Each year our online contest gives textile students step-by-step experience of developing a production-ready design for digital printing. Gain access to a growing virtual community of professional designers, manufacturers, fashion labels, style journalists and young designers!
- Online competition for students of fashion and textile design
- A network of more than 20 European design academies and universities
- 2012 challenge – Think BIG: Create a textile design for a tunic dress in EU sizes 46 and 36
- 10 finalists determined by YOU through community voting
- Winner determined by a jury of textile and fashion professionals
- Contest from April to June 24, voting July 2-16; Winner communicated July 31.
Prizes:
- All finalists receive their designed garment
- Winner receives textile digital printing service worth up to 800 €
- Academy with the most participants wins a design workshop for a new 3-D fashion CAD tool
- Winning garments are shown at major textile fairs worldwide
More information: Contest 2012
How to get started in three steps
- Gain the support of your university tutor to register your university
- Create your account and show your work!
Questions? Use the contact form, the community managers will respond!
CREATE YOUR OWN 2012 is a project of DITF-MR, the Management Center of the German Institutes for Textile and Fiber Research, and www.bestofdesign.org, textile academy network. Funding is provided within the EU FP7 framework in the CoReNet project (www.corenet-project.eu) Customer-oriented and Eco-friendly networks for healthy fashionable goods.
