Tuwi design – all forms of design

Task: Design this year’s Tacoma Film Festival poster.

Deadline: 20th July 2009

Prizes: $350

Here’s your chance to shine as an artist and have your work displayed all over Tacoma.  The non-profit Grand Cinema is once again turning to the artistic community to design this year’s Tacoma Film Festival poster.  Last year’s contest was so successful that we are so excited to see what you artists come up with this year!  The Grand will accept entries for the poster through July 20, 2009.  All entries will be displayed at the Grand Cinema and a winner will be chosen for this year’s festival.

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Geishas (芸者, Geisha) are traditional Japanese artist and entertainer, whose skills include various arts such as music, song and dance. The geisha were very common in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and still exist, although their number is gradually decreasing.
Despite this, geisha has become a figure much represented in the design. This figure in fact has the ability to unite itself in modernity and tradition of japanese culture, therefore, is a strong image when used in the right design context.
Among the entries we’ve been very impressed by those of Rubens Cantuni, with the design of a chubby and ironic geisha.
Good inspiration for your work tuwidesigners
As always expect your suggestions to expand our gallery!!!
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Task: Customize Sennheiser HD 418 headphones with a eye catching surface design prints.

Deadline: 28th August 2009

Prizes: 45 winners will each take home a customized, limited edition HD 418 headphones with their own winning design!

Headphones are a means to listen to music… but it could be so much more! Here is your chance to customize your very own Sennheiser headphone to not only become an extension of who you are but allow you to enjoy the music inextricably intertwined into your life and share your passion with others!

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Today we offer a collection of the best fragrances packaging. Develop the design of a precious fragrance bottle is a really interesting process. The bottle must represent in its design the perfume that contains. Its lines, geometric or soft, must recall the aroma of perfume. The approach of the designer will be obviously different if the scent is addressed to a woman or a man. In this gallery we collected only the women’s fragrances. soon we will see the difference with the scents targeted to men.

To be a good designer you must sometimes have a good nose:)
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Today we have looked for some digital artworks and in this gallery we have put together the best inspirations for you.
The main themes are colors and the effects of light and water. All these are elements that can be used for our work especially during summer season.
Clicking on each image you will be directed to the designer’s personal page who has made the artwork.
In the tutorial section of Tuwidesign you can find many aids that will guide you in creating a very similar effect to what you see in this gallery.
Have fun and, as always, we expect your valuable suggestions to expand our collections!
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Here is finally the first image of the new iPhone!
The wait was really great but in the end it has arrived and was presented a few minutes ago at Moscone Center in San Francisco .

The design is clearly the best apple style, much like the old iphone…

A great example of an object that has become really a cult.

A cult that has become such thanks to the excellent marketing decisions of the house of Cupertino, able to create great waiting around their products. Apple in this is really unique!
The new iPhone will be accompanied by the new 3.0 operating system with many innovations compared to the previous operating system. MMS, can buy or rent movies, tethering, the service find my iPhone, Tom Tom, so many new games and applications.

Part of the globe has now reached the summer. For all those designers interested not only to enjoy a good ice cream but also to appreciate a beautiful package, we have prepared this fresh collection.
The ice cream, like many other products, differs its image depending on the target to which it is addressed.
See eg the Gü Ice Cream and its beautiful packaging, designed as if it were to contain a truly valuable object.
This seems to be looks the direction that many companies are taking on the ice cream packaging design. The manufacturer of magnum, one of the largest world corporations in this field, has chosen for magnum a golden package which seems to remember the colors of the Veuve Clicquot champagne packaging, which we have analyzed here a little while ago on tuwidesign. Champagne and ice cream … a nice couple!
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Today we have selected for you the best websites of the most important international night clubs.
Major events organized by these clubs with the most important world djs require a great effort, both economically and in terms of communication. The focus is therefore for these clubs to be at the forefront in everything that is communication. Website for this club is a showcase to the world just like any company. Until a few years ago night clubs websites were rarely updated, forgotten soon after their creation … A showcase, empty! There is entrusted to other channels of communication, now something has changed. The era of the flyer distributed in the streets or beaches is probably over. Now this channel is replaced or, in some cases, supplemented by communication via the internet. Printing thousands of flyers to advertise a single event begins to be regarded negatively in several respects: it has no potential communication that has instead the word of mouth of an event on a social network, it is much more expensive for target ads made on the web and, often, from an ecological point of view, it is a waste of paper that accumulates in the streets of major cities.
Ways of communicating are changing then! The best way to observe these changes is to stay in the middle of them where the changes occur, and the world of night life is certainly one of these places.
we will return again and deepen further the issue of advertising paper vs the use of the Web so… stay tuned on tuwidesign and enjoy this gallery of website design!
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Task: Submit any kind of artwork. Twelve categories in three media areas.

Deadline: 5th of June 2009

First Prizes for each category: US$3,000 cash + Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 Master Collection + a round-trip to Beijing and more…

The 2009 Adobe® Design Achievement Awards gives higher education students from around the world the shortcut to brilliance to propel their careers in the future. Enter in 12 categories in 3 media areas endorsed by the industry, cash prizes will be awarded in Beijing during the Icograda World Design Congress.
Contest is open to all individuals age 18 years or older who are full-time matriculated students in an accredited institution of higher education.
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Here, Tuwi Design found out a great article from HeatherInk. She gives some really useful tips in order to build a perfect design portfolio.

This is addressed to every young freelancer that need a strong portfolio.

Turn a nice protfolio in a great one could be easier following this few suggestions:

Quantity: no more than 10-15 pics

Substance: according to the job you’re looking for it is enough to fit some important categories like posters, Read the rest of this entry »