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Organisation : Sir J. J. Institute of Applied Art
Competition Name : Logo & Poster Design Competition
Applicable For : All Students
Contest Last Date : March 1 – 3 2018
Website : http://jjiaa.org/events.htm
Contest Details : https://techcloud.co/

Logo & Poster Design Competition :

Focus on ‘Beauty, Form and Function in Typography’ :
** Typography Day will be organized for the eleventh time on 1st to 3rd March 2018 at Sir J J Institute of Applied Art, Mumbai in collaboration with the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.

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** The theme for this year’s event is ‘Beauty, Form and Function in Typography’
** The event will feature a day of workshops on Typography and Calligraphy followed by two days of conference dedicated to ‘Beauty, Form and Function in Typography’.

** The international conference will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The conference includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, blind juried papers, industry professionals, research scholars and students.

** The event will also host an exhibition of selected posters and typographic works of students and faculty members from Design Institutes.

The event is planned over three days :
Day 1: Workshops on Typography + Meet on ‘Research in Typography’
Day 2-3 : Conference focusing on ‘Beauty, Form and Function in Typography’ + Typo Quiz +Exhibition and Installations and Award ceremony

Procedure for selecting student participants :
** One idea will be finalized from the submitted lot.
** The jury will have the right to select, reject or request modifications for the selected logo.

Submission Specifications :
** You need to submit the solution along with a brief write-up of around 100 words written in English langauge.

Themes :
The Conference will focus on the following issues :
** Experiments and Explorations in Beauty, Form and Function in Typography
** Beauty, Form and Function in Typography in the context of Culture
** Beauty, Form and Function in Typography in the process of Learning
** Beauty, Form and Function in Typography using Multilingual Scripts
** Beauty, Form and Function in Typography in Native (Indigenous) Scripts
** Beauty, Form and Function in Typography in Local Languages
** Research Activities in Beauty, Form and Function in Typography

Sub-themes for the conference :
The conference focused on the following sub-themes :
** Beauty, Form and Function in Typography in education Instructional Aid, Displays, Information Graphics
** Beauty, Form and Function in Digital Typography Mobile devices, Tablets, Web Typography
** Beauty, Form and Function in Environmental Typography Signage, Installations, Graffiti or Street Art, Architecture

** Beauty, Form and Function in Commercial Typography Advertisements, Packaging, Retail, Product graphics, Fashion
** Beauty, Form and Function in Vernacular Typography Native Calligraphy, Culture and Typography, Indigenous scripts

** Visual Literacy and Visual Ergonomics, Cognitive studies, Human Machine Interface, Reading experiences with respect to Beauty, Form and Function in Typography
** Beauty, Form and Function in Media Typography Television, Movie titling, Movie posters, Subtitling, Typography in motion

Selection procedure for winners :
** Twenty five winning entries will be published as a book and displayed in an exhibition during the event. The winners are entitled to free participation (workshop expenses and food) during the ‘Typography Seminar and Workshop’ on 1st, 2nd and 3rd of March 2018.
** Each of the winning participants will receive 2 copies of the book and will also be given the ‘Certificate of Winning the Poster Competition’.

Poster :
Size of the final poster:420mm x 600mm only in portrait format
Resolution: 300 dpi
File type: JPEG or PDF
Color Mode: CMYK
Write-up + contact Info+Bio:
Format: in RTF, TXT or PDF format
Write up about the design: Maximum 150 words and should be written in English
Contact Info: Name, Postal Address, Email, Telephone number, Name and Address of Institution in English.
Your Bio-data/Personal Information: Maximum of 100 words and should be written in English.