Young Ones is The One Club for Creativity’s competition for students and recent graduates across creative disciplines. Young Ones is home to four unique competitions — Young Ones ADC, One Show, Portfolio, and TDC.

For countless creatives worldwide, winning a One Show Pencil or ADC Cube is a dream come true. But dreams have to start somewhere, and for that, we have the Young Ones Student Awards. This global creative competition challenges students in creative studies to put their best foot forward in hopes of winning one of the first honors of their burgeoning careers.

EARLY ENTRY DEADLINE December 13 | $45 Entry Fee

WANT TO SAVE 10% ON YOUR ENTRIES? Student and Faculty members of The One Club for
Creativity and TDC save 10% on all entries during the Early Entry and Regular Entry Deadlines.
Friends of Cumulus can save $5 off their first entry during the Early and Regular Entry Periods when they use code: YOUNGONES_CUMULUS.

PLUS, REGIONAL DISCOUNTS! To make Young Ones more accessible for international entrants,
automatic discounts will be applied to entries from specific countries and regions to account for an unfair disadvantage from the value of their local currency in comparison to the US Dollar.
For more information, visit youngones.org!

“Designers in Residence” is an international design scholarship of the city of Pforzheim in cooperation with Pforzheim University and the Design-Center Baden Württemberg, granted to young design artists from the fields of jewelry, fashion, accessory, industrial and graphic and other areas of design. Three designers are invited to work on their projects from April 1 to June 30 2024 at EMMA Creative Center, the central platform for creative people in Pforzheim. The town of Pforzheim is characterized by an active creative scene which is focused on the area of design. The faculty of design at the Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences has established Pforzheim as a university town with an international reputation. “Designers in Residence” scholarship program counts with the generous support of Sparkasse Pforzheim Calw, C. Hafner, Rotary Club Pforzheim-Schlossberg and yellow design.

What does the scholarship include?

The scholarship is fully funded and includes use of fully equipped workshop workplaces and co-working spaces in the EMMA Creative Center and free accommodation for the period from April 1 to June 30, 2024. In addition, each scholarship holder will receive a monthly support of 1,000 euros together with travel costs. A special allowance will be made available for material costs. The results of the scholarship will be presented in an exhibition at the EMMA Creative Center.

Jury

Louise Bennetts, Fashion designer, researcher, lecturer MA Fashion Royal College of Art, London Romin Heide, Product designer, Verband Deutscher Industrie Designer e.V., Berlin Jiro Kamata, Jewellery artist, Munich.

The deadline for applications is November 15, 2023, 23:59 CET. The application can be submitted only online.

Learn more here https://www.emma-pf.de/en/designers-in-residence/scholarship/.

From 11th to 22nd December 2023 of NID, Ahmedabad

The Annual Open Electives organised by National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad, India (with campuses in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, & Bengaluru) will held this year from the11th to 22nd December 2023 on-campus / offline mode for the second-year Bachelors students and first-year Masters students of NID at its Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, and Bengaluru campuses.

Titled ‘Water Matters’, this year’s Open Electives 2023 is an invitation to explore creative responses on the theme of water and its interpretations from practitioners across various domains. The elective is envisaged as a trans-disciplinary space where varied vantage points, knowledge systems, expertise, curiosities and practices converge towards a holistic deliberation on water. The proposals may consider various trajectories spanning aspects of Water in Time & Space, Water crisis and catastrophe, Water cultures and communities, Water ecosystems, Water politics and borders, Water as sensory experience, Water as memory and much more.

More details regarding these Open Electives 2023 are mentioned in the attached poster. Proposals may be submitted latest by September 09, 2023 and interested faculty members may visit http://openelective.nid.edu/ for detailed information. For further assistance, the Open Elective Team can be contacted on [email protected].

Be Ready. Making Our Talent Fly High!

DID – Cumulus Student Talent Camp Jaipur 2023 is calling for participants!

Mobilize your students to join the Cumulus Student Talent Camp taking place in Jaipur, India hosted by ARCH College of Design and Business 30 Oct – 4 Nov 2023.

In 2023, ARCH College of Design & Business, Jaipur, India, shall host and conduct the first edition of the Cumulus Student Talent Camp on the theme ‘Design Identity Direction’ focusing on Learning from Living Traditions and working towards SDGs (4,7,8,9,11,12,17) in a regional and global context.

An enriching, design immersive and participative experience for 50-60 students of art, design, architecture and media, from 10-12 Cumulus Member universities/ colleges will be enabled by ARCH and its stakeholders in the Pink City, Jaipur, Rajasthan – the UNESCO declared ‘creative world craft city’ and World Heritage Site. Tutors and academics are welcome as well to register and accompany their students.

Expression of Interest by August 15, 2023.
Registration by September 15, 2023.

See the full text of the call: DID_CSTCamp_2ndcall
Frequently Asked Questions: DID_CSTCamp_FAQs2nd

Student Camp website: https://www.archedu.org/CumulusStudentTalentCampDID/
Contact information: [email protected]

Cumulus Student Talent Camp is a unique platform to welcome the young talent to get together to enrich the Cumulusian community advancing the mission and values of the association by offering new possibilities to students. The aim is to create inspiring exceptional learning environments that foster engagement, networking, collaboration, and knowledge exchange under the umbrella of art, media and design education and research in an open and friendly atmosphere that celebrates the increasingly diverse and global nature of the Cumulus family.

International Architecture- and Design
Summerschool at IAAC Barcelona

This Summerschool remarks the start of a new international study program between
Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), the Institute for Advanced Architecture in Catalonia
(IAAC) Barcelona and the Akademie der bildenden Künste Stuttgart (abk). It invites
international students for a 2-week workshop at IAAC Barcelona to investigate creative and
cross-cultural design for urban futures through the viewpoint of different disciplines.

Learn more about the summer school here International_Design_Summerschool_Flyer