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Hanna Balcerak is our Featured Artist in Fashion this week and is studying fashion design in Berlin. She is currently developing her skills in industrial knitting which is her greatest passion. She has won several art and design awards and has had her work showcased in various exhibitions. Congrats, Hanna!

In this Creative Invite hosted by LuckyMag.com, Florence Welch, lead singer of Florence + the Machine, invites Talenthouse fashion designers to design a stage outfit for her. The winning design will be worn by Florence at a performance at Terminal 5 in New York!

Deadline for submissions is Oct. 4, 2010 with voting taking place Oct. 5-8, 2010. The selected designer will be announced Oct. 14, 2010. The submissions will be judged by Florence, her stylist Aldene Johnson, and Lucky Magazine’s Creative Director Andrea Linett. And there are plenty of rewards to go around:

- The winning designer will receive $500 in cash, transportation to New York, a 2-nights’ accommodation at Soho House NY and will also meet Florence and the band backstage.
- The People’s Choice winner (top vote-getter) will receive a special edition jewel box designed by Florence and Faye Sawyer. This jewel box will contain the band’s new album Lungs, and an envelope with hand-drawn artwork by Florence containing a personal handwritten letter.
- The top 10 runners-up will each receive a signed copy of Florence + the Machine’s new album, Lungs.
- The top 5 ‘judges choice’ designers, will be mentioned on Luckymag.com.

So exciting, right?! To learn more about Florence + the Machine and find inspiration for your design, please visit http://florenceandthemachine.net/

Good luck and happy designing!

Metal-core band, The Devil Wears Prada, teamed up with us and invited all designers, graphic artists, painters and fans to design a new band T-shirt to be sold exclusively on their online store. They asked these artists and fans to come up with a design that best interprets what the band means to them. And they chose André Trindade’s Three-Eyed Wolf as the winning design!

André is very excited to be the chosen winner for this Invite.  He currently works as a freelance illustrator in Portugal and mostly designs t-shirts, posters and album covers for bands and clothing brands.

Be sure to check out The Devil Wears Prada at some major festivals this year like, Warped Tour, Rockstar Taste of Chaos and their highly anticipated “Back to the Roots” tour!

Ashley Tolusic is a Junior at the University of Florida where she is studying Advertising. From a very early age she was meddling in art supplies and during high school she was the yearbook layout and design editor. She doesn’t want to sit behind a desk her whole life, she wants to travel and be inspired… she wants to take the world by storm with her creativity. Currently she is building her portfolio for future jobs while in school and is excited to share her artwork with everyone!

Congratulations to Ashley for being a Featured Artist!

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Sarah-Jane Hedges is an incredibly passionate freelance footwear designer inspired by contrasting themes and loves to challenge conventionality in her designs. She graduated from the London College of Fashion last summer where she received her BA in Product Design and Development for the Fashion Industries: Footwear.

In 2007 she took a year out to work in Montreal, Canada as a designer for a prolific high street retailer, Le Chateau; and then went on to create styles for the designer brand Fornarina in Civitanova Marche, Italy.

Congratulations to Sarah-Jane for being our Featured Artist in Fashion this week!

Talenthouse invited artists all around the world to reinterpret the Talenthouse icon (“Adinkra”). Artists had the creative freedom to change the colors, style, materials, etc. as they saw fit while keeping the same structure so the Talenthouse icon could be recognized.

We received truly incredible submissions and chose Lara Pignotti as our winner with her colorful design!

Lara is a trained advertising graphic designer, but she has always been passionate about digital art. She says she never goes anywhere without her camera, as she loves to capture everything that may be useful for creating computer images. Her design will be purchased by Talenthouse for $1000 for the rights to use it in promotional materials and sold on products in our shop, and be seen around the world! Congratulations, Lara!

We also want to ask at least 10 other artists who participated to turn their designs into limited edition t-shirts on talenthouse.spreadshirt.com

All of us at Talenthouse would like to express our appreciation to all of the designers for the enormous amount of effort put into their designs — THANK YOU!

Ashkahn Shahparnia is a Los Angeles creative whose works are collectively iconic, memorable, and sly. He likes to express his vibrant pop-punches in a mass of media and expressions from design, illustration, and hand-drawn. Some of his clients and press have included Beautiful/Decay Apparel, BPM Magazine, Capitol Records, and Urban Outfitters. Ashkahn was also the winner in our Talenthouse and Beautiful Decay T-Shirt Design Creative Invite!

Ashkahn is our Featured Artist in Art this week and we encourage you to check out his playful designs on Talenthouse at http://www.talenthouse.com/ashkahn

Marc Javier is a fun, talented, and witty artist and photographer from California. He is a self-proclaimed “micro-documentary” and iPhone photographer and also a graphic designer. He loves black and white photography because of the deep shadows.

Marc is influenced by a plethora of things including fashion, street art, music, his own creative process, and from overheard conversations.

Visit Marc’s profile and have a look at his work on Talenthouse at http://www.talenthouse.com/typelab.

Jacqui Ferns is an accomplished artist interested in all facets of design — especially conceptual driven solutions. She loves mixing illustrative and typographic styles when creating her artwork.  With her BA (Hons) in Visual Communication she is currently working on freelance projects and always interested in collaborative projects — makes her a perfect fit for Talenthous

Have a look at some of her amazing creations on Talenthouse at http://www.talenthouse.com/jacjac.

Thank you to everyone who participated. Check out the winning film below:

The four finalist videos: