The London Stationery Show, in partnership with The Paper Library, is delighted to announce the launch of a new Student Stationery Competition. Backed by three of the stationery industry's most well-known brands; Paperchase, Portico Design and Caroline Gardner, each company has set a design brief and offered a work placement prize for a lucky design student this summer.
Aiming to encourage graphic design, illustration and surface pattern students to consider using their skills in the stationery industry, the London Stationery Show teamed up with The Paper Library, and its co-founder Debbie Wigglesworth for this initiative. Design students across the UK will be asked to respond to the briefs set by the design teams at Portico Design, Paperchase and Caroline Gardner and produce various products suitable for each brand. They'll need to include details such as recommended paper use, provide any artwork required and suggest an RRP value.
Their work will be judged by Debbie Wigglesworth, design managers from the placement providers, Barbara Ridley, Head of the School of Design at the Glasgow School of Art and Tim Willoughby, Managing Director of Ocean Media, which owns the London Stationery Show.
The Paper Library, which provides a paper resource at leading design universities around the UK, is launching an online placement board, starting with this competition, and is keen to link up more design students with commercial placement opportunities.
“We're delighted to be able to help facilitate this type of competition and bring it to the notice of our exhibitors and visitors. It's important that, as an industry, we can offer design students a clear route into our sector and we're absolutely delighted that Portico Design, Paperchase and Caroline Gardner all agreed to support this first competition.
“The Paper Library provides a fantastic route directly into the key design colleges and tutors and we look forward to tracking the results of this initiative and seeing it grow as more stationery design teams get involved!” said Vanessa Fortnam, the show's Marketing Director.
Debbie Wigglesworth of The Paper Library says “We're delighted with the support we've received from the industry to get our placement programme launched. Our three stationery placement companies are dynamic and iconic. They will be great examples to our students of the sort of careers they could have in this innovative industry. All three companies trendsetting portfolio's and student briefs reinforce our mantra that paper plays an integral role within the design process”.
More details about the student briefs and how to enter can be found on The Paper Library website – www.thepaperlibrary.com Entry details will be sent to tutors and universities across the UK.
Posted: 2 May 2018
