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About the Competition
The competition is now closed
The deadline for final submissions was Friday 11th May. The judging will soon take place, after which the finalists will be announced.Keep checking the website to see the chosen finalists! They will then continue to compete on the competition website to be an eventual winner.
Each finalist will be invited to the Paris motor show in September, where their work will be displayed and the winners will be announced.
You can read more about the competition below...
Hear what Mark Adams, Vice President Opel/Vauxhall Design
has to say about the competition...
Who we are
The Car Design News - Opel/Vauxhall Interactive Design Competition is a collaboration between Car Design News and Opel/Vauxhall. We are inviting design students from Europe to partake in an online, interactive design competition, to be in with a chance of winning multiple internships on offer.Competition time frame
Who could enter?
The competition was open to any student sudying at college/university level, enrolled in any design course at any school/college/university in Europe.Entering the competition
Opel/Vauxhall set one brief: 'Design the 2020 Ampera'.Students needed to sumit both an interior entry AND an exterior entry in order to be conisdered in the judging process. Both entries were sumitted separately but they could work on both at the same time.
The website was designed for students to upload thoughts, sketches, ideas and designs as they went along. Entrants could go back to their work at any stage to build on/ amend your entry.
Judges, mentors and other students and designers who registered for an account could comment and provide feedback throughout the competition. We encouraged students to upload entries as their thinking developed - the development process is one of the crucial aspects in the judging process.
Reading the brief
We have found
in previous competitions, that those students who have studied and
produced work which directly answers the brief, or develops themes that
the brief outlines, have been most successful. We know it's tempting to
jump right in and just start up loading sketchwork, but remember, the
judges and mentors will be looking not just at what you produce in the
end, but how you develop your work. What we wanted to see
The judges and mentors were looking for first class work, which on board advice from judges, mentors and other commentators.
Social community
This was an open, online competition, which was held in the spirit of the web,
where data and information were shared and exchanged with ease, and
where people could come together to collaborate. In this spirit, the
judges were looking to see the contribution students made within the wider
online community and how they help their competition peers. We advised students
to engage in dialogue with those who commented upon their work, and where they made changes to their design based on feedback they received, to illustrate how and why this is so.
Students were also free to register a competition account and comment on the work that had been submitted, without submitting a design entry themselves.
