design-a-wallpaper competition

The brief

The brief is as simple as it gets really. Wallpaper is one of the most fantastic mediums available to the interior designer. How would you use this medium to best effect? Wallpapers conventionally are 52cm wide with a repeat of 64cm, but feel free to challenge us.

The prize

See your wallpaper manufactured into a finished product under our Best of British brand. If good enough we will look at the commercial opportunities, and possibility of PR-ing both the design and you. Not a bad way to promote your career – plus a £1,000 prize money.

Last years winning design by Andy Magee, has now been produced and available internationally. You will also see his design featured as part of G&B marketing over the next 12 months in publications such as Elle Decoration, idFX, FX and Blue Print to name but a few.

Closing date

This years competition is now closed for entries. We would like to thank all those who have contributed.

Short listed entries will be informed by 19th November with the winner announced on the 22nd November at the Make – Me / Buy Me launch in Preston.

The company and the sponsor

Graham and Brown is the UK's leading wallpaper manufacturer, based in Blackburn but with operations in the US, France, Canada, Holland, Poland and Russia. The company celebrated it's 60th birthday last year, and put its success down to being innovative and constantly investing in design, which is why designers as diverse as Wayne Hemingway, Julien Macdonald, Laurence Llewyelyn-Bowen and Linda Barker all want to work with us.

Last years competition

Click here to see last years winning entry >>

Jason Doignie, Inner-City-Living's Director and the man behind the competition, is delighted with its success so far:

"This works really well as a competition with getting new designers linked with regional manufactures helping to bring new products to the market, and one of the reasons that Graham and Brown are at the forefront of their industry by continually investing in new talent. Anyone based in the Northwest can enter and there’s a real chance that winning the competition can put a designer on the map, as has happened for Andy. It's proved to be a very successful combination: Arts Council England’s funding of Inner-City-Living and the Design to Manufacture initiative has enabled us to develop and manage the competition, and Graham & Brown's sponsorship has made the prize something really worth striving for."