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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!
November 16
Give wings to our posters!
We're looking for couriers to help us with the poster shippings for the exhibitions that will be held next 10 December, "a day for tomorrow".
You could give invaluable help to our organisation by flying our posters with you. Please get in touch if you're interested and if by chance you are leaving from Paris or any large city in Europe between 21 November and 5 December and you're headed to one of the following countries:
Bolivia, Botswana, Canada, Colombia, Georgia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Lebanon, Morocco, Uganda, Pakistan, Peru, Tunisia, Ukraine and the United States.
Even if you can't help us this time, in case you're a frequent traveller please get in touch. We're building a small database of people that happens to travel frequently between Europe and America, Africa, Asia. If you're such a person or if you know someone who does travel often along these routes, please forward this message to them.
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.
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.
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!
November 16
Now available: poster for tomorrow mobile edition
We're proud to announce that we've just launched our first ever app for iPhones/iPads/whatever form of Apple goodness you want to put it on.
It's not free, but all proceeds will go to sustaining poster for tomorrow's activities. At 2.99€ it's not expensive either, especially as it's the first and (we're going to say) best social communication app out there.
It's going to be updated soon with our "Death is Not Justice" posters, and for the moment you can browse our "The Pencil is Mightier than the Sword gallery, test yourself on quizzes on Freedom of Expression and you'll be kept up to date with our news as it happens.
You can buy it via the iTunes Store here.
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:
October 09
10/10/10 exhibitions now live!
The “Death is not Justice” exhibitions organised by poster for tomorrow are now opening in around 50 locations. We fell short of our 100 cities objective, but we can’t really complain.
People from all over the world helped us to put together two times the number the number of exhibitions we organised last year. We thank everybody who took part in achieving this great result.
Here you can find some pictures from our opening celebration at Les Arts Decoratifs in Paris. More will come in the next days.
This weekend other exhibitions will open in cities as Strasbourg, Beirut, Minsk and many others, also thanks to our partners the Council of Europe and the World Coalition against Death Penalty.
The exhibitions will display the 100 best posters out of the 2094 we received from 81 countries around the world. A petition will be present at our events for everyone to sign and make their statement against the Death Penalty.
You can find a list of places where the 100 posters are being exhibited across the world on 10/10/10 on our website. To make as easy as possible to understand what’s going on where, we have an interactive map allowing you to browse all our activities, locations, times and programs. The events are also available on our Facebook page.
September 27
The events & the posters
It's now possible to browse the programmed activities taking place on 10/10/10 on our website. The interactive map is available here to check locations, times and programs.
A list of exhibitions will also be available on our Facebook events page in the next few days.
Here's a sneak preview of what our jurors selected as the 100 posters to be exhibited around the world. We’re very excited about the quality of the posters, and want to share ten with you before all 100 are published on 10/10/10. Enjoy!
| Skull Bladimir Trejo Ecuador |
It must be stopped Natalia Lazarashvili Georgia |
50 Aida Torkamani Iran |
We need the time to reflect Tomoko Miyagawa Japan |
| Legal murder is not justice Valerie Pettis USA |
Requiem para los del 3 de mayo Vladimir Sabillon Honduras |
Death map Jan Sabach USA |
Adieu! Jochen Shievink Germany |
| Abolish the death penalty Jenna Read Australia |
A truth revealed by its own cycle Anadel Velasquez Mexico |
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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