Pacific Culture Week logo competition

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Calling all Pacific artists, students and community members.

The Pacific Community (SPC), in conjunction with the Council of Pacific Arts and Culture, calls for submissions from its member countries and territories. The winning logo will be used for a new visual identity and branding for a newly established Pacific Week celebration that will be commemorated annually across the region.

Logo Contest Official Rules

The contest aims to design a logo for the Pacific Week celebrations.

While international commemoration days provide an opportunity to join with the global community in celebrating and marking specific days and issues of significance, a Pacific Culture week will allow for hosting activities that raise the cultural profile both nationally and at the regional level. Pacific Culture week may occur at any time between June to August, allowing countries to self-determine the exact week dedicated to this celebration in line with their respective national culture calendar of events.

For more information, please refer to the Pacific Regional Culture Strategy 5-Year Implementation Plan https://purl.org/spc/digilib/doc/c3tvy.

Eligibility

• The contest is open only to individuals over 18 years old. The contest is not available to companies, educational institutions, organisations, etc. or to groups associated with such institutions.
• Contestants are permitted to work in groups; however, only one (1) prize will be awarded regardless of group size.

How to Enter

• Winners will be announced via our website, social media, and by direct contact with the winners’ email account.
• All entries must be submitted by email directly to Luisa Mavoa [email protected] for consideration and review as an official entry of the contest.
• Entries must be submitted as a scalable vector graphic in SVG format AND as a Hi-Res JPG.
• The submission email must include the full name(s) of the person(s) who designed the logo, age, postal address, phone number, and email address of the individual submitting the entry.
• No more than 2 entries may be submitted by any one individual.
• Entries must conform to the Submission Guidelines set out below.
• The deadline for Entries is 11.59 pm on February 23^rd, 2024, Fiji Time.
• We will attempt to acknowledge all entries within one week of receipt; however, we cannot be responsible for entries or responses lost in email.
• There is no fee to enter the contest.

Submission Guidelines

• This contest aims to design a logo for the Pacific Week celebrations. The logo must be appropriate for a professional business setting.
• The logo may be used online, in print, and on merchandise. The final version of the logo will need to be suitable for high-quality printing. It should be visually appealing on both small (as small as 2 cm x 2 cm) and large scales.
• The designer is welcome to submit up to two (2) variants of the logo.
• The limit on attachment sizes for our email is 10 MB. If your submission exceeds this size, even after compression, please send the images individually and note clearly in your emails that you are doing so.

Prizes

Subject to the legal requirements outlined above, the winning design will be announced in March 2024. The winning contestant will receive:

1. A cash prize of $1000 FJD.
2. A t-shirt or sweatshirt with the logo design.
3. The bragging rights to identify themselves as the logo designer.

Judging and Selection of Winner

• The winning design will be selected by a working group of the Council of Pacific Arts and Culture (CPAC) and representatives of the Pacific Community (SPC).
• Entries will be judged on their visual appeal, adherence to the concept prompting the contest, quality of design, and ease of reproduction for the above-mentioned purposes.
• SPC reserves the right not to select a winner if, at its sole discretion, no suitable entries are received.
• SPC reserves the right to disqualify any entrant or entry at its sole discretion. No correspondence shall be entered into.
• The winner must sign a contract assigning all ownership of the logo to SPC and CPAC.
• The winner will be notified via email and announced on the SPC social media and website.

Intellectual Property

All Entrants affirm their submissions are their original work, have not been copied from others or previous designs, including their own, and do not violate the intellectual property rights of any other person or entity.

Entries that are not selected will not be used by SPC or CPAC, except through direct permission of the applicant.

SPC shall have the right to adapt, edit, modify, or otherwise use the winning submission in part or its entirety in whatever manner it deems appropriate.

SPC reserves the right to choose not to use the winning entry as described in these contest guidelines.

Disclaimer

SPC is not responsible for lost, late, misdirected, incomplete, illegible, or otherwise unusable entries, including entries lost or unusable due to computer, internet, or electronic problems.

SPC reserves the right to cancel or modify the Contest and award the prize by alternate means if fraud or technical failure is determined at any time, including after the closed submission window

SPC is not liable for winner and prize notification and delivery in the event the contest winner has provided incorrect, outdated, or otherwise invalid contact information.