passed along this contest opportunity…

The Consumers Union “Dangers of Debt” Cartoon Contest site is live now! Anyone 18-25 can go upload their submissions. The deadline to submit is November 3rd. The grand prize winner gets $1,000 and whatever exposure is provided through our campaign and media outreach.

Our panel of celebrity judges is made up of:

Tom Gammill is a TV writer whose credits include Saturday Night Live, Late Night with David Letterman, Seinfeld and Monk.  He’s been a consulting producer at The Simpsons since 1998.
He also has a comic strip that runs weekly in the Pasadena Independent and other small weekly newspapers.

Jen Sorenson is the creator of the award-winning alternative political comic strip Slowpoke.

Lalo Alcaraz is a Mexican-American cartoonist and multimedia humorist now best known for his daily syndicated comic strip La Cucaracha.

Please check out the website and cartoons. Online voting to select the finalists begins November 6th.

Check out the official rules here and the official homepage for the contest here.

Design a bumper sticker, rock the vote…

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Good Magazine recently posted this cool opportunity.  It combines activism AND creativity!  Here are the official details:

The bumper sticker is one of the most ubiquitous and pithy forms of political expression. For the 2006 midterm elections we asked you to create an original bumper sticker on the subject of voting. Your submissions blew us away. So we’re bringing Project 001 back for the 2008 presidential election. You’re invited to get involved. Guidelines and submissions below.

We’ve updated the original Project 001 text below, and we’ll add new submissions to those from the Project’s original 2006 run.

the OBJECTIVE
To get people to vote (or at least think about it)

the ASSIGNMENT
Create a bumper sticker

the PARAMETERS
3 x 9 inches, full color

the REQUIREMENTS
The word “vote” must appear on your bumper sticker. As long as that word is included, everything else is up to you.

the DIRECTIONS
Please email your art in JPEG, PDF, or Adobe Illustrator format to project001@goodinc.com, with the subject heading: ‘PROJECT No. 1.’ Make sure to include your name as you would like it to appear in the credits. We will feature submissions here until Election Day 2008.

ABOUT THIS PROJECT:
This is the first in a series of what we call GOOD Projects, in which we challenge GOOD readers to come up with an idea and share it with the world.

There’s a grand tradition of posters being created and posted in the streets to support political causes, movements, and candidates. Unfortunately, with everyone hanging out at the mall or watching TV these days, there aren’t a lot of opportunities left to communicate through posters in the public square (except for advertising, but that’s a whole other thing.

But there’s another tradition of free expression that is still alive: the humble bumper sticker. From my child is an honor student to support our troops, Americans have been using their cars to get messages out for a long time. And if you’ve ever been stuck in traffic, you’ve had time to contemplate quite a few messages being broadcast from the suv in front of you.

This project is simple: a bumper sticker. The message is simpler: vote. Actually, you can take some liberties with the message (as designer James Victore has done, above), as long as you include the word “vote.” Just to keep things fair, we’ve set a rule on how big the sticker should be: 3 by 9 inches.

Use whatever tools you want to make your artwork. Contributions will be viewable on-and downloadable from-this page, so anyone can print out a sticker to put on his or her car. If everything works out, somebody will see that sticker and think twice about voting the next time the midterm elections roll around.

We’ll post submissions until November 4, 2008.

You can see some of the other submissions from this year and from 2006 at the official website.

Parsons/Poketo Wallet Jam Results!!

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Through a partnership created with POKETO, Parsons Illustration held a wildly successful wallet jam on Sunday. The six-hour event yielded more than 60 entries for our Poketo competition. Judging of the ever-so-tasty submissions took place the next day with Angie and Ted from Poketo, American Illustration’s Mark Heflin and our own departmental chair, Steven Guarnaccia.

POKETO designs limited edition art products, accessories, apparel and decor, taking art off gallery walls and making it part of everyday life.  Congrats to our winners: Sophia Chang, Stella Jiyeun Lee, Shu Okada, Emmanuel Tavares and Chris Yip! And thanks to everyone who participated!

Repost and Reminder: Beasts! in Movies Competition

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Jitter-Magazine has announced an international illustration competition: Beasts! in Movies.  Here are the details they passed along to us:

Jitter is the only German magazine focusing on illustration, comic art, and animation. Each issue covers a key issue like “drawing”, “music”, “laughter”, “fashion”–the forthcoming issue (October) covers “beasts”. In our categories interview, artist portrait, art show, image+narration, we present illustrators and designers, talk with art directors, publishers, university lecturers, gallery owners; we review comics, dvd, books on illustration, design, animation and fine art and related theory.

The main purpose of jitter is not only to show great artwork and artists but to have a close look at their context. We look on contemporary and historic illustration in regard to philosophy, psychology of perception, semiotics, media theory and art history. We believe that picture making is deeply rooted in mankind and not a thing of modernity or luxury.

Beasts! in Movies Competition
Entry of this competition is free.
Deadline is September 30th, 2008.

Beasts! What would man be without the creature? Whether admiration or contempt, emotion or horror, the ambivalent relationship between man and creature has been the source of countless stories of all cultures.

Seeing himself as creation’s crowning glory, man keeps his distance to nature only to use it as screen for all kinds of desires and fears. Over and over again this has been the reason for movies; whether they aim for a romantic view of a primordial lost world, used at the same time as a metaphor for the innocent of childhood or they aim for the darkest nightmares of an unnameable evil hidden in any unknown terrain — even in our own basement. The fascination of the creature is a never ending source.

All professional illustrators and students of art programs are eligible to enter. Work must be dated after August 2007 and should have beasts who appeared in movies as a theme. These beasts can be real, fantastic, harmless or menacing. The manner of the beast’s demeanor, its appearance alone, in pairs or in masses, as well as the staging of the encounter between human and beast are interesting starting points.

Work must have the size relations 1:2,35 (cinemascope) and be submitted in digital format. Work will be evaluated through a professional jury. All selected work will be showcased in Berlin in an exhibition at a cinema of the Yorck cinema-group. Faber-Castell and Adobe have kindly made available prizes amounting to Euro 3300.

We are especially happy to have a distinguished panel of judges including Armin Abmeier, Publisher (Die Tollen Hefte), GER; Andrew Coningsby, Representative (DebutArt Ltd & The Coningsby Gallery), London GB; Dr. Rolf Giesen, Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin, expert for phantastic film, GER; Steven Guarnaccia, Parsons New School for Design, New York USA; Andrea Offermann, Illustrator, GER; Prof. Albrecht Rissler, Illustrator, GER; Sabine Witkowski,Curator and Cultural Manager, H. Torsten Wolber, Illustrator, GER.

Download an entry form here!  Good luck.

Submit your work to The Best American Comics!

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What is The Best American Comics?
It’s an annual anthology of the best comics short stories and (excerpts of) graphic novels by North American authors each year, published by Houghton Mifflin. It is part of the prestigious Best American series, which also includes The Best American Short Stories, Essays, Non-Required Reading, and so on.

Eligibility
The author must be North American (i.e. from Canada, United States, or Mexico). Work published between September 1, 2007 and August 31, 2008 is eligible for the 2009 volume. The 2010 volume will cover work published from 9/1/08 * 8/31/09, and so on. Individual issues, collections, original graphic novels, and self-published comics (including mini-comics) are eligible for consideration. We must see your comics in order to consider them! Please send one copy of each book you publish to us at the address on the left. Please clearly label each book submitted with contact information and date of publication. Comics published on-line must be submitted in the form of print-outs.

How does it work?
The series editors (that’s us) are responsible for collecting, reviewing, and selecting semi-finalists from all comics published by North American authors in a given year. Each year the editorial team (ourselves and Houghton Mifflin in-house editor Anjali Singh) select an established comics author to act as guest editor. The guest editor is responsible for choosing among the semi-finalists (and adding to the list if he or she sees fit) to create the list of works for inclusion in the book. If your work is on the final list, you will be contacted by us in October or November for permission.

Send Us Your Comics!
We hope you will put the Best American Comics on your finished book mailing list and automatically send in anything that might be eligible. Keep in mind that even if you miss one year’s deadline a book will be eligible for the following year’s volume.

Note that the publishing deadline for the 2009 volume is coming up at the end of this month.  We will only accept books for this volume until mid-September so send your books in sooner rather than later!

Please send your books to us at the address below. If you have questions don’t hesitate to e-mail us at either jabel@jessicaabel.com or matt@mattmadden.com.

Mail all your eligible comics to:
Jessica Abel & Matt Madden
Series Editors
The Best American Comics
Houghton Mifflin
215 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10003

Good luck!

“Beasts! in Movies” Competition

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Jitter-Magazine has announced an international illustration competition Beasts! in Movies.  Here are the details they passed along to us:

Jitter is the only German magazine focusing on illustration, comic art, and animation. Each issue covers a key issue like “drawing”, “music”, “laughter”, “fashion”–the forthcoming issue (October) covers “beasts”. In our categories interview, artist portrait, art show, image+narration, we present illustrators and designers, talk with art directors, publishers, university lecturers, gallery owners; we review comics, dvd, books on illustration, design, animation and fine art and related theory.

The main purpose of jitter is not only to show great artwork and artists but to have a close look at their context. We look on contemporary and historic illustration in regard to philosophy, psychology of perception, semiotics, media theory and art history. We believe that picture making is deeply rooted in mankind and not a thing of modernity or luxury.

Beasts! in Movies Competition
Entry of this competition is free.
Deadline is September 30th, 2008.

Beasts! What would man be without the creature? Whether admiration or contempt, emotion or horror, the ambivalent relationship between man and creature has been the source of countless stories of all cultures.
Seeing himself as creation’s crowning glory, man keeps his distance to nature only to use it as screen for all kinds of desires and fears. Over and over again this has been the reason for movies; whether they aim for
a romantic view of a primordial lost world, used at the same time as a metaphor for the innocent of childhood or they aim for the darkest nightmares of an unnameable evil hidden in any unknown terrain — even in our own basement. The fascination of the creature is a never ending source.

All professional illustrators and students of art programs are eligible to enter. Work must be dated after August 2007 and should have beasts who appeared in movies as a theme. These beasts can be real, fantastic, harmless or menacing. The manner of the beast’s demeanor, its appearance alone, in pairs or in masses, as well as the staging of the encounter between human and beast are interesting starting points.

Work must have the size relations 1:2,35 (cinemascope) and be submitted in digital format. Work will be
evaluated through a professional jury. All selected work will be showcased in Berlin in an exhibition at a cinema of the Yorck cinema-group. Faber-Castell and Adobe have kindly made available prizes amounting to Euro 3300.

We are especially happy to have a distinguished panel of judges including Armin Abmeier, Publisher (Die Tollen Hefte), GER; Andrew Coningsby, Representative (DebutArt Ltd & The Coningsby Gallery), London GB; Dr. Rolf Giesen, Deutsche Kinemathek Berlin, expert for phantastic film, GER; Steven Guarnaccia, Parsons New School for Design, New York USA; Andrea Offermann, Illustrator, GER; Prof. Albrecht Rissler, Illustrator, GER; Sabine Witkowski,Curator and Cultural Manager, H. Torsten Wolber, Illustrator, GER.

Download an entry form here!  Good luck.