Emerging Creatives Exhibition
About the exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 26–Sunday, October 31, 2025
Entry Deadline: Monday, September 15, 2025
How do we cultivate the local identity of a place in an era where globalization has made our cities look and feel increasingly the same? Exploring themes around collective identity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and grassroots solidarity, this year’s Emerging Creatives Exhibition calls on submissions that respond to place-making and place-keeping as an act of togetherness. How can art and design be a vehicle for expression, resilience, and belonging, and help create new stories for a place?
Mobile Makers invites emerging creatives with up to 10 years of experience— from all design disciplines—to submit impactful ideas, projects, and initiatives that celebrate collective action and storytelling that align with the themes of the summit. All submissions will be exhibited at Mobile Makers Chicago between September 26 and October 31.
We encourage you to answer the prompt in whatever way feels right to you (as long as the guidelines below are followed). Feel free to submit new or old work.
Emerging creatives who submit a project will receive a discount code for 20% off summit admission.
Submitting an entry
All submissions must be received through the online form. Email submissions will not be accepted.
Include your name, email, project title, and a 200-word (max.) project description.
Submit only one (1) project per designer.
Submit three (3) drawings/images max.
3D/Physical objects will NOT be accepted. You may submit photos of objects, instead.
Only jpeg, png, and pdf file formats are accepted.
All image files must be a minimum of 300 dpi.