Veer Creative Catalyst: Design For Change Competition Results

Veer.com recently launched 'Creative Catalyst' to generate a piece of artwork in support of a great global or local cause.

The winner got a £2000 donation for the organisation they chose, as well as their piece displayed in London and Berlin, a Computer Arts feature and 2000 Veer Credits for their next creative projects.

The competition was won by Barton Damer, with his piece on Malaria in Africa. Watch the video below to see more and hear more about the competition.
 

Guardian Film Season Challenge : Film Sequence Montage

The Guardian have just launched this film sequence mash-up as a part of the Guardian and Observer Film Season 2010. They offer a prize to the person who can guess all 26 films used in the montage - win them all on DVD! Not bad eh?

It's a really cool sequence with film titles created using an almost poster style animation. A while ago I blogged about 35mm - a very similar piece, I wonder if it's by the same people?

Anyway, take a look and see how many you can guess! Please visit the Guardian website to enter >

Make your own paper robot, courtesy of Tin Robot Records

Tin Robot Records have launched a competition to win free tickets to see a Silver Foxes gig! All you have to do is download the net and make your very own tin robot, well paper robot, and photograph the little blighter in the most unusual place you could expect to find a tin robot in... In the bath? a photo booth? or doing a spot of gardening perhaps? The possibilities are certainly endless.

Visit tinrobotrecords.co.uk to find out more, and to download the paper net. The competition closes on the 5th September 2010.

Tin Robot Records is an independent record label with some great bands currently signed: Kaleidophone, Wheeler Street, Silver Foxes and Pete Briley. Check em out!

Stella Artois have found the heir to Jacques d'Azur's ticket at Cannes

Well this is the culmination of the worldwide search by Stella Artois for the true heir to legendary film producer Jacques d'Azur. Looks like the lucky winner had a swell time too! See the initial campaign video here for the search for Jacques d'Azur's heir.

RIP Jacques d'Azur, it's what he would've wanted.

Malibu by U Competition

Malibu has just launched a new Limited Edition bottle called Malibu By U. The idea of the new bottle is to give a blank canvas to the public to apply their own design for the bottle.

To kick start the competition, Malibu enrolled the support of graffiti artists Jimi Crayon, Pinky and MNKY, who have designed their own bottle (you can check them out here on Malibu's Facebook page. Anyone can enter, either using Malibu's online 'studio' where you can create a design using preset creative tools, or get yourself a bottle of the stuff and create a physical one!

View the online gallery at www.malibu-rum.com/byu. The competition is to win one of three trips to one of many world wide destinations. The designs all have their own vote counters here's my attempt...

Vote for me!

Esquire Student Design Competition

Esquire are currently running their first ever Student Design Challenge!

The competition revolves around gadgets and gizmos that help us in our daily lives. From the simplest corkscrew to a stunning lightbulb or even the humble electronic tin opener! All have been designed to serve a purpose - helping us to open pesky tins.

Esquire's competition challenge is for you to create the widget of the future! Design a brand new and original product that will effortlessly fit into men’s everyday routines making the toils of life that much easier to deal with.

Their competition is open to current BA and MA design students in the UK as well as designers that have graduated within the last two years. The competition is open to absolutely anything as long as it is original, practical and can, in principle, be manufactured.

A crack team of product addicts are on standby and will whittle down the entrants to a shortlist of 10 winning designs that will be featured in our November issue.

HOW TO ENTER: To enter contestants should email design@esquire.co.uk with a blueprint of your product concept along with a 250 word summary explaining how the design works and why it will improve men’s lives. Remeber to include your name, age, university course title and a contact phone number/email address on your entry. All entries must be received by Tuesday 1st June. Good luck!!

Read more details on Esquire's website >

Jacques d'Azur, King of Cannes, remembered by Stella Artois

Stella Artois are respectfully remembering Jacques d'Azur with a rather nice advertising campaign. But who is this mysterious man, Jacques d'Azur?

Jacques d'Azur is missing
- Presumed dead!

Last seen while holidaying in the South Pacific on his private yacht the “Bridgette et Anna”. He was (hopefully is) a man of many talents, particularly skilled on the backgammon board so I hear. His talents knew no end; he was a waterskiing pioneer, tennis player, film producer, director and marvelous actor all of which earned him the title ‘King of Cannes’.

Add your name to the will
The competition, run by Stella Artois, is to 'inherit' his place at the Cannes Film Festival 2010. All you have to do to enter is visit the Stella Artois website and register your details (It's worth it just to see their amazing typewriter at work - really cool!).

The sweep stake competition ends at 9pm on the 25th April (2010). Good luck!

The Art of Green and Blacks

Green and Blacks have just launched a new competition to create 'art' by using their own bars of chocolate. Before you go out and buy 700 bars of the stuff, they've also developed a handy online canvas to create your very own masterpiece on.

Check out the Art of Green and Blacks >

Whilst you're there why not vote for my attempt, 'Great Black' (- get it? Clever I know, it could've been Green Britain but i thought that would just be a lie).

The winners of the competiton can be voted for on the gallery and the 9 most popular will be put to the great Sir Peter Blake (creator of the heart piece above) to decide on the winner. The winner will receive their masterpiece created from 700 Green & Black’s chocolate bars, or if they prefer, a signed print of the artwork plus 700 Green & Black’s chocolate bars.

Good luck!

Bling My Coach - The National Express Competition

National Express have just launched a new exciting competition to design your own coach, called Bling My Coach!

Yes that's right, as the name suggests you are invited to pimp out your coach with a variety of tools. From Leopard print to stars and a Hen night balloon to a pair of GM2020 fake glasses and nose (likened to the ones featured in Eerie Indiana!). You can do your worst and create a veritable masterpiece!

Check out my swanky design above, The Keen Machine, I've gone for a bit of a Ska look to fit in with the locals down on Brighton Beach! Pretty cool eh.

The prize for pimping out your ride, (as if the creating the coach of your dreams isn't prize enough?!) Is you get to take out your Blinged up machine on a return trip to a destination of your choice, and pack out that low rider with a bunch of your mates!!

Check it out here... Visit the Bling My Coach website >>

Olympic 50p designs... What happens next?

To anyone out there feeling a little unrested by the quietness of the competition trail, fear not. The judging is currently being undertaken and the wait is on until November 2009. All winners will be notified by email and announced. If you don't hear anything - I'm afraid the hard truth will have to be realised!

Visit www.royalmintcompetition.co.uk to find out more, or go to The Royal Mint's main website - www.royalmint.com - regularly for news and latest updates about the National 50p design competition.

WIN A TWO PIECE HAND TAILORED SUIT!

Here's a little competition to win a whole suit! From Pomegranate Media...

For your chance to WIN, simply complete the following online survey (The Suit Experience) to be entered into the prize draw to win one of three, fine hand tailored suits. The survey should take no longer than ten minutes, it really is as simple as that.

The survey is being conducted by Pomegranate Media and if you have any questions, please contact us at info@pomegranate.co.uk or call +44 20 7336 7322.

Click here to take part and best of luck.

Submitted Olympic 50p designs

Here are a couple of my completed entries to the recently closed competition from the Royal Mint. The competition was to design a 50p coin to represent a sport in the up and coming London 2012 Olympics (as previously posted about by Design London).


















Wheelchair Rugby.

Kayaking.

Anyone got their entries at the ready?

Design your Olympic 2012 50p coin

The Royal Mint have set a challenge to the public to design a set of new 50p coins to celebrate the 2012 olympics coming to London. The winning designs will recieve £1,000 prize and a copy of their design set in gold! There will be 27 winners in all, as the aim is to have a 50p coing per olympic event. The deadline for the competition is 24th April so not long to go!

Take a look at this short video about the Royal Mint's competition to design the London Olympic 2012 50p coin >