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Biennale 2017 de design graphique
Le Signe, centre national du
graphisme à Chaumont
Rules
International Poster Competition
2017
Foreword
The International Poster Competition of Chaumont was
launched in 1990 in order to value graphic poster creation on an international
level. The posters entered by the designers through the competition are behind
this collection that now includes more than 45 000 posters conserved in
Chaumont.
The richness of the Chaumont collections of contemporary
posters together with the collection of illustrated posters of the 19th century
and the vitality of 26 editions of an annual festival have given rise to the
creation of a permanent venue in Chaumont entirely dedicated to graphic design:
le Signe, centre national du graphisme, which opened its doors in October
2016.
The international poster competition will take place in 2017 in the
context of the Biennial of graphic design organized by le Signe, centre national
du graphisme à Chaumont from 13 May to 24 September 2017.
Conditions for
participation
Conditions relating to the author
The international
poster competition addresses all professionals, whether independent or employee,
working in the public or private sector, irrespective of the age, status or
nationality.
Companies and cultural institutions may also enter productions
created in the context of a commission for them as clients, with the
authorization of the author(s), under the condition that the letter of agreement
and the manual donation are duly signed by the authors (cf.
appendices).
Conditions relating to the work presented
The posters
must have been commissioned or been used in a real context.
Only posters
created in 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 are admissible, regardless of their
subject, dimensions, commissioners or the number of authors involved in the
creation.
Posters that had already been entered in previous editions of
the competition cannot be judged a second time for the present
edition.
Each author participanting in the competition may send up to 5
projects. The authors may present their work as an individual work or as a
series, in which case a series of pieces is considered as one work. The on-line
registration form allows for this
distinction.
Process
Registration
In order to participate in
the competition, the author registers on-line on the site
www.centrenationaldugraphisme.fr and then proceeds as follows :
- Accept
the present rules ;
- Print out and sign the document entitled “Letter of
agreement” ;
- Print out and sign the document entitled “manual donation”
;
- Sends the poster(s) together with the “letter of agreement” and the
“manual donation” in the same consignment.
Sending in the posters and
enclosures
The deadline for sending the posters of the competition is set
for Monday, 27 February 2017, according to the postmark. Posters sent in after
this deadline will not be taken into consideration for this International Poster
Competition. The posters must also be received in Chaumont by 10 March 2017. The
authors must make sure that the delivery time does not exceed this deadline for
reception of the posters in Chaumont.
Le Signe, centre national du
graphisme à Chaumont may not be held responsible for any damage or loss of
posters sent in to the competition.
The posters must not be framed or
pasted onto to cardboard. They must be carefully protected, without any staples,
tape, or inscriptions on the poster for shipment, costs of which are payable by
the applicant. No document is to be pasted on the posters. The organizers cannot
be held responsible for any loss or deterioration of the
consignments.
The shipping costs as well as any custom duties are payable
by the authors. The organizers are entitled to refuse any works sent with a
declared value and for which custom duties are charged.
In order to avoid
any custom duties, please indicate on your consignment:
« Printed
matter, no commercial value».
Shipping address :
Concours
international d’affiches
Le Signe, Centre national du
graphisme
Département Collections, expositions et recherche
Place des
Arts
F-52000 Chaumont
Send the package (s) :
- With the posters
and the two duly signed and dated appendices;
- Bearing the note “ printed
matter, no commercial value”
- Before Monday, 27 February 2017 (as per
postmark)
Jury and exhibition
An international jury composed of
renowned professionals in the field of graphic design will meet in Chaumont for
several days in order to assess the posters entered by the
applicants.
The jury will select approximately 100 posters that will be
exhibited during the Biennale and will choose three posters or series of posters
that receive the distinctions, “1st prize, 2nd prize and 3rd prize of the
International Poster Competition of Chaumont”.
The jury is sovereign and
makes their decision by the majority of the voices, upon deliberation. A
statement will be draughted to render these decisions.
The selection
is entirely made by the jury upon the assessment of printed posters physically
received in Chaumont. No posters can be selected based on a digital file or a
photograph.
Prizes and the ceremony
The jury members of the
International Poster Competition of Chaumont shall designate three award winners
corresponding to the three prizes.
The author(s) of the awarded posters
will receive the following prizes in cash, transferred directly to the author(s)
by an administrative money transfer.
- 4000 for the first prize
-
2000 for the second prize,
- 1000 for the third prize.
In case
there is more than one author, the prize money is shared according to the
allocative key indicated in the registration form and validated by the
co-author(s).
The awards ceremony will take place in Chaumont on
Saturday, 20 May 2017.
Authorizations and appendices
Letter of
agreement
The author declares having read and accepted the terms of the
assignments of property and exploitation rights relating to the works received
in compliance with the letter of agreement appended to the present rules
(Appendix 1).
Manual donation
All the works received for the
International Poster Competition are donated to the Town of Chaumont, as
described in the Manual donation (Appendix 2).
The posters that are
selected by the jury for the exhibition of the Biennial of graphic design become
part of the collections of the Town of Chaumont if they are accompanied by the
said letter of agreement and manual donation. The posters that are not selected
for the exhibitions may also become part of the collections of the Town of
Chaumont, in accordance with the policy of the development of the collections,
and at the discretion of the Department of Exhibitions, Collections and Research
of the Signe, centre national du graphisme.
The authors of the posters
kept in Chaumont will be informed by email. The posters that are not selected
and not kept can be picked up by the authors until the 13 May, 2018. The
organizers will not send any posters back to the authors.
The Town of
Chaumont makes all of its poster collections available to le Signe, centre
national du graphisme, for the purposes of its missions concerning the
conservation, management and development of Chaumont’s heritage.
Only
entries accompanied by the said appendices duly signed by the author(s) or their
representative will be taken into account.
These two appendices (manual
donation and letter of agreement) generated by the on-line registration and
bearing the list of works entered with their indexation and requested data must
be included in the consignment containing the posters.
Guarantees
You
expressly guarantee to le Signe, centre national du graphisme and its possible
partners against any appeal or action that may be pursued on any grounds by any
natural person or legal entity, and notably any collecting organisation or
company that deems it must enforce any rights in respect of the authorisation
granted by the participation and process of the competition and the exploitation
planned in the appendices or of any provision therein.
You are the author
of the works and the sole person responsible for the contents of the work and
thus engage to use no element that can violate the rights of third parties
namely their property rights or rights relating to the personality, and declare
that you have obtained the prior authorization of any third party whose
protected work or name appears in the works. Particularly, the participants
declare that the works do not contain any content that may violate the law and
other provisions, namely those related to defamation, slander, private life and
forging
The organisers reserve the right to reject entries containing
statements that are hateful, obscene, discriminatory, racist, xenophobic,
homophobic, sexist, or liable to incite racial hatred. Any entry containing such
statements will immediately be disqualified.
Acceptance of the
rules
Participating in the Competition implies entire and unconditional
acceptance of the present rules.
Le Signe, centre national du graphisme
reserves the right to modify the terms of the Competition or to cancel it, and
will bear no responsibility for this reason. The author will be informed as soon
as possible.
For further information and
contact:
concours@centrenationaldugraphisme.fr
