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Typographic Design - Open International Call

The Design Biennial of Peru, a pioneer in the design sector in America, officially announces an international call in the category of Typographic Design. The call is open to companies, professionals and future professionals in the design sector with unpublished projects and / or published.

Participants: Published or unpublished projects. Complete alphabets with own style (uppercase letters, lowercase letters), numbers, basic signs and visual examples of use. Alphabets that belong to any of the existing writing systems, made in the last ten years.

General Considerations

a). International and national projects participate.

b). The organization declines all responsability for the authenticity of the Works to the participates.

c). The participates authorize the organization to publicly communicate the images of the Works respecting at all times the right of the autor, in order to maximize its diffusion in different media and communication platforms that the organizers consider convenient.

d). The jury will choose among all the projects presented, “selected projects”, the same ones that will be publicly recognized and will be part of the exhibition of the Peru Design Biennial. From the group of selected projects the jury chooses “finalist projects” as long as it considers that the pieces merit it. The finalist projects enter the final straight to choose the winning project in the category of editorial design.

e). The jury will be made up of national and international professionals with recognized professional experience in the design sector, members of the organizing committee, directing committees of the Biennial and the executive committees of the Peru Design Biennial

f). No member of the jury must have participated directly or indirectly in the works that will be participants in the event. The verdict of the jury is unappealable, the jury is committed not to reveal the result before the dates stipulated by the organization.

g) The selected projects, finalists and winners will be certified, officially recognized by the Organizing Committee and will be part of the 2022 exhibition of the Design Biennial of Peru, as an example of good practice in the design sector.

h). The Jury will take into account in his evaluation of the works the following criteria: Creativity, Innovation, Aesthetics and Functionality, taking into account a scale of scores from 1 to 10.

i) Any objection provided or that is not in the bases , it will be resolved by the directive of the biennial in a final and unappealable form.

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Dates

Deadline: July 10 , 2024
Selected Projects: July 20, 2024
Finalist Projects: July 25, 2024
Awarded Projects: August 04, 2024
Opening November 15, 2024
Exhibition: November 15-  November 28, 2024

Information

To participate it will be necessary that the information to SEND meets two requirements, which we describe below:

A) Project information, size A4 (Word or pdf file), considering the following:

For Companies: Name of the Company, Name of the Project, Country, short description of the Project. You can consolidate web links in the document to reinforce the information of your project.

For Professionals: Name of the Author, Name of the Project, Country and short description of the Project. You can consolidate web links in the document to reinforce the information of your project.

For Future Professionals: Name of the Author, Name of the Project, Country and short description of the Project. You can consolidate web links in the document to reinforce the information of your project.

B) Images of the project. You can consider up to a maximum of eight images. Minimum size of each image 1000 px. high or wide. Maximum weight 8MB. The images must be compressed in zip or rar format.

The information described above must be submitted through the “Submission Form” at the end of the reading. If, in a certain project, more than one person participated, this must be consolidated in the “project information” to be sent. Enter an “active and main” email for the necessary communications and coordination (Very Important). You will receive a confirmation email within a maximum period of 36 hours. Check your “main email” and also the “junk mailbox” (Very Important). We recommend adding the email to your address book peru@labienal.pe

Please verify that the extension of the “files” to be sent complies with the requirements of the “Submission Form”. If the images to send exceed 8 MB, you can use the file transfer tools: Wetransfer, Google Drive or “similar” to send your project and notify the email: peru@labienal.pe

Typographic Design - Submission Form

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