Graphis is currently accepting entries in its Advertising Annual 2015 competition, an all encompassing look at the world of advertising. Advertising Annual 2015 will present the best advertising campaigns of the year, selected from international entries. Winning submissions will be presented in the Annual book and up to 1000 entries will be archived on graphis.com! All submitted entries are presented on the Graphis website organized by the judge’s votes and their geographic origins (country, state and/or province).

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The Call for Entries of the Terry O’Neill Award 2014 photography competition – one of the world’s most respected and leading photography prizes – has recently been announced. The Award attracts thousands of entries every year from around the globe and offers £6500 in cash prizes. Winners work is featured in The Sunday Times Magazine and showcased in Terry O’Neill exhibitions in the UK and overseas. Only images that have been shot between 30 November 2013 and 30 November 2014 can be submitted. Images must also fall into one or more of the set categories – reportage, fashion, documentary, landscape, wildlife, portraiture, or fine art photography.

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Zepter International has recently announced the Call for Entry for ArtZept 2014, its 11th International Design Award competition, seeking for creative talent around the world. The ArtZept 2014 theme is “Cosmetic Bottles and Containers – Striving For Beauty” and all participants should submit work inspired by the theme. This year, the First Prize is 10,000 Euro! A Second and a Third prize consisting of 4,000 Euro and 3,000 Euro worth of Zepter products will also be awarded.

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The Department for Building and Environment at the Danube University Krems is currently hosting the Daylight Spaces 2014 International architectural and design competition, to highlight the special importance of natural light on architectural qualities. The planning, discovery, observation, analysis or evaluation of an efficient way to improve the daylighting of buildings is the topic of the Competition and ought to contribute to the awareness of the designing with daylight. Architectural interventions on existing and historical buildings and design strategies for optimized natural light entries and high levels of daylight autonomy are in the focus of interests.

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The Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) 2014 Awards competition is now open for entries, and you have until 1st October to submit your images and short films. The Competition has a great range of themes and a total of nine (9) competition categories to choose from — single entries, series and HD videos can be submitted. The Travel Photographer of the Year 2014 will win £2,500 plus a special award, trophy and showcase. The 2014 Categories & Themes include:

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ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanstik) has recently announced an Open Call for 2-8 months residencies in Berlin, accepting individual or group applications. In the context of its research and residency program, ZK/U offers a “living & work” space for artists, scholars and practitioners (curators, activists, autodidacts, etc.) working in the fields of urban research, geography, anthropology, urbanism, architecture and the humanities. The residency consists of furnished studio-apartments (half of which have private bathrooms), communal facilities, an open platform for public events, lectures, discussions, screenings, performances and presentations.

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LensCulture, through its Emerging Talent Awards 2014 competition is seeking to award talented unknown photographers around the world — from all cultures, all points of view, with no age limit. The Competition is open to all genres of photography, with no separate category for students as all entries are treated equally, even though students still get a discounted entry fee. An international jury of experts will choose fifty (50) Emerging Talents for 2014, with five (5) of them receiving grants of $2,000 each. The winning photographs may also be included in traveling group gallery exhibitions and/or screenings and projections at arts institutions and festivals worldwide.

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The Department of Economic Development (DOED) of the Taipei City Government has recently opened the 2014 Taipei International Design Award competition, calling designers around the world to participate. The Taipei International Design Award is an annual competition in Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design and Public Space Design. The 2014 prize fund is incredible and includes more than $100,000 in cash!

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LELO, the world’s leading designer brand for intimate lifestyle products, is inviting designers all over the world to enter its UnDesign Award 2014 competition. The challenge is to go back to design’s roots, to undesign something and conceptualize something original. It can be anything at all: an app, an artefact, an image, an item, an accessory, whatever you want, with a single goal in mind — to encourage togetherness, and to inspire a real human interaction, for anyone, anywhere at any time. There are three (3) separate competition categories:

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The Fumetti in Treviso association announces the Third International Comics Competition for New Authors “TCBF” in collaboration with the Scuola Internazionale di Comics and in occasion of the Treviso Comic Book Festival 2014. The theme of the 2014 competition is: the brain drain phenomenon. Stories must talk about this contemporary theme, in real or metaphoric way. To enter the contest, the candidate (or candidates) are invited to make a comics story from a minimum of two (2) to a maximum of four (4) boards on the theme of the event. Boards must be maximum size of A3 (29.7 cm × 42) and can be produced using any manual technique, using black and white or color.

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