Remoulding the Future with the Creative Awards That Let You Remix the Past

​Bridgeman Images has announced that entries are now open for the 2025 Creative Awards, an international competition celebrating the power of art in creative storytelling. This year’s theme, “Reimagine the Future,” challenges creatives to blend historical perspectives with future-forward ideas, using Bridgeman’s unparalleled archive of art, culture, and history to craft campaigns that inspire innovative solutions for a better tomorrow.

The Brief: Reimagine the Future

Create a campaign concept that encourages people to rethink and reimagine what the future could look like. Your work might explore topics such as the role of technology in society, sustainable living, or equality, while drawing from Bridgeman’s rich collection of historical content to connect past narratives with future possibilities. Whether designing for a brand promoting innovation, a cause advocating social change, or a campaign envisioning a sustainable future, this is your chance to craft a powerful message that bridges time and thought.

Who Can Enter?

This global competition is open to all creatives, including designers, advertisers, marketers, and students. There is no entry fee—making it an accessible opportunity for creative minds everywhere.

Timeline

• Call for Entries: 2nd April 2025
• Deadline for Submissions: 30th April 2025
• Winners Announced: Mid-May 2025

How to Participate

• Visit the website to register to participate.
• Develop a campaign concept with at least three elements (e.g., OOH, video, social media).
• Use Bridgeman’s extensive archive to incorporate historical and cultural references.
Submit your work via email to awards@bridgemanimages.com before the deadline.

Prizes

• 1st Prize: £2,000
• 2nd Prize: £1,000
• 3rd Prize: £500
• Honourable Mention

Judging Panel

• Giordano Currieri (creative director, Ogilvy)

Giordano Curreri is a creative director and artist born in Genoa and based in Milan. As creative director brings experience from previous roles at Ogilvy and Mather, IED | Istituto Europeo di Design, Euro RSCG and TBWA Italia. With a robust skill set that includes Corporate Identity, Art, Concept Development, Digital Strategy, Corporate Branding and more. He won awards such as adci europe, eurobest, D&AD, New York Festival, Clio, Epica, Cannes lions and several local awards.

As artist Giordano Curreri is one of the founders of the Ultrapop collective, which since the 1990s has redefined the language of Italian art by blending comics, graphic design, and pop culture. After the group disbanded, Curreri continued his individual path, exploring icons of mass culture, religion, violence, and consumerism. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, both in institutional and alternative spaces.

• Antoinette De Lisser (creative consultant)

Antoinette de Lisser is a renowned figure in advertising, media, and creative industries. She built her career in TV sales, ratings, and programming at Carlton TV, understanding brand valuation at Interbrand, and experiential media at Rocket (PHD/Omnicom). A couple of years at TBWA London with Trevor Beattie, she spent a decade at BMB Agency, helping shape its award-winning success. She later founded The Legend Company, a creative recruitment firm, before shifting to sales and marketing strategy at Absolute. Now, she supports boutique SMEs in DEI, production, and advertising while selectively headhunting for visionary clients.

• Jody Winterbottom (founder, The Director Studio)

Jody has been working in creative research, licensing and rights clearance for almost 25 years. He founded the multi award winning creative research agency The Director Studio in 2010 and works with leading brands, agencies, production companies and directors on global campaigns.

• Jess Crombie (senior lecturer, UAL)

Jess Crombie is a researcher and scholar working as a Senior Lecturer at UAL, and as a consultant for the development and humanitarian sector with organisations such as UNHCR, DEC, Red Cross, ActionAid and the World Food Programme. In both contexts Jess utilises almost two decades of experience as a senior leader in the charity sector in roles including global director of content at Save the Children, and head of film and photography at WaterAid. Her research focus investigates the potential for power shifts by seeking out the opinions and ideas of those with lived experience and co-creating story gathering actions and outcomes, a process that she has coined ‘contributor centred storytelling’.​

• Martin Hasslebring (director of partnership and innovation, Bridgeman Images)

Martin Hasselbring, director of partnerships and innovation at Bridgeman Images, offers 20+ years of licensing experience from the editorial, image, film, and music worlds. During this time he has had the privilege of working on numerous high-end projects such as placing music on Leo Burnett’s ‘Freeview’ UK campaign, film licensing for The Rolling Stones ‘A Bigger Bang’ world tour concert visuals, and image licensing for the F1 global exhibition. He has continued his brand collaborations at Bridgeman Images with licensing projects for Uniqlo's Picasso fashion line, FILA's Henri Rousseau collection, and Coca-Cola's Masterpiece campaign.

Are you ready to push creative boundaries and bring history into the future? Submit your entry and #ReimagineTheFuture today.

For full details and to apply, visit here.