Poster Competition : Tirana Architecture Week

INTRODUCTION

This is a competition open internationally to all students of fine arts and design, professional artists and designers. The goal is to bring a new global reflection regarding urban and social issues in Tirana, to promote new artists/designers as well as to show a new way of communication in the Albanian society where design is not properly established.

THEMES

Artists/designers will be free to express their creativity and show their concepts through a poster in any or all of the themes bellow:

1. [Re]Appropriation of the City – Tirana
2. Revival of the City Squares in Balkan Cities
3. Surrealism Fashion
4. I.C.O.N.S : Image of Chaos and Order in a New Society

Submitted posters should express a clear concept related to social and urban issues.

PRIZES

There will be four different awards for the first four winners:
1st prize.............1000 EUR
2nd prize..............600 EUR
3rd prize...............400 EUR
4th prize...............200 EUR

RULES

- All posters must be created by an individual artist/designer rather than a team.
- The artwork must be original and not submitted, before or during this event, to another event or publishing house. It should be not clearly identifiable as imitative of any existing art or artist.
- Poster size must be 70x100cm- vertical format.
- For the first submission, posters resolution should be at minimum 72 dpi. After the selection process, selected works should be sent with resolution of minimum 300 dpi .
- Color mode for all designs: CMYK.
- Maximum file size for the first round of submission is 5 MB.
- Technique is freestyle but in the end it should go through any of the Adobe Systems Software Family in any of its versions and it should be put into the requested electronic file format (.PDF or .TIFF).
- The participant is free to choose one or even all topics but should not submit more than one poster per topic.
- Each entry file must be named with the title of the selected topic.
- Together with the poster(s) the author must attach a text document of his/her short BIO. This document must be named with his/her full name.
- All submitted posters become the property of the Polis University and some of the selected ones will be printed in high sized banners, published in MAD Magazine and FORUM A+P Magazine. One copy of the magazines will be sent to each participant at the end of the competition.
- Author's name will be associated with the piece in every occasion it is published.

IMPORTANT DATES

15 March – 1 June / Open Call:
/period of submissions, questions & answers/
All the artworks must be sent with all the characteristics mentioned at “Rules” section at the mail: pctaw@tiranaarchitectureweek.com.

15 June – 31 July / Selection:
/period of the selection of the best artworks/
Selected artists/designers will be asked to re-send their work(s) in 300 dpi resolution together with a text document which must include the full name, address, telephone and email address.
The files must be sent at: pctaw@tiranaarchitectureweek.com or by a CD at the address:
Universiteti Polis
Rr. Bylis 12, Autostrada Tiranë-Durrës, Km 5, Kashar
Kodi Postar 1051, Kutia Postare 2995, Tirana, Albania

15 August – 20 September / Jurying:
/period when the jury will chose the four winners/
The winners will be contacted privately by email and will be asked to participate on the final exhibition ceremony.

1 October / Ceremony:
The ceremony will be held in the venues of Polis University where the board will declare the winning posters. Artists/designers will be present to carry their prizes.

1 October – 30 October / Exhibition: