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January 16
poster for tomorrow 2012 brief: Gender Equality Now!
We are thrilled to disclose the brief for the new edition of poster for tomorrow: “Gender Equality Now!”
The condition of women has undergone undeniable improvements during the last century. But these improvements haven’t happened everywhere and even where they have been the strongest, well, they are far from being strong enough.
Gender inequality still lingers unchallenged: it’s one of those things that are hard to see precisely because they are right in front of our eyes.
That’s why we ask all of you to see beyond the status quo and imagine a different future.
As for the past, at closing of the call for entries, poster for tomorrow will entrust your artworks to a jury of renowned designers. The best 100 posters will be displayed in multiple locations worldwide opening 10 December, “A Day for Tomorrow”.
But there will soon be plenty of time to deal with the details and also with the novelties of this 2012 edition. Now is the time for the really important stuff.
We need gender equality now, because more opportunities for women are more opportunities for us all.
Competition Calendar:
Call for entries open: 8 March 2012
Call for entries close: 10 July 2012
Online jury vote: 20 July - 10 September 2012
Live jury session, Paris: 5 October 2012
Worldwide exhibitions opening: 10 December 2012
Download the brief (PDF in English)
Brief also available in:
Español
Français
Good luck to everyone!
January 10
This is a teaser announcement!
So here we are again back to our daily routine.
But, when it comes to Poster for tomorrow, the only routine is the constant effort to conceive and organize new inspiring projects.
The 2011 edition of Poster for tomorrow came to a glorious ending with the rolling of the worldwide exhibition tour in December and (we're sure you have already guessed where we are heading here) the new 2012 brief is already on its way.
The topic together with all the other relevant details will be revealed to the world next monday, January 16th. We're extremely excited by the chosen topic, its social and cultural implications and the artistic possibilities it will surely open up. By now we can only anticipate that… ok, just kidding.
You will have to wait until next monday!
October 11
Right to Education competition judging update
The last 6 and 7 October we held the live jury voting for the 2011 edition of Poster for Tomorrow in our Paris headquarters.
Alain Le Quernec chaired a 9 jurors strong panel, moderated by Guy Schockaert and made up by designers such as Michal Batory, Joanna Gorska, Yuri Gulitov, Giancarlo Iliprandi, Ruth Klotzel, Sophie Thomas and Niklaus Troxler.
They selected the best 100 entries amongst the 400 artworks shortlisted by our preselection committee, a panel composed by 50 women and 50 men working in the design, media and advertising industries. Their role was to review and select online the best 400 posters amongst 2780 entries coming from 88 countries we received this year.
Ten outstanding posters have been picked by the jury to enter the permanent collection of renowned design museums around the world: Dansk Plakatmuseum, Design Museum Gent, Graphic Design Museum Breda, Lahti Poster Museum, Les Arts Décoratifs, Museum für Gestaltung, Political Graphics, Victoria and Albert Museum, Wilanów Poster Museum.
Many of you already contacted us to know if their poster was selected and to know if we're going to publish a list of all the winners. In the next few days we'll proceed to inform all the shortlisted and selected posters designers contacting them directly by email, so please wait for us to get in touch with you. At the end of this process, an online list containing the names of everyone who participated, the shortlisted posters designers and the authors of the selected posters will be published on this website.
In the meantime, please take a minute to fill up your account information so that it will show up correctly in our gallery in case your work is included.
WORLDWIDE EXHIBITIONS AND CATALOGUE
The 100 posters selected by our jury will be and exhibited around the world on "a day for tomorrow" the next 10 December, International Human Rights Day. The posters will be available also as a catalogue, prefaced by UNESCO Director-General Irena Bokova.
The flagship Paris exhibition will open its doors to public on December the 8th at Les Arts Decoratifs.
July 13
Call for entries closed: 2780 entries received
So after the extension, our 2011 competition is now closed for entries. We hope the extension gave everyone had enough time to get their posters in…
At the last count we had received 2780 posters which we're extremely happy with. These posters will now be judged by our online jury over the next 50 days. The online jury is formed of 50 men and 50 women from all over the world (from 45 countries to be exact) and is made up of graphic designers, charity workers, teachers and people from a variety of disciplines.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank a lot of people, so here we go…
Thank you to: everyone who entered the competition (and good luck!), all the teachers and professors who incorporated poster for tomorrow in your classes, all our supporters and endorsers and you for reading!
We'll be in touch with more news soon, watch this space...
July 01
poster for tomorrow competition draws to a close... and a lot more
poster for tomorrow’s poster competition for 2011 is open for entries until midnight (CET) on Sunday, July 10th. So as of today, there are still ten more days for you, or anyone else that's interested, to submit a poster on the theme of the right to education for all. You can find more details, and upload your posters at posterfortomorrow.org. Go, go go!
As ever, the best entries as selected by our online and live juries, will be published in a catalogue and exhibited around the world on December 10th, International Human Rights day.
The competition will be judged in two stages: first by an online jury of 100 people from more than 45 different nationalities from a wide variety of professional backgrounds; then second by a 'live' jury of designers in Paris in October.
Pan African Workshop Update
The first set of our Pan African Workshops are complete! 9 workshops have been given in 8 countries across the continent, from Morocco to South Africa, with a huge amount of success. These are just two of the many pieces of positive feedback we had from students on the workshops:
This from Zimbabwe:
"I just want to thank you very much for the wonderful human and designer Götz Gramlich! The students have been blown away by his talent and also his humility! It's an experience they will not forget in their lives and he has opened up their eyes to the myriad of possibility in the world of design."
And this from Botswana:
"I would just like you to know how impressed I have been with Joel in this workshop. It has been a wonderful, instructive and inspirational experience for all - thank you for including us and congratulations on a magical idea."
The good news is that we have three more workshops planned for September in Congo, Uganda, and Burkina Faso. Designers will be announced in September, and these will be the last workshops we arrange for 2011.
New Supporters
We are proud to announce that the French Ministry for Education, youth, social and local community life has become a patron of poster for tomorrow. We hope that together we will develop collaborations and relationships with French colleges, schools and high schools, with the aim of organizing and proposing graphic design workshops based on social topics. Which is great news!
And we are equally proud to say that Institut Polanais in Paris is supporting our 2011 edition. With these new patrons on board we feel that we're moving towards more concrete action and a more tangible outcome every year; we'd like to thank everyone who is already involved and hope that there's much more to come!
March 11
Poster for Tomorrow Call for Entries 2011
Every year poster for tomorrow chooses a basic human right to draw attention to. We then invite the global design community to make posters on this theme that are exhibited around the world on International Human Rights Day, December 10th. We passionately believe that one poster is a start, but one hundred, one thousand, constitute a movement that can’t be denied.
This year we’re fighting for the right to education for all. This might not seem like the most exciting or controversial issue, but it’s one of the utmost importance.
Everyone in the world has the right to an education. That’s a fact. Yet incredibly 121 million children worldwide are not in primary school, despite universal primary education being a right ‘guaranteed’ in the Universal Declaration of Human Right and a UN Millennium Goal; while illiteracy rates are still staggeringly high even in countries where a child’s right to education is guaranteed. In France illiteracy has become a “cause nationale” (with 3.1 million people unable to read, write or count), the rate of illiteracy in the U.K. is “unacceptably” high according to M.P.s, while according to the National Adult Literacy Survey, 42 million adult Americans can't read (and current estimates have the number of functionally illiterate adults in the U.S. increasing by approximately 2,500,000 people each year). This is truly a problem that affects us all.
We’ve chosen to fight for the right to education for all as we believe that education gives people across the whole world the chance to break the cycle of poverty; to live in a more equal world, without discrimination, where everybody has the same chance to learn the same skills and enjoy the same success. To enjoy a better tomorrow. And that makes it the perfect subject for poster for tomorrow to address.
As Nelson Mandela said, ‘education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’ We would now like to invite you to use the most powerful weapon you possess, your creativity, to design a poster and add your voice to the call for education for all.
The poster competition is open from March 10 until July 10 2011. The best posters as selected by jury of graphic designers will be published in a book and exhibited around the world on poster for tomorrow day, December 10th.
You can download the brief here. Good luck!
October 16
Our book: shipping now from Paris
We’re pleased to announce that this year’s poster for tomorrow catalogue is now available to order. The catalogue contains (of course) the 100 posters selected by our jury as well as two essays from Roger Hood and Carolyn Hood (from Oxford University) and the International Federation of Human Rights on why universal abolition of the death penalty is so important.
The book has been designed by Ingrid van der Meulen (NL) and comes in three languages: English, French and Spanish so hopefully almost everyone can appreciate the book!
The book costs 15 euros and is available to buy from our website and FNAC bookshops across France.
You can see some pictures of it on our Facebook page, or watch this video below:
July 27
2094 posters received, thank you!
We’re delighted to announce that poster for tomorrow received 2094 posters for this year’s competition. The quality was exceptionally high and we’d like to thank everyone who entered; we hope, and we think, that we’ve amassed a body of creative work that can be of real use in the movement towards abolition.
We’d also like to thank the associations who helped us the most to promote the competition: FIDH, Council of Europe and World Coalition Against Death Penalty. Thank you all very much!
The online jury will start their work in August, before the live jury selects the final 100 posters in Paris in September. All the posters will be made public on 10/10/10.
But we don’t stop there, it’s a good news day all round; we’re pleased to announce that we have exhibitions already confirmed in New York (with the support of the United Nations) and Brussels (with the support
of European Union).
There are already 25 locations around the world that agreed to hold poster for tomorrow exhibitions on 10/10/10. We'll let you know more about it in an official update that we'll release in a couple of days. There's lots of new initiatives coming up, so please stay tuned!
July 19
Death is not Justice: Deadline postponed
We're postponing the "Death is not Justice " deadline three days, to give you a little bit extra time to participate. The reason why we're doing so is that we'd like to make sure that everybody who took the effort of designing a poster for the competition will be able to enter it. But many of you had technical issues in uploading their artworks.
Hopefully you'll be able to address those issues in the next few days, with some help coming from our side too – we're trying to handle all your requests as quick as possible.
In case you need assistance, don't hesitate dropping us a line or writing on our facebook page.
The new deadline is Thursday the 22st of July, at midday (12:00), Pacific Daylight time (GMT +7).
June 10
Death is not Justice: Official Call for Entries poster
You've been waiting for it and here it is, our call for entries poster. It might not be very timely, but it's better late than never...
We'd like to thank the author, Julian Naranjo, who designed the touching artwork.
Julian is renowned Chilean designer who runs a studio by his own name. We're happy to have him on board as a member of our online jury.
We hope you'll like the poster. It comes in a variety of flavours, for you to post, print and distribute. Thank you so much for your support!
Click on a format to download it:
April 10
Call for Entries opens
The poster for tomorrow competition for 2010 is now open for entries. This year we we're calling for universal abolition of the death penalty under the theme: death is not justice.
We believe in design, and posters, as a medium to inspire social change.
What you create as an artist, graphic designer or art director can inform, provoke emotion and motivate people to action. It’s a great gift.
And a gift you can use to inspire change in the world.
We believe the death penalty is a violation of human rights and that it has no place in modern society. And that’s what we want to change in 2010. We hope you’ll join us.
One poster is a start. But hundreds, thousands, become a movement that cannot be denied.
Please download the complete call for entries in English here, or look for it in your own language in the links on the right.
More translations will be available soon.