Competition! Digital Fabrics ‘Botanical Extracts’

Calling ALL Australian surface designers – especially those of you who love florals as much as I do!!

Digital Fabrics is a print-on-demand business based in Sydney, which offers digital fabric printing onto a huge variety of fabrics in a range of sizes up to 1.5m wide. They  work with fashion and swimwear labels, TV and staging, the interior design industry including drapery and upholstery fabrics and a whole lot more.

 

They have some exciting news! They’ve just launched their latest competition, (open to Australian residents only, sorry lovely overseas peeps 🙂 ), which involves designing a botanical print for fashion and interiors. It’s not limited to people already involved in the industry; it’s wide open to any member of the public. If you’ve got the skills, they want to hear from you.

There are some FABULOUS prizes up for grabs.

• First prize is $500 of credit for printing, and 2 weeks paid internship! You also get 5 m of fabric with your design printed on the fabric of your choice, your winning design will be featured in the Digital Fabrics’ Prints Collection, and you get industry exposure through Digital Fabrics.
• The runner-up gets $200 of credit for printing, and like the winner, you also get 5 m of fabric with your design printed on the fabric of your choice, your winning design will be featured in the Digital Fabrics’ Prints Collection, and you get industry exposure through Digital Fabrics.
• Not only that, EVERY participant will receive 15% discount off printing. How good is that?

 

 

{japanese chrysthemum by barysiuk_viktoryia, from here}

The only real design requirements are that it has to be botanical, contain hand drawn or painted elements, and stick to the palette they provide. There are no other stylistic limits – so the whole world is your inspiration!

 

 {eucomis comosa, from Dr. Steven Murray, here}

 

  {seed pods, from Chris John Beckett, here}

To participate, you MUST have a Pinterest account or be willing to join, as they have created a special Pinterest board that you need to upload your design onto for voting. The voting starts on 30th April, SO GET ONTO IT NOW.

Last year’s competition produced some fabulous designs. Their brief was to design a 1m square scarf with with the theme “Local Produce”, and they were given three colours they had to incorporate.  If you’d like to see what some of the entries for last year looked like, you can check them out here.

 

  {Blue Zebra primula by Webrarian, here}

So get started now. The deadline is not that far away – and you might just win those fantastic prizes.

Full details and requirements can be viewed when you register and download the PDF from Digital Fabrics here.

 

 

Best of luck everyone!

Julie X

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{Disclaimer: this post was supported by Digital Fabrics. But rest assured I will only EVER promote things I truly believe in, and that I think are genuinely useful for you.}