DG Student Design Competition 2008

For several years we have invited students to design a cover for an imaginary issue of Design Graphics and, more recently, DG magazine.

For 2008 we made some important changes. The competition is now called the ‘DG Student Design Competition’ and has expanded to offer a choice of designing a magazine cover or website home page.

This competition was open to all students studying an appropriate course at an Australian tertiary institution, and is run in conjunction with the DG Art & Design Education Resource Guide. This year we also introduced a new Secondary School division to include VCE art and design students in the competition.

As always, the judges job was difficult as there were so many good entries in 2008. For the first time we suggested themes that students may apply to their designs: fashion design, pop culture and Planet Earth (ecology and sustainabilty). This produced interesting and exciting results from the students who entered. A gallery of winners, commendations and notable entries is displayed here, as well as in the print edition of the Art & Design Education Resource Guide, available in newsagents and bookstores from mid-August 2008.

Order your copy of the 2008 print edition here.

You can view the results of the DG Student Design Competition here, and the winning entries are on display here.

The gallery of winners, commendations, and notable entries can be found here. Congratulations to the winners!

The DG Student Design competition will be run again in 2009. Sign up to the ADERG newsletter to be kept informed.

Sponsors

The DG Student Design Competition 2008 was sponsored by:

Adobe Systems
Corel
DataBasics
Scholastic Media
DG Design Network

All of the sponsors offer prizes for the competition winners.