THE GOLDSMITHS' COMPANY SILVERSMITH- ING AWARD

THE GOLDSMITHS’ COMPANY SILVERSMITH-
ING AWARD
SPONSORED BY: THE GOLDSMITHS’ COMPANY

BACKGROUND
We are all feeling the burden of the COVID epidemic and the consequent cancellations of many of our
usual activities. In spite of these set-backs we wish to respond by offering an opportunity to this year’s
community of graduates in Jewellery and Silversmithing. Despite the challenges we all currently face
New Designers and The Goldsmiths’ Centre are seeking to make awards in both jewellery and silver-
smithing. To that end, this year we are inviting graduating students to submit their ideas to the follow-
ing brief:

THE BRIEF
Creativity, craftsmanship and community are at the heart of the Goldsmiths’ Centre. We invite you to
submit a brief on the theme of “Community”. We want submissions to be highly creative, thought pro-
voking and which trigger discussion and debate against a backdrop of unprecedented change in cultur-
al and current events. Your entry should consider and reference the functionality of the final piece(s).

PRIZE
The lucky winner will receive:
•   One-week of work experience in a professional jewellery workshop at the Goldsmiths’ Centre. You
    will spend your week one-on-one with a master craftsperson focusing on your own work. You will
    leave having spent time at the bench learning or developing practical skills which will support the
    production of your work.
•   A bursary of up to £500 towards living expenses is available to support you for your work experi-
    ence week in London
•   A place on Getting Started 2020: Getting Started is a one-week introduction to business course for
    30 of the most talented UK designer-makers who have graduated from a certificated Precious Metal
    course in the last five years. The course will run from Monday 11 – Friday 15 January 2021.
•   The Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office is offering all students a Laser AND Punch Hallmarking

Package for free. This means you can choose whether to have your hallmark applied by laser or
    punch each and every time you send your work to us. (Usually a student registration is only laser
    registration). This unrivalled package comprises a 10-year registration and laser software set-up in
    preparation for laser hallmarking.*
•   Free access to the Goldsmiths’ Company Library and its resources, as required, to support your
    research and design development now and in the future.
*There are no cash or credit alternatives to this promotion. Sponsor’s punches will only be created upon receipt
of the first packet of work. Punches take up to 3 weeks to create so the first packet of work may be delayed to allow
for this. Subsequent packets will be processed as normal. Sponsor’s punches will remain the property of the
Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office and will, at all times, be retained on site.

CRITERIA
•   Creativity and response to the brief.
•   The quality of research and source material submitted.
•   Evidence and demonstration of design development.
•   Strength of visual communication skills, including presenting a focused narrative for your design
    concept/s.
•   The demonstration of technical awareness and knowledge of appropriate making processes.
•   Submission of artist’s statement, costing and production methodology.

SUBMISSION
Your entry must include the following pages and submission requirements. Please ensure you under-
stand and complete all requirements. Any entry without all completed requirements will not be consid-
ered:
•   Research / Inspiration Sheet(s): Be clear what inspires you and how. Where images are used, work
    by the entrant or other sources to be clearly credited
•   Design Development Sheet(s): Annotations should be used to indicate your design development
    from inspiration to final design. Include images of samples or models
•   Technical Drawings: Piece(s) should be drawn to scale and include dimensions of the piece(s).
    The judges would like to see the piece from different angles, including top, side and if relevant an
    exploded view
•   Explanatory Final Design Sheet: Use this page to present your final design appropriately. Draw at-
    tention to specific details such as mechanical properties, descriptions of movement or anything
    which requires further explanation. Please explain clearly which materials will be used and the pro-
    cesses that will be carried out to create the piece
When you submit your final design please ensure the following:
•   Submissions to be a maximum of six sheets.

All awards submissions must be emailed to NDAWARDS@UPPERSTREETEVENTS.CO.UK
Please make sure you carefully read our Terms and Conditions before submitting your work and only
send one email per application.
If your file size is too large to send via email you may use the file transferring site wetransfer.com

You must include the below information within the email in this format (whether sending via email or
wetransfer.com) for your submission to be valid:
NAME
UNIVERSITY
COURSE
UNIQUE ID NUMBER (these have been sent to your course leader and are the way we will validate your
entry)
AWARD ENTERED
TITLE OF PROJECT
**Please note NDAWARDS@UPPERSTREETEVENTS.CO.UK is an unmonitored inbox and we will
not be responding to queries sent to this address.

Rules for Entering
Presented by Upper Street Events, Organisers of New Designers

Rules and Terms of Entry into the Virtual Competition 2020
In addition to the specific requirements of each competition category, the following rules and regula-
tions are common to all:

1. The submission deadline is 23.59 on Friday 14th August 2020. Entries received after the closing date
will not be considered.

2. One submission per designer may be entered into each category

3. Designers can enter multiple award categories.

4. The submission for each category must be individual to that brief. The same project can not be en-
tered into multiple categories.

5. All entrants must be aware that through their participation, both the organisers(Upper Street Events
Ltd) and the award sponsor will have the right to utilise photographs of the work within their own pro-
motional publications and digital platforms, approved publications or within magazines and newspa-
pers. Occasionally, work may be also seen on television. Where possible, the artist will receive full
credit. Entrants shall retain the copyright in the work but shall grant to New Designers, and all of the
websites, social media sites and other businesses run by Upper Street Events Ltd, a free and unlimited
license to use, edit and reproduce your picture in our products and marketing.

12. The work submitted must have been generated by the person entering the project.

13. All entries must be made via the official process outlined on newdesigners.com, alternative forms
of entry will not be accepted.

14. The judges’ decision is final.

15. The promotion is subject to the laws of England.

16. The promotion is open to final year students of qualifying educational institutions participating in
the New Designers Awards only. A unique code ID (provided to students by their educational institu-
tion) must be provided by each entrant or the entrant’s submission will not be considered.

17. Upper Street Events Ltd will process the personal data of entrants in accordance with the Immedi-
ate Media Privacy Policy, which can be access via www.immediate.co.uk/privacy.