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Australian graphic designer and activist Nick Hallam founded a non-profit poster collaboration involving international designers. That is the second year Positive Posters when founders give few month to submit your works between July and October of a current year. An exhibition is held of the top 30 posters, and the winner chosen by a group of international judges. They then print 4000 copies of the winning poster and paste it all over the streets of Melbourne, Australia.
Read their brief and give Peace a Chance!

Thanks Swiss Miss for pointing that.

Ruven Afanador is considered one of the leading photographers working in celebrity and fashion photography.
His work appears in most major fashion magazines in the world as well as in The New Yorker. His commercial clients include Arista, Cacharel, Christian Dior, Elektra et al.

YtaYta.com° - the first and only interactive Internet storage for masterpieces of world art. YtaYta contains the biggest collection of world art there is and allows you to comment, add reviews to pictures, styles and artists. The collection is being constantly enriched by our community: art lovers, collectors and experts.

Как часто вы задавались вопросом, где быстро найти в интернете картины художников по стилям или временным историческим отрезкам? Скорей всего википедия будет подручным средством, но не в плане визуального содержания, здесь испытывается некоторый затык. И вот вполне предприимчивые шведы придумали и сделали портал YtaYta, на котором вы можете не только найти авторов и их произведения, но и участвовать самим в пополнении онлайн коллекции и дискутировать на любые темы искусства.

IdN Magazine recently released v17n2 Retro Graphics: Nostalgia In Modern Times ready to be bought by hungry visual artists.

CitID is a project were designers and artists from around the world are encouraged to create a visual interpretation of the city closest to their heart. Ultimately CitID hopes that every city worldwide will have it's identity on CitID within a unique collection of global designs depicting various styles and trends. Selected designs will later be published in a CitID book.

Create the type, honour your city!

P.s. Waiting for "Saint-Petersburg" submissions though :)

SALAZAR is quite famous independent motion picture collective with a dozen of talented members recently released their Demo Reel 2010

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Impressive video made by international collective of Avion, Barrandov Studios, Panther Prague, Vantage Film Prague и Stillking Films
for Greenpeace on Earth Day "Give Earth a Hand".
Music by Hecq.

That's not about tracing but a pure artistic vision on natural body art.

Leo Burnett for WWF

via Fubiz