Announcing the 2022 Open House Festival Poster Competition
DEADLINE EXTENDED: 12pm (midday) Thursday 16th June
The 2022 Open House is a celebration of London's architecture and neighbourhoods, and the people and communities behind them. For two weeks in September buildings and neighbourhoods open for the public to explore and learn about for free. Open House Festival is created year on year because through learning about places, communities and histories outside our usual experience we grow in empathy and understanding of others and the world.
This year, marking its 30th anniversary, the Open House Festival will working to make the festival a truly city-wide celebration of London, Londoners and the city’s architecture.
Every year, we print and send posters out to all of the buildings and events that take part in the festival. This year the winning poster will be featured in our London-wide tube campaign, appearing at 28 stations across the network. We also use the same design for our digital marketing across our social media, website and newsletters. The online versions will be shared across a number of online networks.
Brief - design an A2 poster based on the theme of ‘Neighbourhood’.
We are are organising the festival around the idea of the neighbourhood, opening up pockets of the city and championing being able to explore a home, a community garden, places of worship, a school and a factory, all within a short walk of each other. We want our 2022 poster to show what makes a neighbourhood.
First prize: your design printed on our tube and poster campaigns PLUS £250
Four runners up: free copy of our upcoming publication London Feeds Itself
Your design must include:
the Open City key logo at the bottom of the design (more logos may need to be added at a later stage so room along the bottom should be reserved for this)
Include the wording ‘Open House Festival’ in a legible text
Dates for this year’s event: 8-21 September
promote cycling and walking during the festival
Note: the final poster design may need to be adjusted slightly in accordance with design templates and additional print formats, you will collaborate on this so the final design will still be of your own creation.
Please email your design as a PDF to openhouse@open-city.org.uk including ‘Open House Festival Poster Competition’ in the subject
Entries close 12pm (midday) Thursday 16th June 2022
You can see some examples of last year’s shortlist below or in our 2021 Evaluation Report
