Into the Unknown: The Barbican announces the winning designs for its Sci-Fi print competition

The competition was launched together with contemporary illustration magazine Wrap to celebrate the opening in June of major Barbican exhibition Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction, a genre-defining exploration of one of popular culture’s most celebrated realms encompassing literature, contemporary art, film, music, comic books and video games to present a new, global perspective on Science Fiction.

Entrants were invited to consider what Science Fiction meant to them, or to explore current topics using the visual language associated with the genre, and the winning designs were chosen from hundreds of submissions by a panel of experts including Polly Glass and Chris Harrison from Wrap, Into the Unknown curator Patrick Gyger, Barbican Buyer Margaux Soland, and freelance illustrator and animator Tom Clohosy Cole.

All of the winning artworks are now available to pre-order as exclusive A3 art prints from the Barbican Shop. Priced at £20, dispatched from 1 June, digitally printed on premium 300gsm uncoated GF Smith paper stock, finished with embossed logo detail.

Main image: Space Mum Print by Andrew Hulme