Competitions

This seems to be the season for art & design competitions. Personally I love them. Well the idea of them: I'm not so good at entering myself. I like them because they draw in such a diverse range of people and throw up (if that's a good choice of words) all manner of solutions to design teasers. Sure they're often allied to a commercial or corporate outcome but they open the door to exciting work and often give the designers a foot up or a foot in. Some can turn the resulting profile distinctly to their advantage.

Ignition has been sent info for two more of these competitions: we also received one for the Music Month Tee which was posted earlier this month. (I'm really keen to hear if anyone entered this and see what they submitted:  if you did please send in a link or a photo).

The growing list of competitions includes one for The New Zealand Art Show and another for Sounds Like Us.

The NZ Art Show's objective, or at least the objective of the trust that runs the event, is to foster and promote support for emerging, mid-career and established artists. Which is a pretty broad remit. I don't think that really leaves anyone out ... but if you want to be considered, registrations end fairly soon. You'll need to be in by the 31st March.

Sounds Like Us is a personal favourite of mine. I love the idea and I love the medium. The idea here is to create a design for a radio that captures our NZ culture. The best designs will be brought to life by Weta Workshop and displayed at Te Papa. Entries for this close on 16th April 2010.

Anyway, best of luck if you enter and keep in mind the reality that competitions are really like lotteries: the good man has at least a 1 in 5000 chance of winning.