Over these past few weeks I've seen quite a few people posting works/opening shops over at the graphics section on the forums!
I think it would be fun to begin hosting "Graphics of the Week/Month" competitions. The way I've seen these run on other forums is somewhat simple and makes for some cool creations!
Every week/month a theme is announced that creators must follow. During that week/month users who want to participate can enter their artwork via a thread/pm and at the end of the week a post is created with all of the submissions.
Users can vote via a poll on the thread for which one they like most and the winner earns the title of "designer of the week" or something along those lines. To be honest, I haven't put any thought into appropriate 'awards' for winners.
I think this could be a fun way for alora's design community to create some awesome works of art and have some friendly competition at the same time that the whole community can be involved in.