Today, the HUGO web gallery includes over 35,000 visuals by 15,000 participants from across 108 different countries in a broad range of styles & techniques – from photo manipulations to vector illustrations and analogue artworks.

Current Round: HUGO Create 14: Black, White and Red
The brief is simple: participants are free to choose the idea, theme and techniques for their visuals, but the entries should focus on the colors black, white and red.
Feel free to mix and match the colors to fit your theme and to create a unique feeling. More info on http://www.hugocreate.com.

If you are engaged in graphic design, illustration or photography, you can enter your work to the online competition and be judged by the HUGO Create community and an expert jury. The 10 round winners receive $500 and global recognition. The design from the overall round winner is featured in i-D magazine.

Deadline: April 30, 2010.

Meet the first time ever “Character & Licensing” Expo in Thailand. The most impressive Asia event for Character & Licensing Business cooperated and supported by Thai government and private organizations.

Nowadays, the cartoon characters and related designs provide a unique way for business in many industries, not only Comic books, Animations or games which they are always the main representatives, but also the licensing products such as toys, stationeries, housewares, and etc. Their designs make value added and change the product positioning from just an ordinary product to become the Life Style Products, which always gain more profits.

The show will set on 6 – 9 May 2010 at Royal Paragon Hall, Siam Paragon.

Root Magazine

It adds a new spice in the design industry every next day. Designers feel so refreshing visiting the design magazines site. There are huge number of free Online magazines available.

Design is Kinky

These are the soft copies of magazines which either you can visit online or also can download for offline use.

The top 15 submissions will win 500$ cash and the visual of the round winner will be featured in i-D Magazine.
Visit the website for further information: http://www.hugocreate.com

Deadline for this round is December 31, 2009 and winners will be announced on February 1, 2010.

Designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, collectives/crews, agencies, students, visual artists… you are welcome to submit an innovative, creative, exciting, personal and experimental artwork inspired by the theme: ” WHAT DOES USA MEAN TO YOU? ”

Eligibility:
Worldwide designers, illustrators, photographers, design studios, agencies, collectives/crews, students, visual artists are invited to submit. We are interested in showcasing all styles of outstanding visual media, including illustration, graphic design, photography, drawing, painting, etc. as an online exhibition.
Whether you’re an individual or a group, you are allowed and more than welcome to submit multiple works.

Participation is open to applicants from every country in the world.
All submissions must be received by: JANUARY 31ST, 2010

About *bd:
USA BY DESIGNERS is an international artistic project whose aim is to unveil a multitude of images of USA from the inside and from the outside. Design as the expression of a cultural vision, a political vision or a simple and unposed feeling… Design and its diversity as a new way to catch USA.

The premise of the book is to show the full extent of the Tibetan conflict through 10 diverse and extremely powerful 3-minute interviews, each describing the 3 minutes that changed their lives. This idea is reflected in the covers of each booklet, which separately make beautiful abstract covers but together form to make a ‘3’.

Contributors were asked to translate these minute interviews into 16 printed page booklets using primarily typography. The result is a book made up of 10 beautifully designed booklets from some of the world’s best designers showcasing considered and stunning typography.

The book is available for £10 + p&p worldwide with all proceeds going to Tibet Relief Fund and being distributed by Subism.

The contributors to this project are Bibliotheque, Brighten the Corners, Stefan Gandl (NeubauBerlin), Alex Haigh (Thinkdust / HypeforType), ?Nick Hard (Research Studios), Jeff Knowles (Research Studios), Abbott Miller (Pentagram), Si Scott, ?Paul Skerm, Un.titled

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A matchbox is the place / the receptacle for the book where takes place a story, folded in accordion (Leporello).
This new way of inscription, which was thought and created by Richard Meier finds here a new public. The various collections are co-directed and widened by Sophie Meier / Cosyworks in Pau. Today the collection presents 64 book boxes and artists.
they are, as in the Antic Greece, like some Circumstances poems, adapted to various situations. “When you look at it, it‘s an object that can be left on a table, and it looks like haïkus“, those little japanese poems.“ There may be a hundred before the end of the year.

Sophie Meier invites artist from the young creation: designers, photographers, graphic designers, stylists… and is always looking for young talents.
“I really like to discover the works of the artists. It‘s always a surprise to see what they can imagine for that little matchbox space. It‘s not that easy to work with this size, and it‘s often new for them. I also love that Leporello size. Discovering the works in an accordion way is
also a surprise.“

The Matchboox have been introduced during various exhibition in Bordeaux / France, Nimes, Amsterdam, Paris, Metz (Petit Pompidou)
The collection presents various artists such as :

Voix Editions:
Bernard Heidseick, Patrick Loste, Georges Ayats, Mario Chichorro, Hubert Lucot, Claude
Viallat…

Cosyworks:
Marie Jumelin, Monsieur Qui, Dod, Nina Juan Klein, Pawel Fabjanski, Zevs, Estelle Séré…