Here are some areas in which you can get involved.

Postal Service

Is it creative? Is it curious? We'd like to see it! Mail us postcards, letters, artwork, trinkets, photos, found objects... The most interesting things will be featured in the magazine and online. (Sorry, items will not be returned.)

UPPERCASE
#204, 100 - 7th Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2P 0W4

The Work-in-Progress Society

Celebrating beauty in the unfinished: craft, art, design, and illustration photographed in progress. You are invited to share your works in progress in this Flickr group.

The images might be used in posts on the UPPERCASE journal about The Work-in-Progress Society (credited and linked to its Flickr member) and will be considered for print publication in the magazine. Should your image be selected for publication, you will be contacted for additional information and higher resolution files if necessary.

Call for submissions: Confections

Now accepting submissions for our winter edition!

Sweets, spogs, candy, joy joy, goodies, toffees, chud, lollies— sugar laden confections go by as many names as they come in cavity-inducing shapes and sizes. Even if our teeth are past their sugar prime, the dazzling appeal of a fully stocked old time candy shop never wears off. Just imagine shelves of pastel rockets, misty mints, candy lipstick, pez, wig wag bars, Wrigley’s spearmint gum...

Even in childhood, the clever designs, pretty packaging, zany wrappers, colourful names and elegant detailing held as much appeal as the tasty treats tucked inside. The Confections show celebrates the fine art of candy packaging. We invite artists to illustrate and design their own wrappers in a timeless cele-bration of sweet tooths the world over. Come up with an irresistible cover for a novel treat or create a new design for an old favourite. Send us your eye candy!

The best designs will be featured in the winter issue of the magazine. Submit your artwork file via email info–at–uppercasegallery.ca (images should be at least 6 to 8 inches wide at 300dpi).

Deadline: November 10, 2009

Submissions may become part of a gallery exhibition at a later date. You will be notified if your submission is selected.

Files should be at least 4" wide at 300dpi. Please submit it via our dropbox link.

Postcards

In issue 2, we have inserted one authentic vintage postcard in each magazine. Rubberstamped with our return address, we want you to modify the postcard in some way. Be creative! Manipulate, cut, paste, adorn... transform the postcard into something curious. Tell a story whether through words or pictures and send it back to us.

We will be curating your postcards into an exhibition as well as publishing them in future issues of the magazine. (*If we’re amazed by your creations and receive enough of them, we hope to publish a book!) Feel free to use your own old postcards as a starting point if you would like to send multiple submissions. Include your full name and contact information on each card. (Don’t forget the postage!)

UPPERCASE
#204, 100 - 7th Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2P 0W4

Deadline: postmarked by December 31, 2009

Talent

UPPERCASE magazine is a richly visual magazine featuring great illustration, photography and intelligent writing. If you are interested in contributing, please contact us with sample of your work.

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