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Mother nature meets motherboard in this amazing new challenge brought to us by the wonderful folks at Adobe. Nature and technology have been at odds for too darn long and we think it’s time to for ‘em to get along! (On a tee.)

Your challenge is to design an awesome tee inspired by MAXtopia: the celebration of nature + technology!

Your design could net you a full Adobe® Creative Suite 5 Design Premium PLUS it could play a major role at the Adobe MAX event! Connecting, discovering, inspiring: It’s all part of why we LOVES this challenge!

Design and Design is an independent and non-profit on/off-line venture
developped by french-italian designer Marc Praquin to help talented designers to promote for free their work on an international basis.

Each year, the 730 awarded designs are published for free in the Book of the Year. The books are released in december and are distributed worldwide by Index Book. All featured designers are granted of a 50% discount on their first ordered copy.

Type and Wallpaper* invite you to have some graphic fun and at the same time help support the St Bride Library, London – one of the world’s most important resources for the graphics industry.

THE BRIEF
We would like you to design a type-tart card either for a typeface or a letter of the alphabet. If you are unfamiliar with these things, tart cards are the means by which London prostitutes advertise their services. So pervasive are these things, and so curious is their typography, images and copy writing they are now regarded as items of accidental art and have something of a cult following. Once on the periphery of design, the cards have influenced the work of many mainstream artists including Royal Academician Tom Philips and Sex Pistols designers, Ray and Nils Stevenson. Perhaps they can inspire you too? Maybe Sabon would invite you to caress its counters, or Palatino would advertise its ‘Mega Serifs’. Bodoni boasts some magnificent finials, Baskerville’s swash can really inflict some pain, and Century Schoolbook would undoubtedly keep you in after class.

SPECIFICATION
A6 (105 x 148 mm) landscape or portrait Typographic, illustrative, photographic: or a combination of techniques of your choosing hand- or machine-made; single- or full-colour. Side 1 – image and text; Side 2 – sign and date. Supply hard copy only, electronic versions will not be accepted. Please remember to supply your full contact details when you submit your work.

THE RESULTS
Wallpaper* will carry a feature on the project it its July issue. All entries will be exhibited in London in July 2009, to coincide with the Wallpaper* issue. It is intended a book of the Project will be published, profits’ to be donated to St Bride Library. At the end of the Project the collection will be donated to the St Bride Library. Prizes will be awarded for the top 3 entires, which will be assessed by a panel of judges from St Bride, Wallpaper* and Type.

SUBMISSIONS
All entries to be sent to Type LLP, 1st Floor The Toll House, The Bond 180-82 Fazeley Street, Birmingham B5 5SE.

Closing deadline extended to 30 April 2009.

Since 1999, the Art and Design section of the Federal Office of Culture (OFC) is organizing the contest of “The most beautiful Swiss books.” For the fifth consecutive year, the Library of CCSP presents the winners of this contest in 2007 for which 408 books were nominated.
Introduction by Mirjam Fischer, head of the award of the Federal Office of Culture, and Tan Wälchli Laurenz Brunner, designer of the winning catalog.

The exhibition take at the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris during september.
More info here.

Agrandir le plan

See winners here.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Helveticaâ„¢ typeface, Linotypeâ„¢ invited designers worldwide to take part in the Helvetica NOW poster contest.

More than 1,000 posters were submitted to the contest and are on the ballot for the first round voting. With your help, the 200 posters with the most votes will advance to the second round. Then you can select your favorites again to declare a winner. The winning entries will be announced in the January 2008 LinoLetter.