“I believe that life is interesting because of the creative achievements around us. The music, art, design, and new businesses that start as ideas and actually happen are the source of society’s advancement,” says Scott Belsky, the New Yorker behind the globally spanning Behance Network creative community and platform (which gets almost 1.5 million visitors a month). “We started Behance because the creative community needed to get more organised and needed more productivity. We realised that most great ideas never happened. Our true mission is to organise the creative world to make ideas happen.”

In association with Behance, the Swatch MTV Playground is a brand new community showcasing the very best in creative talent from across the globe. Their aim is to create the biggest international collective of imaginative minds and designers with both an online network and series competitions and live art events. If you are a young artist and designer you can join the community and submit your work online. The best entries will feature across the platform to an audience of millions including the worldwide MTV network.

The first Swatch MTV Playground competition is open now with prizes include a staggering $20,000 towards a choice of either tuition fees or project funding (if you are a student) or a worldwide trip to an iconic art event, biennial or exhibition (for non-students).

The brief is to submit work inspired by the project title: “Imagine time in the future” and can come from the following disciplines:

Music, film, print design, 2D animation, 3D animation, motion design, illustration and fashion.

Enter the competition here. Closing date is Friday July 10th.