Qantas Spirit of Youth Awards spreading the cash in 2009

As we rug up and hide away from the barrage of stormy weather that has finally descended, Heads Will Roll has something to warm the imaginations of our creative minded readers. The Qantas Spirit Of Youth Awards (SOYA) return for its sixth year to help emerging creative talent to reach their potential. SOYA provides practical support in the form of $10,000 in flights and cash, but if that’s not enough to get you to climb outside of your snuggie to find a pen to fill out an application form then the final incentive should be the opportunity to build a professional mentoring relationship with creative leaders like Marc Newson, Zimmermann, Vince Frost and Liz Ann Macgregor, helping young innovators expand their horizons, build up their business base, and learn the ropes from leading industry icons and some of the greatest creative minds in the world. Last year SOYA attracted over 10,000 entries submitted by over 1600 young artists, designers, filmmakers, photographers and musicians but don’t let those numbers put you off.

V-Raw and Block Branding want you!

V-Raw has just posted online its first break for West Australian’s. What’s on offer is an internship with Block Branding. Yes, it is unpaid, but the opportunity for budding graphic designers would be something that shouldn’t be turned down. I guess you might just need to resort to selling party favours or your body if you manage to be successful in gaining this internship. The full brief is included, have a read and if it sounds like your thing head along to the V-Raw website and register your interest. Also included on the website are some pretty amazing work with Sound Alliance (the people who run inthemix.com), Channel V and Universal Music, however all of these positions are over east.

V Raw: Employing the Unemployable, in 2009!

Trying to find work in a creative industry can be demoralising at the best of times. Many of us end up cursing the lives we have chosen. Thankfully others have noticed the extreme difficulty involved in trying to get a break into the music, fashion and design industries and they’ve decided to do something about it. Since 2007 the energy drink company, V, has been running V-Raw. In the time since V-Raw launched, over 80 young Australian’s have been set up with jobs in creative industries. One major change with V-Raw this year is, V, have dropped their partnership with the outdated social networking website, Myspace, as it will all be run via their own snazzy website. The other big change this year is they will be launching a new job a week, rather than posting bulk jobs every few months. Heads Will Roll recommends everyone to explore the new website and sign up for the job updates. A lot of the jobs will end up being based over east, but hey it’s not that far to move, and in the past there have been Perth opportunities. Also on the website are other interesting things like podcasts and interviews with people who make money doing what you’d like to be doing, such as people from Modular.