ALASKA DESIGN FORUM
Design Challenge for the 2021 Season

Match by Design

What is Match by Design?

Match by Design is a memory card game for the visually inclined. It consists of a deck of 50 pairs of matched thematic images.  

Match by Design is a fun tool to keep the eye sharp while on the hunt for perfectly matched pairs. It is a game that trains the mental agility and acumen of players while showcasing talents of the local design community through the images selected. The inaugural set, the Role of Play Edition, will consist of the chosen 50 submissions from the Design Challenge. It will be expandable via additional editions and bonus packs in the future.

The Challenge

Match by Design is open to all, regardless of design/professional background. Submissions can be from individuals or teams. An individual/ team may make up to 10 submissions.

High-quality submissions of images/artwork that represents the Role of Play in relationship to Alaska are encouraged. Participants in Match by Design are permitted to work in whatever medium they feel is best suited to their skillset and interests. For example, your medium of choice may be (but is not limited to), the following: hand-drawing, photoshop, photography, product design, model making, sculpture, or vector-works. Just keep in mind that the final product will be a 2-dimensional card that will play in a deck with other images representational of the Role of Play in Alaska.

Ideas to Ponder

  • What does Play in Alaska mean to you?

  • What image represents Play in Alaska?

  • When you think of the role that Play in Alaska “plays” in your everyday life – what comes to mind?

  • When was the last time you felt playful? What were you doing?

  • What image/ artwork would evoke Play in Alaska to you?

  • What one would you want to snatch up first in a memory card game?

Match by Design Submission Requirements

  1. All artwork needs to be square.

  2. All submissions must be high quality, uncompressed images.

  3. Resolution: 1200 x 1200 pixels. (*Please note the image will bleed to the edge of your card and 0.125” around the perimeter will not be visible.)

  4. In submitting an image, the artist(s) grants the Alaska Design Forum unrestricted permission to the rights to use the image in the Match by Design card game and for promotional and/or fundraising use for the Alaska Design Forum in the future.

  5. The artist will be credited – please include your name, your city, and your profession. (For example, Jane Doe, Anchorage, Painter or John Doe, Juneau, Student.)

 

Match by Design End Product

  • The selected artwork will be printed as 2.75” square playing cards presented in a custom rigid card box.

  • All individuals/or team of the selected “artwork” will receive 2 sets of the Match by Design card game - one set for their own play and one set to give as a gift.

  • The 50 selected images will be chosen blind by the ADF Board Members & Committee Volunteers. They will individually rank all submissions to determine the collectively top-ranked 50 images representative of the Role of Play in Alaska.

  • The selected images will be announced in an event First Friday, Oct. 1st to kick-off Anchorage’s Design Week.

  • All submissions will be displayed in a Virtual Gallery during Anchorage Design Week, Oct 1-9th.

  • The Match by Design card game will be available for pick-up in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau Oct. 1-9th & distributed elsewhere that week.

  • If your artwork is not selected, we will have additional decks for purchase.

  • Match by Design will live on past the Design Challenge as a way to elevate the Role of Play, by design and through design, in our homes throughout the state of Alaska. 

 
 

The selected images will be announced in an event First Friday, Oct. 1st to kick-off Anchorage’s Design Week, and will be displayed in a Virtual Gallery during Anchorage Design Week, Oct 1-9th.

FOR PARTICIPANTS

All individuals/or team of the selected artwork will receive 2 sets of the Match by Design card game - one set for their own play and one set to give as a gift.

The Match by Design card game will be available for pick-up in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau Oct. 1-9th & distributed elsewhere that week.

If your artwork is not selected, we will have additional decks for purchase.