HSE CREATIVE OPEN'26 / Visual storytelling with AI tools
deadline
15 april 2026
artificial intelligence
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About Competition

HSE CREATIVE OPEN: A Global Student Competition by HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL

The competition aims to bring together original ideas and standout projects across design, contemporary art, and fashion, while highlighting career opportunities in the creative industry.

Students from any university, anywhere in the world, are welcome to participate.

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в домике Анна Чекушкина

About the nomination

The main goal is to create an engaging, clear, and emotionally rich narrative using AI-generated images.

Participants must craft detailed prompts to guide the AI, ensuring the images align with the story while maintaining consistent style, characters, and settings across multiple generations.

Competition timeline

October 31 — Project submissions open

April 15 — Final deadline

Prizes

1st Place: 50,000 RUB 2nd Place: 30,000 RUB 3rd Place: 20,000 RUB

Interested in participating? We’ve prepared two guides—a text guide and a video guide—showing how to sign up, create a project, and submit it to a competition.

References

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What day is today? Ася Олейниченко

Educational tracks

HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL now offers programs in Design and Programming, Design and Digital Product Promotion, and Digital Product Creation & Management, with options for bachelor’s, master’s, and continuing education.

With a project-based learning approach, professional portfolio development, experienced instructors, and direct exposure to the creative industries, our graduates go on to become internationally recognized professionals in design, fashion, contemporary art, photography, theater, programming, game design, media, advertising, film, animation, sound art, and visual effects.

Contact us

HSE ART AND DESIGN SCHOOL Moscow, Malaya Pionerskaya st., 12 creativeopen@hsedesign.ru

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