Attention students! If you're looking to save money on pro-level 3D software, Escape Studios has some rather good deals for you, such as Autodesk Educational Creative Suite (Maya, Mudbox, 3ds Max, MotionBuilder and Softimage 2010) for £151.80 including VAT and delivery. Take a look at Escape's site for more details.

If you want to use proper fonts on your web site but can't be bothered with mucking about with sIFR or the like, and you don't mind paying, then Typekit might be what you're looking for. It's a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the world's best type foundries, and once you've subscribed it's a simple matter of adding a line of Javascript to your markup.
http://typekit.com/

Fancy seeing your artwork adorning one of Apostrophe’s cafes around London – plus win £1000? Check out the link below. But hurry, the competition closes on Monday (9th November).
http://www.apostropheuk.com/windowwonderland

Marlin Studios and Computer Arts have arranged an exclusive discount for you. For a limited time, you can order any total purchase of Pro Quality Textures and 3D Objects from Marlin Studios at a 25% discount off their website price. This includes 25% off many products that are already on sale and Pack Deals that are already discounted. Order as many products as you wish -- and all orders can be downloaded. Simply login to the address below using the login and password provided. ORDER NOW before this discount expires! Login: msdiscount Password: user2011
https://www.marlinstudios.com/fpl/orderfp.htm

Matt Jones AKA Lunartik is holding his very own design competition. The task: to come up with your own design for one of his Lunartik In A Cup Of Tea vinyl toys. Download the template, make with the artistic licence and submit your entry by 10 December. Find out more at the link below.
http://www.lunartik.com/pages/Lunartik_competitions.html

Johanna Basford has a new project kicking off in which modern social networking meets old school creative process. She'll be creating an intricate hand-drawn image consisting entirely of objects suggested to her via Twitter, and turning the finished picture into a limited edition print. Find out more on her site; the fun begins at 9AM tomorrow.
http://www.johannabasford.com/blog-article/165

The judging is over and the winners of Digital Artist 2009 have been announced. You can see the winning entries up close at the Digital Artist exhibition at Blackall Studios in London until 10 October, or pick up the new Computer Arts Projects, on sale today and featuring a round-up of the results, or wait another couple of weeks for the next issue of Computer Arts featuring an in-depth look at the winning entries. Failing that, you can see them on the Digital Artist site right now.
http://www.digitalartistawards.com/winners

If you fancy getting your work turned into decent quality stickers or posters but don't want to commit to a big print run, Diginate might be worth a look. They'll do custom cutting, spot varnishes, metallic finishes and more, and if you only want one thing printed they'll do it for you. Check out the site and get an instant quote if you like what you see.
http://www.diginate.com/

From the 'I've been meaning to post this for ages' files, here's a fantastic piece of lunchtime reading for anyone interested in pattern design - an almost intimidatingly in-depth article about Arabic geometry with absolutely loads of inspirational illustrations.
http://www.catnaps.org/islamic/geometry.html

My old chum David McCandless has a new site called Information Is Beautiful, where he creates and collects lovely visualizations from all manner of interesting datasets. His latest creation is a bonkers temporal map of time travel plots from movies and TV, which not only looks great but also highlights areas where timelines cross and, for example, Marty McFly and the Star Trek crew might get together to battle the Terminator.
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/time-travel/

Feeling festive? PhotoBox are holding a competition to find a series of winning Christmas card designs, with the winner getting a £500 prize plus their winning design exhibited in a London gallery. Five runners-up will also win £100 each and a place at the exhibition. You'd better put on your favourite Christmas tunes and get cracking, though - entries close 6 September.
http://cardcompetition.photobox.co.uk

It's funny how things sometimes pan out; I happened upon Seb Lester's illustration and, liking what I saw, vaguely wondered if we'd ever covered him before. It wasn't until I looked at the typography section of his site that I realised that he's the chap behind the Soho Gothic font and he'd written a tutorial about its creation for CA Projects. Interesting to see another side to him, though.
http://www.seblester.co.uk/

The legendary Bill Drummond's latest art scheme is to collaborate with a different individual each year until 2016, and he stipulates that it must be someone he's never spoken to, read about or heard of. Get further details at his endlessly fascinating Penkiln Burn site.
http://www.penkilnburn.com/paintings/21/

If you're planning a trip to London in the next few weeks, Time Out magazine currently features a pull-out tourist guide to the capital, complete with a handy map of London created and illustrated by Peskimo. Find out more and get a sneak preview at the Peskimo blog.
http://peskimo.com/web/blog.php?category=2

Tado made a picture for Virgin about things to do in Japan, and they liked it so much that they decided to remix it, adding lots of extra details and their own fond memories of Japan, until they ended up with something that they could turn into an enormous A1 poster that, funnily enough, is now available to buy. Yours for £14.99 (of which £5 goes to the Western Park Hospital Cancer Charity in Sheffield), and they'll even throw in a free Ramen Monster sticker as well. Bargain! Find it here.

For their latest campaign Beck's - the beer people - have commissioned ten artists to re-imagine the covers from some of the most influential albums of the last four decades, and the resulting work is now available to view. We're especially enamoured of Rex Crowle's remake of The Beatles' Let It Be, while Modern Toss's version of U2's The Joshua Tree had us giggling like schoolgirls. Beck's still have 90 classic album covers that need reinterpreting - sign up and claim one as your own if you fancy a go.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/becks-music-inspired-art

If you like designer T-shirts and you like cakes... This is a great idea: an online cake-baking contest run by Chris Cardinal and Threadless.com. Pick a design from the Threadless catalogue and then turn it into a cake! Not only are there fabulous prizes to be won, but once you've created and documented your entry you'll have a delicious designer cake to enjoy. Get baking - entries close 3 August.
http://www.threadcakes.com/

Just.b is looking to find creative programmers who want to work with the BBC on multiplatform content - primarily to develop interesting red button content. The project will give five graduates paid placements in digital agencies in the North West and a chance for a placement at the BBC. Interested? Find more details over at the b.TWEEN site.
http://www.btween.co.uk/enterprising-ideas

The Standard hotel in New York commissioned Marco Brambilla to create a video installation to be used in its elevators, and in association with Crush he came up with an amazing vertical tableau depicting Heaven, Hell and all the bits of purgatory in between. You start at the ground floor with Hell laid out before you, with Heaven awaiting when you reach the top floor. It's one impressive piece of motion work; make sure you read the notes underneath the video to see how much work was involved.
http://bit.ly/cDEbW

Future has announced the launch of PhotoRadar, its latest Radar Network and biggest UK online launch of 2009, offering inspiration, instruction, news, reviews, video content and community features. With its own dedicated editorial team, led by Rachael D’Cruze, PhotoRadar will deliver up-to-the minute news, first-look previews and reviews across the whole sector – from compacts and essential camera kit, through to top-end digital SLRS. It will also aggregate existing editorial and video content from Future’s multi-award-winning print titles Digital Camera and PhotoPlus. PhotoRadar will be packed with video tutorials and user generated content, allowing photographers to upload their own images for peer review, and letting them rate others’ photographs. Pro-level photographers will regularly offer advice, while in-depth starter guides will reveal the best ways for beginners to improve their camera and photo-editing skills. The beta version of Future’s PhotoRadar goes live late next month with the full site scheduled to launch in August.
http://www.photoradar.com