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ENTRIES FOR THE 2025 YOUNG CREATIVE AWARDS ARE NOW OPEN.
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We are looking for creative entries showing innovative 3-D designs. Design submissions can be for any 3-D design and could include furniture, homewares, toys and games, jewellery, consumer goods, electronic gadgets, sustainable products, sports and healthcare equipment, packaging, transportation, pottery, modelling…the opportunities are endless and there is no theme, so you can be super creative!
Past winners have included pottery, light fittings, upholstery and fabric design.
Architecture submissions can be architectural proposals or designs of any kind relating to the built environment. Entries do not have to be buildings, they could be landscape design proposals or urban interventions.
Past winners have included interventions in derelict buildings, a school across the canal, sculptures in Nottingham’s Market Square and vertical farms.
Submissions should be made digitally, in high resolution PDF documents. Please do not submit more than two A2 sheets (or equivalent).
We acknowledge AI is now used as a tool in many creative and technological processes. If AI has been used in the creative process, it needs to be referenced in the application.
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As part of his prize, 2019 Design & Architecture winner Emmett Seelochan undertook a work placement with Pelham Architects (part of Nottingham Community Housing Association). Read about his experience by following this link.
Read about 2017 Design & Architecture winner Josef Stöger - whose designs for Broadmarsh Re-imagined made the news in 2021 - by following this link.
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THE YCA 2024 DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE WINNERS WERE:
Dylan Spence (11-15)
Alyssa Meadows (16-18)
Maia Noglik (19-24)