Mail Me Art 2

This just in, my piece for Mail Me Art2 made it all the way to the United Kingdom without getting lost!!! I am so proud!!! Check out mine and all the other submission here at: Mail Me Art 2 and if you like what you see buy the book of all submitted art this year and last year and have something cool to look at!!! or at least make your coffee table more pretty.

http://mailmeart.com/going-postal/gallery/mail-me-art-two/?album=1&gallery=14


Pic by January's winner Michael Hacker: www.michaelhacker.at

A-kon t-shirt submission

Hot off the presses, brand spankin new design for A-kon. Their theme was penguins this was the first thing that came to mind >^.^<


If I win you can all crash with me at the hotel for the convention!

Strand tote bag submission

As we say in Comm design, this was made quick and dirty :)
but hey I made it in by the deadline, I am super happy I participated, woo fun!!!

Wish me luck!!!

EDGE Fest!!!

If your in the Dallas/Ft.Worth area you've probably listened to 102.1 the edge at least once (if your cool) well here's your chance to impress all your fellow edge heads!

This years upcoming Edge Fest 20 is looking for a brand new bad a** t-shirt design made by you!!!

Deadline is April 9th!!!!

swag for the winner includes free tickets, parking and VIP access!


http://kdge.com/pages/promo/ef20/shirt/?dontcacheme=1

T-shirts and Flip flops!!!

New opportunity from threadless and Havaianas to create a design that will work on shirts and shoes but can stand alone on either, this contest will have two winners so double the chance to get chosen. Gotta move fast, deadline April 4th, good luck!!!

http://www.threadless.com/loves/havaianas?utm_medium=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=March-24-2010_032410+Designer&utm_source=032410+Designer

Notebook love

Meninos is a great site for some fun nerdy designer goods from photoshop art board magnets to sets of coasters that that look iphone apps. But most of all they have an ongoing notebook design contest where u can submit your art for the chance to be made into a notebook that will be sold on their site. So check it out do some shopping, and submit some ideas, i hope to buy your notebook one day!

http://www.meninos.us/

Sorry about the partial logo pull, website didnt let me grab the whole thing :P

Patterns for Colouring

Patterns patterns everywhere, just love making patterns to make patterns, cant draw just one of something, want to share it with the world? Patterns for Colouring is a site dedicated to bringing patterns to the people, it is always open for submissions of new designs and sells special pattern books for different ages. Anyone can download your pattern and enjoy coloring it, feel free to color some for yourself!

http://www.patternsforcolouring.com/

XYXYXYXYX

Love making patterns? Up at Little Chimp Society they are wanting to see your pattern making skills, will be an online showcase of talented pattern makers. Submissions start on April 1st with updates on the site to let you know more information.

http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/themeekshall/repeat-x-repeat-y-call-for-submissions/

$500 anyone?

Last minute competition, i know sorry, great site called Infectious is having a design competition where u submit a design for any of the products that they carry! Just download the template fill with great design and submit, i mean who couldn't use an extra $500 in their wallet???

http://www.infectious.com/contests/marfree4all


Deadline March 31st!!!

UK wants U!!!

A friendly competitions from overseas, through the University of Gloucestershire. They are looking for students and emerging artists to take part in this years Cheltenham Illustration Awards. Got something you think can go toe to toe with the UK, then give it a passport and throw it on a boat! UK here we come!


http://www.cheltenham-illustration-awards.com/info_ten_test.htm#

The 4th Cheltenham Illustration Awards

Call for Entries 2010
Theme: “Travellers Tales”
Deadline for Entries: 14th May 2010

Little Chimp Society!

This is a great site to keep you in the loop of whats going on in the illustration and design world, get great interviews, tips, and ways to market your work. So jump in and cuddle a little chimp today!


http://thelittlechimpsociety.com/


p.s. image by matthew scott

Charity tote!

My submission for the Print Charity Tote competition, hope everyone submitted theirs!
My charity was the Reach Out and Read Charity: Where pediatricians take advantage of their yearly checkups with children to introduce them to the joys and benefits of reading and educating parents in how reading can help enrich and further their child's life.

Typedia

TYPEDIA

Wikipedia for Type! A new site that is looking to the design community to help build its database of information and fonts. Have a type sample to submit or some great type history that you know? Share on this site and help it grow!!!

http://typedia.com/

Strand Up!

Ever wanted a whole city to carry your artwork on its shoulder? Now is your chance! Strand Bookstore has opened up their selective custom art tote bags to up and coming artists to submit an image about their store for a chance to be printed on this years shopping tote! Submissions are only being accepted through March 31st!

Contest Dates

March 1-March 31, 2010

Inkbloom away.....

Did you invest in one of those great inkjet printers for school? Here's a great way to optimize the use of that printer sitting around at home. A company called Ink Bloom offers you the option to be able to print on fabric (yes fabric) and vinyl for personal crafts and projects. So let those creative custome design ideas start coming and warm up that printer!

feel free to send the swag this way :)

Blocks and blocks of type

Does the idea of comic sans make you cringe? Does helvetica and univer make you coo? then check out this site recommended by Sarah, all you could ever wont in tasty large type images and work done with large type, all in one handy yummy place. So if your having a type craveing come salivate over some samples here!

http://woodtyper.com/

Help Haiti

LAST MINUTE PROJECT!!!

A great event joining artists around the world to create posters about Haiti, all proceeds will go to help the people there through Doctors without Borders.

Deadline March 15th hurry!

http://www.printmag.com/Article/Haiti-Posters-Please!

Swiss cheesy :P

This is the most awesomely ridiculous thing I have seen today!! All you design nerds out there will love this. It is Anyone Can Swiss, an online site that will create instant swiss designed posters with your type. Don't believe the awesomeness??? try it for yourself!

http://www.anyonecanswiss.com/

and yes, there is an app for that, you can now swiss wherever you are and add pics!

Mono in your face!!!

monoface

Needing a little trippy weirdness today? check out the site Monoface - http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html it will provide fantastic fun for the creative part of your brain throwing together a whole realm of people parts to make faces and personalities. Is also a great option to use for character development! So click click away and see what kind of faces you can make!


site recommended by Sarah Treanor http://littlemissprint.com/folio.htm

Bitique!!!!

Keeping up with all the cool kids is hard these days, but heres a site that tries. Pulling in examples, projects, and ideas from some of the coolest peeps around and presenting them on a nice easy to microwave dish just for you!

Site recommended by Betsy! www.heavens2betsydesign.com


http://www.bitique.co.uk/

Charity Carriables!

Print has teamed up with some great visual artists to design a shopping tote that promotes a charity, all proceeds helping that charity of course!
Well they have decided to let us join in the fun. Pick a charity of your choice and design a tote around it by March 15th for a chance to get your design chosen!!!

http://www.printmag.com/article/carry-hope

Every little bit helps!

Sometimes it is the small things that matter.
A whole site dedicated to helping families in need and in peril with small donations from you!
Read the stories and connect with the world around you, be a part of saving those in need.

http://www.smallcanbebig.org/

Illustration Friday!

Pencils ready and go!
see you on Friday


03.01.2010
This week's topic is:
perspective
Suggested by janee

Wausau!!

Sometimes you just need to know where to look HOW has again pointed us in the right direction.

Wausau Paper has created a Digital Space to help join printers and designers where we can all be on the same page and actually ask someone who knows the questions we end up googling at 2am.

About the Digital Space

Founded by Wausau Paper to connect people for the purpose of sharing best practices, musings and inspirations.

http://www.wausaupaper.com/DigitalSpace/