The Design A Bow Tie Silk Competition Starts Now - Entries Close NYE 2026.
In 1999 the New Years Eve Sydney Harbour Bridge display was lit up with one word. Eternity. Words, so powerful, can resonate with people as strongly, in my opinion, as an image, sometimes stronger. There are passages of text which can still make me weep for just how beautifully they were written, Il Gattopardo springs to mind.
Our next competition is finding words, one word but up to 5 words. And design them into a 10cm squared design in a digital file that we can render and turn into a bow tie or neck tie. How you go about your design, the characters you choose, how you place them, whether you place a texture in the background, the font, the choice is completely yours. We are only looking for creativity and meaning. So accompanying it with a blurb will be helpful.
1000 AUD to the winner. A neck tie or bow tie sent to them upon completion of the silk.
Eternity - the chosen word of Arthur Strace, said to have been written on the streets of Sydney for 34 years continuously, more than 500,000 times, in the wee hours of the morning by a recovering alcoholic, a WW1 veteran, who heard a sermon on things that go beyond our lifetime, written with the impermanence of chalk, a reminder that everything decays and all humans pass through life, and raising the questions of what lies beyond, and perhaps challenging us as to how we want to live spiritually between now and when we no longer exist. It’s a good starting reference point. Good luck. All questions +61413140994
