Socialdesignposter online competition 2012 - Seeds of peace, the power of dialogue
Received from Sergio Olivotti
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COMPETITION REGULATION
Introduction After “Social Design Contest: Autism” (2009) and “Design Vs Poverty” (2010), Social Design Poster organize a new poster design contest: “SEEDS OF PEACE: the Healing Power of Dialogue”. The competion is part of the larger Social Design Poster that aims to create Value developing the dialogue on important topical issues and, at the same time, to spread the culture of graphic design. Social Design Poster believe that the design can change the world, can help people to be more free-minded. Design is a democratic tool, because, as Giulio Carlo Argan once said: "Those who chose not to design, already decided to be designed." In any designer should be a bit of the soul of Odysseus, his eagerness to venture into unknown seas, a little bit of courage. Intellectual curiosity is the only one that will allow people to increase their knowledge and have a critical attitude (that is, the attitude of a free-man). Brief To reach this great purpose of the well-being of all humankind we should start from an internal disarment, start form “The Healing Power of Dialogue”. “We have to carefully define the meaning of “healing” and of “dialogue.” Healing means healing the wounds of separation inherent in modern society […] We have misunderstood the real meaning of individualism by creating lives of isolation […] Clearly, dialogue is more than an ordinary conversation. The purpose of dialogue is to understand others — not just to share our independent views. That would limit our exchange to information and dialogue is not just about information. In a dialogue, we have a responsibility to be present and enrich each other. We should always remember that the words “respond” and “responsibility” comes from the same Latin word, respondere, which means “promise” (Masao Yokota, president of Boston Ikeda Center) We should listen to the others, we should care to them. But we should, first of all, understand other people’s feelings. We should always remember we are all part of a greatest ensamble, we are not so “individual” and we are all leaves of the same tree. Following the website everyone will be able to share a great debate on the suject. The Jury Dimitris Arvanitis Marina Cordova Isidro Ferrer Yossi Lemel Luba Lukova L-able Maurizio Milani Germán Montalvo Woody Pirtle Peter Pocs Pete Kercher REGULATIONS Who can participate The contest is open to everyone except for members & families of the jury, and of the The organizing committee (Social Design Poster’s members). Any individual linked to the jurors by any form of relation are not allowed to participate (exception: facebook friendships are permitted). Timing The contest is open for entries from November the 5th, 2011. Entries close on midnight February the 29th, 2012 (Rome time). Poster uploaded after will be excluded from competition. Winners will be announced on May 2012. Exhibitions will take place form Summer 2012. Awards Social Design Poster will not award any monetary prizes. This will help us to avoid designers only interested in money. We would like our spirit to continue to be pure. The jury will select from 10 to 100 nice artworks, and will also define the first 5 top list. All, or a part, of the best posters (as selected by the jury) will be included in future publications and exhibitions. A catalogue containing the best posters will be published. The first 5 top list designers will receive a free copy of the catalogue. All the selected best posters will create a database for charities and social design committed association to use for free. Details about the exhibition location and dates will be announced through the official website, when the logistics are finalised. Requirements Poster entries MUST be submitted from thes website www.socialdesignposter.org as digital files, using the online entry form that must be filled in comlpetly. Informations on the entry form will be used in the exhibition’s catalog. Designers have to prepare a poster with these technical specifications: 8268x11811 px (70x100cm. size at 300 dpi vertical format) RGB, .PDF or JPEG format. BUT THE FILE TO UPLOAD SHOULD BE ONLY: 1984x2835 px (70x100cm. size at 72 dpi vertical format) RGB, .PDF or JPEG format. !!! We will ask the selected posters to be sent by mail at the original high resolution/dimension format only after the jury decision!!! There is no fee for entry to the competition. Participants may submit up to 3 different posters. > Posters may be designed by a single author or by a team. > Posters submitted must be enterley original and unpublished artworks. > Posters must not include any copyrighted material. > Posters must not contain any logos. > Posters should not offend anyone and be in contrast with the peacefull spirit of the contest. > Posters shall be anonymous. > Posters must be relevant to the brief. > Posters received after deadline will be exclueded (but because of technical failure on Social Design Poster’s website). > Posters that don’t match all the requirementsas specified in previous rules might be excluded from the competition at the discretion of the jury and of the organization committee too. > The organizing committee will be entrusted to make decisions for unforeseen events. > By submitting an entry, the designers automatically agree all the previous rules. Suggestion The images should speak by themselves. For this reason we do not recommend to use in the poster the words "seeds of peace" and "power of dialogue.". Naturally this is only a suggestion and not a strict rule. We also hope the designers to deal the debate honestly and thoroughly, to avoid rhetorical posters, and consistently to the theme of the competition itself. As well as we suggest to focus the attention on the theme of the contest. The theme is the debate among people, its power to be an engine of growth and its peace-making among men; this implies that the competition is not about “War between nations”, it is not a "political" contest in the narrowest sense: the theme is humanistic and social. License and copyright By submitting an entry, the designers automatically agree their posters to be published. In particular they grant Social Design Poster and Sergio Olivotti a license to use, copy, exhibit, publicly display and distribute the posters, a license that is irrevocable, perpetual, transferable, royalty-free, worldwide. The disegners. submitting an entry, grant Social Design Poster and Sergio Olivotti to use their posters in any form and for any activity (exhibitions, publications, promotion activities, social activism campaigning, fundraising campaigns, etc.etc.). Designers retain full ownership of their entry. Designers are guaranteed the right to be credited every time their entry is published or displayed. |