Deadline: 30 September 2009
The Swatch 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 Swatch 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 30th of September 2009. The jury will decide in October about each of the categories’ winners.
The nominees of the Swatch Young Illustrators Award will be invited to Berlin and get the opportunity to exhibit their work at Illustrative 2009. The winners await prizes worth 6.000 Euros as well as publications, illustration agency contracts and a chance to be featured in future international exhibitions. One winner will be invited to design a Swatch Watch–a great opportunity to join the ranks of artists such as Kiki Picasso, Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman and Keith Haring.
The nominees will be awarded by an international jury consisting of leading art directors,
experts and editors such as Julius Wiedemann (Brasil), María Serrano (Spain), Fernando Galán (Spain), Keiichi Tanaami (Japan), Jessica Helfand (USA), Lilet Breddels (Netherlands), Cherie Federico (UK), Olaf Hajek (Germany), Claudia Gerdes (Germany) and Angharad Lewis (UK).
The prizes will be awarded in a festive ceremony at Illustrative 09 in Berlin on 17 October
2009. The short-listed artists will be announced on the Illustrative website in the beginning of October.
The Swatch Young Illustrators Award is a collaborative project of the Art Festival Illustrative and Swatch. Both partners aim to support young artists and the genre of illustration as well as to give visibility to the creative potential of contemporary graphics and illustration.
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