Name of the Event: Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition 2024
Mode: Online
Last Date of Application: 11 June 2024
Link to Apply:
The China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF) has announced that a new edition of its Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition is open to entries from 29 March to 11 June 2024.
The Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition is an international illustration contest held annually as part of the China Shanghai International Children’s Book Fair (CCBF), with the support of the Shanghai Press and Publication Administration. Since its creation in 2015, the competition has been providing a venue for emerging illustrators to showcase their talent. It aims to build bridges between them and children's publishers, both locally and globally. In so doing it has given fresh life to China's children's book industry. The Golden Pinwheel is not merely a standalone competition—it is a comprehensive programme that includes exhibitions, an illustrated yearbook and a variety of promotional campaigns.
Since 2023, the organising committee has launched a new category—Commercial, in addition to the original submission category—Book Publishing, so as to encourage illustrators to demonstrate their commercial value through diversified forms of artistic expression, and to promote communication and cooperation with brands and advertisers.
In the last edition, after a two-month submission campaign, the competition received an amazing number of artworks—13,508 pictures created by 2,582 artists from 79 countries and territories.
Eligibility & Requirements
Eligibility
To compete, illustrators must be between 16 and 39 years of age (born between 1 January 1985 and 31 December 2008).
Regardless of nationality, professional illustrators, art school students, and other illustration enthusiasts may all enter the competition free of charge.
Entries may be sent by individual artists, advertisers, schools, associations and other third-party organisations. The above third-party organisations shall be authorised by the illustrators themselves.
Publishing houses who wish to enter artworks on behalf of an illustrator are allowed to submit only artworks selected from an original title from their own catalogue.
Categories and Entry Requirements
The Golden Pinwheel Young Illustrators Competition has two categories: Book Publishing and Commercial. Participants can choose to participate in either category or participate in both categories at the same time, but only one work can be submitted for each category.
The competition does not accept any work created or modified by AI (artificial intelligence).
Illustrations previously submitted to the Golden Pinwheel are not eligible for re-entry.
Submission Procedure
The only official channel for registration and submission is the CCBF official website www.ccbookfair.com. Please fill in the registration form and submit your work online. All hand-drawn illustrations must be scanned in high-definition.
Entries must meet the following criteria:
Format: JPG or PNG
Size: less than 20MB for each image
Resolution: 300 DPI or above
PowerPoint presentation slides: size less than 50MB
Video: format acceptable for MP4, MPEG, AVI, MOV, MPG, and size less than 500MB
Competition Schedule
Entry submissions: 29 March–11 June 2024
Finalists announcement: 5 September 2024
Award-winners announcement: 15-17 November 2024
We are not the official organisers of the event. If you have any queries regarding the event, kindly contact the organisers at - ccbf.goldenpinwheel@bfchina.net