Are you ready for a new creative challenge?

Take part in our magazine spread contest, a perfect opportunity for Graphic Designers that have a passion for Editorial Design!

How to enter?

  1. Read the design brief here  (also further down on this page)
  2. Submit your designs here before the 4th November
  3. Join our YouTube livestream on the 7th November to see the winners*
*We will be doing a live review on the design submissions and up to 3 winners will be announced live on our YouTube Channel at 2pm GMT on the 7th November. We decided to extend the original deadline by a week to allow enough time for everyone to take part.

Here is some more information about the contest:

The Brief:

2 page Magazine Spread

  • Celebrity magazine needs an article about a famous person
  • The celebrity can be anyone you look up to or adore:
    actor/actress, artist, designer, musician, athlete, businessman/businesswoman ect.

Visual Style

  • You have creative freedom, choose any style of your choice 

Target Audience

Age 21 and older with a passion for music, art, and pop culture

Deliverables:

You can submit up to 3 entries (details of how to submit included below.) An entry must include a refined design submitted as a PDF, JPG or PNG. 

Deadline:

4th November 2024

Click here to access the Milanote board for some useful references to kick start your creative ideas


The Prizes

1st Place

  • Being featured on our YouTube channel and on our website.

2nd Place 

3rd Place

  • Being featured on our YouTube channel and on our website.

Contest sponsored by:

Milanote is an easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Our entire team at Yes I'm a Designer have been using Milanote to organize all of our projects since 2020.

Submitting your Work

  1. You can submit up to 3 final logo designs.
  2. We love to see sketches of your initial ideas and mock-ups featuring your chosen logo designs.
  3. Please upload your submissions as PDF, JPG or PNG (max 10 Mbytes).   

This Contest is now closed

Please also feel free to upload your design either on Instagram or Facebook - simple tag us or use hashtag #yesimadesignercontest @yes_im_a_designer and we will love to share your design on our platforms. 


** Winners announced **

Thank you all for taking part in our Magazine Spread Design, We have had so many awesome submissions (over 40+ designs). 

If you have missed our review yesterday, you can rewatch it here

A huge congratulations goes out to our winners Meabh Crozier, Alisa Bazilevskaia and Melisa Kızılhisar

Massive thanks to all for joining our contest!

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Disclaimer : 

*During the live review, all participants receive general feedback on how to improve their work. Due to time restraints we may not be able to give individual attention to all submissions

Creatives participating in this contest retain full ownership of their work. The purpose of this contest is to help you become more creative and add some new work to your portfolio.

About the author 

Shumi Perhiniak

Shumi is a self-taught graphic designer and illustrator who has worked for Toni&Guy, Renaissance Learning, Baker Ross, and many others.

Additionally, she owned a brick-and-mortar stationery shop selling her art prints and now sells wholesale to retailers and online shops under the brand name www.herdesignworld.com.

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