Submission Criteria:
—Designers should be working in Ireland or can be Irish working overseas.
—Work should be the designer’s own, with all contributors and collaborators credited accordingly and with consent.
—Work must respond to a professional brief, approved and made public by a client/commissioner. (Self-initiated work is welcome, but it must have been legitimately publicly distributed to an audience.)
—Work must have been completed in 2024, and submitted by Jan 31, 2025.
—The 100 Archive is open to all career levels and clients. We embrace diverse communication design projects, and all types of outputs and media will be considered!
We also work with the National Library of Ireland to select 10 suitable digital projects from our annual selection for preservation, so they can be viewed and referenced by future generations. Another reason to submit your work to 100 Archive!
So if it's you're first time submitting work to 100 Archive, this quick FAQ should help you out:
Am I eligible to submit?
If you are a designer, of any nationality, living and working in Ireland, or an Irish designer living and working anywhere else in the world and you're working in the broad field of communication design, you are eligible to submit.
Is student work eligible?
Work made for a college brief and assessed is not eligible for entry to the 100 Archive. So if you got a mark for it, we're afraid we won't accept it. However, there are a few scenarios where a student can submit work they've made. One is a college brief for a public or commercial client which was NOT assessed or marked. Another example is work that you developed during your time in college which you then published or made commercially available subsequent to your studies—such as a typeface you designed in college which you put on sale afterwards. The last example is where you might happen to be a student but you're also working commercially or making work purely for public consumption alongside your studies. Work you did for a client, a community group, or a friend that was made public in 2024 is more than welcome.
Can I include a web link in my project submission?
Web links can be included ONLY where you're linking to a website that constitutes all or part of the project you are submitting. So for example, if you're submitting the design of a company’s website, include a link to http://www.thatcompany.ie. DO NOT include a link to http://www.myportfolio.com/thatcompany as that will give away your identity during the assessment process. We also shouldn’t need it: your submission should provide everything we need to assess the project.
How are submissions assessed and how is the 100 Archive Selection made?
Your work is first assessed by our Professional Panel. If three or more panel members give it a thumbs up the project becomes live on the site. After the annual deadline passes, the Professional Panel complete their assessment and our Archive Panel then begin their selection process, where each panellist creates a shortlist of 100–150 projects. The final 100 projects are those in receipt of the most votes from the Archive Panel, with two exceptions:
— No designer or studio can have more than five pieces selected for the Archive in any given year. In cases where someone has more than five pieces selected by the Archive Panel, the designer/studio in question decides which five pieces will be included
— In cases where there are more selections than spaces in the Archive, the decision as to what is included is made by taking into account the nature of the work being considered and the year of the Archive. For example, is the work similar or quite different to the other work in the Archive, or is it especially reflective of life/culture in the year in question, does it add to the diversity of the work in the Archive...?
When will I find out if I'm successful?
If your work is approved by the Professional Panel it is immediately published to the website. You will no longer see it as 'Pending' under 'Projects' when logged in. Instead, it will be visible in the main Projects section on the 100 Archive. Each annual selection is announced in spring/summer, so keep an eye on 100 Archive's website and social channels to find out when we will reveal the 2024 Selection...
But wait, how do I actually submit a project?
All of the nitty-gritty details on submitting work from pricing to file formatting can be found here.
And remember, the deadline is January, 31st 2025!
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