A Jewellery design competition by the Craft & Design Department at City of Glasgow College for pupils of Secondary schools in Scotland
Design Brief
Use your imagination and creativity to design a pendant inspired by the beauty of plants and flora. Celebrate nature’s resilience and help raise awareness of climate change through your design. Let your imagination grow wild and make a statement for a sustainable future! The design should be in silver and be presented as a drawing. You can draw your design by hand or create it on the computer. Try to stay away from being too literal with your design and instead pick out elements such as shapes, details, textures, patterns and design a contemporary abstract piece.
Be Creative! We want to see YOUR imagination.
The prizes
The winner will have their design 3D Printed in our state of the art workshops and cast using silver created exclusively from reclaimed silver from discarded X-ray film by Vipa Designs!
The 2nd and 3rd runners-up will receive personalised certificates, and there will also be awards for highly commended entries.
A panel of judges consisting of Ebba Goring, CEO of Goldsmith's Trust, Peter Crump, MD of Vipa Designs and Chairman of the Goldsmiths' Craft and Design Council and Sandra Gunn, Chair of Craft Scotland will review all entries and select the winning design.
How to enter
- The competition is open to anyone under the age of 18 and still at school in Scotland
- Entries must be submitted by Friday 21st March 2025 by uploading entries of the final design as a jpg to including the entrant's name, year and school.
- Include in entry a teacher's contact email address
- Name the jpg with the entrant's name
- By submitting an entry, consent is given for the drawing and details to be shared on The City of Glasgow College website and associated social media channels.
- One winner from each category will be selected and contacted via email by Friday 25th April 2025.
Examples of previous winning designs
For further information, please contact: lisa.mcgovern@cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk or david.finlay@cityofglasgowcollege.ac.uk