The 2016 edition of Proify , a major international photography competition focused on recognising the incredible talents of amateur and non-professional photographers across the globe, is now open for entries.
There are twelve categories you can enter:
• Landscape
• Street
• Portrait
• After dark
• Wedding
• Panoramic
• Retro
• HDR ( high-dynamic-range imaging photography )
• Travel
• Macro
• Wildlife
• Drone
Show Us Your Type and Kulturspace have partnered to present the next edition of the Global Typography Contest in Berlin, Germany. The collaboration is intent on promoting design and supporting the evolution of cross-cultural artistic exchange.
The open call is looking for a poster with the word: Berlin .
The KLIK! foundation is a national and international force in provocative quality animation. With the festival as KLIK! ’s flagship, and other exciting activities happening in its wake, they bring their passion for and knowledge of animation to a wide audience.
KLIK! treats animation as an independent art form instead of treating it as a genre of film and aims to make the medium of animation, in the broadest sense of the word, accessible to a wider audience in fresh and exciting new ways to stimulate the emancipation of the medium as a fully realized art form. To this end, KLIK! has organised the annual KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival since its inception in 2007 and a host of other activities throughout the year.
Every so often, I’m preoccupied by the question, “Is what I see also what I get?” I catch myself thinking that there’s a discrepancy between what I “saw” and the information my eye actually took in.
The differences between reality, what I see, and what I think I see are especially important to consider when dealing with type. A simple yet fascinating example of a “misperceived” reality can be found in the optical perception of horizontal and vertical bars of the same width. In Detail in Typography, Jost Hochuli states:
For a given weight of line, a horizontal line appears heavier than a vertical line. To achieve optically balanced verticals and horizontals, which appear to be of the same weight, the horizontal must be somewhat narrower. This applies not only to straight lines but also to curves … 1
Organised by the Foam Magazine , the Foam Talent Call is one of the photographic industry’s most prestigious contests for young photographers all over the world. It is a career building platform, helping to launch aspiring talents into the international photography industry and giving them international acclaim and recognition.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of the award, which over the past decade has identified and launched hundreds of emerging photographers from around the world.
Participants are invited to submit two series of work . The series should include 8-10 images per project, but no more than 20 images in total and should be submitted with project descriptions and a CV.