International design competition @ Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

For the third time the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Netherlands will be awarding the Rijksstudio Award and you can take part as the design competition is open now until the 15th of January 2017!

Be inspired by the Rijksmuseum’s collection and create your own personal masterpiece. Anyone can take part and all art forms are allowed, as long as the design is based on a piece from the Rijksmuseum collection and includes images from Rijksstudio.

So get started, download images from Rijksstudio and use them to create your own artwork. All art forms and interpretations are allowed, from design, decorative arts and applied arts to fashion design, photography and video.

For more information visit Rijksmuseum


 


The artwork will be judged by an international panel of experts.

• Irma Boom, Director of Irma Boom Office
• Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief at Wallpaper
• Ingrid Chou, Associate Creative Director, The Museum of Modern Art
• Taco Dibbits, General Director of the Rijksmuseum (Jury President)
• Ute Thon, editor-in-chief ART - Das Kunstmagazin
• Thomas Widdershoven, Creative Director at the Design Academy, Eindhoven

The first prize is 10,000 euro, the second 2,500 euro, and the third 1,500 euro. In addition, a people’s choice award of 1,000 euro is up for grabs. The finalists’ projects will be exhibited in one of the museum’s galleries for ten weeks following the reveal on 21 April 2017.

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Rijksstudio in a nutshell
With Rijksstudio everyone can use the images from the Rijksmuseum's collection free of charge to discover, collect, share, touch, ‘like’ and edit.

See also my report on a previous edition: And the winner is...