WOLDA: the worldwide logo design annual (www.wolda.org) has announced the '09 Wolda winners and launched the new edition of Wolda 2010. Visit our website to see the winners showcase and the brand NEW format of Wolda 2010 that again evolves and breaks the ground by allowing every participant to be a judge!

Winners Showcase

Communication Arts, the leading professional journal for visual communications, has launched a new Typography competition to celebrate the best use of typography as the primary visual element in design and advertising, plus new typeface designs, calligraphy and handlettering. Categories include collateral, packaging, media, motion, environmental typeface design, calligraphy/handlettering and unpublished/experimental. The deadline is September 10, 2010.

Jurors include Stephen Coles, type director at the FontShop and editor of Typographica; Allan Haley, director of Words & Letters at Monotype Imaging and past president of the New York Type Directors Club; and Ellen Lupton, designer, curator, critic and author of Thinking with Type. Their selections will be showcased on www.commarts.com and reproduced in the January/February 2011 issue of Communication Arts.

More than 50,000 copies of the issue will be distributed worldwide assuring important exposure to the creators and publishers of these award-winning projects.

Submission requirements and FAQs can be found at:
http://www.commarts.com/competitions/typography

AIGA and Aquent release comprehensive salary survey data for the U.S. communication design profession and provide recommendations for competitiveness in a new economy

Annual salary survey reveals opportunities for the design industry amid modest wage increases

The AIGA|Aquent Survey of Design Salaries is commissioned annually by AIGA, with the support of its partner, Aquent, AIGA's official sponsor for professional development, and in cooperation with Communication Arts  magazine. The salary survey is part of a comprehensive program of AIGA activities developed to serve the professional designer with strategies for success as well as sources of inspiration. AIGA is the principal source of information on the design economy.

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