Calendar of Events and Deadlines
FIT’s Spring 2022 Student Contests and Industry-Sponsored Projects
Stella & Dot Style Forward Student Contest
The Stella & Dot Style Forward Student Contest is a joint student competition held in partnership between
Stella & Dot and Fashion Institute of Technology. FIT Students are challenged to
create a jewelry collection that’s not only gorgeous and unique, but will ultimately
help Stella & Dot in their purpose to help women rise! (Note: No jewelry design experience is needed to apply!) Up to five students will be selected to team with Stella & Dot mentors to create
a capsule collection. In order to be able to participate in this competition, interested
students must fill out the Stella & Dot Style Forward Student Contest Student Consent Form and email their submissions to Professor Nicole Benefield. Submissions deadline is
April 4, 2021. For more information regarding the contest please contact student mentor
Professor Nicole Benefield at [email protected].
Stella & Dot Style Forward Student Contest Timeline
March 24, 2022 Presentation / Information Session (Recording)
April 4, 2022 Student Consent Forms and 1st round Submission Deadline
April 8, 2022 Finalists Selected
May 9, 2022 Contest Final Capsule Collection Due
May 20, 2022 Judging Day and Winners Announcement
FIT Foundation Holiday Postcard Competition
The FIT Foundation invites students to design the front of a postcard that the FIT Foundation will use
in alumni and donor outreach. Three winners will be selected by the Alumni Advisory
Council consisting of 10-15 alumni. Each winner will be awarded $500. The Contest’s
purpose is to create an opportunity for students to make their artwork more visible
to FIT alumni and donors. Student can enter the contest by filling out FIT Foundation Postcard Student Design Competition Rules and Student Consent Form and include their submission as an attachment at the bottom of the document. For
further information please contact Professor Michael Kaye ([email protected]), who is the student mentor overseeing the contest.
FIT Foundation Holiday Postcard Competition Timeline
February 1, 2022 Competition Start Date
February 10, 2022 Presentation / Information Session (Recording)
April 1, 2022 Student Consent Forms and Submission Deadline
Early May 2022 Judging Day
Late May 2022 Winners Announcement
Woolmark Performance Challenge
The Woolmark Performance Challenge is an annual competition for early career creative thinkers to develop innovative,
forward- thinking product solutions for the sports and performance market, by harnessing
the unique natural properties of Australian Merino wool. This challenge not only provides
a unique learning experience for participants, but also awards the finalists and winners
with opportunities for international travel, financial rewards, and potential for
career development. The 2022 challenge continues our focus on how we can ultimately
contribute to the long-term health of the planet, designing performance garments with
consideration for the outdoor environments they are created to be worn in. In order
to be able to participate in this challenge, interested students must fill out the
Spring 2022 Woolmark Performance Challenge Contest Rules and Student Consent Form. For further information please contact International Trade & Marketing Chair, Christine
Pomeranz ([email protected]), who is overseeing the contest.
Woolmark Performance Challenge Timeline
November 1, 2021 Competition Registration Start Date
February 15, 2022 Presentation / Information Session (Recording)
April 1, 2022 Submission Opens
May 18, 2022 Student Consent Forms and Submission Deadline
July 2022 Finalists Notified
November 2022 Judging Day and Winners Announcement
Constitution Day Postcard Competition
Students are asked to design the front and back of a postcard (3X5 or 4X6 inches)
that illustrates their beliefs about any part of the United States Constitution. They
can put anything they like on the front. The back must have two columns, like a typical
postcard; the left column should include a paragraph or two explaining the visual
statement on the front of the card, and the right column should leave room for an
address and stamp. In order to enter this competition, interested students must fill
out the Spring 2022 Constitution Day Postcard Contest Student Consent Form and include their submission as an attachment at the bottom of the document. Submission
deadline is March 31, 2022. For more information regarding the design of the postcard
please contract Professor Daniel Levinson Wilk at [email protected].
Constitution Day Postcard Competition Timeline
February 1, 2022 Competition Start Date
March 31, 2022 Student Consent Forms and Submission Deadline
April 2022 Judging Day
Late April 2022 Winners Announcement
FM 422 (Merchandise Strategies Capstone Project) The Children's Place Student Contest
This is a class project where senior students will create an innovative merchandise
strategy for The Children's Place. The project allows the students to think critically and analyze financially a retail
business. The students are then able to creatively consider a new strategy or idea
for the sponsor company. When the students graduate and transition to industry this
skill will be highly utilized. As a merchant or retail /wholesale executive creating
strategy is a highly coveted skill. This contest involves over 280 students across
all sections of FM 422 Merchandising Strategies course.
FM 422 Merchandise Strategies Capstone Project Timeline
March 23, 2022 6:00pm-7:30pm Presentation / Information Session
April 22, 2022 11:59pm Student Consent Forms Deadline
May 6, 2022 Final Projects Submission
Deadline
May 23, 2022 Judging Day and Winners
Announcement
Woolmark Performance Challenge
The Woolmark Performance Challenge is an annual competition for early career creative thinkers to develop innovative,
forward- thinking product solutions for the sports and performance market, by harnessing
the unique natural properties of Australian Merino wool. This challenge not only provides
a unique learning experience for participants, but also awards the finalists and winners
with opportunities for international travel, financial rewards, and potential for
career development. The 2022 challenge continues our focus on how we can ultimately
contribute to the long-term health of the planet, designing performance garments with
consideration for the outdoor environments they are created to be worn in. In order
to be able to participate in this challenge, interested students must fill out the
Spring 2022 Woolmark Performance Challenge Contest Rules and Student Consent Form. For further information please contact International Trade & Marketing Chair Christine
Pomeranz ([email protected]), who is overseeing the contest
Woolmark Performance Challenge Timeline
November 1, 2021 Competition Registration Start Date
February 15, 2022 Presentation / Information Session (Recording)
April 1, 2022 Submission Opens
May 18, 2022 Student Consent Forms and Submission Deadline
July 2022 Finalists Notified
November 2022 Judging Day and Winners Announcement
CM423 (Cosmetic and Fragrance Product Development Workshop)
CM423 (Cosmetic and Fragrance Product Development Workshop), where students develop
and implement strategies to create products in the cosmetics and fragrance industries.
Emphasis is on determining the need for new entries in the market and the interdepartmental
teamwork required to successfully launch a company's product. This semester FIT is
launching Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project. The COIL
project will give students the opportunity to collaborate with their peers studying
at Nottingham Trent University NTU as well as a live client brief from Aromatherapy Associates Inc. The project also provides students with international and intercultural experience
from within the classroom. The most successful companies innovate to foster competitive
advantage and discover new opportunities. The most innovative companies are collaborative.
Through this project students will develop their creative capabilities and further
develop their collaborative working skills.
IHG US Open Tennis Ball Dress Student Contest
The IHG US Open Tennis Ball Dress Student Contest is a joint industry-sponsored project
held in partnership between InterContinental Hotels Group and FIT’s School of Art & Design. The objective is to create a tennis ball dress
that will be on display and modeled throughout the 2022 US Open tennis tournament
drawing spectators to the designated IHG sponsor areas. The dress must be made by
incorporating tennis balls/ tennis ball material, be wearable by a model, and embraces
the IHG and US Open tennis tournament brand. For further information please contact
Professor Michael Kaye ([email protected]), who is the student mentor overseeing the contest.
IHG US Open Tennis Ball Dress Student Contest Timeline
March 24, 2022 1:00pm-2:00pm Presentation / Information Session (Recording)
April 25, 2022 11:59pm Due date for design/mood boards,
sketches, swatches and Student Consent Forms Deadline
May 3, 2022 Finalists Notified
July 25, 2022 5:00pm Complete Garments Submission Deadline
August 1, 2022 Judging Day and Winners
Announcement
Ceeze Bespoke Shoes Bootcamp
Ceeze is partneting with FIT on a three day intensive bespoke shoemaking bootcamp for 14
current FIT students who are enrolled in the footwear curriculum. The students will
get a crash course in shoe making, learn the processing of bespoke shoemaking and
leave the class with the knowledge of how to make a shoe along with their own pair
of custom shoes. Students will be selected from the AAS and BFA cohorts using a lottery
system. The first 14 students will be selected. 7 students from the AAS program and
7 students from the BFA program. A waiting list will be created in case any of the
14 selected students cannot commit to the program. For further information please
contact Professor Ellen Lynch ([email protected]), who is the student mentor overseeing the bootcamp.
Ceeze Bespoke Shoes Bootcamp Tentative Schedule
May 20 , 2022 11:59pm Due date for (Ceeze
Bootcamp COVID-19 Acknowledgement and Liability Waiver)
Day 1
May 20 , 2022 10:00am to 2:00pm Students work to decide the inspiration
behind their shoes creating a rough
moodboard and swatch selection of the materials they wish to use
May 20 , 2022 2:00pm to 2:30pm Students get a 30-minute break
to take lunch and catch a breath
May 20 , 2022 2:30pm to 6:00pm Students break down the shoes
supplied by Puma and develop their patterns and
start cutting the uppers needed for stitching
Day 2
May 21 , 2022 10:00am to 2:00pm Students work to complete the
cutting of their uppers and start transitioning to stitching
May 21 , 2022 2:30pm to 3:00pm Students get a 30-minute break
to take lunch and catch a breath
May 21 , 2022 3:00pm to 7:00pm Students work to complete the
stitching of their uppers (upper, liner) and sew on footbed
Day 3
May 22 , 2022 10:00am to 2:00pm Students focusing on wrapping
uppers, applying footbed and starting lasting process
May 22 , 2022 2:00pm to 2:30pm Students get a 30-minute break
to take lunch and catch a breath
May 22 , 2022 2:30pm to 5:00pm Students will take lasted uppers
and begin the soling process, ensuring completion by 5:30
May 22 , 2022 6:00pm to 7:00pm Content Capture: shoes are shot
as they are finished and group photos are taken
The Halston Challenge
The Halston Challenge aims to educate rising fashion designer students on the genius
of Halston the original designer and to further his legacy, and to illustrate and
style a small capsule collection of designs inspired by vintage Halston originals.
Influenced by the Halston Archives, the students are to develop, customize, style, reshape, and deconstruct the past,
bringing it into a contemporary sustainable context. In order to be able to participate
in this challenge, interested students must fill out the Spring 2022 Halston Challenge Student Contest Rules and Student Consent Form. For further information please contact either of the two student mentors overseeing the contest: Professor Michael Kaye ([email protected]) or Professor Steven Stipelman ([email protected]
The Halston Challenge Timeline
February 1, 2022 Competition Start Date
February 8, 2022 Presentation / Information Session (Recording)
March 15, 2022 Due date for design/mood boards, sketches, swatches and Student Consent Forms Deadline
March 17, 2022 Finalists Notified
April 18, 2022 Complete Garments Submission Deadline
April 20, 2022 Judging Day and Winners Announcement
Macy’s Flower Show Design Competition
The Macy’s Flower Show Design Competition is a joint industry-sponsored project held
in partnership between Macy’s and FIT’s School of Art & Design. FIT’s students from Fashion Design Program will
be challenged to design a garment that embodies the spirit of this year’s Flower Show.
A panel of judges from FIT’s Fashion Design Dept and Macy’s will select six winners,
including one grand prize winner. The six winning designs will be displayed on the
main floor of Macy’s Herald Square during the two-week event. In order to be able
to participate in this challenge, interested students must fill out the Spring 2022 Macy's Flower Show Industry-Sponsored Project Rules and Student Consent
Form. For further information please contact Professor Michael Kaye ([email protected]), who is the student mentor overseeing the contest.
Macy’s Flower Show Design Competition Timeline
February 1, 2022 Competition Start Date
February 3, 2022 Presentation / Information Session
February 17, 2022 Due date for design/mood boards, sketches, swatches and Student Consent Forms Deadline
February 18, 2022 Judging Day and Winners Announcement
March 22, 2022 Complete Garments Submission Deadline
March 24, 2022 Garments due to Macy's team for installation
March 27, 2022 Macy's Flower Show Opens
April 10, 2022 Macy's Flower Show Closes
New York Society of Renderers Student Rendering Design Contest
This contest is designed in conjunction with NYSR to highlight some of the more talented rendering students in the Interior Design
Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology. The contest promotes technical
excellence and creativity in the rendering of student's designs. The renderings can
be done in any media. Hybrid and hand rendering styles are encouraged. In order
to be able to participate in this challenge, interested students must fill out the
Spring 2022 New York Society of Renderers Student Rendering Design Contest Rules and
Student Consent Form. For further information please contact Professor Sven Johnson (s[email protected]), who is the student mentor overseeing the contest.
New York Society of Renderers Student Rendering Design Contest Timeline
February 1, 2022 Competition Start Date
February 28, 2022 Student Consent Forms and Submission Deadline
March 29, 2022 Judging Day and Winners Announcement
Supima Design Competition
America’s top design schools select one graduating senior to represent their respective
school as a finalist to compete in the Supima Design Competition for a $10,000 cash prize and exposure to fashion press, social media influencers
and fashion industry executives. Finalists are challenged to create a womens wear
capsule collection using premium SUPIMA cotton fabrics. Working with a prominent fashion
designer as mentor, students have the opportunity to learn what design elements translate
to the runway and what will resonate with the judges. A prestigious panel of judges
from the fashion and media world is charged with selecting a winner. Interested students
must fill out the 2022 Supima Design Competition Application. For further information please contact Professor Susanna Moyer ([email protected]), who is the student mentor overseeing the contest.
Supima Design Competition Timeline
March 17, 2022 Presentation / Information Session (Recording)
April 22, 2022 Due date for 2022 Supima Design Competition Application
Week of April 26, 2022 Selection Interviews
April 29, 2022 FIT selects/announces a finalist
Week of May 1, 2022 Orientation call with SUPIMA
Week of May 1, 2022 SUPIMA to provide sample fabrics
May 9, 2022 Due date for mood board, collection inspiration
and collection plan
May 16, 2022 Due date for first sketches and color story
June 27, 2022 Due date for final sketches and color story
July 8, 2022 Due date for gowns for muslin fitting
Week of July 25, 2022 SUPIMA to provide dyed fabrics
September 5-6, 2022 Final model fitting
September 8, 2022 Judging and New York Fashion Week Runway Show
October 2022 Fashion presentation in Paris
AD497 (Student Competition)
AD497 is an advertising design student competition course. This course involves students
with assignments from international advertising competitions. Entering student work
into these advertising creative competitions offers exposure to the individual students
and the FIT Advertising Design Program to the top national and international advertising
agencies. During the Spring 2022 semester students are participating in the following
industry competitions: The D&AD New Blood Student Competition, One Show Young Ones Student Competition, AKQA Future Lions, Collegiate Effie, Creative Conscience Awards and Lürzer’s Archive Student Contest.
GD361 (Design Competition)
GD361 is a communications design competition course. This course provides students
an opportunity to compete in national or international competitions. Just as students
gain valuable experience in real world competition environments, so too they expose
their creative work and the skills of students in the Fashion Institute of Technology’s
design programs to professionals in the country and around the globe. During the Spring
2021 semester students are participating in the following industry competitions: The D&AD New Blood Student Competition, Key Color Award, A' Design Award & Competition, Applied Arts 2022 Student Awards, Communication Arts Design Competition 2022, Model Young Package Design Competition, Creative Conscience Awards 2021/22, 2023 Typography Competition, EOSC Young Design Student Logo Contest, Caffè Diemme New Logo Creation, ADC 101st Annual Awards, Ecuador Poster Bienal 2022 Call For Posters, The Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) Design and Build 2022 Competition, 8th International Reggae Poster Contest, Woolmark Performance Challenge, Key Colors Award Childrens Book Competition Challenge, 17BICM Open Call, Poster Stellars 2nd Intercontinental Poster Competition, 2022 Pawleys Island Festival of Music and Art Poster Competition, 3x3 international illustration show no.19.
PK343 (Explorations in 3D Packaging Design)
PK343 challenges students to consider the transition of taking two-dimensional design
explorations into a three-dimensional representation. Experimentation with materials,
methods and technology are key components of this studio course. This year two external
contests are being offered as part of the class curriculum. During the Spring 2022
semester students are participating in the Paperboard Packaging Alliance (PPA) Student Design Challenge where students will choose a community relief organization and design packaging to
meet a need for that organization.
CFDA Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award for MF 531A (Special Topics: Fashion
in TRANS-FORMLATION)
MF 531A (Special Topics: Fashion in TRANS-FORMLATION), is a credit bearing class designed
to introduce students in FIT’s Fashion Design (MFA) program to the complexity of customer
and brand communications with a particular focus on the impact of translation, and
miss-translation, of various English regional dialects, accents, and slang. This year
students taking the class will participate in CFDA Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award (The Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award is a $25,000 Scholarship Award for
Graduate students pursuing an MFA/ MA in fashion design. In honor of the legacy of
American design iconoclast, Geoffrey Beene, the scholarship invites students to challenge
conventional codes of dressing the body by exploring 360 shape + form, materiality,
and innovation. Established in 2007, the scholarship is generously underwritten by
the Geoffrey Beene Foundation’s $2.5 million donation) which is being offered as part
of the class curriculum.
CFDA Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award Timeline
March 2022 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award Digital Portfolio
and Application Submission
April 2022 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award Selection
of Finalists
May 2022 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award Selection Committee
Presentations and Q+A.
June 2022 CFDA Geoffrey Beene Design Masters Scholar Award Selection Committee
final decision and winner notification
MF522 (Fashion CreationII: Elective Connect) MimakiUSA Student Contest
MF522 (Fashion CreationII: Elective Connect), is a credit bearing class that allows
for further exploration in relation to the individual student's thesis. It has two
core projects, both of which use the work done in the elective spaces as a starting
point for design of two 12-look collections. One look from each collection will be
fully realized in materials informed by the data collected in the elective spaces.
This year students taking the class will participate in MF522 (Fashion CreationIII:
Elective Connect) MimakiUSA Student Contest where MimakiUSA will sponsor all the first year MFA students for spring 2021 Fashion Creation 2 class.
Mimaki will provide printing services, quantity of 5 yards, to each student to create
one garment. One student will be selected to win sponsorship for printing of their
senior thesis collection for term Fall 2022- Spring 2023. Students will gain real-world
experience in how to put an original print design into work with a digital printing
service and then realize an actual garment utilizing the print.
MF522 (Fashion CreationIII: Elective Connect) MimakiUSA Student Contest Timeline
February 14, 2022 Mimaki Introduction & Review of Student Print Design Concept
February 25, 2022 Due date for sample files and print request forms
March 1, 2022 Student Consent Forms and Submission Deadline
March 7, 2022 Student Sample Prints Review
March 14, 2022 Due date for final print files and print request forms
March 30, 2022 Students receive final 5 yd. prints from Mimaki
May 23, 2022 Final garment due made in printed fabric. Final presentation
with Mimaki representatives, class, and class professors
ED523 (Exhibition Design for the Museum Setting) Justice and Community Exhibition
Project
This educational project is a joint collaboration between Exhibition and Experience
Design MA Department and The National Justice Museum. The student objective of this project is to undertake the subject of utilizing
content and collections as determined by the museum so as to understand how exhibits
are developed and physically interpreted within a museum exhibition environment. Students
will be responsible for adhering to all rules and requirements of a museum venue,
developed by the faculty instructor in collaboration with the The National Justice
Museum.
ED523 Justice and Community Exhibition Project Timeline
February 9, 2022 Virtual site visit to the The National Justice
Museum
March 16, 2022 Midpoint concept designs are submitted for
museum's review and comments
May 4, 2022 Final virtual design presentations to
museum project team
ED531 (Presentation Techniques) Deckle and Moneypenny Project
Deckle and Moneypenny will partner with FIT Graduate Exhibition & Experience Design Department to generate
a design project based upon the actual event and show room space designed for one
of their past clients. It will be a conceptual project for an experience design for
GE co-creation space in CT. Students will be responsible for adhering to all rules
and requirements of the venue, developed by the instructor in collaboration with Deckle
and Moneypenny. They will also obtain a working knowledge of logistics and budget
allocations within the venue. Students will engage in strategic planning and conceptual
development for this exhibit design to advance brand recognition, visitor flow and
create a positive and memorable experience. The concept design will include lighting,
print and digital media design, including interactive opportunities for the visitor.
This involves creating opportunities for visitors to have a learning experience and
engage in activities that enhance the visitor experience.
ED523 Deckle and Moneypenny Project Timeline
February 1, 2022 Introductory Project Presentation
March 8, 2022 Midpoint Presentation
April 26, 2022 Final Concept Design Presentation
ED542 (Exhibition Design Graphics) Museum of the Moving Image
ED 542 explores graphic design communication systems, including graphic identity and
program development. Imagery and typographic solutions, with an emphasis on two- and
three-dimensional design development, are covered. This class project was developed
in collaboration with the Museum of the Moving Image. The objective of this project is to introduce students to wayfinding and signage
design through the proposal of concepts for wayfinding signage and related components
for a client. Working with the client representatives, students will first document
the types of existing signage, and create a graphic signage and wayfinding design
package.
ED542 Museum of the Moving Image Project Timeline
March 14, 2022 Introductory Project Kick Off Meeting
April 11, 2022 Midpoint Presentation
May 9, 2022 Final Concept Design Presentation
Constitution Day Postcard Competition
Students are asked to design the front and back of a postcard (3X5 or 4X6 inches)
that illustrates their beliefs about any part of the United States Constitution. They
can put anything they like on the front. The back must have two columns, like a typical
postcard; the left column should include a paragraph or two explaining the visual
statement on the front of the card, and the right column should leave room for an
address and stamp. In order to enter this competition, interested students must fill
out the Spring 2022 Constitution Day Postcard Contest Student Consent Form and include their submission as an attachment at the bottom of the document. Submission
deadline is March 31, 2022. For more information regarding the design of the postcard
please contract Professor Daniel Levinson Wilk at [email protected].
Constitution Day Postcard Competition Timeline
February 1, 2022 Competition Start Date
March 31, 2022 Student Consent Forms and Submission Deadline
April 2022 Judging Day
Late April 2022 Winners Announcement