This is a great chance for designers freelance to get some money, in fact winner is going to be rewarded with €2500!

IamaSource.com Logo Contest

IamaSource.com looks like a brand new site for creatives who is looking for the best creative talents to receive the design of their logo.

They’ve chosen the crowdsourcing idea, who is getting more and more popular in order to get a lot of proposals and great results from a global community of designers. All Tuwidesigners are invited to participate in the contest and tell us their experience!

Looks like before the start of the contest there will be a registration in witch they will give some tips to the first designers, so don’t waste your time and partecipate in the contest early!

Task: Design this year’s Tacoma Film Festival poster.

Deadline: 20th July 2009

Prizes: $350

Here’s your chance to shine as an artist and have your work displayed all over Tacoma.  The non-profit Grand Cinema is once again turning to the artistic community to design this year’s Tacoma Film Festival poster.  Last year’s contest was so successful that we are so excited to see what you artists come up with this year!  The Grand will accept entries for the poster through July 20, 2009.  All entries will be displayed at the Grand Cinema and a winner will be chosen for this year’s festival.

Please send entries via an electronic format (pdf, jpeg, etc.) that can be reproduced into 11×17 posters and a finished 11×17 printed poster via mail (or drop off at the Grand). Please remember space for those sponsor logos.  If you want to discuss ideas with us prior to creation, we encourage you to contact Rachel Marecle, Community Development Director at 253.572.6062.

For more information about the competition visit www.grandcinema.com/

Use the Tuwi calendar on the right to partecipate to other competitions!

Good luck!

Here are some pictures of the ad campaign, created by Saatchi&Saatchi, for the famous cigarettes brand Camel.
The advertising campaign is very interesting because the message is not directed exclusively to the product but to the  camel brand through its  logo.
The advertising campaign is produced by the Italian Advertising Agency Saatchi&Saatchi, in collaboration with photographer Jan Steinhilber.

Enjoy the gallery!

Geishas (芸者, Geisha) are traditional Japanese artist and entertainer, whose skills include various arts such as music, song and dance. The geisha were very common in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and still exist, although their number is gradually decreasing.
Despite this, geisha has become a figure much represented in the design. This figure in fact has the ability to unite itself in modernity and tradition of japanese culture, therefore, is a strong image when used in the right design context.
Among the entries we’ve been very impressed by those of Rubens Cantuni, with the design of a chubby and ironic geisha.
Good inspiration for your work tuwidesigners
As always expect your suggestions to expand our gallery!!!

Ameesha Lee Earnshaw

Andre Recinto

16012

Rubens Cantuni

Kim Dijkstra

chayamai

Narcis Lupou

minnima

guillaume babusiaux

Dan Maxwell

Jakub Rutkowski

Endor

Tara D.

joey mazzotta

LEK Chan

Task: Customize Sennheiser HD 418 headphones with a eye catching surface design prints.

Deadline: 28th August 2009

Prizes: 45 winners will each take home a customized, limited edition HD 418 headphones with their own winning design!

Headphones are a means to listen to music… but it could be so much more! Here is your chance to customize your very own Sennheiser headphone to not only become an extension of who you are but allow you to enjoy the music inextricably intertwined into your life and share your passion with others!

What is music? It is more than just sounds, more than just the sum of its rhythms, melodies and harmonies. Music not only acts on our ears, it also stimulates our minds, our bodies and our souls. Music can intensify our emotions, influence our identities and take us back in time. Or in the words of the famous quotation, “Music speaks what cannot be expressed.”
Sennheiser creates the greatest and most exciting unique sound experience for people worldwide – whether at home or out and about; on stage or behind the DJ console. They constantly set themselves the challenge of developing creative answers, which satisfy the requests and requirements of customers.

Sennheiser is looking for talented artists to design eye catching surface prints for their new product HD 418. A file design template (.AI) will be made available to you which you MUST use for your designs.
Your designs will then be showcased on a Sennheiser microsite where you can invite your friends together with the community around the world, to join and vote for the best design.

For more information about the competition, the complete brief and to download the AI files for your works visit http://en.eyeka.com/partner/sennheiser.

Use the Tuwi calendar on the right to partecipate to other competitions!

Good luck!

Here is the second appointment with the new section of the best cover graphics of albums just released.
This week we see as the main theme is the element of dreamy and surreal landscapes. The cover created by Jeff Jordan for The Mars Volta refers to the paintings of Salvador Dalì and Joan Mirò, but present this art to our times and with new elements.
Mythical creatures, visions of heaven and hell, dreams and nightmares are all elements that we find in  the Dream Theater cover, a band always tied into their music at these issues.
We can find the theme of dreams even in the cover of Dinosaur Jr., Regina Spektor and in Rem’s Reckoning.
So.. in this week albums we can see how the type of music, the topics covered in lyrics are in close connection with the cover artwork.

Wish you a nice view of the gallery… and a good listening to the music

Reckoning by R.e.m.

Pyromania by Def Leppard

Farm by Dinosaur Jr.

Far by Regina Spektor

Octahedron by The Mars Volta

Black Clouds & Silver Linings by Dream Theater

A Man’s Thoughts by Ginuwine

Honey I’m Home by Al B. Sure

The Latest by Cheap Trick

B Is For Bob by Bob Marley

Task: The theme for this competition is open so that any design or style can win.

Deadline: 10th July 2009

Prizes: First Prize, 1100 £

The SwishSwosh community will choose the winner, based on how original and cutting edge the T-shirt looks. Let’s be clear, we are looking for the best T-shirt design ever! We’re not talking about submitting a design for your favourite football team or movie. We want the most eye catching, jaw dropping design that you can create, so take some time to come up with it.
We recommend using a program such as Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator to produce your entry.

Download the submission kit and follow the instructions on how to upload your designs. The kit will help you to maximise creativity and fit the size specification. Once that’s complete you’re ready to submit. It’s as simple as that!

The top 10 most popular designs shall win prize money and go to print. These will be decided from a combination of:

1) The amount of votes and the scores that your design receives
2) The comments written by the community
3) SwishSwosh staff and special judges views

For more information about the competition, visit Swishswosh.

Remember that you can view any deadline of competitions and events using the Tuwi calendar on the right!

Good luck!

Here’s the best flash sites made by the best web designers.
This week we’ve been very impressed by the Lands’ end website. This site is very well done and the graphics very well kept. The interesting thing is the concept, namely the desire to create a relaxed approach to shopping for swimwear for women, as if you were on a private island.
As always our main source of research is the FWA that we invite you to visit for more inspiration for your creative works.

Enjoy the gallery!

HAVANA MOJITO

CONCAVE SCREAM

SMAMOT

ELECTROLUX

UNOPLUS

GOLF GTI

COLD WAR KIDS

LANDS’ END

ROCK IMMORTAL

Here is a new collection of the latest photoshop tutorials made in the second half of June 2009.
As always, we have tested each of these tutorials and we have also chosen them according to different fields of application.
We thank all the talented designers who have created these tutorials for photoshop. Clicking on the image you’ll be directed to the page where the tutorial is shown step by step!
Abstract Floral Explosion in Photoshop

Software: Photoshop

Difficulty level: 3/5

Clarity of exposition: 5/5

Application: Adv, Wallpaper

Software: Photoshop

Difficulty level: 3/5

Clarity of exposition: 4/5

Application: Digital Photo Retouching, Adv

Software: Photoshop

Difficulty level: 2/5

Clarity of exposition: 4/5

Application: Adv, Wallpaper

Software: Photoshop

Difficulty level: 2/5

Clarity of exposition: 4/5

Application: Text Effect

Software: Photoshop

Difficulty level: 3/5

Clarity of exposition: 5/5

Application: Wallpaper

Today we offer a collection of the best fragrances packaging. Develop the design of a precious fragrance bottle is a really interesting process. The bottle must represent in its design the perfume that contains. Its lines, geometric or soft, must recall the aroma of perfume. The approach of the designer will be obviously different if the scent is addressed to a woman or a man. In this gallery we collected only the women’s fragrances. soon we will see the difference with the scents targeted to men.

To be a good designer you must sometimes have a good nose:)

Absolutely Irrésistible Givenchy

Burberry The Beat

Chanel No. 5 Eau Premiere

elle Yves Saint Laurent

Fairy Dust by Paris Hilton

Fancy Jessica Simpson

Gucci by Gucci EDT

Guess by Marciano

Harajuku Lovers Fragrances

John Varvatos Eau de Parfum

Lilly Pulitzer – Wink, Beachy, Squeeze

MA DAME – Jean Paul Gaultier

Magnifique – Lancôme

Ralph Lauren Notorious

Sensuous – Estée Lauder

Shiseido Zen

Vera Wang Look

Viva la Juicy from Juicy Couture

Bond No. 9 Andy Warhol Union Square

Chloé Eau de Parfum

Dark Amber & Ginger Lily Cologne

Dolce & Gabbana l’eau the one

India Hicks Island Night

Vertige  – Giorgio Armani