Website: UrbanOutfitters.com
Deadline: May 29 2013
Prize: There will be 5 identical prizes of $1000 Cash + $250 Urban Outfitters gift card + Winning designs will be produced by Urban Outfitters and sold in select stores in the US & online at UrbanOutfitters.com + Item will have a custom swing tag featuring the designer’s name + A trip to New York for an exclusive launch party

Website: Avery Dennison Emerging Fashion Brand Award
Deadline: May 26 2013
Prize: 12,000 Euro
For this year’s WGSN Global Fashion Awards the world’s leading apparel branding solutions provider Avery Dennison/Retail Branding and Information Solutions has teamed up with Arts Thread to find and promote the next new global fashion brand.

Dates: June 02-05 2013
Location: Earls Court 2, London
Arts Thread is the official online portfolio website for Graduate Fashion Week and we will be at the show to help the graduates find jobs or advise them how to start their own business.

Latest show posts from our blog:
Never Seeing Nothing, LCC MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography 2013
ICFF13: Negative Space, Konstfack
Diversity Now Finalists: Zines
Diversity Now Finalists: Photography
Milan13: University of Art and Design Basel FHNW

Deadline: May 31 2013
Prize: First prize £1000, Second Prize £750, Third Prize £500. All three winners will be considered for work experience at Pentland headquarters in London.
ARTS THREAD has partnered with the Churchill Centre and the Pentland Group. To enter the Winston Churchill Design Competition register and upload your entry on ARTS THREAD.

Just Started or looking to start your own creative business?
ARTS THREAD is an Official Delivery Partner of the Start-Up Loans Company – a UK government-backed initiative to help young people start their own business along with FREE mentoring support to help them succeed.

ARTS THREAD’s simple guide to the best avatar and profile imagery to promote your graduate portfolio and to promote yourself on social networking sites.

Helen Stevens, founder of surface design brand Surfacephilia, and social media enthusiast, talks us through how to start using social media to market your new business.

Although you may not think you need a business plan yet and feel it’s only for larger-scale businesses, as you will see below, it is an essential tool to starting any business.

ARTS THREAD’s simple guide to the CV – what should be in it and how to write it to maximise your chances of getting that dream job.