refocus-now is hosting its 2005 Calendar Competition featuring the best photography, digital imaging and mixed media work being used in advertising, design and the publishing market sectors. The calendar will be published in autumn with each of the competition winners receiving 20 copies for their own use. The remainder will be distributed to commercial art buyers, art directors and designers and sold from the refocus-now Website. The four categories cover all four seasons and entrants can interpret the theme for each category however they wish. The judges will be looking for strong, inspired and imaginative imagery that capture the spirit of each season. For further details and guidelines, visit http://www.refocus-now.co.uk.

1st Annual Portfolios.com Awards Show will highlight the best advertising, graphic design, Web design, photography and illustration of 2003. An international panel of judges will judge online, and the Winners' Showcase will be announced and shown online. For more information, visit www.portfolios.com/award, e-mail customerservice@portfolios.com or call (800) 303-9277 ext. 261.

CGARCHITECT.COM, the leading online magazine for architectural visualization artists, is hosting of the biggest online visualization competition in the CG industry -- 2005 Architectural Visualization Competition. The competition will start with an open call for entries. A panel of expert judges will select the top 30 entries to participate in the actual competition. With each challenge the field will be narrowed until the final three have been selected. What separates this challenge from the rest is the range of challenges that participants will be asked to compete in, and the individual critiques that each contestant will receive from the expert judges. The winner will be announced at the 4th Annual SIGGRAPH 2005 CGarchitect.com party in Los Angeles in August.

The competition is sponsored by the top software, hardware, and CG service providers in the industry, with prizes totaling more than $90,000 in value. The first place winner will walk away with a prize package valued at just more than $36,000 including a brand new HP workstation xw6200, configured with an Intel

Call for Entries in our 2006 Summer Competition. All categories, amateur or professional, best film, documentary, horror, comedy, musical, best actor, stunt, editing, music, commercial, weddings, animation, voice over, etc. We even have a category for best promo kit and packaging design. Send in your best work today and win the prestigious ADVA Award of Excellence.

The Art Directors Club will host the 86th annual ADC Awards. Winners take their place in the industry's revered archive of the best work ever produced in advertising, graphic design, photography, illustration and interactive media. The ADC Annual Awards has kept pace with the changing nature of visual communications since its inception in 1920.The Hybrid category transcends traditional uses of media, and Playground was created to give great unproduced advertising work a chance at daylight. Strenuously and scrupulously judged, the not-for-profit ADC Annual Awards is one of the most venerable shows in the world. The professional deadline is Jan. 10, 2007, and the student deadline is Jan. 31. For more information, visit www.adcawards.org/.

Adobe Systems is hosting the 7th annual Adobe Design Achievement Awards (ADAA). The program honors and recognizes the most talented and promising student designers, photographers, illustrators, animators and digital filmmakers from the world's top design, film, interactive and Web higher education programs. This year, the competition will accept entries from 30 participating countries. Now in its seventh year, this world leading design competition has been expanded to include more students from across the globe by adding Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. These students are invited to join students from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, U.K. and the U.S. in submitting projects. The nine submission categories include: animation, digital illustration, digital photography, interactive and Web design, live action, motion graphics, environmental graphics and packaging, multiple page print design, and single page print design. The designers of the 2007 ADAA marketing campaign were a collaboration of winners and finalists from the 2006 competition. A team of seven submitted the unique concept

The Streaming Festival is a progressive film festival that takes place exclusively on the internet. Films are streamed full screen with high image quality.

The Streaming Festival presents carefully selected independent films to a worldwide audience. Film-makers and viewers from all over the world can join in and share without any costs for tickets, subscription fees or travel costs.

The festival encourages the development of media technologies with a special emphasis on streaming media. The festival wants to create a platform for audiovisual art.

The next edition of the Streaming Festival will take place from March 22nd to March 25th, 2007.

Call for Entries 4th Annual Pcom Creative Awards ~Deadline for Entries is March 15, 2007~ The 2007 Pcom Creative Awards, the premiere international creative award show, is currently accepting all entries for the 2007 competition. Entries for the Pcom Creative Awards are judged by an elite international jury of award-winning art directors, graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and creative directors. Winners will receive Gold, Silver, Bronze or Merit Awards and have their award-winning work published on Portfolios.com in the winners' circle. Portfolios.com is one of the most highly trafficked creative websites in the world, providing stellar exposure for winners. To enter the Pcom Creative Awards, prospective entrants are asked to visit http://www.portfolios.com/award/2007 to access Portfolios.com's innovative on-line system exclusively designed to streamline the entry process. The user-friendly navigation and simple log-in will allow all entrants to add or change entries at any time during or after the entry process. For additional information on the Pcom Creative Awards, please visit the Portfolios.com web site at http://www.portfolios.com , or contact Jessica Richmond at 800-303-9277 ext. 221.

3X3 MAGAZINE is entering its fourth year judging the world's best contemporary illustration judged by some of the world's best illustrators. It has expanded the categories in its professional show to include three categories: children's book illustration -- both published and unpublished; animation; and a separate category for work done specifically for gallery exhibits. This year's categories include our usual advertising, editorial, institutional, books, and unpublished, including self-promotion. And three new categories: children's books, animation and art-for-sale. For the animation category, the judges include: Mario Cavalli, Dave McKean, Run Wrake, Oscar Grillo and Eric Goldberg.

The sixth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge is now underway. Co-sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the journal SCIENCE, the flagship publication of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Visualization Challenge is a prestigious competition to find the photographs, illustrations, and digital media that best communicate science, engineering, and technology for education and journalistic purposes. Last year's winning entries were as diverse and imaginative as any yet received. They took us in close to see how nicotine creates cravings, how muscles work, how wires can heal themselves, and even what lies behind our noses. They helped us learn physics, mathematics, and the progression of breast cancer. They took us up 18 kilometers to the top of Hurricane Bonnie and down to the delicate structures of sea moss from Cape Breton Island. They even slowed time to a standstill, revealing the beautiful complexity of a bat's flight. Winning entries will be published in a special section of the Sept. 26, 2008 issue of SCIENCE and Science Online and on NSF's website. The entry deadline is May 31, 2008. For rules, entry forms, and more information, see www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis.