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More information on the previous post, and here – http://99designs.com/contests/36031

“We’re gearing up for a statewide marketing campaign and want to have an eye-catching, memorable logo. It needs to capture in a glance that CulturePulse is the site that broadcasts all that’s ‘playing’ throughout the entire state during any given week,” says spokesperson and technical coordinator for the website Scott Wild of Wild Inspire.

The design contest asks the contestant to consider both full color and black and white appearance, and provides specifications for both. Each quadrant of the state, based in Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismarck and Minot, administers a regional division of the website and has the contest posted online as an event entitled ‘CulturePulse Logo Design Contest’ at www.CulturePulse.org. All details on how to submit a logo idea, including format, are on the www.99Designs.com contest website. Interested individuals can ‘Browse Open Projects’ and look for Culture Pulse Logo.

Designers who enter the contest should visit www.CulturePulse.org and explore each of the four quadrant sites to grasp the site’s purpose and potential. The website operates beyond a traditional calendar by offering in-depth profiles of all the artists and organizations whose events are listed. It also features high graphic content—slide shows and videos— for each individual event, cross links each event to ticket purchasing and culture websites, invites visitors to write reviews of each event, and provides venue maps for each listing.

Originally created with a grant from the Knight Foundation, the expansion of CulturePulse is possible through the support of North Dakota Council on the Arts and select arts organizations and their sponsors in each quadrant of the state: In the northeast quadrant, the North Valley Arts Council of Grand Forks; in the southeast quadrant, The Arts Partnership of Fargo; in the southwest quadrant, the Frances Leach High Prairie Arts & Science Complex of Bismarck; and the northwest quadrant, the Minot Arts Council. For more information about the contest or about CulturePulse.org call or email Jennifer at jhaaland@bisparks.org, 701.471.9492.

Eligible applicants are architects, choreographers, composers, creative writers, designers, media artists, playwrights, visual artists, or solo theater artists who work with original material (including puppeteers, storytellers and performance artists). Multidisciplinary artists and artistic directors of theater or dance companies are also eligible.

The next deadline for this program is February 1, 2010.

The U.S/Japan Creative Artists’ Program is extremely competitive; applicants should have regional or national recognition and anticipate a highly rigorous review of their work. Artists should also present compelling reasons for wanting to work in Japan.

Selected artists will receive:
· A monthly stipend for living expenses and a housing supplement, as well as an allowance for professional support services
· Up to $6,000 for round trip transportation for the artist, domestic partner and/or dependent children, and a baggage/storage allowance
· A stipend for pre-departure Japanese language study in the United States

Additional information, including guidelines and the application, can be found at http://www.jusfc.gov/creativeartists.asp

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Recognition is a beautiful thing…and so is an exciting future in the fashion industry. You can find both at The Art Institutes Passion for Fashion Competition 2010. Now open for entries, this competition challenges high school seniors to create the best original design in two categories: fashion design and fashion marketing, merchandising or retail management. The excellent part? Two grand prize winners will have the opportunity to earn a full tuition scholarship to study fashion at an Art Institutes school, as well as tour Seventeen magazine’s offices, have lunch with a style pro, indulge in a $500 shopping spree, attend New York City Fashion Week — and blog about the experience on Seventeen.com.

Deadline
All complete entries must be received by Nov. 20, 2009 at The Art Institutes school at which you plan to enter the Competition and attend following it. A local winner will be selected from each participating school whose design will go on to represent it in the national competition. Local winners will be selected in December 2009; national winners will be announced in January 2010.

From http://www.artinstitutes.edu/competitions/passion-for-fashion.aspx