The winning entries for the TDC Competitions, TDC54 and TDC2 2008, in typographic and typeface design, will be published in a book Typography 29: the Annual of the Type Directors Club available at the end of 2008. The work will be exhibited at The One Club in New York, from Tuesday 29 July 2008 – Friday 22 August 2008.

Read more about the font design in the Projects: Typographic Matchmaking 01 section of this site.

Venue
The One Club, 21 East 26th Street (between Madison and Fifth Aves) 5th floor, New York. Monday – Thursday, 10:00 am – 5:30 pm; Friday, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Opening Date and Time
6:00–8:00pm Tuesday 29 July 2008

Text from the official Samandal Magazine website

what is a Samandal?

Samandal is the Arabic word for 'salamander'. Much like the dual habitats of amphibious creatures, Samadal Magazine thrives between two world; the image and the word, entertainment and substance, the low brow and raised brow, the experimental and the traditional. Samandal Magazine promises a regular peek into the minds of a few individuals most adept at expressing themselves through sequences of words and pictures and hopes to reach out past borders and language to everyone with a bit of comic on their mind.

where do we come from?

Whilst our contributors hail from various reaches of the globe, the founders of Samandal Magazine come from Beirut, Lebanon. Comics in Lebanon, much like in the rest of the world, still struggle for validation as a mature medium of expression and suffer the post-pubescent scorn associated with all things 'childish'. Samandal Magazine hopes to negotiate a middle ground between snot-nosed pretentiousness and runny-nosed retardedness to find a slippery slope where readers of all ages can comic together.

what can I do?

Send us your work! A greater variety of contributors from Lebanon, the Middle East and the rest of the world will continually strengthen and diversify the growing body of work that constitutes this salamander....

Initiated by the Cairo-based artist initiative Medrar for Contemporary Art in 2005, this festival continues its focus on providing a platform for sharing and discussing newly produced high concept / low budget experimental videos. Based on a call for works by emerging artists, the festival program takes the format of a concise series of video screening on the rooftop of CiC accompanied by talks/discussions with active video-makers and curators to tackle some of key themes and issues presented in the works. With this festival, the organizers seek to trigger a dialogue about the possibilities and limitations of this particular use of the medium of video today.

Guidelines For Applying

- Individuals, groups or associations are allowed to participate.
- Participation with more than one video is allowed.
- Documentary, feature or commercial videos will be excluded.
- Videos should be produced during 2006 and 2008, and not more than 30 min.
- Screenings should not have any specific recommendations.

The organizing crew has the right to use the participant's data within all promotional means and publications, with reserved copyrights.
Videos sent will be kept in the archive of the association.

To participate:

Please submit a completed application form and your video (DVD-PAL or NTSC format) in a sealed envelope to:
THIRD Video Festival
Contemporary Image Collective
20 Safeya Zaghloul Street, Mo...

During the last 20-30 years there has been a remarkable interaction in audiovisual culture between cinema, video, photography, animation, computer graphics, etc. As a result, margins are redrawn and ultimately abolished, trends and genres are integrated into one another, and a variety of technologies and methods are used within one framework.

One of the most popular expressions of this cross-media art is video making, which has won its autonomous position after having operated on the margins of the art society for decades. A current and popular development within alternative film stems from recent geo-political events around the world. These have led to widened awareness and resulted in independent electronic art produced mainly by film and video makers who have made the widespread usage of the (video) camera into a visual statement and an alternative to the information flow of the mainstream media.

It is an inventive force, which entails new uses of video and digital photography that revolutionize the human visual experience. The result is strong, artistic productions that tend to interact with the surroundings and commit themselves to complex contemporary political and socio-cultural issues. It also entails a new aesthetic, which is still finding its own vocabulary and rules of engagement with which to capture the attention of audiences, critics and experts worldwide.

Regardless of the booming popularity of this media among film makers...