Dream up your own design...
and enter it in the Resene Wallpaper Competition

Have you always wanted to design your own wallpaper or wall mural? Here's your chance to get creative and win prizes with the Resene Wallpaper Design Competition!

There is over $7,000 in prizes to be won!

Entry open to New Zealand and Australia, including specifiers, interior designers, graphic designers, design students, wallpaper hangers, wallpaper lovers and anyone who has ever wanted to design their own wallpaper.

Resene Wallpaper Collection
Background wallpapers show the 2024 winner and a range of the runner ups › view

Entries now closed

Thank you to everyone who entered this years competition! Please check back in April next year for the next competition.

The winning design will win a prize pack worth over $3000, including:

Up to 15 square metres of the winning design, via the Resene WallPrint service – value NZ$1500
NZ $1000 Prezzy card
NZ $500 Resene ColorShop voucher
Winning design shown in habitat and/or BlackWhite media channels

Plus, two runner-ups will win:

Up to 15 square metres of the winning design, via the Resene WallPrint service – value NZ$1500
NZ $250 Prezzy card
NZ $250 Resene ColorShop voucher
Winning design shown in habitat and/or BlackWhite media channels

The winning wallpapers will be made in partnership with Aspiring Walls.

Resene may also award additional prizes at their discretion.

Entries may feature in future Resene Wallpaper Collections. Any designs used in this way, will receive a $500 payment and name recognition for the artist/designer on the Resene website with the design. This is open to all entries and may not be limited to only winning designs, Resene reserves the right to alter the artwork with permission from the artists/designer to make it fit for purpose for producing as wallpaper or a wall mural.

How to enter

You may enter as many times as you wish.

Wallpaper repeat design (all over print)

Choose your own theme
Work on a design to fit 50cm square.
Design must be able to pattern repeat on the edges or leave solid colour on the edges to allow for easy matching.
Wallpaper designs must be suitable for general display to the public.
Use Resene RGB values for colours. A Photoshop file for Resene colours is available from www.resene.com/photoshop or RGB values are available from www.resene.co.nz/colour or www.resene.co.nz/rgbvalues (.xls file). You can use as many Resene colours as you wish. If you are using Canva for your design work, you can add the Resene colour by doing the following: click on the piece of the design you want to change the colour of, then click the colour icon, then the plus sign, then paste in the HEX code for your Resene colour. You can find the HEX code for Resene colours online at www.resene.com/colour.
All designs must be owned by the person submitting them.

Please check back in April next year for the next competition.