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The United Nations , in its desire to promote the highest standard of excellence in political cartoons, has established this annual political cartoon award given in the international field, and named the award after political cartoonist Ranan Lurie .

Entries for awards must represent work done from the beginning of September 2013 , to the 15th of October 2014 , reflecting the importance of human dignity, mutual respect and friendship among nations, as well as economic consideration and environmental responsibilities towards each other. While cartoonists may send in what ever they please, the contest does not encourage maligning member nations or their leaders.

Winning cartoons will be chosen for their high professional standards in art, political analysis of events, projection of events to come, humor, while emphasizing the spirit and principles of the U.N.

The entry must consist of reproductions only. The cartoon reproductions will be accepted only as published, with name of publication, language, and date included, accompanied by a newspaper reprint, and translated into English.

Exhibits are limited to two cartoons per person. Reproductions must be presented measuring no larger than 8 1/2 x 11 inches.

There is no entry fee . Eligibility Entries may be made by any professional individual, and should consist of political cartoons printed in any publication published anywhere in the world, in any language. Prize All winning entries will be announced in December 2014 :

• First prize : $10,000.00 and a plaque
• Second prize : $5,000.00 and a plaque
• Third prize : $3,000.00 and a plaque

Moreover, ten honorable mentions , in the form of plaques, will be granted by the Political Cartoon Awards committee.

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The YCN Student Awards annualy shine a light on emerging creative excellence; and run closely alongside leading Universities, Colleges and Art & Design schools internationally. The awards are based around a collection of live creative briefs; written each year by partnering organisations.

The Awards enable all those that take part to benefit from engaging with thoroughly contemporary communication challenges, and give increased confidence, visibility and employability to all those that excel within them.

Work submitted in response to each brief is closely examined by the brands and organisations that wrote it, often alongside the agencies with whom they work. They are asked to draw up a shortlist of the submissions felt to be the most outstanding from all those received in response to their brief. There are no first, second or third place style nominations, if you have been Commended this means your work has been chosen as one of the most outstanding entries to that particular brief and you will be Commended alongside a selected number of other entries for your brief.

You may submit work as an individual or as a team. Teams can consist of as many people as you wish. All submissions must be in the English language.

There is no entry fee . Eligibility Submissions are invited from anyone in full-time or part-time education, anywhere in the world. Prize Commended entrants are awarded at a splendid Ceremony each year; and all commended work is showcased in the pages of the YCN Student Annual . 15,000 copies of the Annual are distributed across education, and across the creative industries.

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The European Design Awards have been created to celebrate European design with all its regional distinctive elements as well as its common grounds, to facilitate European designers to meet, benchmark, be inspired and build networks, to promote and raise standards for communication design throughout Europe, to properly honor and award people who invest their passion in design and to create a directory of European communication design excellence.

The European Design Awards, now in their eighth year, are constantly evolving to embrace the changes in the world of printed and digital communication design. An ever-expanding digital jury composed of editors of online design magazines was introduced in 2013 and new categories are being added to better suit designers’ needs.

Founded in 2006 , the ED-Awards instantly became widely acknowledged as one of the leading competitions for communication design in Europe. Each year the awards ceremony takes place in a different city and, following Athens, Stockholm, Zurich, Rotterdam, Vilnius, Helsinki and Belgrade, the ED Awards 2014 ceremony will take place in Cologne, Germany.

All submitted work must have been published in 2013 .

The entry fee per submission is 140 Euro (or 112 Euro per submission for five or more submissions) and 40 Euro per student submission. Eligibility All designers living or working within Europe may participate. Designers in Europe may submit work done for clients outside Europe. Prize There are three levels of distinction: Gold, Silver and Bronze.

• Gold winners receive a trophy during the Award Ceremony. In rare cases, the maximum of two Gold awards may be given in one category.

• Silver winners receive a diploma during the Award Ceremony. A maximum of five Silver awards are given per category.

• Bronze winners receive a diploma by post or in the ED-Conference reception. A maximum of five Bronze awards are given per category.

All award winners (Gold, Silver and Bronze) will be published in the ED-Awards catalogue and on the ED-Awards website.

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Enter the most prestigious competition for creativity in photography, the Communication Arts Photography Competition .

Selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished designers, art directors and photographers, the winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Photography Annual, in print and on the iPad, and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work. As a service to art directors, designers and art buyers, a comprehensive index will carry contact information of the photographers represented.

Categories:

• Advertising (ads, posters, CDs, packaging, etc.)
• Books (cover/jacket and/or interior, must be published)
• Editorial (consumer or trade magazine, newspaper)
• For Sale (poster, print, note paper, greeting card, licensing/stock, gallery sale, etc.)
• Institutional (company/association publication, brochures, collateral, etc.)
• Multimedia (time-based media for film, television, video or Web)
• Self-Promotion (promotion for photographers, creative firms and vendors)
• Unpublished (commissioned but not published, personal or student work, etc.)

The Photography Competition has an Unpublished category, which can include student work . However the work must be completely original and not utilize content owned by another copyright holder unless the entrant has been granted specific usage rights.

Each photograph is a single entry. Campaigns or series are limited to five photographs. Any digital files you might want to submit saved as RGB (not CMYK) JPG format (maximum 1024 pixels wide X 768 pixels high, 72dpi).

Entries must be registered no later than March 14, 2014 . Entries registered after that date require a late fee of $10 per entry. No entries can be registered after March 28, 2014 . Eligibility Any photograph first printed or produced from March 2013 through March 2014 is eligible. Entries may originate from any country. Prize The winning entries will be distributed worldwide in the Communication Arts Photography Annual , in print and on the iPad, and on commarts.com, assuring important exposure to the creators of this outstanding work.

Moreover, each winning entrant will also receive a personalized Award of Excellence , milled from solid aluminum and award certificates issued for firms, individuals and clients.

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The Renaissance Photography Prize is an international competition showcasing outstanding photography from emerging or established photographers. Renaissance is run entirely by volunteers, and all the entry fee is donated to the Lavender Trust at Breast Cancer Care. Every penny goes to charity.

The following single image categories are available:

• Belonging
• Expression
• Transition

The series format is instead an open category. All projects are eligible regardless of subject or theme, providing the photographs entered are related and part of the same body of work.

You can enter as many images as you wish to the Competition. Entries may be taken using digital or film. Retouching / manipulation of digital images is accepted provided that all works are original works and not copies of other people’s works. You retain copyright of your Entries.

All Entries, whether taken digitally or on film, must be submitted electronically. Scans from film or prints are acceptable. Entries must be JPEG files of no more than 1800 pixels on the longest side and not more than 2 MB in file size.

Entry fee:

• £15 for a single entry (approx. $23)
• £25 for up to 3 entries (approx. $40)
• £40 for up to 6 entries (approx. $60)

Entries received and paid for before the 28 February 2014 will receive an early bird discount (30%) on entry fees. Eligibility The competition is open to professional and amateur photographers worldwide. If you are under 16 you must have a parent or legal guardian’s permission to enter. Prize From the Finalist Images, the judges will select 12 images (3 single images in each category of the Single-image Competition and 3 series in the Series Competition) as the shortlist. From the Shortlist the judges will choose:

• Two overall winners (the Renaissance Prize Winner in the Single-image Competition and the Renaissance Prize Winner in the Series Competition)
• One category winner in each of the 3 categories (the Category Winners)
• One runner-up of the Series Competition

Prize winners will be announced and prizes awarded at the awards ceremony in London. If any prize winners are unable to attend the Awards Ceremony their prize money will be transferred to them (less bank charges) within 10 days of the exhibition. All photographers selected for exhibition will also receive the 2014 Exhibition Catalogue.

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