Poster For Tomorrow 2011 Call For Entries
Category: Illustration
Deadline: July 10, 2011 (55 days left)
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” (Nelson Mandela)
Every year poster for tomorrow chooses a basic human right to draw attention to. We then invite the global design community to make posters on this theme that are exhibited around the world on International Human Rights Day, December 10th. We passionately believe that one poster is a start, but one hundred, one thousand, constitute a movement that can’t be denied.
This year we’re fighting for the right to education for all. This might not seem like the most exciting or controversial issue, but it’s one of the utmost importance.
Everyone in the world has the right to an education. That’s a fact. Yet incredibly 121 million children worldwide are not in primary school, despite universal primary education being a right ‘guaranteed’ in the Universal Declaration of Human Right and a UN Millennium Goal; while illiteracy rates are still staggeringly high even in countries where a child’s right to education is guaranteed. In France illiteracy has become a “cause nationale” (with 3.1 million people unable to read, write or count), the rate of illiteracy in the U.K. is “unacceptably” high according to M.P.s, while according to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans can’t read (and current estimates have the number of functionally illiterate adults in the U.S. increasing by approximately 2,500,000 people each year). This is truly a problem that affects us all.
We would now like to invite you to use the most powerful weapon you possess, your creativity, to illustrate a poster and add your voice to the call for education for all.
There’s no entry fee.
Eligibility
An entry to the competition consists of a portrait format (vertical) poster addressing the proposed creative brief. Posters may be designed by a single author or by a team.
Illustrations submitted to the contest must be original artworks that are previously unpublished. The illustrations must consist entirely of the authors’ own work and must not include any copyrighted material. Participants may submit up to 10 different posters.
Prize
poster for tomorrow rewards the 100 best designs received by including them in an exhibition that will be held in a series of cities around the world on 10th December 2011, as part of an event called “a day for tomorrow”, that celebrates the anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights.
Ten designs will be made part of prestigious graphic design collections in numerous design museums worldwide.
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