Shift has been trying to offer artists many platforms to showcase their works online. The Shift calendar competition held from 2003 successively, pushes the boundaries between online and off line using a "calendar" as its medium. Entries are invited from all over the world and selected works will be distributed throughout the world in the format of a physical calendar.

This year, selected works will be exhibited and sold at PRINT'EM web site for a year with support by PRINT'EM, a graphic print center operated by Mitsubishi Paper MIlls Limited.
The deadline for this competition is on September 10th, 2008. Please send us your original work.

The format should be Photoshop or Illustrator data. (If you use Photoshop, the data should be 300 dpi)
You are required to prepare three kinds of data.

- For calendar: w 210 x h 297 mm (A4)
- For exhibition and sales at PRINT'EM site: A0 (w 841 x h 1,189 mm )
- For entry: Jpeg format (72 dpi), w 595 x h 842 pixels.
Please send this thumbnail via e-mail

The image, text, illustration and any other components within your work should be original.
Send art work on competition@shift.jp.org
For more information: http://www.shift.jp.org