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The Creative Graduate™ Prize kick-starts the careers of talented visual arts graduates globally, bringing their work to the attention of leaders in the creative industries. The Creative Graduate Prize™ is a platform to recognise the best emerging illustrators, photographers, painters, graffiti artists, animators, short filmmakers and installation artists worldwide. Founded as a collaboration between web arts platform Medium Magazine (www.mediummagazine.net) and sustainable innovation think tank, consultancy and incubator Societás™ (www.societas.ltd.uk) in 2005, the Creative Graduate Prize™ is supported by media partners jotta.com – digital community for the arts founded in partnership with Central Saint Martins and The University of the Arts, London, Creativepool – the UK’s creative recruitment and directory resource and Eye Petrol – the user-generated magazine of creative talent. The awards jury is made up of innovators from the international creative industries including contemporary artists Stuart Semple and Tessa Farmer, Penny Martin of the London College of Fashion, photographer Ellis Scott, Design Laboratory/Jotta.com Director Yann Mathias, sculptor Lone Sigurdsson, award-winning creative director Justin Champney, digital artist Eileen Botsford, ERROREzine Editor Nacho Jiménez Bas, Duane Melius MD of Sense Media, Creativepool MD Michael Tomes and awards founders Laurie Cansfield publisher of Medium Magazine and Melissa Sterry founder and CEO of Societás. ENTRY DETAILS: 2009 Creative Graduate Prize™ entrants are invited to submit original works exploring the theme of ‘Change’. Each entrant may submit a maximum of two entries across a maximum of two award entry categories. Each entrant must submit a short description of their entry, provide the date of completion of the entry and provide details of the university or art college they attended when taking their first degree, along with their year of graduation, country of residence and country of birth. The entry deadline is Friday 30th October 2009 and winners will be announced in November. Creative Graduate Prize Categories™: o Best Static Art (all genres of static 2D art including photography, illustration, painting, graffiti) o Best Moving Art (animation and short film) o Best Installation Art (all genres of static and moving 3D art that engage their environment) Entries should be sent to submissions@mediummagazine.net marked ‘CGP 2009’. Please note that any entries that do no embrace the Creative Graduate Prize™ 2009’s theme of ‘CHANGE’ will automatically be disqualified. ONLINE MEDIA PACK - http://www.mediummagazine.net/cgp2009.html