Spoonflower’s Weekly Design Challenges encourage creativity by inviting our group to submit designs round a theme and vote on favorites to win weekly prizes. See what design challenges are developing and which designers had been topped grand-champion in previous challenges right here.

Make sure you go to the weblog to study extra about Spoonflower’s Design Problem guidelines and moderation course of.

We’re partnering with North Carolina-based pottery studio, East Fork, to have a good time the launch of their latest glaze colours, Butter and Piglet!

Behind Spoonflower and East Fork are a way of place, and tales of individuals. The clay from the bottom, the arms that introduced the form into being; the linen printed in Durham, the artist that dreamed the design. That’s the place you are available in! This week, we problem you to create a design utilizing Butter (#F4EDBA) and Piglet (#F2DDDD) that could possibly be used as desk linens alongside this stunning pottery.

An Essential Notice About Your Entry:

Artists should use each East Fork glaze colours, Butter (#F4EDBA) and Piglet (#F2DDDD) as the principle colours. Further colours will be included, however we advocate solely including neutrals and holding it easy with not more than 4 colours whole (not together with black and white) to make sure your design coordinates properly with East Fork merchandise. Honoring the glaze colours is essential!

The profitable design, hand-selected from the highest 50 by East Fork, shall be printed on tabletop objects and featured within the Spoonflower Pop-Up Store at an East Fork retail location. Any design entered within the Design Problem is topic to be included in any East Fork or Spoonflower retail location (in-person or on-line) and included in advertising and marketing supplies on the sole discretion of East Fork and Spoonflower.

Every of the highest 10 winners will obtain merchandise from East Fork and merchandise from Spoonflower that includes their design—scroll to the underside of this put up for prize particulars!

Entries shall be previewed on 21″ x 18″ fats quarter. Submissions shut March 28 at 3 p.m. Japanese Time. Voting begins March 30. Winners shall be introduced April 6. See official guidelines.

Take a wild basic and add an summary twist!

Reasonably than the frequent life like leopard, zebra or giraffe prints we’re used to seeing, assume exterior the field for this problem and add your personal distinctive aptitude to your favourite iconic animal patterns. Issues like distorted butterfly wings, tiger stripes with a wild shade palette, or warped scales. Think about your design as a set of curtains that might deliver life to any room.

Entries shall be previewed on a Spoonflower curtain panel (50″ broad). Submissions shut April 4 at 3 p.m. Japanese Time. Voting begins April 6. Winners shall be introduced April 13. See official guidelines.

The artwork of miniatures has skilled a resurgence within the final a number of years, and this week we’re celebrating these minis by difficult you to design small scale wallpaper to decorate the partitions of a dreamy dollhouse.

In case you had been a miniatures maker, what sort of fashion would you need mirrored in your wallpaper? Whether or not you lean formal and Victorian or informal and quirky, envision your design being utilized in a dollhouse for each youngsters and adults to get pleasure from.

Loving your small scale design? Don’t overlook so as to add a big scale wallpaper model to your Spoonflower store as properly for folk adorning their full-size homes!

Entries shall be previewed on an 8″ x 8″ swatch. Submissions shut April 11 at 3 p.m. Japanese Time. Voting begins April 13. Winners shall be introduced April 20. See official guidelines.

This week, present us drawings of bee-utiful bugs!

Will your entry buzz with beetles, ladybugs and dragonflies? Will or not it’s crawling with centipedes, spiders and stick bugs? For this problem, we’re searching for your design components be hand-drawn—contemplate watercolor paints, textured pencils and different conventional artwork mediums when creating your buggy buddies. Head to our in style Hand-Drawn Florals Design Problem for some inspiration.

Entries shall be previewed on a 21″ x 18″ fats quarter. Submissions shut April 18 at 3 p.m. Japanese Time. Voting begins April 20. Winners shall be introduced April 27. See official guidelines.

One Grand Prize Winner every week will obtain $200 in Spoondollars. The winner may even obtain extra publicity in our e-mail newsletters and social media mentions.

The first place winner of the East Fork: Butter & Piglet Design Problem, chosen by East Fork, will obtain a $200 Spoonflower credit score, a Large Potter’s Nesting Set within the glaze shade of their alternative (from at the moment out there glazes), one set of East Fork mugs in Butter and Piglet, one Spoonflower tablecloth that includes their profitable design and shall be included in Spoonflower’s Pop-Up Store inside an East Fork retail location. 

The 2nd place winner will obtain $100 in Spoondollars.

The 2nd place winner of the East Fork: Butter & Piglet Design Problem will obtain a $100 Spoonflower credit score, one set of East Fork mugs in Butter and Piglet and one Spoonflower set of dinner napkins that includes their design.

The third place winner will obtain $50 in Spoondollars.

The third place winner of the East Fork: Butter & Piglet Design Problem will obtain a $50 Spoonflower credit score, one set of East Fork mugs in Butter and Piglet and one Spoonflower set of dinner napkins that includes their design. 

4th by tenth place winners will obtain a $20 Spoondollar credit score.

Remaining prime 10 designs of the East Fork: Butter & Piglet Design Problem will obtain a $20 Spoonflower credit score, one set of East Fork mugs in Butter and Piglet and one Spoonflower set of dinner napkins that includes their design.

Every of the highest 50 entries, decided as set forth above, not receiving one of many foregoing prizes shall be robotically proofed on the market within the Spoonflower Market (roughly a $5 worth) (the “Runner Up Prize”) if winners are verified sellers.