Particular favourites include a computer keyboard and screen cap, produced by twenty one year old Spanish artist Roser Moll Pascual. She said- “I wanted to base the design of the cap on a metaphor, making the cap become a computer. As well as a computer, ‘New era’ caps changed the market 90 years ago and they still do. Good inventions never end but evolve and improve.”

Despite their being tonnes of awesome entries, the winning hat was the weird and wonderful Craig Green’s ‘mask of masculinity’. He chose to explore the role of men in Western society using materials that referenced ideas of currency, masculinity and nature (copper having connotations to English currency and class, whilst the use of suede brings in the natural element, along with wood in reference to hunting and nature). The artist said he wanted to look “at the outdoorsman; hunter gatherer and the boyhood fantasy of adventure”. Creating a cap that is as much about culture as it is about escapism, who would have thoughts hats could go so deep!

New Era is undecided as to whether a few of the designs will be manufactured but their cap exhibition proves a lot of exciting art is happening at the moment and projects like this are a great way to get it recognised- hats off to hats!