Call for Entries: 2010 Cover Contest

	IMAGINE YOUR WORK ON THE COVER OF A MAGAZINE! Here’s your chance to make it happen! Professional Photographer magazine invites you to submit photographs for a chance to have your image featured on a cover of Professional Photographer. In addition to landing the cover of a 2010 edition of Professional Photographer, the winner will also be awarded a selection of prizes from our generous sponsors: Canon, Kodak, Manfrotto Distribution and White House Custom Colour. How to Enter Go to www.ppmag.com to enter. Choose your best example of an image that is representative of the work you sell your clients—portraits, weddings, commercial, sports, events, etc. Only digital files uploaded at www.ppmag.com will be accepted.The submission deadline is Tuesday, June 1, 2010. Entries for this year’s contest will be limited to one image per entrant. Vote for your favorite! For the first time, you can rate your favorite cover entries. Vote and you could win a Canon PowerShot G11!
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4 days left to enter the Illustration Competition

Call for Entries: Enter the most prestigious juried competition for illustration.

Enter by January 8, 2010 to avoid late fees.*

Introduce your work to the world. Enter Communication Arts magazine’s 51st Illustration Competition. Hundreds of award-winning images are selected for their creative excellence—by an esteemed jury of designers and art directors—in editorial, advertising, institutional, for sale and unpublished categories.

Why enter?
CA’s Award of Excellence is one of the most-coveted awards in the industry. If chosen, winning places you in the highest ranks of your profession. Ask any creative director which competitions rank as the most influential and they’ll place Communication Arts at the top of the list.

* Entries submitted after January 8, 2010 require a $10 per entry late fee. No entries will be accepted after January 22, 2010.

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“Each year we focus an issue of STEP on the subject of type. While it's easy to get caught up in the latest fonts or the tools we use to access and manipulate them, that's not all this issue is about. As Allan Haley, who guest-edited this issue's special type section, points out in his introduction on page 71, type's diversity is among its enduring attractions. So it's only fitting that in the articles about type that follow, the full range of human cultures, moods and technologies is explored with all the scrutiny and joy the subject deserves ..." { Read more }

In This Issue: May/June 2008
1: Gail Anderson: Versatile Typophile
2: For The Love Of Letterpress
3: Type Tips & Tricks: InDesign CS3
4: Wish You Were Here
5: Pro Practice: Tracking The Money, Part 1