Communication Arts Competition: Extended Deadline

Hey folks- don’t be lazy. Enter your photographs in contests! All editors and buyers look for new talent from the pools of contest winners; it me...

Hey folks- don’t be lazy. Enter your photographs in contests! All editors and buyers look for new talent from the pools of contest winners; it means the work has been vetted for them already. Rob Haggart posts briefly on the subject today on A Photo Editor:

“I also wanted to address the question of photography contests which,
I’ll just say right now to make it perfectly clear, all photo editors
and art buyers use contests to find photographers and in many ways
they’re better then the paid advertising in sourcebooks because you
can’t just buy an ad to get in, you have to be selected, so that means
the junk is usually weeded out.”

Take the weekend to submit your images to the CommArts Competition; they just extended their deadline:

Selected by a nationally representative jury of distinguished
designers, art directors and photographers, the winning entries will be
published in the August 2008 Photography Annual. Over 70,000 copies of
the Photography Annual will be distributed worldwide, 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 addresses and telephone numbers of the photographers
represented.

Also, I took a little trip over to SPD to see what’s up in their neck of the woods, and they have a great contest for illustrators honoring spot art:

“Spot” illustrations may be small in size, but they play an enormous role in the world of publication design. A Spot must catch readers’ eyes, draw them into a story, and convey complex ideas–often while competing with other visual elements on the page.The Society of Publication Designers is the only organization to honor these hard-working little gems with its annual Spots Competition.