The President and Board members of the European Sign Federation (ESF) have launched the 2014 Competition for Sign Design.
The Competition will be held in conjunction with The European SignExpo, organised jointly by ESF and Fespa ( Federation of European Screen Print Associations) to be held in Munich, May 20th-23rd, 2014.
Concept
The concept of the Award is to seek from Sign Designers, Sign makers, Sign Design schools and Colleges, and anyone interested in Sign Design, their creativity and initiative for the re-branding of the Millennium Shopping Mall. Click here to download images of the photos of the Mall to be signed 2014 ESF Sign Design Award. -photograghs
The concept of the competition is as follows:
“The Millennium Shopping Mall will be the subject of a re-branding and resigning project. The name of the Mall remains but a new Logo is needed, the rest of the outside facade will not be changed in any way but new signage will be added. At present there are few signs in the building. Your task is to evaluate, improve and redesign the existing signage system, based on new technologies available, both now and in the future. For example- way finding, public information, store fascias, shop directory, directional, safety information, message centres, information displays, but these examples are not restrictive.
NOTE: Examples of current registered Brands cannot be used in store fascia designs.
There will be no restriction in the sizes of signs but visuality within the overall design will be a significant factor.
Specific attention must be given to;
The type of materials used, method of construction, sustainability, illumination, green footprint and recycling. A written explanation, of no more than 500 words, describing the manufacturing specification and parameters used must be included with the entry.
Competition Entrants
The Competition will be open to all Sign Designers, Sign makers and Design Schools based in Europe. There will be three categories of entries.
Sign Designers, Sign makers, Design Schools
The category for Design Schools can include a single student studying at a School or College, or a group of Students. The definition of Design School or College will also include any Educational or Training facility were Students are trained in any aspect of Sign Design, Construction, Installation or Maintenance.
Awards
The Award in all three categories will comprise a Sign “Oscar” and certificate to celebrate their achievement and will benefit from the publicity which surrounds the competition.
The Winners must be willing to attend the Awards Ceremony during the European Sign Expo held in Munich, May 2014. Travel expenses and one night’s hotel accommodation will be provided (maximum of 2 people per category). The competition is expected to create a lot of publicity and interest throughout Europe. The winner in each category will receive a trophy to celebrate their achievement.
In addition, the winning entry from either an Individual student or a group of students from a recognised School/College of Design will receive a financial prize to the value of €2500,00.
The Judges will have the discretion to award financial prizes of € 750,00 and € 500,00 to second and third place entries in this category .
Instructions
The design must be submitted in pdf format, any written descriptive text within the entry form must be in the English language, and no identification of the entrant can be included within the sign design. Any entry containing any form of identification will be returned to the entrant. Each entry must be accompanied by the official entry form which must contain all requested details about the entrant. Each entry as it is received will be allocated a code number which will identify it through the judging process. The personal identity of each entrant will be known only to the Secretary of ESF (who will NOT be a judge), and this information will not be divulged to anyone else. The code number will be used as the sole identity for each entry until the judging process has been completed and the individual winners are notified.
All entries once they are submitted in accordance with the instructions will become the copyright of the European Sign Federation (ESF). All entries will be uploaded onto the website of the ESF and the ESF Facebook page.
The Jury.
Judges will be drawn from the Executive Group of ESF. The decision of the Judges will be final and no discussion, debate or correspondence relative to the Judge’s decisions will be undertaken.The members of the jury will not participate on the competition.
Entrance to the competition is free, although the Organisers (ESF) reserves the right to refuse any entry which in their opinion does not meet the specified criteria. The judge’s decision in all matters is final.
Voting –Website-Facebook
Each submitted entry must be able to be printed for display purposes. Each entry, after it has been received and before judging, will be shown on the ESF website and the ESF Facebook page. Visitors to these sites will be invited to vote on their preferred design but the total number of votes cast in this way will only count towards 40% of the Judge’s marks.
Completed entries must be submitted electronically to the Secretary of ESF on or before 18th April 2014, to peterbsa@orange.fr
Each entrant accepts that copyright of their entry will belong to ESF.