The best of Nottingham’s young creative talent has been honoured at the Nottingham Playhouse on Wednesday the 18th of May.
Hundreds of people attended the 8th Nottingham Young Creative Awards, which aim to give people aged 13 to 24 who live, study or work in Nottingham the chance to show off their creative work, network with future employers and gain valuable industry experience and mentoring.
A record 350 young creatives submitted their work in 10 different categories this year to meet the 2016 theme of ‘Goals and Dreams’.
Graphic Design
The Graphic Design category looks for submissions from talented young graphic designers which interpret the theme through both their aspirations for the development of the city and the people living within the city.
Submissions for this category approached the ‘Goals and Dreams’ theme in innovative ways – such as as comic strip inspired by the iconic Nottingham left lion statue or a poster inspired by the story of legendary Nottingham designer Paul Smith.
The category was sponsored by Nottingham Trent University’s School of Art and Design – internationally recognised for the high quality of its art and design education provision. The School has exciting and inspiring courses across a wide range of art and design disciplines at undergraduate, postgraduate and research level, whilst it also offers professional and short courses. NTU has been sponsoring Nottingham Young Creative Awards since the competition’s inception, and the University is very proud to be supporting such an important competition.
Further to sponsoring the category and being an integral part in the judging panel – The School of Art & Design have also offered winners in the Graphic Design category the unique opportunity of completing a short course of their choosing at NTU. If you’re interested in finding out more about studying art and design at Nottingham Trent University, you can visit www.ntu.ac.uk/art.
Category winners
19 – 24
Winner – Rianne Gregory, 19 (Central)
“Rianne’s graphic illustration explores the ability of being able to see throughout dreams. She titled the illustration ‘idream’ because it relates to one of her own dreams about her street”
Highly Commended – Elliot Herbert-Byrnes, 20 (NCN)
Highly Commended – Samual Piggott, 19-24 (NCN)
16-18
Winner – Georgia Carson, 17 (NCN)
“The iconic landmark of the lions outside the Nottingham Council House inspired Georgia. She was inspired to create a comic strip based on the idea of a young lion being inspired by the sight of the lions and thus dreaming to become as magnificent as the statues”
Highly Commended – Tania Barks, 16-18 (Confetti),
Highly Commended – Esme Rebecca Beardall, 17 (Central),
Highly Commended – Amber Charlton, 16 (NCN) and
Highly Commended – Oakley Burton, 17 (NCN)
13 -15
Highly Commended – Daisy Sturgeon-Lowe, 15 (Southwell Minster School)
