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Archisource presents the fifth annual - free to enter - international drawing Awards
in partnership with Affinity
Our mission is to support and unite the creative community at all skill levels; we’re very excited to bring you the largest and most inclusive drawing Awards of its kind that celebrates the diverse creative talent around the world.
Delivering the Awards is only possible thanks to our partners who share our ethos for inspiring and empowering the creative community. We all very much look forward to seeing the diverse variety of creations and amazing imagery submitted to this year’s Awards.
With special thanks to Affinity and our Award Partners Chaos, Bentley’s MicroStation and LEUCHTTURM1917
and to ReMarkable, Tala and Vectorworks for supporting the Awards and to all our prize partners!
SHORTLISTED ENTRIES RECEIVE AFFINITY V2 UNIVERSAL LICENCE FOR FREE
The top 250 entrants shortlisted will receive Affinity V2 Universal Licence for free. The Affinity V2 Universal Licence, worth £159.99, includes Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity Publisher 2 for Mac, iPad and Windows PC
The award-winning graphic design, image editing and page layout software used by architects around the world
Affinity is the only creative suite offering vector graphic design, image editing and page layout fully integrated across Mac, iPad and Windows PC
Delivering accessible, lean, and collaborative functionality, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and Affinity Publisher 2 are being used by millions worldwide. Tailored to run optimally on the latest hardware and compatible with all major file types, Affinity’s speed, power and lack of bloat streamline your workflow, meaning you can do more, quicker.
Affinity is trusted by leading global architecture firms including Perkins & Eastman, HOK, Corgan, NORR, SCB, Quinn Evans, EUA, and MG2, in North America plus Schneider+Schumacher, Burckhardt+Partner, AS+P Albert Speer + Partner GmbH, Itten+Brechbühl AG, Broadway Malyan, Scott Brownrigg and Simpson Haugh in Europe.
Affinity is also being adopted widely in higher education, across disciplines including Architecture & Design to Science.
Archisource: “We are very excited to have teamed up with Affinity again for the fifth Drawing of the Year Awards. Affinity share our strong ethos for supporting creatives and we are thrilled that Affinity are offering V2 Universal Licence to all shortlisted entries for free. The aim of the Awards has always been to support and inspire the creative community and Affinity is helping us take that goal even further, generously giving access to their recently launched V2 suite of creative apps to the top submissions!
Affinity’s apps offer an incredible opportunity to access brilliant and powerful creative software at an affordable price. For us, Affinity is the perfect creative tool for students and professionals and we can’t wait to see what creatives make with their creative software!”
Supporting the Visualisation Award 2024
Chaos creates technology that empowers artists and designers to visualize anything they can imagine
Chaos empowers world-changing visualization
Chaos develops 3D visualization technology for architecture, engineering, construction, media and entertainment, product design and manufacturing, creating intuitive and powerful workflows for participants across the entire design spectrum.
In 2022 Chaos merged with Enscape and acquired Cylindo. The company's product portfolio includes V-Ray, a physically based renderer honored with an Academy Award® and an Engineering Emmy®; Enscape, a high-quality real-time rendering and virtual reality plugin; Corona, a high-performance photorealistic rendering engine; and Cylindo, a 3D furniture product visualization platform for commerce.
Chaos is now one of the largest global 3D visualization company and has more than 700 employees and offices in 9 countries. The Chaos ecosystem provides a connected suite of advanced tools and services for digital artists and designers.
For more information, visit chaos.com
Visualize as you design.
Fast & intuitive real-time visualization & workflow software.
Created for architects and AEC professionals, Enscape provides the fastest and easiest way to ideate, communicate, and showcase designs in real time at every step of the design process.
Visualization is everything.
Illuminate new worlds and ideas. Render anything you can imagine.
Chaos V-Ray is the world’s leading 3D rendering software for artists, architects, designers and jacks-of-all-trades.
Supporting the 2024 Digital Drafting Award
Bentley’s MicroStation
MicroStation is the instrument professionals rely on to design, model, and manage infrastructure.
It’s more sophisticated than a tool – it’s an accessible instrument that offers power, control, efficiency, and security. It excels at enabling innovative design and creative visualizations and consolidates critical project elements in a single environment for effective, secure project deliverables. It’s built to scale from the smallest to the largest of infrastructure projects that can span days, months, or years. And it’s the foundation that supports the entire Bentley modeling ecosystem.
• Interoperability – Work with native DGN and incorporate legacy data and file formats like DWG, and point-cloud data without conversions.
• Reliability – Work collaboratively on any size project without size restrictions, crashes, or complications, knowing your system will always be on.
• Visualization – Analyze and perform data visualizations on models based on their geometry or underlying attributes.
• Standards – We’re an industry standard which means your documentation is always standards compliant.
• Real Data – Design with accurate real-world context, automatically, with geospatial information from hundreds of systems.
For Students
Bentley Systems has also opened the doors to students who are considering a career in infrastructure and to those who like to explore the many options in this ever-changing industry. Get access to learning licenses of over 60 Bentley applications at no cost and grow from there! Register here
Supporting the 2024 Hand Drawn Award
We write and understand, learn, see, and think – with the hand. Writing by hand is thinking on paper. We allow our thoughts to run free. This empowers us to step back. The resulting distance helps us to objectively view plans and projects. By writing our thoughts down, we bring them to life. By putting our plans on paper, we increase the chances of actually putting them into practice. Make lists to hold control in your hand. Write down in order to let go. Draft a plan to analyse it. Take a rough thought and put it into words until an idea appears on the page! Writing things by hand is the method used by people who are intent on putting their ideas into practice. They’re your ideas, plans and projects. It’s in your hand!
Characterised by a love of the product, LEUCHTTURM1917 has developed a brand philosophy which is that everyone discovers and develops their character and their own ideas through writing by hand. The result of this conviction is the guiding principle of LEUCHTTURM1917: Thinking with the Hand.
Founded in the year 1917, LEUCHTTURM can now look back on over 100 years of experience in the manufacture of high-quality stationery. The family firm is now in its fourth generation, with Axel and Max Stürken managing this Hanseatic company since the 90s. We are guided by the idea of producing well thought-out notebooks and planners which meet our customers’ high standards of quality and are a pleasure to use. Characterised by a love of the product, functional details, outstanding quality and a wide range of colours, what LEUCHTTURM1917 stands for – above all – is a clear design language, which has won many awards.
PROUD SUPPORTERS OF THE AWARDS
Vectorworks, Inc. is an award-winning design and BIM software provider serving the architecture, landscape architecture and entertainment industries in 85 countries. Built with designers in mind since 1985, Vectorworks software offers you the freedom to follow your imagination wherever it leads you. Globally more than 685,000 users are creating, connecting and influencing the next generation of design with Vectorworks on Mac and Windows.
Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, with offices in the UK, Canada and Australia, Vectorworks is a part of the Nemetschek Group. Learn how you can design without limits at vectorworks.net
Built to showcase your skill and creativity, Vectorworks Architect allows you to sketch, model and document in a fully integrated workflow with the world’s most design-centric BIM solution. With superior 2D graphics, 3D modeling and visualization tools, Architect is built to deliver absolute creative expression and maximum efficiency. With enhancements that spark limitless creativity, Vectorworks Architect 2024 delivers comprehensive workflow solutions that automate processes, reduce risk and save time, including a modernized user interface, the ability to save custom viewport settings as styles and robust parametric objects redefined to address your specific needs. Empowering you to design without limits.
Tala
The creators of beautiful, sustainable lighting.
Tala create high-quality, sustainable LED lights for homes, offices and every space in between. Founded in 2015 by a team who believed great design was the fastest way to a low-carbon world. Since then Tala has become one of the leaders in design-led, sustainable lighting: proud to be creating lights that are gentle on the planet, make homes look great and make life feel brighter.
As designers we naturally want to create the best looking lights on the planet, but that’s just half the story. Through every product we make, we want to use the power of design to show how brilliant low-carbon living can be. The low energy revolution is happening. We’re proud to be leading the change.
Supporting the move to low-carbon, one light at a time.
reMarkable
Inspired by paper, reMarkable 2 is a tool for note-taking, reading, and annotating documents without digital distractions. reMarkable 2 has the ability to convert handwritten notes into text, along with options for organizing, sharing, annotating and searching documents - aimed at anyone who likes writing by hand, but wants to be able to reuse their work in their digital workflow. Based in Oslo, Norway, reMarkable is the leading innovator within the paper tablet category.
