Poster Competition

HELLO!

Welcome to our new, annual art and design competition for level 3 school and college students! We hope that you are settling into your creative courses, and want to invite you to join us for some creative play.

At Wolverhampton School of Creative Industries, we offer degree courses for creative students, and deliver an amazing educational experience for thinkers, makers, and communicators. We are one of the longest established art schools in the UK, and we pride ourselves in providing inclusive spaces for creativity and collaboration, with opportunity and employability as our focus.

Graduates from our art, design, and media courses are big players in the arts, and throughout the commercial world of art and design. Could you be part of our creative family?

Marc Austin, Course Leader for BA(Hons) Graphic Design.

THE BRIEF

Your challenge is to create a square-format, typographically-focused poster conveying the message:

“be who you want to be”

Your approach should be experimental, and consider current trends in typography, colour, and visual styling with specific appeal for a creative audience... Designing for your creative community!

All work submitted for the competition should embrace the concepts of originality, creativity, individuality, and truth.

20 posters will be short-listed for an exhibition at the University, and prizes will be awarded to the 3 best responses at the private view, judged by a panel of graphic design industry professionals.

Make beautiful artwork, get short-listed, win prizes. Simple.

COMPETITION & EXHIBITION

To enter the competition, create your ‘be who you want to be’ poster and write a 50—100 word rationale explaining your design decisions.

You can use any methods appropriate to create your poster concept: photography, collage, hand-drawn, painted, digital, or a combination of mixed-media methods. Think about the printed size when you are creating, scanning, or photographing your artwork for reproduction.

From 14 October 2024, the page will contain a link to the upload form — you will need to supply contact details for yourself and your teacher/lecturer/institution, so that we can contact you for short-listing.