Don't Panic + Vitamin Water unique design competition

Win £500 and Sunday Besitval tickets!

Would you like to see your work in print? how about printed at 10m by 13.5m on the front of cordy house, in the heart of Shoreditch, London? and not without some prizes either – £500 cash and 2 vip Bestival passes! not to mention, you’ll have your work printed on the don’t panic poster another 80,000 times.

Okay, so what do you need to do to win the brief? Glacéau vitaminwater is looking for your creative interpretation on the theme of ‘summer of Glacéau vitaminwater’. using their gorgeously stylish packs, create a vision of summer in colour (specifically, the six rainbow colours of the vitaminwater varieties - see entry guidelines)

Your creation can be rendered using graphic design, illustration, photography, or any type of medium you can think of, as long as it can be printed up to a suitably large format.

Click here to find out more and to enter the competition.

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May day, May day, its "supa neon freak out time "..........the return of Londons most anticipated late night adventure is back. More than a just a club-night NNP is a electrofied after dark entertainment extravaganza of light, colour, sound and dance, and again will feature exclusive live performance's, pioneering rare DJ sets and collaborative side room action. NNP is taking the party to the Coronet Theatre a 1920's unique venue in the Elephant and Castle which undoubtedly has the best stage and sound system in the city (and reasonable bar prices).

Headlining the main room with their exclusive and only UK show is FISCHERSPOONER during the release week and performing their new album "Entertainment". Their creative costumed stage shows have left New Yorks audiences awestruck with a spectacle of experimental theatrics, hairy monsters and raucous versions of there underground hits…….finally its London’s turn.

Our amazing flamboyant tricksters and maestros of electro and have released two tracks on Kitsune whilst taking a 3 year performance break recording the new album with The Killers and DFA’s Black Dice producer Jeff Saltzman.

Daft Punk stadium tour dj, remixer of Klaxons, The Rapture and the French robots duo, Ed Banger electronic beat pioneer SEBASTIAN makes a extremely rare London appearance alongside NNP residents JBAG (Kitsune, Ponystep)

......this is just the initial announcement before we release the full line up info soon .....so get them early birds while you can.

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