Archtober's 2025 Postcard Competition draws on this year's festival theme, Shared Spaces, in its prompt asking New Yorkers to delve deep into the common areas that shape our lives. Submit your vision in the form of a postcard, featuring the phrase “Wish You Were Here.” Conjuring place, memory, and longing, the expression connotes a space worth sharing. Whether it’s an art museum that feels like home or a waterfront that offers some respite, we want to see the public spaces that you would invite us into. A plaza, a pier, a park that doesn't exist yet... where will you send us?
Entry Instructions:- Postcard designs must be sized to 4” x 6” to qualify for USPS First-Class Mail
- The text “Wish You Were Here” in any language or style must be on the front of the postcard.
- Submissions should provide a design for the front of the postcard only. Design title and author credits will be printed on the reverse.
- Please submit your design as a PDF with a standard bleed of .125"
- Deadline: Friday, August 15, 5pm ET
Eligibility:
- Authors must be 18 years or older and reside (or be a graduate or undergraduate student in) NYC's five boroughs
- One submission is permitted per author, regardless of whether you are submitting as an individual or a firm.
- All are invited to submit—architects, illustrators, design enthusiasts, etc.
- AI generated images and graphics are not eligible
Award:
- $500 cash prize
- Postcards will be printed and distributed at the Center for Architecture throughout the month of October 2025
- The winning postcards will be featured in the upcoming fall issue of Oculus magazine
- 3 winning designs will be selected by the jury and announced in late September