Keep an Eye Young Designer Grant
The Keep an Eye Foundation partnered with the Dutch Design Foundation to help you designers realize their ambitions. With this award the Keep an Eye Foundation wants to transform promising ideas into tangible projects: applying a patent, developing concepts, producing and marketing designs and prototypes. Winning alumni are presented during the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven.
Dutch Design Foundation Masterclass
These (online) masterclasses, organised by the Dutch Design Foundation, will be centered around two pillars: Inspirator and Matchmaker.
The Keep an Eye Academy prepares attendees for (a.o.) Dutch Design Week. Experienced professional designers give masterclasses and a keynote speaker will motivate the participants and give them tools to be able to give the best presentation of their work.
Keep an Eye Graphic Design workshops
The art of communicating through images; that is graphic design. In a time of overwhelming amounts of information, it is important to have good ‘translators’ who are able to present this information or important messages in a meaning matter to a broad audience. To stimulate starting designers and bring them together to exchange ideas, the Keep an Eye partnered with Graphic Matters. This festival takes place every two years in Breda, but in the meanwhile the team works on organizing various activities throughout the country. The Keep an Eye will enable annual workshops in which a selection of promising young designers can develop their visual language under the supervision of an expert in their field. The results will be presented during the festival or through other channels.
Blind Walls Gallery Open Call
With the Open Call, Blind Walls Gallery is offering eight makers the chance to create a mural under the guidance of experts. One final winner will be allowed to create a public mural in the summer. This is a paid assignment in Breda’s public space, the mural will be included in Blind Walls Gallery’s collection. So the winner will get a place among international professionals!
More and more often, you see large murals popping up in Dutch cities. Some call it graffiti, others street art. Blind Walls Gallery calls it ‘muralism’. A form of street art that is preceded by a complex design process. Besides making paintings, talent development is a spearhead of Blind Walls Gallery. The annual Open Call provides an opportunity to spot new talent, encourage involvement and promote knowledge sharing. In addition, the Open Call makes the discipline accessible to makers without a graffiti background. As a result, the project contributes to a more equal gender ratio in the scene.
