Becoming a Designer in Europe
Competitions
D&AD New Blood Design Awards
Bringing industry and new creative talent together and launching new careers. The D&AD Professional Awards are recognised globally as one of the ultimate creative accolades, entered and attended internationally.
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The New Blood Awards focuses on works from students and newly graduated to find the next great designers and inspiring the next generation of creative talent to work towards a fairer moresustainable future. There are 18 different briefs to submit work to; it caters to all aspects of designing.
The BP Portrait Award is the most prestigious portrait painting competition in the world and represents the very best in contemporary portrait painting. With a first prize of £35,000, and a total prize fund of £74,000, the Award is aimed at encouraging artists to focus upon and develop portraiture in their work.
Over the years this has attracted over 40,000 entries from more than 100 countries. The competition is open to everyone aged 18 and over.
BP Portrait Award
The Gallery originates and presents around ten exhibitions a year, across three gallery spaces. These range from major exhibitions selected from national collections, through to new work by established artists, and to more experimental work by emerging artists in Oriel Davies’ test bed space.
As well as commissioning new work, Oriel Davies also produces artist films and a range of high quality publications.
Oriel Davies Gallery, Newtown – Wales
They offer emerging and established artists the opportunity to use exhibition space and gain exposure and its open to international and UK based artists. They have themed exhibitions that work can be submitted to or space can be rented out and within that price includes help from the gallery to set up and promote the exhibition and the work in it. It’s fully tailored to help out the artists exhibiting.
Brick Lane – London
Valletta Film Festival
The gathering of different film genres from all over the globe. Filmmakers a like apply to enter this competition with awards and prizes to be won. The films entered are shown to a live audience screening, where judges evaluate and discuss film after film.
A number of foreign films from different film genres will be showcased during the festival. Given Malta’s strategic geographical position, it functions as an intermediary between different cultures. The festival is divided into different sections: Documentaries, Feature Films, Islanders, Masters of Cinemas, Short Film, Special Screenings and Without Borders.
The Islanders section deals with anything related to islands – the small size, using islands as film locations, etc, while the Without Borders section focuses on Scandinavian films. The Masters of Cinema section revolves around established films and also involves the Film Grain Foundation, the organisers of the festival, handing out awards to specific works.
