From CR Blog:
Set up by AKQA three years ago, The Cannes Future Lions Awards is open to students around the world. This year, the challenge is to create an ad campaign for a global brand that would not have been possible five years ago.
There are no rules in terms of media or technology; no restrictions around product or target audience. The winners will be flown to Cannes and receive a delegate pass to the advertising festival.
Entry is free. Deadline: May 27. See futurelions.com
This ia quite good. VW Norway are havning a competition where the participants can win a new Golf. All you have to do is to keep your slighltly moving mouse hand over the car the longest, you get a 5 mnute break every hour. They had to have a knock out round before christmas and now the final is here. As I write there is 12 players left of the 175 players who got through and it has been going for 3 days.
Cheers
Andreas
American World Kitchen is promoting a kettle design competition. Until 06-jan-2009, applicants can submit their kettle designs.
The kettles must use glass, metal or ceramic as the primary material, and also have to be functional.
The winner design prize is US$5,000, being awarded in the International Home + Housewares Show®, in Chicago.
Grand Master Flash at The Golden Joystick Award.
E4 are now sponsoring the Golden Joystick Award competition.
Yours, fully aware that I’m not the first to report this, but thinking I might as well let you guys know
Andreas
Eye Petrol is a a brand new user generated digital magazine. In fact it is so new the first issue is not even out yet. From what I can gather:
·By user generated they mean that people send in their work and then the people who work at Eye Petrol or Creative Pool, which seem to be behind it, choose what to put in the magazine.
·By digital they mean that the magazine is only published as a downloadable PDF.
So even if most of the content is sent in by the public the magazine itself is not a user generated magazine. And I guess PDFs at least give you the option to have hyperlinks, but at the end of the day it is not the most digital of formats today (its from 1993!). Would it not be better if the magazine came as a little flash site, was posted on Flickr or here on WordPress?
How ever they are also having a logo competition which is quite interesting, although I think it is as much of a web page design competition as a logo competition. I have entered it 
Heres the link to the web page
Yours boring his girlfriend to death 
Andreas
Beck’s the beer brand is having a competition for artists and designers.
The competition is to do a piece of design/art on the theme of ‘Collectively Individual’ Which simply put is when a designer creates a piece of work with a musician. The musicians in this case are Does It Dffend You, Yeah? which is a pretty hawt London electro-pop quartet despise their emo name.
The winning piece will be showed at the Beck’s Fusions gig headlined by Visual art collective United Visual Artists (UVA) and Massive Attack on Sat 6 September in Manchester.
This could be a good one for you students out there looking for a claim to fame to land you that dream job somewhere exotic.
This is another campaign by Outside Line which are everywhere at the moment Good job guys!
Yours, constantly hitting the spell check
Andreas
I went to the D&AD Newblood looking at digital designers. I was’nt impressed. It seems that in graphic design and illustration they have been learning a lot and there is some great talent out there. However it seems the digital courses are struggelig a bit in finding good tutors since there aren’t that many washed up digital designers. The result is that the young digital dersigners have more to learn when joining an agency.
But this entry in to the Radiohead competition by James Houston is a real gem. James Houston makes videos and I am certain his video of old computer harware preforming Radioheads ‘Nude’ will get him a pretty sweet job somwhere if that is what he wants.
Yours, in awe
Andreas
This could be a funny one; make the most edgy or funny killer bunny graphic for a viral by Dean Hunt.
At the cravendale milkmatters website you can now compete or vote on the best design for cravendale packaging.
“Rethink, Repackage, Revolutionise! How can Cravendale packaging look and work in the future?
You have to submit your ideas by the 20th of June for a chance to win 1000 pounds. But if you, like me, are to lazy you can always vote for my friend Ana Mullin who created the design on the left here. No sign in required, link. (It’s design number 22)
Cheers
A
The engine room is an initiative by MTV and HP to make money by getting some of the ‘worlds best’ digital designers to compete in a televised series. The series will be broadcast both online and on MTV. To enter go to: http://mtvengineroom.com
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