Are you up to a creative challenge? If you’re passionate about graphic design — editorial design in particular — this is a great opportunity! Time to get creative in our Magazine Spread Contest.This contest is suitable for designers who love to play with typography and images in creating bolder visual tales. Be you an industry veteran or a budding designer, this contest is a great opportunity to exhibit your creativity and gain the recognition of the design fraternity.
**How To Enter:**
Entry into the competition is quite simple. Here’s what you have to do:
1. **Read the Design Brief:** Ensure you understand the entire brief (there’s one down below).
2. **Submit Your Design:** Final design(s) shall be submitted by November 4, 2024.
3. **Attend the Livestream on YouTube:** On November 7, we will review all submissions and announce winners in a live session on YouTube. Join us for the live review at 2 PM GMT!
Extra time has also been allowed for submissions, and hence each one will have plenty of time to prepare theirs. So if somebody hasn’t yet begun with the process, they should not worry as they still have time to join!
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**The Brief:**
In this contest, your assignment is to design a **2-page magazine spread**. The theme is basically a **celebrity** — someone who inspires you or whom you admire deeply. It could be a:
– **Actor/Actress**
– **Musician**
– **Artist**
– **Athlete**
– **Businessperson**
– Or anyone else in pop culture who you look up to
Our design should reflect our chosen celebrity’s personality and narrate an equally captivating story to the audience. Think about how you can continue to create an exciting experience for your reader using typography, photography, and layout.
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**Visual Style:**
You are henceforth free to choose your own visual style. Minimalist, bold, artistic, vintage, and the rest, the choice is all yours! Your style should match both the celebrity and the target audience.
The spread should be designed to feel like it belongs in a **celebrity magazine**, and it should reflect the current trends in editorial design while staying true to your own unique design aesthetic.
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**Target Audience:**
This magazine spread will be aimed at **readers aged 21 and older** with a keen interest in **music**, **art**, and **pop culture**. The audience is diverse, so make sure your design is engaging, vibrant, and relevant to the cultural landscape today.
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**Deliverables:**
We want to see your best work, so you can submit up to **3 final entries**. Each design must be presented as a refined, professional-quality PDF, JPG, or PNG.
Some additional tips for your submissions:
– **Show your process:** We love to see your creative journey! Feel free to upload sketches or mock-ups alongside your final design to give us a glimpse of how your ideas evolved.
– **File size limit:** Ensure your submissions are no larger than 10 MB.
– **Deadline:** Submit all entries by **4th November 2024**.
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**Prizes:**
We’re offering some exciting prizes for the winners to help you further elevate your design career:
1. **1st Place:**
– 3-month Pro Membership subscription to Milanote (worth $201)
– Milanote Pro access to help you organize and manage your projects
– Featured on our YouTube channel and website
2. **2nd Place:**
– 2-month Pro Membership subscription to Milanote (worth $134)
– Featured on our YouTube channel and website
3. **3rd Place:**
– 1-month Pro Membership subscription to Milanote (worth $67)
– Featured on our YouTube channel and website
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**Why Milanote?**
Milanote is a simple tool for sorting your ideas in a visual manner. This is used for mapping out everything cleanly and conveniently, whether having a project plan or brainstorming something for your next design. The perfect design tool for all creative types, it is no wonder that the **Yes I’m a Designer** team has been using Milanote since 2020 to get all project organization done. Win a subscription to Milanote, and you will have this powerful design organization tool at your fingertips to use for keeping your head above water in projects and creative work.
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**Submitting Your Work:**
Ready to submit your design? Here’s how:
– **Upload your final submission** in PDF, JPG, or PNG format.
-If you have any initial sketches or mock-ups, do include them with your submission. These can be a great way to present the progress of your thought process.
– Do not exceed the maximum file size limit of 10 MB.
– To be eligible for the competition, entries must be submitted before the deadline of **4th November 2024**.
Do share your design on social media! On Instagram and Facebook, tag us with the hashtag #yesimadesignercontest or @yes_im_a_designer, and we’ll share your work on our platforms.
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**Winners Announcement:**
The winners will be declared live on our **YouTube channel** on **7th November, 2 pm GMT**. In case you miss the live announcement, feel free to rewatch the session whenever you like and look at all the wonderful entries.Heartiest congratulations to the winners of our last contest—**Meabh Crozier, Alisa Bazilevskaia, and Melisa Kızılhisar**! They were incredible, and we look forward to finding out who else is joining them this time.
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**Final Comments:**Now it is time for you to get creative and venture into unknown design territories. Be it your fantasy magazine spread or a new editorial form, we look forward to what you will do next. So gather your ideas, start designing, and prepare to share your work with the world.
Good luck, and may the best designs win!!
