Sketchbook Collective
What is the Sketchbook Prize?
The Sketchbook Prize celebrates and accentuates processes undertaken by each individual as part of the Degree Show. It highlights the methodologies, innovative ideas, the importance of process, experimentation, discovery and development and aims to evoke further thoughts, possibilities and generate responses from visitors to the shows. Founded in 2017 by a collective of multi-disciplinary international MA students at Manchester School of Art, the Sketchbook Prize offers a creative platform for designers, artists, architects and makers to display their thinking process. The Sketchbook Collective has invited current Manchester School of Art students, members of staff, members of the public, teachers and young people from the region to submit their sketchbooks. Submissions have been welcomed from across all disciplines and levels, open to all formats of sketchbooks: physical, digital, three dimensional, or however designers and artists’ have kept their personal ‘book’.
Categories:
This year’s submissions have been divided into six categories, with the addition of the Collaborative Sketchbook:
- The least “Sketchbook” Sketchbook
- Documentation: Thinking in a Sketchbook
- Working in 3D
- Digital Sketchbook
- Sketchbook as an art piece
People’s Choice
People’s Choice Prize is new for 2020. Every submission to each category has been entered for the people’s choice. The Collective included this new category as a way to involve their audience and expand the judging process to creatives across Greater Manchester.
Cass Art
Cass Art has supported the Sketchbook Prize since its very first year in 2017 and has continued to help in securing prizes to the winners of the competition and supporting the Manchester School of Art creative student community.
