Some of the can't-miss events that are taking place all over the country in the next couple weeks:

February 28: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting “Slide Slam! Designing Video Games” to take viewers behind-the-scenes of video game design

February 29: Deadline to enter any projects into Graphic Design USA’s American Inhouse Design Awards, exclusively for corporations, publishers, non-profits and other institutions

March 3: Deadline to enter Print magazine’s Regional Design Annual, which serves as a comprehensive design profile of the U.S.

March 4th and 6th: X-Rite’s “Color Control Freak” seminar will travel to Cincinnati, Portland, Denver and Charlotte

March 7: Deadline to enter any book designs into AIGA’s annual 50 Books/50 Covers Competition

March 7: Deadline to enter your favorite design work—from branding to packaging to information design—into 365: AIGA’s Annual Design Competition

March 7–11: SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, TX, celebrating the creativity and passion behind the coolest new media technologies

March 8: Word/Image Problem, a symposium at The New School, will celebrate cartoonist Rodolphe Topffer’s work, which integrated text into modern comic strips

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