BurdaStyle is open for your design submissions!
You are the talent and we want to give you even more room to show it.
Starting immediately we will at all times accept design submissions. Any time you have a fabulous idea for a new piece, send in a sketch of the piece from the front and back as well as a technical drawing. Think about why that piece is not only a perfect design for you, but for all other members on BurdaStyle and write it up in a short essay. Make sure to mention what category you are designing for (men, women’s, women’s plus, children, accessories) and what fabrics you had in mind.
Your design will be produced into a real Burda pattern, famous for its fit! Please keep in mind, producing one pattern for our site is extremely cost and labor intensive. Each pattern will first be drafted in our studio, sewn up, optimized and redrafted until it reaches perfection, this process takes several months.
Afterward, we take it to Germany where it takes another couple of months to be made into a CAD pattern, graded, trued and set into a pattern pdf. While grading it the studio in Germany sews it up several times to make sure it works in all sizes. For each pattern, the German Team will create instructions and technical drawings.
Therefore, we have to choose carefully and select only the best and most versatile designs from your pool.
Submitting a design does not mean it will automatically be produced, we also don’t guarantee to choose any design. Drawing on our experience, we will choose only designs that are valuable for the community and catalog. No style that could be created by altering an existing pattern will be produced. We will choose designs that are unique, stylish and of interest for our members.
If BurdaStyle chooses to produce the pattern, you will get a grant of $160 dollars. A sample of your design will be made up and shot in a professional photo shoot. You will receive pictures in high resolution that you can use to for your portfolio. You will also be proudly presented as the Designer of the pattern and eternal gratitude of the community is yours.
We are looking forward to many submissions in all categories.
Email the following to submissions(at)BurdaStyle(dot)com:
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Sketch from the front and back - -Technical drawing
- -Short explanation of design’s value to the community
- Category and recommended fabrics
May 12, 2009, 10.08 AMby CarotteSauvage
Waow! very cool!Can we also send pictures of the prototype or would it be only considered on the basis of the technical drawing and proposal outlines?
May 12, 2009, 11.12 AMby Benedikta
Hi CarotteSauvage,
You can definitely also send in pictures of the prototype, they need to translate the idea well and you still need a technical drawing and all other necessary information.
If you know how to make the pattern you can still upload it yourself as well.
Looking forward to seeing your ideas, YAY!
Benedikta
May 12, 2009, 11.29 AMby CarotteSauvage
Ahhh, Benedikta….vertiginous thought….I could indeed try to post my own patterns however I really lack technical lingo to explain things re-construction and procedure and bracing myself to grade it (because it is nice to create several sizes for the wellfare of the community )would be in itself another adventure, but hey!! something I could dwell upon during my free time in NYC …ehe e :)
May 12, 2009, 01.59 PMby Bola
Cool, great idea BurdaStyle! I would love to take part in this when I get some time!bx
May 12, 2009, 02.51 PMby LotusTree
Oooooh! I’m excited! I’ve designed and graded my own patterns for about ten years, and I’d LOVE to bypass all that and just submit a drawing! Kids and careers now, but I still make time to sew Burda patterns! I’m looking forward to seeing everything you all come up with! Thanks Burda! :)
May 12, 2009, 05.39 PMby Tangerine-Dreams
Is this only open to US residents?
May 12, 2009, 08.26 PMby africalive
Very cool. But, how long until the pattern making software is more widely available?
May 13, 2009, 12.02 AMby carabella
Wow the idea is absolutely superb! A really professional addition to BurdaStyle! However, would you pleeeeze, pleeeeze, pleeeeze give a thought to style and pattern sizes to the PLUS siza ladies? We seem to be a large group (excuse the pun he he) that are left exasperated ie the fit ie upper arms and length midriff and hips, which after pattern alteration can alter shape of the design so that it never looks quite right. A lot of the modern patterns just do not suit me because I am a bit more rounded in a lot of areas. Am I the only one?
May 13, 2009, 02.36 AMby lauriana
Wow, I also LOVE this new idea! I will definately try to submit something! As several other people have said here already, the ‘upload pattern’ feature is great but it requires huge amounts of timeto get your pattern upload-ready and doesn’t garantee a good fit in the other sizes unless you try them all out. And, Carabella, I think it will now really be up to your own imagination to come up with such great plus size design idea that Burdastyle will just have to produce them ;) (unless you meant that the fit of Burda’s plus sizes isn’t right, I wouldn’t know about that)
May 13, 2009, 06.46 AMby Benedikta
Hi Carabella,
As Lauriana said, the idea is that you are able to submit what you think is a good design for Plus Size ladies. As you mention, there are a lot that think like you, and that was part of the reason to open this up, to give you a chance to show us what you are looking for.
We are looking forward to your submission.
A tip, start sending in stuff soon, we are approaching to design our Spring Collection 2010!
May 13, 2009, 07.38 AMby Tangerine-Dreams
Hello, Benedikta, I was wondering if this is open to everyone or just US residents – before I get too excited!
May 13, 2009, 08.31 AMby Benedikta
Hey Tangerine-Dreams,
This is the moment to get excited: Everyone is free to enter this contest :)
Looking forward to your submission!
Benedikta
May 13, 2009, 10.24 PMby Cam557
This is really exciting! Thanks Burdastyle!
May 15, 2009, 09.30 AMby MarmotaB
Very exciting indeed!
In fact, TOO exciting; now I’m designing instead of studying… :D
May 15, 2009, 02.20 PMby xEuphoria
We can enter more than one design right? :)
May 19, 2009, 04.26 PMby Janel5
(I thought I posted before, but I don’t see my comment…)
I have this great idea for a dress. It’s been on my mind for years. I mainly want to make one, but don’t have the skill to make it myself. I sent it to the big pattern companies, of course they didn’t want ME! They want real designers! So I’d be tickled pink to be able to send it to you guys.
But now for the confession of ignorance, what’s a technical drawing? I have a drawing of course but what makes it technical? Do I have to notate something on it? Or is it a special format? Where can I find a sample of what it’s supposed to be like when I’m finished?
If I could find that out, I could submit it…
Thanks :-)
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Oct 1, 2009, 07.38 PMby amira omran
me too , i ask about what is the technical drawing?
im a beginner in design
thx alot
amira omran
egypt
May 19, 2009, 05.20 PMby weesa
is this contest open to canadian residents as well?
May 20, 2009, 02.13 PMby xEuphoria
A technical drawing is the design with all it’s details on it, the proportions are right, and it shows the the garment will lie on the body just search technical drawing in the search bar and look in the patterns section, then print out the one that says technical drawing. When drawing your design you should be tracing the main body structure from the printed croqui.
May 21, 2009, 06.26 AMby Janel5
Thank you xEuphoria! I found it!
May 22, 2009, 07.47 AMby janetbernasconi
What a fabulous chance! I love to design and have a creation in mind. I look forward to submitting.
Have a wonderful day to all,
Janet Bernasconi
Janet’s Creative Pillows
May 24, 2009, 06.39 PMby pinkpurple84
to what email address do we send our submissions to???
May 24, 2009, 08.13 PMby pinkpurple84
does anyone know??? i hope im not too late
May 25, 2009, 04.05 AMby sunflowerinski
Just reread the blog entry, I’m sure you’ll figure it out for yourself!
May 25, 2009, 05.27 AMby pinkpurple84
oh i c i c. thanks!!! my computer was being retarded and it showed up like this submissions(at)burdastyle(dot)com.
May 25, 2009, 10.26 AMby Lala86
can we send our submissions in a pdf format? or which format shall we use?
thanks.
May 26, 2009, 02.31 PMby Fatbaby
What is considered a “technical drawing?”
May 30, 2009, 12.37 PMby pinkpurple84
to learn how to make a technical drawing, go to www.burdastyle.com/howtos/show/630
Jun 10, 2009, 02.44 AMby phunk2
Awesome! Can we send more than one design? Thank You.
Ummm… one more thing, is this open just for specific region? Or country?
Thanks before.
Jun 15, 2009, 10.58 AMby Alden
Send in as many designs as you like! This is open to everywhere, so send em in
Jul 17, 2009, 05.09 AMby suribabe
Fantasic idea.. I’ll sent some designs in. I use to have a Burda membership when I lived in The Netherlands. I now live in the Uk and would like to have the membership again. Unfortunately, the magazines arent available in bookstores or supermarkets either. I always have to get loose patterns (too expensive).
Do you think Burda will introduce the magazine in the UK?
The magazine is fab and always have great ideas in there.
I also have another question. How do I print the free patterns out?
Thanx
Emmy