Calling Creative Graduates! It’s your chance to grab the spotlight...The Creative Graduate Prize is an online international event, open to creative graduates globally working across the fields of fine art and photography...The awards jury is made up of innovators from the international creative industries, all of whom are creative graduates themselves including Illustrator Jason Brooks, contemporary artists Stuart Semple and Tessa Farmer, Penny Martin of SHOWstudio/London College of Fashion, photographer Ellis Scott, Design Laboratory/Jotta.com Director Yann Mathias, sculptor and Hussein Chalayan / Nick Knight collaborator Lone Sigurdsson, McCann’s Head of Innovation Justin Champney, digital artist Eileen Botsford and the Creative Graduate Prize founders Laurie Cansfield publisher of Medium Magazine and Melissa Sterry founder and CEO of Societás...The visual arts awards were launched in 2005 by web/print/live arts platform Medium Magazine and creative agency/think tank/incubator Societás to recognise the best emerging illustrators, photographers and artists worldwide. Annually attracting entries from creative graduates internationally, past winners have come from as far a field as a remote province in rural China, Washington DC and Cardiff...There are three award categories:Best Static Art (all genres of static 2D art),
Best Moving Art (all genres of moving art),
Best Installation Art (all genres of static and moving 3D art)...Want to enter?Entrants are invited to submit original works to the theme of ‘Identity’. The deadline for entries is 30th October 2008 and all submissions will go through jotta.com...To enter create a profile page on jotta.com. Upload your entry to your portfolio page. Email your entry, with your CV/biog and 75-100 words about your entry to us via the jotta.com Marketplace...What are the prizes?A Key-2 Luxury for each winner – see www.key2luxury.com for details of this luxury prize worth £5000.An editorial in Mediummagazine.net and your work featured online in the Societás gallery.The opportunity to have your work seen by the judges, their agencies and the creative orgs attached to the Creative Graduate Prize...The winners of the Creative Graduate Prize will be announced in November 2008...Creative Graduate Prize 2008 Judges...Jason Brooks - http://www.jason-brooks.com/,Stuart Semple - http://www.stuartsemple.com/,Eileen Botsford – http://www.eileenbotsford.com,Laurie Cansfield - http://www.mediummagazine.net,Melissa Sterry – http://www.societas.tv,Ellis Scott - http://www.ellisscott.co.uk/,Penny Martin - http://www.showstudio.com,Yann Mathias – http://www.designlaboratory.co.uk,Tessa Farmer - http://www.tessafarmer.com,Lone Sigurdsson – http://www.lonesigurdsson.com,Justin Champney - Head of Brand Innovation, McCann Group...Past Creative Graduate Prize winners and runner-ups include amongst others:New York photographer Carrie Schechter - Best Static Art Award 2007,Cardiff-based Filmmaker Gareth Lloyd - Best Moving Art Award 2007,Artist Cai Jia Eng of Singapore - First Runner-Up 2007,Italian photographer Elena Arzani – Second Runner-Up 2007,Illustrator Li Li of Chang Chun Jin Lin province in China – Best Static Art Award 2006,Photographer Lyza R. Perrenoud of Washington DC, USA - First Runner Up 2006,Photographer Judith Erwes of Germany - Second Runner Up 2006...The Creative Graduate Prize is organised by Societás.tv and MediumMagazine.net and held in association with Creativepool.co.uk and jotta.com... want to find out more? Email us at
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