About Titan
Every competition has its own particular characteristics, its own thematic orientation and, over time, develops its own tradition and reputation. TITAN in contrast is new, launched for the first time this year but with no lesser degree of ambition than to carve out its own particular identity.
It is for these reasons that our attention is drawn to the ways in which the special skills of image making - drawing upon unique interpretation and vision - combine with other graphic and visual languages to create narratives and identities. Thus TITAN is concerned, not simply with illustration as a self contained practice but with the fusion of illustration and design.
We thought long and hard about the categories that would best encompass our objectives. Our belief in the promotion of a vibrant design culture, applied in social practice, led us to create categories which gravitate around notions of doing rather than a more conventional list of form-based areas. Needless to say, although forms of categorization may influence our perceptions - which is a good thing in itself - the search always returns to ideas expressed through the taking of form. Regardless of categories therefore, our most profound concern is to attract work of excellence that reflects the diverse and ever expanding domain of contemporary image making. That such excellence exists we have no doubt. Through TITAN we aim to celebrate it and its authors and most importantly, to take it to a larger public.
ESAD
Established in 1989, ESAD - Escola Superior de Artes e Design de Matosinhos is a private college, which gradually has won its space as a reference of quality in education, research and dynamization level in the field of arts and design.
ESAD confers graduations, perfectly adequate to Bologne directives in areas of Design – with specialization in Communication, Product, Interiors and Fashion – and Arts – with specialization in Jewelry, Digital Arts and Multimedia, teaching together with Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, since 2000, a PhD course in Industrial Design.
Investing in quality education, ESAD reflects, however, the conscience that schools, beside institutions conferred of academic degrees should assume themselves as education institutions in the true meaning of the word, as communicating platforms between civil community, industry and market. Reflecting that spirit, ESAD develops an activity open to community – it’s clear by the large number of people external to school that go to the events organized by ESAD – attentive to synergy exploration which result from the development of projects in partnership with other institutions, from the nearest ones, such as Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos or the Museu de Serralves to the furthest ones, such as Schools in Poland or Estonia with which ESAD has cooperation and exchange programs.
The recognition of the national and international level quality of work developed by the ESAD results in three main factors:
- In first place, the quality of education ministered in ESAD. This quality translates a permanent care in update study plans; a strict selection of the teaching staff; an adequate equipment of means, which assures the quality of education in areas where the technological component is essential. From this results, the education of professionals extremely qualified, suitable to respond to the companies’ needs and to create their own companies; suitable to develop projectual work and to develop research work; also suitable to respond to the education needs in areas in which they graduated.The quality of education reflects itself in awards received by students of ESAD (such as the recent first award in the competition Bombay Saphire) and in the success in which ESAD ex students continued a professional career in national and international success companies, such as, Drop, DSType, Boca do Lobo ou the north-american IDEO.
- In second place, the intense extracurricular activity developed in ESAD. The workshops, conferences and exhibitions which ESAD organizes, mark, without a doubt, the artistic and projectual culture in Portugal. The cycle of conferences Personal Views, coordinated by Andrew Howard, is an event of important international prestige, which has brought in the last three years the most important names of worldwide communication design, such as Neville Brody, Eric Spikerman, Ellen Lupton, Jon Wozencroft, Steven Heller, Katherine McCoy and others of a long list. Other important conferences brought other influential names, between Portuguese designers (Siza Vieira, Henrique Cayatte, Nuno Portas, Paulo Cunha e Silva, etc.) and foreigner designers (Paolo Deganello, Art Chantry, Enzo Mari, etc.). At last, is important to say that dynamic work that the school develops at editorial level, participation in events (such as the recent Lisbon Village Festival) and organization of exhibitions (on 16th August inaugurates in Tuy, Galiza, in the scope of Bienal de Cerveira, the exhibition “Mediações” dedicated to digital arts, organized by ESAD).
- In third place, the research projects. ESAD defends an active partnership politic with national and international industrial companies. Inside these companies, cooperation with VOLVO in the production of a cabin for a truck and a project with the presence of Mauricio Vogliazzo e Lecio Guardini were pointed out. Other partnerships were made with Philips and more recently with Electrolux (in designing a worldwide project), Nokia (with the mobile phones’ Project for the fourth generation) and Leica, which its partnership resulted in choosing a student project to incorporate the wide brand portfolio. Positioning in the vanguard in design education, ESAD incorporates in its installations a research office in industrial design (INDI), which develops new products in direct partnership with national and international companies. Developing projects in several areas stands out the awarded Project of a wheel for a bicycle, which is in production run and the project of a stretcher-car for sport events.
Participating in programs such as Leonardo and Erasmus, ESAD continues a politic of permanent opening to exchanges with other national and international institutions, which brings to ESAD Italian, French, Irish, Canadian or Brazilian students, taking ESAD students to the four corners of the world.
At a building, especially built for this purpose, with 5000m2 of covered area, ESAD develops its ambitious mission – educate, improve, innovate – oriented for a spirit where the valorization of arts and design reflects an attentive look on the reality in which ESAD integrates itself and the willingness to always contribute to make a better reality.
Rules
Introduction
TITAN Illustration in Design – International Competition is promoted by ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design, Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos and APDL Administração dos Portos do Douro e Leixões.
The competition aims to award, promote and divulge illustration within design objects. To engage critical discussions on the role of illustration in design projects through lectures, exhibitions and publications.
General information
The TITAN Illustration in Design Competition launches its 1st call for entries aimed at design companies in all sectors of business, freelance designers, illustrators as well as local or private organisations.
TITAN is an award and a quality label with exhibitions in Portugal and abroad, as well as international conferences. In this first edition TITAN highlights and rewards a selection of the best work resulting from the collaboration between clients, designers and illustrators.
The TITAN welcomes illustrators and designers from all sectors of industry to exhibit their most recent and innovative creations. The products selected by the jury are awarded the "TITAN" label and proceed to form part of a number of exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.
The awards of TITAN are defined by an independent jury of professionals and experts to the most outstanding illustrations.
Call for entries
May 27th, 2008/ January 23rd, 2009
Jury’s selection
February 2009
Results, Awards ceremony and Exhibition
April/ May 2009
Eligible Entries
Illustration authors in published work within the past five years can enter the competition.
Jury
The jury is composed of international renowned specialists in several fields, from several nationalities. The jury has the final decision in any error or omission in this regulation.
Main prize
€ 8.000,00
Prize for each category
€ 2.500,00
The international jury may award an additional special prize, in the form of a certificate, if it is considered appropriate. Only the awarded submitters will be notified and the winner of the main prize will be invited to the exhibition and awards ceremony with the costs supported by the organization.
Exhibition
There will be a promotional event of TITAN Illustration in Design integrating an exhibition with the selected artworks and with the publication of a catalogue.
Conditions
In collective artwork all authors must be identified in the entry form.
An incomplete entry form will be considered grounds for exclusion from the competition.
The shipping charges of the artwork sent, as well as the custom fees are chargeable to the addresser. The organization reserves the right to refuse any artworks sent in with a custom payment due. To avoid any custom fees, artworks should be declared as “material for contest entry, no commercial value”.
The organization declines any responsibility in case of loss or damage of the artworks in transit.
The material will not be returned and becomes property of ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design and Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos.
Any person taking part in Titan implicitly agrees with its regulation. While the authors remain the sole owners of their artwork, they acknowledge the non-exclusive right of Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos and ESAD of:
- reproduction of their artwork in the exhibition, catalogue, posters, leaflet, DVD, internet and all media of promotion of TITAN Illustration in Design;
- digitalisation, reproduction, exhibition and communication to the public of the artwork and its dissemination for promotional, scientific and/or educational purposes on all media.
The organization commits to notify on each medium the prohibition for any person or legal entity to reproduce, perform and/or communicate to the public the artwork without the authorization of the artist, as well as the legal sanctions applied to the infraction.
The name of the author shall be credited on each medium reproducing the artwork.
The author expressly authorizes, free of charge, reproduction of the artwork’s photographs and of the author’s biography.
The use of the artworks lies within the scope of the promotion of the cultural activities of Titan. The author expressly agrees to abandon any and all remuneration related to the present activities.
Main prize
8.000,00 EUR
Prize for each category
2.500,00 EUR
The international jury may award an additional special prize, in the form of a certificate, if it is considered appropriate.
Only the awarded submitters will be notified and the winner of the main prize will be invited to the exhibition and awards ceremony with the costs supported by the organization
TITAN國際插畫設計比賽歡迎插畫家和設計師從所有行業展示其最新和最創新的作品。優勝作品將由被該選擇作品的評審人士頒發的“TITAN”的標籤，並或邀參加在葡萄牙和國外所舉辦的展覽。
本次競賽報名截止日期：2009年1月23日
獲得優勝的首獎獎金：10500(美元)更多資訊：
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