Call for Entries: UT Grand Prix
Never mind Ralph Lauren’s white driving caps, the Bird’s Nest, and the Speedo LZR suit, when you think Olympics+design+competition, think the T-shirt Design Olympics, brought to you by UNIQLO! UNIQLO’s annual T-shirt design competition, the 5th “UT Grand Prix” is an open international design competition that has in the past received up to 10,000 entries from around the world. Selected entries are exhibited on the web, and in the final round, 20 designs are selected by guest judges to be produced and sold as UT (UNIQLO T-shirt) at UNIQLO stores. Winning designs get cash and other prizes, and the Grand Prix (top) prize is 3 million JPY!
Maybe our priorities are skewed…a few million yen is a pocketful…but the best thing about the contest is that one of the eight guest judges is the fascinating artist Yayoi Kusama! Dots! Narcissus! Insanely good (and prolific) creative director Kashiwa Sato is another judge (his website is exhausting, but brilliant). You want Sato to see your work. The end.
The deadline for entries is September 21, 2008. Check the website for more information.
POSTED: August 12th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: design | TAGS: call for submissions, design | No Comments »