Design and Advertising Competitions Call For Entries

Design & Advertising Competitions
Enter the most prestigious design and advertising competitions in the world.
Promote your talent—enter the largest juried competitions in graphic design and advertising. If selected, your award-winning work will be beautifully reproduced in the 2010 Design and Advertising Annuals, and on the Communication Arts Web site, assuring a prominent place on the premier stage of the industry.
Why enter? CA’s Award of Excellence is one of the most-coveted awards in the industry. If selected, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession. Ask any creative director which competitions rank as the most influential, and they will place Communication Arts at the top of the list.
SHARE THIS:	Submission Guidelines and FAQs: commarts.com/competitions/design commarts.com/competitions/advertising To Enter Online NOW: submit2.commarts.com Entries must be sumitted by May 14, 2010. Entries submitted after that date require a $10 per entry late fee. No entries will be accepted after May 28, 2010.

Last Chance for Professionals! ADC 88th Annual Awards Call for Entries!‏

Don't miss the professional deadline extension of January 23, 2009 and the January 30, 2009 deadline for Students. It's your chance to win a Gold Cube in the 88th Annual Awards. Enter your Advertising, Design, Interactive, Photography, Illustration and even unpublished work in Playground. There are also breakout categories, ADC Hybrid and ADC Design Sphere, and a sponsored award from Corbis! So go ahead, enter now!

Please note: Your package needs to be postmarked on or before the deadline. All payment and packages must be received by February 2, 2009 for your work to be judged in the Annual Awards.

CAD vs. programming…what should we teach?

Many of us have limited resources to teach technology courses, both in terms of available staff and computing facilities. We’ve taught a course in CAD (Computer Aided Design/Drawing/Drafting) for some time and it has always been popular with students. The instructor has extensive experience in engineering and architecture and does a great job with the course. I have to wonder, though, as a geek who also has to pay the bills, if CAD is the best use of scarce resources. Read More >>

Suggested Reading

Licensing Art & Design
by Caryn R. Leland

Whether you are a designer, illustrator, photographer, or fine artist, you can increase your income by licensing your creative images.

This book will show you how by providing expert coverage of the following areas: how to protect your ideas with copyrights, patents, and trademarks; model licensing agreement; a negotiation checklist to evaluate deals; how to maximize royalties; how to find manufacturers and distributors; and licensing in cyberspace. The revised edition now covers the licensing of multimedia and electronic rights. Read the Reviews Allworth Press.