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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!
June 06
The council of Europe financial support for the second year
We are proud to announce that the Council of Europe (Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs) has, for the second year running, granted its financial support to poster for tomorrow.
Having received the Concil of Europe Patronage since its creation, we see the renewal of financial support as a sign of confidence in our actions.
Poster for tomorrow needs your support more than ever. You can become a member of 4 Tomorrow association, buy our iPhone App or simply make a donation.
Nous sommes fiers d’annoncer que le Conseil de l’Europe (Direction Générale des droits de l’homme et des affaires juridiques) a accordé son soutien financier à poster for tomorrow pour la 2e année consécutive.
Avoir obtenu le patronage de l'Organisation des 47 depuis la création du Concours, nous voyons dans le renouvellement de son soutien financier un signe de confiance en nos actions.
poster for tomorrow a plus que jamais besoin de votre soutien. Vous pouvez devenir membre de l’association, acheter notre l’iPhone App ou tout simplement faire une donation.
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!
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:
May 15
FIDH endorses Poster for Tomorrow
We are proud to announce that Poster for Tomorrow has been endorsed by FIDH, aka the International Federation for Human Rights.
FIDH was established in 1922, when it united ten national organisations. Today it consists of 164 human rights organisations in nearly 100 countries.
FIDH’s core mandate is to promote respect for all the rights set out in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
We're very pleased to be associated with them and with their help we hope we're a step closer to accomplishing our shared aim of universal abolition of the death sentence.
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.
February 02
Welcome to our new website
It’s the start of our activities in 2010. A new year, a new website, a new theme.
Today we’re launching our plans for 2010 at the World Congress against the Death Penalty in Geneva. Because that’s what we want to achieve this year - draw people’s attention to the injustice of (and hopefully abolish) the death penalty.
Our main man Hervé is in Geneva today presenting our project to hundreds of associations already working against the death penalty. We want to add our voices to theirs to make as much noise as possible this October on 10/10/10, the World Day against the death penalty, so people will listen to us. And we want to ask for your help.
Not just designing a poster either. This year music is going to be part of our activities as well. We also want to make more of our design events, and use them as a platform for people to stand together against the death penalty.
That’s a short(ish) summary of what we want to do this year. If you’d like to know more, please read our press release (here). You’ll find it in a selection of languages on your right hand side.
Speak to you soon,
Ciao,
Tommaso