The 2010 awards ceremony celebrated the fifth year of the Northern Design Competition. The ceremony is available to view below:

The Northern Design Competition plays an important role in creating and sustaining links between education and commerce in the creative sector. It provides entrants with a real opportunity to showcase their work in a competitive environment where it will be judged by professionals and exhibited to future employers.

The competition is at the heart of a new network in the North. It provides greater access to communication between the existing and future leaders of creative arts outside of London and opens up new and vital collaborative opportunities between business, education and the wider community.

The Northern Design Competition is inspired by the vision of Leeds Met Governor, Maurice Miller. It is a competition that rewards talented students across the north of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for their work in the creative arts. There are three short-listed finalists in each category who will be invited to attend a special awards event to receive their prize. Last years event (shown above) was presented by the BBC’s Harry Gration. 

After finishing degrees in the North many graduates move south to the Capital in search of work in the creative industries. These awards act a mechanism to promote the aptitude of northern students at all levels of post 16 education and seek to demonstrate the value of the northern design industry. The awards started over five years ago and since then the Northern Design Competition has expanded at an astonishing rate. The 2010 competition welcomed thousands of entries, all of which were of an exceptionally high standard.