Are you a God-given Graphic Designer interested in Editorial Design? Do magazine layouts, typography, and visual storytelling serve as media to express your creativity? If the answer is yes, this is where you pose your challenge! Enter the Magazine Spread Contest to show off your design talent in a wonderful and exhilarating competition. This is a great opportunity for an experienced designer to make their mark and gain exposure or for a fairly new one to use the contest to add fresh work to his or her portfolio.
What’s the Challenge?
The challenge welcomes Graphic Designers to create a two-page magazine spread for a celebrity magazine article. You have the liberty to style the layout, typography, and visuals for a feature on anyone famous who is an inspiration to you. This can be anyone from an actor, musician, or artist to a designer, athlete, or business mogul. You can pick anyone and anything; it is really up to you.
The icing on the cake? Your graphic can model your style, aesthetics, and interpretations of the celebrity you are featuring. So be bold; be far-out; be classical or minimalist: whatever you fancy! Please do; we encourage exploration! This is about more than just the final design. It’s a growth opportunity for you to explore the limits of your design capabilities and show those ideas that could set your portfolio apart from the crowd.
How to Enter:
The way of Entry into the competition is very simple. Just follow these steps:
Read the Design Brief: Understand the contest requirements and guidelines in detail (you will find the design brief at the bottom of this page).
Submit Your Designs: You can submit up to three entries and each design must be submitted either in PDF, JPG, or PNG format. Maximum file size allowed is under 10 MB.
Mark the Deadline: All submissions must be made on or before November 4, 2024.
Join the Live Review: Once the submissions come to an end, live review session will be held on youtube on November 7th at 2 PM GMT. In this session, winners up to three will be announced, and general feedback will be given to all participants regarding improvements for their work.
The Design Brief:
The idea is quite a simple but dynamic one: create a celebrity spread magazine of two pages based on a celebrity of your choice. In other words, it can be anyone: a film star, a musician, a model, an athlete, or a business mogul. You can even design a feature article about someone you idolize, a cultural icon, or a trendsetter in his or her industry.
Visual Style:
You are free to design the spread exactly as you want-a bold modern edgy aesthetic, modern elegant refinement, whatever it is, it is for you to decide. Whatever interpretation that design would make, it should speak of how the celebrity would look like as well as what they would feel. The visual style should therefore be in sync with the target market and center the celebrity himself in the spread.
Target Audience:
The target audience for this magazine spread is 21-and-older people who enjoy music, art, and pop culture. So this design has to be interesting, thrilling, and engaging for them. Keep in mind that this audience is likely to be very much creative and nearing the trend, so design should feel very fresh, current, and visual.
What You’ll Submit:
This contest allows up to three different designs to be submitted. Each design must be a final, polished example submitted as either a PDF, JPG, or PNG file. Feel free to attach sketches or mocks of your concepts to give us a look into your thinking process. Such sketches, however, are optional and do not have to be included in the submission.
No file should exceed 10 MB in size, which means all images will now be optimized accordingly.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline for design briefs: November 4th , 2024
Live Review and Winners Announcement: November 7th , 2024 at 2 PM GMT on our YouTube Channel
One additional week has been added to the deadline, leaving all the time for you to design. That’s how it goes with creativity-sometimes the best idea comes at the end.
Contest Prizes and Winner Declared:
At the end of the contest, up to three winners shall be declared. The announced settings will take place during a live YouTube review session on November 7, and each winner will also benefit from exposure towards their work within the design community.
It’s about more than just winning; it’s about pushing boundaries and improving as a designer. Learning experiences like these add new projects to your portfolio, provide insight from other designers, and bring your creations to the attention of a larger audience. And we just love to see your designs all over social media, so share it out on Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag #yesimadesignercontest and tagged @yes_im_a_designer, we might even put some of the best on our sites.
Why Should You Participate?
Great contest-teaser for perfect portfolio enhancement: exposure to feedback on work by graphic designers. Entering this contest can be beneficial for students or professionals alike as one hones his/her skills quite wonderfully in creativity.
Not to mention that entering this contest involves joining a wonderful supportive design community where people value creative expression and encourage stepping beyond the comfort zone. It’s a great way to meet other designers in the industry-and it can make an opening towards some other opportunities.
Disclaimer:
While our intention is to give feedback in the live review session, it should be noted that time constraints leave some judgment as to whether every individual submission can be reviewed in detail. No individual may receive personalized feedback but all entrants will indeed get comprehensive feedback on keeping their work. Remember, this is a whole contest about stretching your creativity and getting better.
All rights over the designs you submit are yours completely. This contest aims at making you a better experimenter and learner, as well as building a really solid portfolio of works.
Conclusion:
So if you are ready for that creatively fun challenge to take your design skills to the next level, make sure you enter our Magazine Spread Contest today! Not only do you get to work with the freedom to explore your very individual style, but you also get to show your work to a very wide audience and have it evaluated by experts.
We can’t wait to see what you create!
