Poster Competition

Your challenge is to create a square-format, typographically-focused poster conveying the message:

“be who you want to be” 

Your approach should be experimental, and consider current trends in typography, colour, and visual styling with specific appeal for a creative audience... Designing for your creative community!

All work submitted for the competition should embrace the concepts of originality, creativity, individuality, and truth.

30 posters will be short-listed for an exhibition at the University, and prizes will be awarded to the 3 best responses at the private view, judged by a panel of graphic design industry professionals. Make beautiful artwork, get short-listed, win prizes. Simple.
 

To enter the competition, create your ‘be who you want to be’ poster and write a 50—100 word rationale explaining your design decisions.

You can use any methods appropriate to create your poster concept: photography, collage, hand-drawn, painted, digital, or a combination of mixed-media methods. Think about the printed size when you are creating, scanning, or photographing your artwork for reproduction.

Final artwork needs to be supplied and uploaded digitally to our poster competition webpage.

From 20 October 2025, the page will contain a link to the upload form — you will need to supply contact details for yourself and your teacher/lecturer/institution, so that we can contact you for short-listing.

• Size: 600 x 600 millimetres
• Resolution: 200ppi
• Accepted File Formats: High-quality JPG / PNG
• File size: maximum file size 70MB

• 15 September 2025: Competition launch
• 20 October 2025: Upload area goes live
• 08 December 2025: Competition deadline
• 15 December 2025: Short-list announced
• 21 January 2026: Exhibition Private View & Prizes