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The 2011 Adobe Design Achievement Awards deadline is fast approaching. The first deadline is Friday, January 28, 2011. Both individuals and groups may enter.

Categories include Interactive Media, Web and Mobile Analytics, Video and Motion, and Traditional Media. Winners receive a trip to Taipei and cash. The award is free to enter.

For more details go to www.adobeawards.com/us.

AIGA offers membership discounts for full-time students.

AIGA, the professional association for design, was founded in 1914 and is the oldest and largest professional membership organization for design, according to its Web site, www.aiga.org.

Students obtaining membership will gain exposure by posting their portfolio in the AIGA Member Gallery, find jobs and internships through AIGA Design Jobs, network and learn at events, and access exclusive member benefits.

AIGA requires documentation of your full-time student status.

For more information about student membership at AIGA, go to http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/membership-student.

Graphic Design USA invites participants to submit their package designs for entry into its American Package Design contest.

The American Package Design Awards stands to honor well-designed graphics and the power to connect an emotional link between the consumer and the project.

Entry deadline is December 10, 2010.

For more information, contest rules and guidelines, click here.

SCAD eLearning’s Facebook page launched in 2009, since gaining more than 500 members.

If you choose to join SCAD eLearning on Facebook, check out the other SCAD Facebook pages, including Career Services, SCAD Radio, SCAD Success and Advising, and lots more.

SCAD eLearning’s Facebook page features similar topics as the eCampus blog posts and SCAD eLearning’s Twitter feed, including events, article links and SCAD links. The Facebook page also hosts interactive questions and discussions, eLearning photos and updates.

To visit the eLearning Facebook page, go to http://www.facebook.com/scadelearning.

The SCADDY Awards honor student achievement in advertising and related creative disciplines. SCAD students from advertising, graphic design, motion media design, film and television, photography, fashion, animation, illustration and liberal arts are encouraged to enter.

Each year, a judging panel of respected industry professionals reviews the student submissions and votes for the award winners. SCADDY Award-winning work is entered into the ADDY® Awards, the advertising industry’s professional award competition, and can advance from local to regional and national-level competitions. Last year’s SCADDY winners went on to earn Silver, Gold and Best of Show ADDY Awards at the local level, and Silver and Gold ADDY Awards at the regional and national levels.

The 2011 SCADDY Awards will give students an opportunity to submit their best work from calendar year 2010 for judging and recognition.

Entry deadline: Friday, Nov. 19, 2010 11:59 p.m. EST.

For submission rules and guidelines, click here.

Deadline: November 1

INDEX Design Challenge is posing a challenge to design students around the world to use their competencies to address serious issues and make a real difference in people’s lives. The challenge this year has been developed in close collaboration with and endorsed by UNICEF. For more information, visit designtoimprovelife.dk or e-mail Lise Vejse Klint.

The new Gap logo (far left) has been the focus of many social networking comments since the new logo came out. Gap posted on Facebook that it would be open to new ideas, brought in by crowdsourcing. Click here for more commentary.

It is not surprising this brought mixed reactions from customers. This blog previously featured a company crowdsourcing for a logo – the National Endowment for the Arts, and students had a lot to say about it. To read the previous blog post about the National Endowment for the Arts, click here.

What do you think about Gap asking for logo ideas without compensation?

SCAD students currently working on a submission for the 2011 Independent Games Festival are seeking a Flash programmer who is fluent in AS2 or AS3, with the goal of finishing two short game levels. The preferred approach would be to utilize an existing Flash library or game engine of the programmer’s preference for physics and interface. This is great to include for resume experience. Interested programmers, please contact Heather Decker at hdecke20@student.scad.edu to get involved! Both on-ground and eLearning students are welcome!

SCAD students, have your work seen by the thousands of people who read the New York Times, Wired and other popular publications! SCAD’s communications and marketing department is looking for the best student work in every department to feature in various advertising and marketing campaigns that will be distributed nationally and internationally. We can’t promise we’ll use all submissions, but you can submit as much work as you’d like as many times as you want before September 17.

Interested?

Submit your name, title of artwork, dimensions and medium, high-resolution photo of your work, or a link where your artwork can be downloaded, to ads@scad.edu by September 17. Final pieces should be high resolution, 10” x 12,” 300 dpi. In order for your work to be considered, it may not include obscenities, nudity or product logos.

Alumni are welcome to submit work too!

Pictured here: Undergraduate visual effects student Aleksander Rodic’s work appeared in a recent issue of Wired magazine as well as in Wired’s iPad edition.

The HOW magazine and brand has a goal to help designers with “business information, up-to-date technological tips, the creative whys and hows behind noteworthy projects, and profiles of professionals who are influencing design.” (source: HOW site)

HOW magazine sponsors four high-profile graphic design competitions annually, and also competitions held by its sister publications Print and I.D.

Contests range from International Design Awards, to Poster Design Awards, to Logo Design Awards and more.

Contest deadlines run from September 15 to April 2011, depending on which competition you would like to enter.

Click here for more information about HOW contest entry guidelines, deadlines and more details in general.