When Letters Move: Expressive Typography and Motion Blur Challenges Are Now Open

Two new creative challenges are live on Freepik Contributor — and they’re after two of the most in-demand aesthetics in design right now. Whether you work with typography-driven compositions or movement-based imagery, there’s a challenge here for your style. Each offers prizes up to €300 for the top 3 creators, selected by Freepik’s jury.

Submission is open from April 9th to May 22nd. Here’s everything you need to know.

🔤 Expressive Typography Challenge

Typography has always been functional. But in its most powerful form, type transcends communication and becomes the visual message itself — where font choice is a creative statement, and letterforms carry as much emotional weight as the words they spell.

The Expressive Typography Challenge is looking for resources that place type front and center: not as a design element, but as the whole design. Think bold vectors with hand-drawn details, poster templates where layout and hierarchy ARE the concept, and PSD effect files that transform plain text into something worth framing.

We’re interested in compositions that combine display fonts with script or hand-lettering styles, use vibrant and deliberate color palettes, and create results that feel distinctive, not generic. From typographic illustrations and quote templates to premium layer-style effects — if it makes someone look twice at a word, we want it in our library.

Please note: AI-generated content will not be accepted in this challenge. All resources must be human-made.

📖 Download the creative briefing for detailed directions and visual references

→ Join the Expressive Typography Challenge

📸 Motion Blur Challenge

Not all blur is the same. The kind we’re looking for in this challenge is intentional, controlled, and visually purposeful — the long-exposure glow of city headlights, the clean streak of a panning shot, the silky pull of a slow shutter on moving water.

The Motion Blur Challenge is open to photographs (including AI-generated images) and editable PSD effects. We’re looking for content that uses blur as its primary visual language: urban transit at night, kinetic portraits, light painting, abstract speed textures, and smart-object PSD files that let any designer apply motion effects to their own work with a single click.

What they all share is intention: every blurred element serves the image. That’s the standard we’re aiming for.

AI-generated content is accepted in this edition. Use the Photo AI format for images created with generative tools.

📖 Download the creative briefing for detailed directions and visual references

→ Join the Motion Blur Challenge

🎯 What the jury looks for

Both challenges are judged by Freepik’s internal curation team. When reviewing submissions, the jury evaluates:

• Technical quality — resolution, clean execution, proper file structure
• Creative originality — a distinctive point of view, not a repetition of existing library content
• Conceptual coherence — does the resource clearly belong to the challenge theme?
• Practical applicability — would a designer, marketer, or creative actually choose to use this resource?

Publishing more resources increases your presence in the challenge, but a single exceptional resource can win. Quality over volume.

🏆 Prizes

Both challenges follow the same prize structure. The top 3 authors in each challenge win:

Prizes are added to the July invoice. Up to €600 total is available across both challenges.

📋 How to Participate

1. Upload your resources to Freepik Contributor during the submission period
2. Use the correct required tag for each challenge:
   • Expressive Typography → typographychallenge
   • Motion Blur → motionblurchallenge
3. Accepted formats:
   • Expressive Typography → Vector, PSD Template, PSD Effects
   • Motion Blur → Photo, Photo AI, PSD Effects
4. Publish at least 1 resource with the required tag to be eligible for the prize
5. You can participate in both challenges simultaneously

📅 Key Dates

See the full Terms & Conditions for Expressive Typography and Motion Blur.