The Young Illustrators Award 2012 is calling for submissions
The Young Illustrators Award is the most renowned competition awarding creativity and innovation in personal contemporary illustration and graphics. It encourages and supports designers in their artistic practice and offers them an international and worldwide recognized platform. Awarding talent in three different categories, the Young Illustrators Award indicates current trends in graphics and illustration.
Illustrative art works, art projects with graphic influences, animations and book art objects qualify for submission. Submissions can be handed in until the 1st of September 2012. The jury will decide in September about each of the categories’ winners. The nominees of the Young Illustrators Award will be invited to Berlin and get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Illustrative 2012. The winners await prizes worth 6000 Euros as well as publications, illustration agency contracts and a chance to be featured in future international exhibitions.
The nominees will be awarded by an international jury consisting of leading art directors, experts and editors such as Julius Wiedemann (editor „Illustration Now“), Jessica Helfand (Design Observer), Fernando Galán (art.es), Angharad Lewis (Grafik Magazine), Keiichi Tanaami (Illustrator), Maria Serrano (étapes), Cherie Federico (Aesthetica), Ruben Maurique Diaz (Neo2), Lilit Breddels (Volume Magazine), Olaf Hajek (Illustrator) and Claudia Gerdes (Page).
The prizes will be awarded in a festive ceremony at Illustrative be taking place in autumn 2012 in Berlin. The short-listed artists will be announced on the Illustrative website in the beginning of September.
Deadline 1st September 2012 – Registration Form at: www.illustrative.de
The Young Illustrators Award is a project of the Art Festival Illustrative that aims to support young artists and the genre of illustration as well as to
give visibility to the creative potential of contemporary graphics, illustration and other design disciplines.
How to apply (following soon)
