Designers Alphabet Contest
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This contest is open to design students and professionals based in New Zealand.
Design your own alphabet (all 26 letters, numbers are optional) and provide a sample of the alphabet letters spelling "Goethe-Institut" using your alphabet letters. You may submit digital or hand-drawn designs.
Prizes
This contest is open to design students and professionals based in New Zealand.
Design your own alphabet (all 26 letters, numbers are optional) and provide a sample of the alphabet letters spelling "Goethe-Institut" using your alphabet letters. You may submit digital or hand-drawn designs.
Prizes
1st prize: a scholarship for a 4 or 8 week long German language course in Germany in 2012 (international travel and accommodation expenses will be covered)
2nd prize: an I-Pad
3rd prize: German language course at the Goethe-Institut in Wellington in 2012
The prizes are non-transferable and not redeemable as money.
Submission format - Details
Send your email to arts@wellington.goethe.org with the subject line "Alphabet Contest".
What do you need to turn in? Images of all 26 letters. Please combine them into one A2 poster and also submit a zip file of all 26 letters as one A4 JPEG. In addition, you must use your letters to spell "Goethe-Institut" using your alphabet and send one A4 JPEG file.
What to Include in Your Email
Your full name, phone number and email address as well as your postal address (this will only be used to contact you in the event that you are a finalist and for no other purpose). In addition to your contact information, you need to include the 26 alphabet letters and "Goethe-Institut" spelled in your letters. You can send this as two single A4 -JPEG. Please attach files, do not embed them into the email body.
Submission dates and deadline
The competition opens for submissions on 25 July 2011. All entries must be submitted in print and digitally by 9 September 2011, 5pm. Late submissions will not be accepted.
Notification of Winners
The results will be announced on www.goethe.de/nz on 27 September 2011. Selected projects will be exhibited at the Goethe-Institut in November 2011 (tbc). The participants agree to have their works showcased as a Goethe-Institut exhibition and be published on the website and facebook page. The exhibits will remain with the Goethe-Institut.
Acceptance of rules
By submitting entries the participants agree to the rules. Non-compliance with any of the rules will result in the automatic disqualification of the entry. The jury's decision is final.The competition is organised by the Goethe-Institut New Zealand, German cultural centre.