If you’re a current UAL student, submit examples of your work and you could be commissioned to design an exclusive wrapping paper for not just a shop.
Five students will be selected to work with not just a shop to create a range of UAL-exclusive wrapping paper that will only be sold online and will be used for our online gift-wrapping service. We’ll produce and manufacture the commissioned designs into the final printed wrapping paper.
Selected students will be assigned one of the following categories:
Current student studying at one of our Colleges on a BA, MA, PHD or FdA level course. Disciplines include but are not limited to: Graphic design, communication design, photography, painting, drawing, illustration, sculpture, animation
Upload your application by 10am, Monday 12 June 2023.
Examples of your work should be submitted as a PDF, Word document or JPEG. Maximum file size is 3MB.
Final commissioned designs will need to be an Illustrator, EPS or Tiff file.
Your work will be reviewed and selected based on the following:
For support on how to submit your portfolio or work with the best chance of selection, please read the full brief and guidance notes.
If you believe there are any barriers to your participation in this opportunity or you have any access requirements (not limited to disability), please get in touch in advance.
Please contact notjustashop@arts.ac.uk to start the discussion and see how you can be supported.
You’ll be paid via ArtsTemps for up to 10 hours of work on your commissioned gift wrap design:
You'll also get:
This commission is open to current students from all UAL colleges and courses (including international students)
You can submit one application per student. Each gift wrap design commission is to be completed by one student and not a collaborative effort
Examples/portfolio should clearly show the students art style and be representative of their work. If selected, students may be required to adapt their initial design ideas to increase suitability and commercial appeal (in agreement with the entrant)
Examples can be produced in any medium but must be submitted as a high-resolution digital image, collated into one PDF, a word document or JPEG (max 3MB)
The winning students will need to supply their gift wrap designs to not just a shop as an Illustrator, EPS or Tiff file and provide a short designer biography and profile image for the website
The intellectual property of examples of work/portfolios submitted but not selected will remain entirely with the students who created them
Examples of work/portfolio entered must be your own original artwork, of which you hold and will maintain the copyright to
Selected students will be paid for ten hours work, at task rate two, via ArtsTemps. This is equivalent to the production of up to fifty sheets of gift wrap. If we decide to print more, we will contact you to discuss further payment
The commissioned designs will be used across UAL marketing and advertising materials to promote not just a shop and future competitions. You will be credited whenever images of your gift wrap are used
Production of the gift wrap will be managed by not just a shop
The gift wrap will be produced as a UAL exclusive product. A credit line will be added to the design, we will send this over for the student’s approval
The gift wrap will be sold on the online shop only and be used to gift wrap customers' orders online
Proceeds from the sale of the gift wrap in not just a shop, will be reinvested into UAL’s Careers and Employability department, which provides free support for students and alumni.
Brought to you by the Careers and Employability department, not just a shop sells a diverse range of home, fashion and giftware – all created by those who studied at the University’s six leading arts colleges. Proceeds from the retail business are reinvested into UAL’s growing enterprise programme, which provides free talks, workshops, funding and one-to-one business advice for the University’s students and alumni.
The information you provide below will be collected by UAL in order to enter you into the not just a shop gift wrap commission and for your work to be considered for commission of UAL-exclusive gift wrap to be sold online in not just a shop and used for gift wrapping customer orders online (GDPR legal basis 6(1)(b) ‘necessary for...entering into a contract’). The personal data and designs of unsuccessful applicants will be deleted within 2 months of the application deadline.
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Please upload your portfolio or examples of your work.
You can upload a JPEG, Word, or PDF File. Please collate your work into one file.
If you're selected for a commission, your work will need to be an Illustrator, EPS or Tiff file.
The following information is being collected for UAL’s student and graduate self-employment monitoring. It has no impact on your application / booking and is not shared or verified with HRMC.
We are committed to being a diverse university and support equal opportunities for all. To help us monitor our progress in this area we would appreciate it if you complete the following information.
We will keep this information within our Careers and Employability department only, separate from your application record, and we will not share it with other teams or organisations.
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