Calling all Pacific artists, students and community members.
The Pacific Community (SPC), in conjunction with the Council of Pacific Arts and Culture, invites participants from SPC member countries and territories to submit a logo to be used for the annual Pacific Culture week celebrations. The winning logo will be the new visual identity and branding for a newly established Pacific Culture Week celebration that will be commemorated annually across the region.
Pacific Culture Week Celebration
International commemoration days provide an opportunity to join the global community in celebrating and marking specific days and issues of significance. However, a Pacific Culture week will allow for hosting activities that raise the cultural profile and significance of the Pacific Culture both nationally and at the regional level.
It is planned that the Pacific Culture week may occur at any time between June to August annually, allowing Pacific countries and territories to self-determine the exact week dedicated to the Pacific Culture celebration in line with their respective national culture calendar of events.
The call to design and submit a logo aims to use the winning logo as the visual identity and branding for the proposed Pacific Culture Week celebrations.
For more information, please refer to the Pacific Regional Culture Strategy 5-Year Implementation Plan https://www.spc.int/digitallibrary/get/c3tvy
Eligibility
The Competition is open only to individuals over the age of 18 years old. The Competition is not available to companies, educational institutions, organisations, etc. or to groups associated with such institutions.
Participants are permitted to work in groups; however, only one (1) prize will be awarded regardless of group size.
How to Enter
- All entries must be submitted by email directly to Jesoni Naga, [email protected] for consideration and review as an official entry of the Competition.
- Entries must be submitted as a scalable vector graphic in SVG format AND as a Hi-Res JPG.
- Participants must provide a brief description of no less than 100 words for each entry.
- The submission email must include the full name(s) of the person(s) who designed the logo, nationality, age, postal address, phone number, and email address of the individual submitting the entry.
- No more than 2 artworks per entry will be accepted.
- Entries must conform to the Submission Guidelines set out below.
- The deadline for Entries is 11.59 pm on December 31st, 2024, Fiji Time.
- We will attempt to acknowledge all entries within one week of receipt; however, we cannot be There is no fee to enter the Competition.
- Winners will be announced via our website, social media, and by direct contact with the winners’ email account.
Submission Guidelines
This Competition aims to design a logo for the Pacific Culture 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.
All submissions will undergo an AI (artificial intelligence) detector check and thus any AI generated artwork, will not be accepted.
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.
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 Competition.
- 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.
- The winner will be notified via email and announced on the SPC social media and website.
Prizes
- Subject to compliance with the Competition requirements outlined above, the winning design will be announced in March 2025. The winning participant will receive:
- A payment for the winning logo.
- A t-shirt or sweatshirt with the logo design.
Intellectual Property
All Participants 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 participant.
SPC will own the winning logo along with its intellectual property and 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.
The winner must sign an agreement assigning all ownership of the logo to SPC.
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 Competition and award the prize by alternate means if fraud or technical failure is determined at any time, including after the closed submission date.
SPC reserves the right to choose not to use the winning entry as described in the Competition guidelines.
SPC is not liable for winner and prize notification and delivery in the event the Competition winner has provided incorrect, outdated, or otherwise invalid contact information.
Given SPC is responsible for payment of the logo, SPC will own the IP to the logo and may license the same to CPAC.
Contacts
Jesoni Naga, Culture Officer - Policy, Human Rights and Social Development, SPC | [email protected]
