Golden Turtle ECO-Posters Contest 2022

The competition asks participants to create posters on environmental preservation and wildlife and its conservation.

NOMINATIONS

ECOLOGICAL PROBLEMS

Posters depicting a free choice of topics on the problems of environment preservation. The nature and impact of anthropogenic factor (both negative and positive), or any other topic reflecting the interaction of humans and environment.

CONSERVATION OF WILD NATURE

Posters on the topics of wildlife and its conservation. Reflecting the beauty of our planet and wildlife through the means of graphic design.

PROFESSIONAL JURY

Victor Kovalenko

Russia

Graphic designer, digital artist. Participant and finalist of more than 90 design exhibitions in Russia and abroad. His work has been featured in 24 countries. Jury member of the Virus Over 2020 poster competitions in Taiwan and BOLU 2021 in Turkey

Damian Kłaczkiewicz

Poland

Graphic Designer and Visual Artist. Damian won numerous honours and awards in the field of design graphic. Interested primarily social issues, political issues but not only. Participant in over 200 poster exhibitions around the world

Seyyedmehdi Mousavi

Iran

Iranian Senior Graphic Designer. M.A Degree of Art. Jury member of several international design festivals. Multiple International winning Designer. Art Director and lecturer. www.mousavidesign.ir

He Huang

China

Graphic designer and visiting professor at several design universities in China. Jury member and winner of over 100 poster competitions. Expert at China Brand Management Research Center

Erick Ginard

Cuba

Cuban designer and illustrator based in Mexico City. Graduated from the Higher Institute of Design of Havana, his work has been exhibited and reviewed in events and publications around the world. His prizes include Grand Prix at Prague Virtual Biennale, Silver Award and Judges' Special Award at Taipei International Design Award, Silver Medal at International Poster Biennial in Mexico, among many others

PRIZES

$1OOO

The competition winners who won first place in their nomination will obtain a cash prize of one thousand US dollars (USD 1,000).

SPECIAL PRIZES

The laureates who won the second and the third places in their nomination will obtain valuable prizes and gifts from the Festival sponsors and partners.

Competition Stages, Rules and Organizers

The organizer and the right holder of the Golden Turtle Contest, exhibitions and all facilities and events related thereto is the MY EQUATOR Charity Social Support Fund.

Anyone may submit his/her works to participate in the competition, except for the competition organizers and the professional jury members. Authors from any countries can participate in the contest without restrictions. The official competition languages are Russian and English.

Decisions to award the Semi-Finalist, Finalist or Winner statuses to artwork shall be made by members of the Professional Jury and the Jury of Peers and may not be appealed.

Basic Concepts

Author (designer) shall mean a person who made a project and presents his/her work to the competition, has full copyrights and powers to decide on all organizational issues related to the participation of the work in the competition.

Project (work) shall mean an idea implemented by means of graphic design, created through special computer software, that complies with the competition terms and conditions and is owned by the author.

Software shall mean any computer program applied to create the project.

The main stages of the contest

• Completion of the artwork registration 28.02.2022
• Semi-finals 01.03.2022 – 14.03.2022
• Finals 15.03.2022 – 25.03.2022
• Receiving originals 26.03.2022 – 10.04.2022
• Special nominations 11.04.2022 – 15.05.2022
• Award Ceremony – Autumn 2022
• Exhibition in Moscow – Autumn 2022

Authors and Works Registration

The authors and the works shall be registered at the Golden Turtle Competition web-site in the respective section by a special form.

Carrying out the Registration procedure by filling out a web form on the website http://www.wncontest.ru/, the Participant confirms that he has read and agrees to the terms of the Consent to the processing of personal data and has accepted the obligations indicated therein. 

The author shall complete the registration procedure, then he/she is given a login and a password that are sent to the e-mail address specified in the course of registration.

Then, the author may begin to upload his/her own artwork, edit it, delete it, etc.

At the beginning of the registration, the author shall choose the nomination to present his/her work in.

Then, the author shall upload the works subject to the following technical requirements:

• The image format shall be JPEG;
• The dimensions shall be 2,000 pixels horizontally for horizontal works; 2,000 pixels vertically for vertical works; the file size shall be no more than 1 MB.

To participate in the competition, the author shall provide the following information on his/her work:

• Author's name;
• The idea behind the project (goals, issues, social importance) containing no less than a 200 symbols.

Additional Requirements

• The author may submit to the competition no more than 20 works.
• One work may be presented in one nomination only.
• Works submitted in the Poster nomination shall have a length and width ratio of 2:3.

Artwork Originals

In case a work becomes a semi-finalist, the work shall be assigned the semi-finalist status and the author shall be sent an email of the status assignment and a request to submit the large format of the file submitted to the competition, in vector or raster format, prepared for printing (60x90 cm, 150-300 dpi).

The files shall be submitted within 14 calendar days from the date of sending the respective letter.

The author shall provide the organizers with the files through a special form in his/her personal online account.

Requirements for the files to be provided:

1. Images prepared for printing that meet the following requirements:

• The colour model shall be: CMYK
• The vector formats are: Ai., Eps., Cdr. (fonts shall be converted to curves, the linked pixel images shall be attached separately and meet the requirements for pixel images).
• The format is PSD, JPEG or TIFF; the resolution is 300 dpi;
• The name of the file containing the image shall match the work name (e.g., “Penguins on ice”, not IMG_1234.jpg).

If it is not possible to prepare a quality image for the exhibition, the work shall not be displayed but shall remain a finalist.

The work originals shall be used by the organizers for various purposes, including, but not limited to:

• Printing of works required for the work of the jury;
• Preparing the final art album (each author whose work(s) is (are) presented in the album is entitled to receive One (1) author's copy of the album);
• Preparing exhibition copies of the artwork;
• Making an archive of the competition finalists, etc.

Reasons for Refusal

A work shall not be accepted to participate in the Golden Turtle Art Contest, if:

• The work does not meet the requirements specified in these Regulations;
• The work description includes foul language;

The competition organizers reserve the right not to accept any works that are not of a certain qualitative and technical level, without specifying a reason.

Copyrights

The author should be the right holder of the works they submit. 

The participant warrants that his/her work does not infringe intellectual rights of any third parties. In case any third parties make any claims, the participant shall be fully liable for his/her work.

The author may be a person or a group of persons (a design studio, a design school, etc.).

Projects shall be original and created by the author on the basis of his/her own concept.

By submitting their works to the Golden Turtle competition, the author agrees with the terms and conditions of the Lisence Agreement. 

Exhibition copies that are printed at the expense of the Golden Turtle Competition organizers for displaying at the exhibition shall remain with the organizers and may be used by them for the statutory activities of the MY EQUATOR Charity Social Support Fund.

Stages, responsible parties, deadlines and rules for assessing the artwork

Stage 1 — Registration of works

Done by: the administration of the contest; online

Timeframe: from December 01, 2021 until February 28, 2022         

Rules: Done based on the approved and published standards (see: http://www.wncontest.ru/en/design/rules/ ). All selected works receive the REGISTERED status (a.k.a. accepted into the competition). The authors are notified of the status update.

Deliverable: an image bank of registered artwork

Stage 2 — Semifinals

Done by: the members of the professional jury; online

Timeframe: March 01 – 14, 2022         

Rules:

• A professional jury (5 to 9 people) is formed out of professional designers, winners and runner-ups of international contests.
• Participation in the professional jury does not allow its members to participate in the competition as authors by submitting their artwork.
• The assessment is based on a 5-point scale and is carried out in the member’s private online accounts.
• The highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score.
   
• One of the members of the professional jury is announced as the Chairman of the jury, whose tasks include analyzing the semifinal voting of other members of the jury and finding out the reasons for the very different scores of individual members of the jury from others.
   
• The results of the assessment of each member of the professional jury are published in the member’s private online accounts of the contest semifinalists (the authors can only see the scores of the their own artwork).
• Based on the target number of finalists for exhibiting during the Festival (the decision is made annually by the organizers of the Festival), a "passing score" is established.
• All works in each nomination that have received a "passing score" and above become the finalists.
• The authors are notified of the status update; the works are published in the professional jury member’s private online accounts without the scores assigned during the previous stages of selection.

Deliverable: the list of the finalists, published in the professional jury member’s private online accounts

Stage 3 — The Finals

Done by: by members of the professional jury; online

Timeframe: March 15 – 25, 2022         

Rules:

• The winners are determined through the use of the double-rating system.
• Each of the members of the professional jury forms their personal TOP-3 rating of the best works in each nomination (1st place = 3 points, 2nd place = 2 points, 2rd place = 1 point).
• The system automatically selects 3 works that have received the maximum number of votes from the members of the professional jury in each nomination, and forms a separate list of works that were included in the jury’s TOP-3 lists the most. If these lists coincide with each other, these works subsequently become the winners of the "gold", "silver" and "bronze" awards. In the event that these lists do not coincide, additional voting is taken amongst the works slotted for the 3 top swards. In the event that several works have received an equal number of votes, an additional vote is taken on them by all members of the professional jury.

Deliverable: a list of winners of the "gold", "silver" and "bronze" awards in each nomination

Stage 4 — Special nominations

Done by: the partners of the Festival, who have established special nominations

Timeframe: April 11 – May 15, 2022         

Rules:

• The partners of the Festival, who have opted for an appropriate sponsorship package, has the right to establish their own nominations (upon approval from the organizers of the Festival).
• After the final selections are finished by the members of the professional jury, the partners of the Festival get access to all the finalists that did not become winners in the basic nominations and pick the works they wish to award (the level of access depends on the nomination).

Deliverable: an additional list of winners in the special nominations