Open Calls

Draw the most exquisite pink vase that you can.

Explore the tension between rigid systems and organic form. Submissions should demonstrate a strong underlying grid — whether obeyed, broken, or subverted — as the central design decision. Think modular layouts, mathematical divisions of space, or architectural rhythm applied to any visual medium.

Explore the power of absence. This theme challenges you to treat empty space not as a void, but as an active compositional force. We're looking for work where what is left out speaks as loudly as what is included — where silence, restraint, and the unseen carry the emotional weight of the piece. Any medium accepted: illustration, photography, typography, product design, architecture, motion, or spatial design.

The human face rendered entirely through type. This theme asks you to construct a portrait — real, imagined, or abstract — using letterforms, glyphs, or typographic elements as the sole visual building blocks. Show us expression without illustration.

Opposites attract — and collide. Use complementary colour pairings to create work that vibrates, surprises, or unnerves. Push the tension further than comfortable.

One hue. Infinite expression. Explore the full tonal range of a single colour — from the lightest tint to the deepest shade. Any discipline, any output. The constraint is the creative.

Hard surfaces. Reflections. Industrial elegance. Explore the aesthetic and conceptual territory of metal and glass — their weight, transparency, and capacity to distort or reveal.

The physicality of print — letterpress, risograph, screen print, or the simulated aesthetic of analogue reproduction. Work that celebrates paper as a medium, not a substrate.

The decisive moment — or its invention. Capture or construct a single frame that holds motion in suspension. Photography, 3D, illustration, or graphic composition all welcome.

Type that moves — or implies it. Whether actual motion design or the graphic suggestion of kinetics in a static frame, we want to feel momentum, rhythm, and temporal flow.

The body as system. The design system as body. Explore the parallels between biological structure and constructed form — grids as skeletons, colour as circulation, type as musculature.

The body reduced to outline. Explore silhouette as a design device — its capacity for anonymity, universality, and graphic power. Identity through the absence of detail.