Shoe Design Competition - V&A

[SomethingElse]

Shoes… there are so many styles. Some are practical, some are for special occasions, and some are works of art. Now is your chance to design your perfect pair, and enter a competition to be judged by a panel of designers including the internationally renowned shoe designer Professor Jimmy Choo OBE. The winners will have their design shown here on the website.

Red satin high-heeled sandals, Jimmy Choo

What you need to submit

A single jpeg image that should include:

One drawing of your design giving a side view of your shoe.
A list of materials that would be used to make the shoe, stating which materials would be used for each part of the shoe.

Two small drawings of specific details of your shoe. Choose the details that you think make your shoe design unique.

Send an accompanying email detailing your name, age (if under 18 years old), and a contact number. Do not put this information on the jpeg image.
Your image needs to be a 72dpi resolution jpeg and should be no larger than 1mb.

'Industrial Gothic' shoe example entry

There are four age categories:

11 - 13 year olds
14 - 15 year olds
16 - 18 year olds
18+

Inspiration for your design

To gain ideas for your shoe design from the V&A's collection, you could browseSearch the Collections . In the search box under 'all fields' type 'shoes' and then press 'search'.

You can save any image you need and then edit and arrange your design in a graphics programme. Images could be printed out and drawn on, or cut up to make a collage or montage then scanned back in. You could take sketches and draw or paint a design then scan the image. Combining sketches and drawings with computer graphics is a good way to create some unique images. Look at the image of the 'Industrial Gothic' shoe (above) as an example entry.

Competition closes 6 January 2008. Winning entries will appear on this website by 15 February 2008.


To enter, send your design to [email protected]

vam.ac.uk

 

[Barbizon]

Thanks Something Else! I was going to post that! It looks like a great opportunity. Good luck to everyone!