Category: Opportunities

Submissions for the 9th ‘The Design Kids’ Annual Awards are now open.

After a 3 year hiatus due to you know what, the awards aimed at celebrating emerging designers is back.

Entering is FREE and straight forward – you just need to submit a short PDF portfolio.

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Winners are decided by a panel of 10 judges from around the world, this year includes:

A Friend Of Mine – Suzy Tuxen, Melbourne
Base Design – Caroline Cox, NYC/Melbourne
Center – Alex Center, NYC
Designworks – Anzac Tasker, Auckland
Freytag Anderson – Greig Anderson, Glasgow
Hoodzpah – Jen and Amy Hood, San Diego
Made by James – James Martin, Southampton UK
Ordinary People – Jin Kang, Seoul
Pink Pony – Kristy Campbell, Auckland
Studio Dumbar – Liza Enebeis, Rotterdam

They will choose 3 winners each to be featured on the TDK blog and promoted via their Instagram. Being featured could be a great boost for starting your design career, launching yourself into the industry and getting your name recognised by international studios.

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Submissions open: Nov 1 2023 – Jan 10 2024⁠
Announce winners: Feb 1 2024⁠

Entry requirements:
Open to all ages and nationalities. The only request is that you studied something related to Graphic Design at any point during 2021, 2022 or 2023, or you are self taught with less than 3 years experience.

Learn more about entering at:
https://thedesignkids.org/awards/tdk-awards-23/

Submissions for this years Creative Conscience Awards are now open.

The awards are the perfect opportunity to push your curiosity and create the change you want to see in the world. You can enter the awards solo or in a team (up to five), and you can tackle an issue of your own choice or work from one of their briefs.

By entering you will be directly supporting their work as a charity – helping to build a fairer, healthier, more just, sustainable + regenerative world.

DEADLINE: 29/04/2024

Winners will receive an invite to the awards ceremony. Your winning work will also be displayed on their winners page, plus you’ll be invited to be part of the Creative Conscience Community, offered blog post opportunities, instagram take-overs and interviewed. Beyond the awards, they also aim to help to bring the brightest and most innovative projects to life through their impact scheme, should you wish to build on it.

We’ve had some great success with this Awards in the past, with Winners and Runners Up in both 2020 and 2021.
See their projects here on the blog:
https://www.typenowhere.com/sally-mosley-creative-conscience/
https://www.typenowhere.com/creative-conscience-awards-2021/

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To learn more and enter head over to their website:
https://www.creative-conscience.org.uk/awards

War Child is bringing back the much-loved Secret 7” to provide vital support to children affected by conflict.

First launched in 2012 by Kevin King and Jordan Stokes, Secret 7” has sold 4,900 unique records and raised over £500,000 for charitable causes.

The concept of Secret 7” is simple: 7 iconic tracks are chosen and pressed onto 7” vinyl, with each limited to just 100 unique copies.

Creatives from around the world, ranging from talented newcomers to some of the world’s greatest artists, are invited to submit sleeve artwork for the chosen tracks, creating one-of-a-kind collectibles that appeal to hardcore fans, record collectors, and art connoisseurs alike.

From the submissions, 700 unique sleeves will be selected and exhibited at NOW Gallery, in March 2024, before being made available for sale via an online auction. The visual artist and track remain a mystery until the record is sold.

Head to secret-7.co.uk to find out more and enter.

Leading art book publisher Batsford presents The Batsford Prize 2024. Established a decade ago, the award is open for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying at a UK institution and is judged by industry professionals.

There are four categories to enter:

• Applied Art and Textiles
• Fine Art
• Illustration
• Children’s Illustration

The Prizes

There are over £4,500 worth of prizes to be won!

• £300 cash prize for the winner of each category.
• £300 cash prize for the overall winner across the categories.
• £100 worth of Batsford books for the winners and £300 worth of books for their college.
• £50 worth of books for two runners up in each category.
• All shortlisted candidates will be invited to exhibit their entires at the Batsford Gallery in May 2024.

The Theme

The theme for the Batsford Prize 2023 is ‘Gravity’. We are looking for entries that show innovative and well-crafted interpretations of the theme, in terms of subject or materials used, or a combination of the two. There is no restriction on the medium used, and we accept both entries that have been made as a part of coursework as well as personal work.

Deadline for entries: 25th March 2024
MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO ENTER

A message to students from Vaughan Grylls, Batsford Prize judge and chairman at Batsford:
‘Having the chance of exhibiting your work in a London gallery as shortlisted is reason enough to enter the Batsford Prize. But whether your work gets selected or not, it will be seen by our judging panel of professional artists and illustrators. That in itself is important, so do enter the Batsford Prize! Good luck!’

Previous Winners

We are proud to receive high-quality entries from students across the UK. The winners of the Batsford Prize 2023 were:

Alivia Hoy Fine Art, Loughborough University 
Pia Elliot BA (Hons) Textiles, Arts University Bournemouth
Megan Du Illustration and Visual Media, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
Forest Xiao MA Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin University
Ziyi Wang MA Fine Art Media, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London

‘Winning the Batsford Prize has been a major steppingstone in my newfound confidence of my design work. … It is my biggest creative achievement to date and an experience I will never forget!’ – Pia Elliot (Winner, Batsford Prize 2022, Applied Art & Textiles)

About Batsford

Batsford is an independent publisher established in 1843 and has since its early days been publishing books for art students, professionals and enthusiasts. Over the last 180 years, Batsford has developed an enviable reputation in the areas of textiles, design, art and fashion. 

The South West Design + Digital Student Awards are now under 1 month away!

With a chance to win £3k in cash and a paid placement at our full-service agency, Proctor + Stevenson, this award is a fantastic opportunity for third-year students to get a leg up into a design career.

Just to reiterate:

• Students can enter as many projects as they like, as long as each project is uploaded in its own .zip file with its own cover letter
• The project can be university work or personal, as long as it falls into one of 3 categories: Graphic Design, Digital Design and/or Motion & AR
• This award is only open to third-year students in the final year of their course

You can visit our website, which has the full entry guidelines here: https://www.swddsawards.co.uk/

The deadline is Friday 9 June

On Tuesday 30^th May we will be launching this year’s 3^rd year end-of-year publication ‘An Irreversible Change of Form’ at The Cube Microplex (4 Princess Row, BS2 8NQ – just off Stokes Croft)

‘An Irreversible Change of Form’ is, in part, a reaction to the 50th anniversary of JG Ballard’s dystopian novel CRASH, and an exploration of destruction and rebirth through the lens of this year’s graduating cohort.

The event is free and open to all years + any guests you would like to invite – we would love to see as many faces there as possible! – free entry between 6-11pm, audio and visual installations and some explosive sculpture for good measure. Come grab your free copy of the publication, have a drink and celebrate the year of the year.

‘2023 marks the 50^th anniversary of the publication of JG Ballard’s controversial novel Crash. Revered for his dark portrayals of dystopian modernity, Crash was ‘received with a uniform howl of incomprehension’ by its critics. Exploring the merging points of technology, sexuality and consumerism Ballard looked into the darkest corners of a future accelerating at break-neck speed, but even amongst the carnage he managed to find glimmers of reinvention. Ballard stated that “Crash is above all a cautionary tale, a warning against the brutal, erotic and overlit future that beckons us, ever more powerfully.”

‘An Irreversible Change of Form’ became a reflection of the world around us, the experience of the last three years and the search for what’s to come. If reinvention and rebirth can be achieved on a micro-scale what new forms and what new utopias could be born from the rubble of something larger?’

Submit something you’ve already created. Or create something new that you love. It can be anything you want. But there are three provisos:

It must fit into at least one of our three categories
It must be commercially creative
You must be able to justify your reasoning behind it

Upon submitting your entry, you’ll automatically be in the running to win your category. (Obvs.)
But there’s more… You’ll also be eligible for our bonus prize, awarded to the Ultimate Creative Champion across all categories.

– Each category winner will receive £1K in cash
– The Ultimate Creative Champion will also receive a £2K cash bonus (that’s £3K in total!)

What’s more…
All finalists (not just the winners!) will be in with the chance of scoring a paid 3-month internship at P+S.

https://www.swddsawards.co.uk/