We would like to encourage students and graduates of the universities organising the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE to participate in a competition to create illustrations, which will become the main motif of the visual identity for the 7th ŚFN.
The competition task involves designing one main illustration and three illustrations for the chosen zones at the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE (Technology, Exact Sciences, Medicine and Health, Humanities and Social Sciences, Arts, Natural Sciences. The competition works have to meet the following requirements:
● refer symbolically and aesthetically to the city of Katowice as the European City of Science 2024;
● the possibility of displaying it in a square format;
● no black background;
● inclusion of the Doktor Primo character;
● colour scheme congruent with the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE brandbook.
If you would like to take part in the competition, feel free to fill in the application form. You should also send your competition works to promocjasfn@us.edu.pl.
The evaluation of the competition tasks, the selection of the winner, and the proper course of the competition are supervised by the Competition Jury appointed by Prof. Ryszard Koziołek, General Director of the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE, Rector of the University of Silesia. The competition is open to people of full legal age who are students or graduates of a university that is a leader or co-organiser of the Silesian Science Festival KATOWICE and who do not run a business.
The winners can expect a cash prize of PLN 2,000 and a contract to create a series of illustrations for the ŚFN visual identity with a remuneration of PLN 6,000.
The submission deadline is 31 May. The competition winners will be announced no later than 30 June. You can download the rules and regulations of the competition and a GDPR clause (as pdf files) below.
