Factory - Design competition: Go up a level

Deadline extended : 5.30pm | 29th October

An exciting opportunity for exposure plus a cash prize at one of London’s top audio- visual post production facilities!

Factory believe in unearthing levels of potential that may not always be immediately evident and have setup a fantastic competition to reflect this.

The brief is for any budding artist, designer or illustrator to come up with an original design to be artworked straight onto the walls of the main thoroughfare hallway. The top prize will arrest Factory's clients upon entrance to the premises and captivate their attention all the way to our first floor reception and second floor landing.

The runner-up artwork will captivate an audience heading from the impressive newly installed Dolby surround sound mixing suite to our graphics and editing studios.

There is also a cash prize: £500 cash for top prize and £300 for the runner-up.

Entries must be received by 4th September 2010.

For more about terms and conditions for entry download the pdf here.

Lazy Oaf and Tate present Let’s Face it

Blisters blackout - Print Club London (call for submissions)

Print Club are bringing together a mixture of established and emerging illustrators for BLISTERS BLACKOUT a winter feast of hand pulled, screen printed posters.

This year they are asking every one to add a ‘glow in the dark’ element to their poster design. They will be ‘Blacking Out’ the venue at points during the opening night so your posters can really GLOW!

Click here to find out how you can submit your work.

Project10 – June (graduate) edition

Steve Price (Plan-B Studio) has set himself a rather intriguing challenge; 10 projects in 10 months with 10 NFP/NGO organisations or projects that are 'fun'.

When he first began in January he thought Project10 would be ten projects for ten charities. But Project10 has become much more than trying to create ten projects in ten months. As ever it is about quality, not quantity. It’s also about something fundamentally more important; collaboration.

Rather than send out press releases to promote his endeavor, he had the bright idea of using the Newspaper Club to create a limited-edition mail-out to 100 industry leaders and press people. The content is contributed to by writers, designers, artists, illustrators and other generous people, who often team up and work collaboratively on the content itself.

Steve’s dedicating June’s issue to the newest graduates. Not all 16,000+ of them; Steve’s picking ten for a carefully created issue that celebrates the best of the design industries newbies.

Applicants will not just be selected on their work, though. Oh no. In order to get yourself and your work in to the paper you must (off your own back) source, organise and interview your design industry hero/heroine for the paper SPECIFICALLY about the notion of collaboration in today’s industry (N.B. Steve might be able to help you get the interviews).

Applicants need to contact Steve with their plan and then supply up to 500 words of interview, images to support the interview and/or examples of your own work. Deadline is Tuesday 8th June 2010.

For more information contact: project10@plan-bstudio.com

Big Antidote

Help tell a story - one illustrator draws a section of a comic - then the baton is passed to someone else to continue the story... repeat. Once Cure Studio have 10 stories (told by 100 illustrators) they will put on the most interesting exhibition of 2010.

They need someone to start - what will be - an amazing adventure.

If you would like to find out more, including details about how to put your hand up to play - then have a look at www.bigantidote.com

If you would like to start the story then complete this form before 9pm on wednesday (22 July) and we will start the story telling on thursday (23 July).

If you know anyone else who would be perfect for this - then please do forward this on.

Been there, done that

but have you got the T-shirt? As you all know, Ok-Jo loves nothing more than a good doodle and has put this to good use to design a T-shirt for Chimpogo – an online company who run competitions throughout the year. Ok-Jo's design bears the legend 'Copy Paste' in green with a blue background.To see Ok-Jo's design and to vote for it to be printed as a T-shirt, visit http://www.chimpogo.com/design/2367/copy-and-paste-v2 Why don't you enter too? It doesn't take long and imagine how cool it would be to see someone walking down the street in something you created?

Print Club presents - Secret Blisters

More info here

Don't Panic + Vitamin Water unique design competition

Win £500 and Sunday Besitval tickets!

Would you like to see your work in print? how about printed at 10m by 13.5m on the front of cordy house, in the heart of Shoreditch, London? and not without some prizes either – £500 cash and 2 vip Bestival passes! not to mention, you’ll have your work printed on the don’t panic poster another 80,000 times.

Okay, so what do you need to do to win the brief? Glacéau vitaminwater is looking for your creative interpretation on the theme of ‘summer of Glacéau vitaminwater’. using their gorgeously stylish packs, create a vision of summer in colour (specifically, the six rainbow colours of the vitaminwater varieties - see entry guidelines)

Your creation can be rendered using graphic design, illustration, photography, or any type of medium you can think of, as long as it can be printed up to a suitably large format.

Click here to find out more and to enter the competition.

Print Club

 

Print Club run by Fred Higginson, Kate Newbold & Rose Stallard is designed to work as a member’s water based screenprinting club for illustrators and designers, to produce posters, t- shirts, all things screenprinted.

Print Club aims to revive screenprinting by providing a laid back yet productive affordable environment, enabling designers to go from laptop to inky hands.

Print Club is once again bringing together a mixture of 35 emerging and established illustrators from pen to mouse to those who cover walls, for another summer bonanza of hand pulled, screen printed posters.

Last years exhibition brought together a mixture of up and coming illustrators and many well known names including Eine, Jody Barton, Pure Evil, Steve Wilson, AustinfromNew... They had over 1000 people through the door and sold out of most artists on the night!

See www.printclublondon.com for more info.

Pogostick Pie - Vintage China Sale

South London Craft Market

Come along to Pogostick Pie's (Clare and Jo) first ever table top sale in Crystal Palace. We will be selling vintage china alongside a few limited edition prints from Anna and Jo Spencer and other unusual items.

Print Club

Print Club fun!

This weekend my Anna and I went to Print Club in Hackney to do some screen printing. We had lots of fun and highly recommend it, it is good to get messy sometimes.

Anna with her squeegee

Inky pink ready to print on my screen

Jo's second layer on

Anna making a beautiful mess

Layer 1 print

And then with the second layer blue speech bubbles

Anna's final 2 layer print of the Feather Duster!

Blog Banner

Blog Header Updated

Dave Vernon designed the Jan/Feb blog banner, with a wintery feel... being so cold outside and all. He will shortly be supplying me with work samples for his own page. Watch this space.

Soupa also has a new page which will be showcasing the past and present blog headers, they will be changing monthly so we can go back and see how the banners have developed over the year.

On-going project

Design the Soupa blog banner

Due to the nature of Soupa - we want you to dictate how it looks!

So the first banner was designed by yours truly (Ok-Jo) but we want you to design one for next month - January. You can download the Photoshop template from here you can design it in your own style - it will be a showcase for you and an easy way for you to develop some of your skills may it be illustration, photoshop skills, photography - whatever media you like - in your style, you can add typography, illustration, photography, texture - whatever! All we need on it is the Soupa logo, which will be on the photoshop template provided.

This is open to anyone and we will be looking to change it every month if you supply me with the designs we will get them on there - get making!

Requirements/Info on designing the banner

Size: Width 700 px x Height  225 px - 72dpi/RGB

Download the template here: Soupa Banner

Instructions using the template download here: coming soon