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Submit a personal portfolio that showcases works highlighting your creative skills, critical thinking, personality, and design approach. We are not looking for perfection, but for perspective: your portfolio should be a window into your creative world – how you observe, explore, and question.

Your portfolio may include, for example:

• visual experiments and personal projects

• sketches, photographs, collages, digital works

• videos, concept boards, short texts

• schoolwork or independent research

• any expression of your creative identity and curiosity

Develop an original project based on the Brief proposed for this edition of the Contest.

TELL US WHO YOU ARE NOT

We are – above all – defined by the NOs we say.

A NO is not just a negation: it can be a bold choice, a statement, a creative act. In design, subtracting is as important as adding, and doing so requires clear, deliberate NOS.

NO to the superfluous, NO to the obvious, NO to the banal.

Design is observation, critique, and responsibility. It can be political, social, ironic, or cultural. Designers make choices – and choosing also means knowing what to reject.

WHAT WE ASK

Working on a layout divided into four panels, represent four personal NOs. You can use words, images, collage, video, illustrations, or any visual or digital medium. Each panel should express a NO to something specific: a trend, an attitude, a rule, a behavior, an aesthetic, or an idea.

Your NOs can be ironic, political, social, everyday, or universal. Together, the four NOs should reveal who you are – or rather, who you are not.

ACCOMPANY YOUR NOS

Include a brief text of up to 500 words explaining your choices and the visuals you’ve created. We are looking to see your personality, perspective, and critical and design skills.