Launch your pattern design career with our 2017 Scholarship

Are you an emerging designer ready to make it big in the surface pattern design world? This is an incredible opportunity to win a design scholarship worth over £1,280 to help you on your way! Sponsored by Print & Pattern, the Make it in Design Scholarship will provide you with access to over a year’s worth of top design courses, access to top trend site WGSN and a host of exciting promotional opportunities.

THE PRIZE

One person will win the following:

A free place on all 4 modules of The Art and Business of Surface Design (M1: Designing your way; M2: Creating your professional identity; M3: Monetising your designs and The Ultimate Portfolio Builder)
180 days’ free access to WGSN
The opportunity to be featured on the Print & Pattern blog, in MOYO Magazine and on the Make it in Design site.

2016 WINNERS

Previous winners have found this scholarship to be a huge boost to their careers. Last year the standard was so high that 3 LUCKY winners were finally chosen and a further 7 runner up prizes were awarded. Read the winners announcement.

Ashely Peifer

Mel Armstrong

Bianca Pozzi

2016 RUNNERS UP

JUDGING

The applications will be shortlisted by Rachael Taylor and Beth Kempton, co-founders of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design, and the final decision on the winner will be made by Marie Perkins, aka Bowie Style author of the Print & Pattern blog.

The judges will be looking for originality, sense of colour, awareness of trend and overall quality of design.

HOW TO ENTER

Send the following to [email protected] by midnight GMT on Saturday 31 December 2016 with ‘P&P Scholarship Application’ in the title of your email:

Your full name, country, email address and website/blog link if available
Max 100 words about why you are interested in surface pattern design as a career path (feel free to include reference to any experience you have – but don’t worry if you don’t have any experience!)
Max 100 words about why the course would be valuable to you (all text to be included in the body of your email, not as an attachment)
Two images of patterns you have designed (sent as a 550px wide square jpg attachment)
FILE NAMING: please put your full name and pattern name (if there is one) into the JPG file name – example: Rachael-Taylor-Sunburst.jpg

THE SMALL PRINT

By submitting a scholarship application you agree to the following terms and conditions:

Applications not submitted in accordance with the guidelines above will be rejected
The scholarship is open to anyone aged 18 or over from anywhere in the world
Applications must be made in English
If the winner has already taken one or more modules of The Art and Business of Surface Pattern Design they may choose to either skip or retake that module. However, the prize is not transferable and no cash alternative is available. However, if the winner is already registered for any future course in 2017, their class fee will be reimbursed
Modules must be taken in succession as follows: Module 1 – February 2017; Module 2 – April 2017; Module 3 – September 2017; The Ultimate Portfolio Builder February 2018
Access to WGSN will be granted at the end of Module 3 and The Ultimate Portfolio Builder
The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into
By submitting your work you agree to be featured online or in print by Rachael Taylor, Do What You Love, Make it in Design, MOYO, Print & Pattern or any other third party chosen by Rachael Taylor and/or Beth Kempton in relation to this opportunity, at any time now or in the future. In such an instance no fees will be payable for the inclusion of your work in any promotional materials relating to the course
There is no fee payable to enter
You will retain all rights relating to your images

KEY DATES

• Deadline for submitting applications: Midnight GMT on Saturday 31 December 2016

• Announcement of winner: Tuesday January 24, 2017

• Module 1 class starts for winner: Monday February 20, 2017

ANY QUESTIONS?

Please email [email protected] if you have any questions

Good luck!