The Design Kids, in partnership with desktop magazine, are hosting a one night charity exhibition in Brisbane as part of Semi-Permanent’s Brisbane event, on the 29 August. The event is all about bridging the gap between emerging designers and established studios.

So what is involved?
Twenty of the best design studios in Brisbane will be paired up with an emerging designer. The studio will then choose a compound word (two words that when separated mean one thing and when put together mean something else e.g. rainbow, endless). The studio then visually responds to one part of the word, and the emerging designer responds to the second part of the word, on an A1-sized material of their choice. The pieces displayed at the exhibition and then silent auctioned with the money going to a charity of the studio’s choosing.

We are currently looking for twenty Brisbane-based students/emerging designers, who will be paired up with a studio for this project.

How to apply:
Send a PDF to events@thedesignkids.com.au (subject: Terrible Twos Student Submission) with the following specifications:

Page 1: Your name, email address, contact number, design education details, link to folio website (if you have one), and a ranking of the 5 studios that you most want to work with (from the list below)
Pages 2-4: A selection of your work (at least 3 different projects)
*PDF must be less than 3mb*

Eligibility:
You must either be a current student or be a maximum of one year out of study. If chosen, you must be available to visit the Brisbane studio that we have paired you with over the coming two weeks (at a time determined by the studio), to discuss the project/concept.

Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast designers may apply.

Due:
PDF submissions are due this Friday 20 July 2012 at 5pm.

Studios involved:
Josephmark – josephmark.com.au
Tinker Creative – tinkercreative.com.au
Left Right & Center – leftrightandcentre.com.au
This is Neu – thisisneu.com
Neverland Studio – neverlandstudio.com.au
ZHC – zhc.com.au
Finn Creative – finncreative.com.au
The Design Kids – thedesignkids.com.au
Arcade Creative – thearcadecreative.com
Two Fold – twofold.com
Design Montage – designmontage.com.au
Cutts Creative – cuttscreative.com.au
JOLT Studio – joltstudio.com.au
White with One – whitewithone.com.au
Lauren Carney – laurencarneyart.com

With more studios coming soon.

Click here to see the artworks from the recent Melbourne event, and here to see photos of the night.

Example of how the artwork is divided up