Members’ Design Challenge

The DACA Members’ Design Challenge encourages original design in any medium, using a photograph as inspiration for a piece of work.

Members can take part in two ways

• by submitting a photograph to consideration as the image for the challenge;
• by submitting a piece of work, based on the source image, for display at our Showcase event.

Each year, DACA members are invited to submit photographs for consideration.  The image can be colour, monochrome, an abstract image, a pictorial image – anything that may encourage original design and a bit of lateral thinking.   The committee will select an image that will challenge and inspire members.  It’s then up to members to interpret the image in any way they choose.  The work can be in any medium and can take any element of the photograph as inspiration – this might reference the shapes in the image, the colour, the subject matter – there are no rules.

The Design Challenge is exclusively for DACA members.   Find out more about membership here.

The photo for the Members’ Design Challenge 2024 is Rhinefield Trees by Jayne Lucas.   Our thanks to Jayne for allowing us to use this image for the 2024 Challenge.

We look forward to seeing how members interpret this image.  As a member, you are invited to submit your work to be part of the Design Challenge display at Showcase 2024 by completing the print & post application form MDC entry form 2024.    There will be no charge for entering your work (one item only per member) for this display.

If you are not a DACA member, you are welcome to use the image as inspiration; any work produced may be entered into the Showcase judged competitions, paying the standard entry fee.  Please credit the photographer as inspiration for your work.