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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.

THINK... SMALL! (to make the world BIG)

Everybody can think big.

But designers, the good ones, must be able to do the opposite: look into the details, notice things that everyone else ignores. The invisible that shapes the world.

That's where the best ideas come from and where everything starts.

Every bridge is sustained by bolts.

Every stunning dress is sewn with needles and invisible threads.

Every app has small icons that allow us to react, express ourselves and interact.

The future of design is not only about seeing the big picture, but also in the ability to uncover the unseen.

Being able to think small is a superpower.

It means understanding the essence of what surrounds us.

We are details before being stories, we are atoms before being humans.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR

Choose a small, minimal, essential object which in your opinion plays a key role in making something big.

You can either take a photo of it or draw it, whatever works best for you.

What matters is it serves at the base of something bigger.

Together with the image, write a short text (500 characters maximum) explaining its importance.

Tell us about it as if it were the hidden side of a big invention, a forgotten detail, a little everyday hero.

Show us how that seemingly insignificant object can become the starting point of something great and magical.