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Sudbury Emerging Designer Awards

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SUDBURY EMERGING DESIGNER AWARDS

CALL FOR ENTRIES • DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Sudbury is brimming with creative people, and we want to show off new designers and celebrate the talent that lives here.

The Sudbury Design Society invites budding designers to enter our first-ever Sudbury Emerging Designer Awards or SEDA for short. The awards are open to all forms of commissioned, published, unpublished, and personal projects covering a range of categories. One catch—we are looking for applicants who joined the profession within the last five years, so if you entered the field prior to 2018, sorry, you know too much!

Do you have a project you'd like to enter? These are some of the categories of this years Sudbury Emerging Designer Awards:

 

Accessible Design: a project that applies accessible design principles and standards in the development of the design solution.

Brand Identity: any project that involves a visual set of associations representing a company, product, service or organization like: logo design, brand guideline design, and other brand collateral.

Motion Graphics & Animation: any project that uses graphics moving in time and space to communicate a message.

Packaging & Product Design: any project designed to enclose, protect and promote beverages, consumer products, or retail applications.

 

Find all the details in the entry kit

Including submission specs, templates, category breakdowns and judging criteria.

 

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ELIGIBILITY

Open to Greater Sudbury residents, for all forms of commissioned, published, unpublished, and personal projects created within the last five years (January 2018 to August 2023) by designers and creatives who joined the design field in 2018 or later. Only digital entries are accepted (e.g. digital images, PDFs, videos, or web-based interactive portfolios).

If you fall into the new designer category but you won a Sudbury Design Award in 2021, you may not submit your winning project for this year’s awards.

SUBMISSIONS SPECS

  • PDF layout, page count, and orientation are up to the entrant
    (we have templates for you too!).

  • Uploaded files can be up to 10 MB.

  • Images should be in JPG or PDF format.

  • Videos should be uploaded to a hosting site at HD quality.
    Submit a PDF containing a link to the video.

  • Entries must be submitted in English or include an English translation for any important text (such as headings or entry titles).

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CATEGORIES

The awards are open to all forms of commissioned, published, unpublished, and personal projects covering a range of categories. Why? Because you are a designer at work and in your freetime, we think all design is worth showing off.

SEDA CATEGORIES
Sustainable
Sustainable

Any project with a focus on the environmental, social, and economic impacts of its production and over the course of its life cycle.

Web & Interactive
Web & Interactive

Any project with a focus on UI/UX design. This includes but is not limited to websites, mobile devices and experiential installations.

Cause-Related
Cause-Related

Any project that provides value to the community and/or helps to solve a local or global challenge.

Editorial
Editorial

Any project that involves commercial magazines and newspapers, either digital or printed. This includes but is not limited to complete publications, supplements, spreads, sections or front covers.

Accessible
Accessible

Any project that applies accessible design principles and standards in the development of the design solution.

Typography
Typography

Any project that focuses on the creation and/or application of letterforms, typefaces, calligraphy, and hand-lettering.

Packaging and Product
Packaging and Product

Any project designed to enclose, protect and promote beverages, consumer products, or retail applications.

Information
Information

Any project that involves the design of clear, concise and visually attractive materials that enhance how people read, understand and use complex and/or detailed information.

Branding and Identity
Branding and Identity

Any project that involves a visual set of associations representing a company, product, service or organization. This includes but is not limited to logo design, brand guideline design, and other brand collateral.

Advertising
Advertising

Any project that involves a visual set of associations representing a company, product, service or organization. This includes but is not limited to logo design, brand guideline design, and other brand collateral.

Motion Graphics and Animation
Motion Graphics and Animation

Any project that uses graphics moving in time and space to communicate a message.

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DESIGN AWARDS JUDGES

COMING SOON!

All entries are submitted, reviewed, and judged anonymously. Each judge reviews and scores entries separately; judges do not confer or discuss the work. There is only one round of judging. Curious to see who's judging this year? Stay tuned!

 
 

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HOW TO ENTER

The SEDA entry form has three parts and takes less than 10 minutes to complete.

The form allows you to submit two entries in the same or different categories, and you can pay for both entries at the same time.

1: Entrant Details

Only award organizers will see this information. We require a name and an email so we can contact you if there is a problem with your form submission, to notify you about the results, and to confirm all information is correct before we announce the winners publicly.

2: Entry Details and Category Selection

This portion has eight questions about the project(s) you are entering. The information you provide will be used for digital and print publication and will not be shown to the judges. Descriptions for longer form questions are limited to 1,000 words.

Entries can be submitted into any category. Each entry must have a designated category to be eligible. You may submit the same project to multiple categories, however for each additional category, you must submit the entry at an additional cost.

3: File Upload and Payment

When uploading files, include your name and the project in the filename (e.g. Designer-ProjectName.pdf). Please ensure that your files abide by the entry requirements.

You will be asked to acknowledge that you own the entry you are submitting and grant SDS the right to digitally publish and promote it before proceeding to payment. Payments can be made by Visa, MasterCard or American Express through Stripe in the entry form. If there is an issue with this portion of the form, please contact us at info@sudburydesignsociety.com.

Important: once you have completed payment, an entry and its selected category are considered final and can no longer be edited.

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ENTRY FEES

Payments can be made by Visa, MasterCard or American Express through Stripe in the entry form.

Regular Entries: Aug 20 - Sept 30

$ 10.00 / per category

 

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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

  • Yes, you can submit the same project to multiple categories, however for each additional category, you must submit a separate entry at additional cost.

  • All entries are submitted, reviewed, and judged anonymously. Each judge reviews and scores entries separately; judges do not confer or discuss the work.

  • No, once you have completed payment, an entry and its selected category are considered final and can no longer be edited.

CONTACT

Questions? If you've checked all of the above sections and cannot find the answer to your question, or if you are having difficulty entering, contact info@sudburydesignsociety.com.