The 1st International Motion Festival (IMF) will be organized in March 2012 in Nicosia, Cyprus by the Department of Arts of the European University Cyprus, and it will be the first of its kind both in Cyprus and the broader Mediterranean and Middle East region. It aims to bring together film-makers, video artists, computer animators, graphic designers and their audience and to familiarize the public with what has traditionally remained as the "invisible art": motion graphics.

The London International Awards 2011 is now open for entries. The LIA has established itself throughout its 26-year history as a revolutionary global leader honouring advertising, design and digital media. Entries submitted must be broadcast, published or released in a commercial environment with client approval between July 1, 2010 and July 31, 2011.

Welcome to the ISTD International Typographic Awards 2011. The Awards are held as an appraisal of current standards in typographic design and are judged by some of today’s leading graphic, interactive and typographic design specialists.

The red dot award: communication design 2011 is open for entries. Designers, marketing agencies and clients of the communications industry are invited to score points with their published creative works. This year, the submission categories "Event Design", "Online Communication" and "Interface Design" will be supplemented with additional subcategories. For the first time, menu navigation of digital cameras and navigation systems, particularly sophisticated online communities or outstanding outdoor posters and charity events will be evaluated separately by experts in these areas.

Core77 is addressing many of the challenges of the design award paradigm, building upon the very things that can make it great – leveraging online scale, increasing transparency, and decreasing plane fuel in the process. From client work to self-initiated efforts, from entrepreneurial to pro-bono, there are new currencies in design whose value can be commercial, cultural, social, environmental, or discursive. The Core77 Design Awards welcomes projects in all of these spheres, and honors the time, effort, and quality of the endeavors, no matter their provenance.

At present there is no internationally recognized symbol for human rights. The “Logo for Human Rights” initiative wants to change that! Logos win people over through their symbolic power, distinctiveness, clarity and universal applicability. The initiative was established out of conviction that a human rights logo will make a peaceful contribution towards the global spread and implementation of human rights.

The visualMAFIA® calendar competition resulted from the ambition to promote our existing international creative network as well as winning new networking partners. In addition, we want to offer a platform for creatives to express their talent within the interesting framework of the visualMAFIA® calendar competition. Through the competition we hope to bring national and international designers together and produce a high-quality calendar for all partners, clients and most importantly winners of the visualMAFIA® calendar competition.

Unleash your creativity, take inspiration from the well-known stencil artists and get inspired by the city of Berlin; the architecture, the zeitgeist, the music, the people, and bring that into a stencilled design. And we want you to reflect the spirit of HUGO in your piece.

Every year poster for tomorrow chooses a basic human right to draw attention to. We then invite the global design community to make posters on this theme that are exhibited around the world on International Human Rights Day, December 10th. We passionately believe that one poster is a start, but one hundred, one thousand, constitute a movement that can’t be denied.

Norwegian Wood, a new film adapted from the bestselling Haruki Murakami novel and featuring an original score by Jonny Greenwood, opens in cinemas nationwide on 11th March 2011.

If you think you have what it takes to produce a film poster that will attract audiences then this competition is for you.