Welcome to WOW’s fortnightly designer newsletter - a round up of news and inspiration curated especially for you.

The 2017 WOW Competition closes in just two weeks time! 

If you're planning to enter this year, please make sure you complete Step 1 of the entry process here by 31 March (please note that registering as designer does not mean you have entered. Please log in here to check the status of your entry). If you are an international first time entrant, you will also need to complete Step 2 by this same deadline. All other key 2017 competition dates are available here. 

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A taste for movies and a flair for theatre helped Jiawen Gan win the WOW 2016 Student Innovation Award.

For his graduate university project, Gan, a student of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, created The Knight, three warrior-like characters. After he learned about WOW, he entered them in the 2016 awards show, and was stunned to find out he’d won the prize ...read more