Here’s
another great theme for a design competition.
Allmightys latest competition has the name “Future-Past-Perfect”, you may be wondering waht the devil that means. Well, how about letting Allmightys explain:
“…refers to a time that is in the future, relative to another point in the past, but is in the past relative to a point in its future.”
We would like you to think of the future as imagined in the past and how and what we expected to be has become somewhat different. Think future in relation to the past, think memories, challenges, imagination, expectation, disappointment and the future that lies ahead of us. What have we learnt and what should we expect?
Dates:
Competition announced: Monday 7th July 2008
Submission Deadline: Monday 25th August 2008, 23.00 GMT
Voting Ends: Friday 29th August 2008, 23.00 GMT
I’m sure I’m not the only person who thinks its fun to take a look at where people in the past thought we’d be by now. If you’re after some light inspiration for this theme, may I suggest you check out Daniel H. Wilson’s book Where’s My Jetpack? Which is a fun overview of all the technology that was promised to us in the 60s (jetpacks, food pills, moon bases, etc.) which never arrived. Or if you don’t feel like dropping the cash (the book is beautifully designed by the way, very shiny), you could always check out a cool blog I found called Paleo-Future that is all about this subject, and a fun read too. If that isn’t enough inspiration for you I don’t know what is, so go and let your imaginations run wild, because this theme seems like a lot of fun.
As is often the case with Allmightys competitions, €1 from the sale of each of the winning designs will be given to charity, in this case Greenpeace will be receiving the donations.
Read this info (minus my delightful commentary) again at the Allmightys blog, or check out the competition’s dedicated page.
Enclothe have released their latest wave of designs, and this rather detailed number is amongst them. Since the design is of an ‘Electric Buddha Head’ I’d like to be able to give you some insightful comments, especially after I spent some time wandering around temples during my Hong Kong trip earlier this year, but I’m afraid I’ve got nothing for you, I’m afraid you’ll have to find your own way.Wait, was that spiritual advice? Maybe I’m more spiritual than I thought! My next piece of sage wisdom: go check out the rest of the new designs at
Enclothe.
Costiness=$20 Tee Link
Terratag, who I have a
blatant tee-crush on, are having a go at running a design competition, and guess what? It’s about robots!As you probably guessed from the image above, the winning design will receive £250 (not the most we’ve ever featured, but not too bad) and ten tees of their winning design. Here’s the entry details:
Entry is simple:
You design a robot to be printed on a T-shirt. It can be any style of robot – let you imagination run riot. Designs must be no larger than 35 cm wide by 45 cm high and use no more than 4 colours.
All entries must be submitted by August 1st – email jpeg files (no larger than 1 Mb) to paul@terratag.com All artwork will be exhibited in a gallery on the Terratag website for two weeks, until August 15th.
The viewing public will ask to cast a vote on their favourite designs and the winner announced on the 15th.
The winning design will be printed as a limited edition T-shirt. The prize being £250 and 10 T-shirts printed with their winning design.
Considering that Terratag set such a high bar with their own artwork its safe to presume that the submissions are going to be of a similar standard, so it’ll be interesting to see what we’ll see on their site come August 1st.
Terratag
