Announcing the UTGP Winning designs from around the world!

The UT GRAND PRIX (UTGP) is a design competition to express graphics and messages with a free imagination, using T-shirts as the canvas. For the 15th UTGP, UNIQLO worked with MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) in New York City. From more than 10,000 entries worldwide, we are pleased to announce the nine winners of the competition.

Artworks=T-shirts design by next-gen artists. Announcing the UTGP Winning designs from around the world!

The UT GRAND PRIX (UTGP) is a design competition that started in 2005 that uses the T-shirt as a creative medium and invites everyone to freely express creativity. For the 15th UTGP, UNIQLO worked with MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) in New York City and invited prominent artists, with work in MoMA’s collection, to be contest judges: Lawrence Weiner, Paula Scher and Sarah Morris. Participants designed T-shirts based on the theme “DRAW YOUR WORLD.

Title: A Fortune in Jewels Kept in Your Safe
Isabel Santos

"I am interested in deconstruction and fragmentation.
I took apart elements and figures of different images and I painted them together. I like the feeling it gives, a disorientation and at the same familiarity. I would also like it printed in the full shirt." says, Grand Prize winner: Isbel Santo. More info check out her website!

Title: FELINE FLOWERS
Amandine Leforestier

"Regarding this work, I wanted to create a pattern that combines the flower and animal spots. I was first inspired by the poppy, and then I detached myself from the floral reprocessing by playing with the shapes of the petals and the colors in order to evoke a tawny coat, and thus associate delicacy with animal character." More info check out her website!

Title: Contact-Wire
Melissa Holstein

"The contact-wire-design reflects an urban interface between material and life. It is based on analog black & white photography and aesthetically inspired by the concept of `wabi-sabi´" More info check out her website!

Artworks express the competition theme "DRAW YOUR WORLD".

Title: Magenta Elephant
Irina Stepanova

"I felt an energy movement in my hands and body and let it be and followed it with my hands on the canvas. My favorite color is magenta – the color of life loving and joy for me. So I gave birth to this magenta elephant"

Title: Same Time, Same Place
Hiroshi Masuda

"Like a work of art, I will be happy if a conversation is generated with the people who surround this T-shirt, such as 'I think this,' and “I think this person is probably saying this"

Title: Audio Astronaut
Harold Luy

"Loneliness can feel much like one floating away in space, but music is the radar one can turn to, to make sense of and map out any lonesome odysseys"

Title: Buildings
Shin Itagaki

"The building is a still life displayed by a person"

Title: Sprout
James Vincent

"A living organism thrives growing out of cold stone"

UNIQLO is MoMA’s proud partner of #ArtForAll

UNIQLO has been a major partner with MoMA in its mission to make art accessible to all by providing free access to the museum and broadening cultural impact. Since 2013, nearly three million visitors have enjoyed complimentary admission to MoMA’s collection, exhibitions, and film screenings through this generous sponsorship. UNIQLO’s partnership with MoMA also includes apparel and accessory lines inspired by artists in MoMA’s collection. Through this collaboration, millions around the world have been able to wear art on their sleeves.