Spark Wants You!
Student work is highly regarded around here. You are our future!

We offer two calendar opportunities for submissions:
Spark Spring/Summer Semester
Spark Fall/Winter Semester

An entry may be made in either competition or even both.

Register today and join the thousands of students who have Sparked!

To submit an entry please register or login HERE

Spark & Space Student Design Awards

Spark and the new SpaceAwards Student Design competitions are part of a series of exciting awards created to encourage great design and designers. We invite you to join the Spark Community and enter your best designs. Only students at university-level and their teachers may apply, from accredited universities, polytechnics, design or advanced trade schools. Come on in, join the fun! The next entry period is timed for design students with a great design to show the world.

The Spring and Fall/Winter Spark Student  Awards and new SpaceAwards/Student are our homes for student entries. They are for any discipline of design. This includes graphic design, product, user experience, motion, architecture, transport, interiors, medical and many others. This competition continues Spark’s mission, criteria and categories. All Spark events are international in scope and accept entries from all designers, everywhere.

Timeframe
Spark Student events are timed to facilitate entries from the main school semesters. That means we have a set of deadlines for both Spring and Fall semesters. (SpaceAwards/Student follows the Pro Design schedule.) Finalists from both competitions are judged by a live jury and winners chosen. Important notes: work may be entered that was created anytime during the last 24 months. Student entries must be provable via student ID or copy of degree to win a Spark.

Process
To begin your submissions, students must first register and select “Student” in the Entry Type dropdown list. This award is judged along the same lines as other Spark disciplines—same Criteria, website and registration system. Spark Student is entirely “virtual.” These competitions are entered and conducted online, over the Spark website. No physical designs are delivered to Spark.

And Always Include the Essentials:
Project Objective
Project Results
Project Background

It’s helpful to the judging process for you to define and identify the sub-category(s) for your entry. Please see the examples below. Point this out clearly at the beginning of your submission descriptions.

Click here for Student Design examples and category sub-types

PLEASE NOTE: THIS IS A STUDENT CATEGORY
So Spark needs you to enter the School you are submitting from. Not your design group, such as KDM+ or the Samsung Design Membership. (Those organizations can be listed second. Correct listing example: “HongIk University & Korean Design Membership +”). It is also a good idea to list your Advisor or Professor, after the Design Team names.

Questions?
Send us a note at the CONTACT page and—IMPORTANT—make sure to include: your name; your school or organization; the name of your design and your question.