Jewelry VDW Selection 2024

The competition is promoted by Venice Design Week, Contemporary Jewelry Association Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo (AGC).
Media Partner: GioielloContemporaneo.it, klimt02.net
Galleries and partners: Roma Jewelry Week, 16metriquadri, CreativityOggetti, Edmond à Venise, OONA gallery, OHMYBLUE, Esh Gallery.

Deadline: May 28th, 2024

1) ELIGIBILITY

The Jewelry Venice Design Week Selection 2024  Open Call is open to anyone engaged in designing or working with precious metals, gemstones and other materials, including recycled or scrap materials. The award focuses on contemporary jewelry and is an ideal platform to increase awareness of your brand and acquire recognition in Italy.

2) THEME

“Colors and Vowels” inspired by the poem by Arthur Rimbaud

we invite you to imagine a jewel that will expand our horizons and narrate one part of the poem or is inspired by the poem.

3) TIME LIMIT

Works must have been completed within the 24 months preceding the closing dates for entries.

4) CONTEST INFORMATION

All entries must be delivered by mail to jewelry@venicedesignweek.it
When submitting to the Venice Design Week Jewelry Selection 2024 keep in mind that your submission will be evaluated primarily on visual appeal, choice of material and craftsmanship. For this purpose our team STRONGLY advises to attach to your application an image on a white or black background where the product is clearly visible.
Application form.

  1. First round of evaluation

At this stage your design will be judged solely via image and description. It cannot be sent by post. Entries arriving after the 28th of May 2024 at 12.00 pm (CET) may not be judged. The purpose of this round is to pre – select a number of designs to be delivered to the organization for the second and final round of judging.

        2. Second round of evaluation 

At this stage the jury will select the final number of designs that will be exhibited in the Jewelry Selection show during the Venice Design Week 2024. 

KEEP IN MIND: Entrants are responsible for the delivery of their work to (and back) the chosen location.

5) AWARDING CRITERIA AND JUDGING PROCESS

  • Your final design must be a piece of wearable jewelry.
  • The piece must be your original design.
  • The winning designs are selected according to both functional and emotional aspects. 
  • The designs are considered for their innovation, aesthetic, ergonomics and quality of workmanship.
  • Both luxury and daily-usage designs can be submitted.
  • If you have already entered your piece in another competition you may also enter it in the Venice Design Week Jewelry Selection: please state in your application whether the piece won in another competition.

The judging of the designs is carried out by close collective consultation of the jury with one another: in the event of the Judges being unable to agree on a unanimous decision, a majority vote will be accepted.

Link to the Committee.

6) ENTRY PROCEDURE

  • Please fill in the application form
  • Send by E – mail or “WeTransfer” to jewelry@venicedesignweek.it  a PDF/JPG file with your design’s images and its description naming it as it follows: SurnameName_jewelryname00.jpg or pdf

Name file example: SurnameName_neckle01.jpg
student please write: s_SurnameName_neckle01.jpg
Presentation example
: namesurname_typeofjewel

  • Receipt of the correct payment fee for the subscription

All completed entries will receive a confirmation email within three weeks of your application. The deadlines are definitive and no extensions are allowed. Every designer can partecipate with 2 or more designs: this is only possible adding 50% of the subscription fee for each design presented after the first one.

Subscription fee: € 40 designers and € 10 students. The subscription fee for AGC members: € 30. Schools and universities can apply for exemption of the participation fee for their students. Designers residing in countries at war are exempt from the participation fee.

Bank details

  • Bank transfer to Arte e Design Venezia Associazione Culturale
    Please state clearly your Name and Surname or Brand Name adding Call Jewelry 2024
  • Banca Intesa San Paolo Italia
  • IBAN: IT15B0306967684510749163461 (only EU bank transfer)
  • BIC: BCiTiTMM    
  • SWIFT: BCiTiTMMXXX (only EU bank transfer)
  • Non-EU residents, please contact the organization by E-mail;
    PayPal or Credit Card or Western Union transfer (add fee)

7) INSURANCE

The exhibition (October 2024) is covered by an insurance that covers up to the maximum value of 1000€ a piece. Those who are selected are invited to insure their designs to cover the delivery and the first round of selection.

8) AWARDS

Judges select a minimum of 12 designs to exhibit in the Venice Design Week Jewelry Selection and a maximum of their choice.
Since 2017 we have special awards offered by private galleries.
Since Creativity Oggetti – Torino, 16mestriquadri – Udine – Edmond à Venise – Venice, Esh Gallery – Milan and  offer special awards.
The Awards allow designers to exhibit in different cities and benefit from media promotion and/or shows. 

9) CONTEST SCHEDULE

May 28th, 2024: Application deadline.
June 15th, 2024: First round of judging.
June 20th, 2024: The finalists are notified to send their designs to the organization by July 5th for the second round of judging.
July 13th, 2024: Final round of judging and subsequent notification to the selected designers in the following days.
July 25th, 2024: The selected designers are announced.
October, 2024: Exhibition opening.
October during VDW, 2024: Guided tours, collateral projects and award ceremony.
After 3rd November, 2024: All pieces will be returned to the designers (except in case of having the exhibition travel)

10) SELECTION

Judges may not give awards if they consider the quality of the entries to be insufficient.

11) EXHIBITION

Starting October (date TBC) 2024 the exhibition will open to the public (during and after the Venice Design Week).
The exhibition in 2023 has been in the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo in Venice thanks to MUVE.
Invitation to the award ceremony is limited and priority will be given to the finalists and their guests. The winning designs will be exhibited at the discretion of the Judges and the Venice Design Week organizers.

12) COLLECTION OF ENTRIES

All selected designs for the first round of judging must be received by Venice Design Week by May 28th, noon (CET).
All selected designs for the exhibition can be collected by the designers starting November 3rd, 2024. Entries can be picked up in person or by courier arranged by the designer. Optional shipment can be exceptionally arranged by recorded postal delivery for a charge of €100 with a maximum insurance value of under € 1,000. The packaging and shipment fee is payable in advance by bank transfer to Venice Design Week or the selected partner. For items above this value, additional postage, packing, and insurance charges will be charged.

Any entries not collected after December 1st 2024 will be charged € 100 per item per month for storage. Entries not collected within two months following the above date will be disposed of at the discretion of the Venice Design Week.

THE VENICE DESIGN WEEK IS THE ARBITER OF THESE RULES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION IS FINAL.

13) AWARD CEREMONY and MEETING WITH the DESIGNERS

The award ceremony will be held during the Venice Design Week (October 12-20) 2024 in Venice; access will be granted by booking or invitation. Guided tours of the exhibition, meetings with designers, and collateral projects will be planned in due course. 

14) REGISTRATION

Fill the Jewelry application form and send it (button INVIA / SEND)
The photo of the jewel, the description of the project, and a copy of the bank transfer have to be sent via email to jewelry@venicedesignweek.it

Information:
mail: jewelry@venicedesignweek.it
tel. + 39 348 4545 145

The Competition is promoted by Venice Design Week, Associazione Gioiello Contemporaneo (AGC).
Galleries and partners: 16metriquadri Udine, Creativity Oggetti Torino, Esh Gallery, Edmond à Venise, OONA gallery, OHMYBLUE.

Media Partners: GioielloContemporaneo.it

Technical Partner: architetti Da Rin Perego, Design33.it, Hooroon

 

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