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.
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Comics and CartoonsInform
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Stamps, Greeting Cards, Invitations and StationaryListen
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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, 2009Jury’s selection
February 2009Results, Awards ceremony and Exhibition
April/ May 2009Eligible 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
€ 8.000,00Prize for each category
€ 2.500,00The 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 EURPrize for each category
2.500,00 EURThe 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
Adrian Shaughnessy. UK
Andrew Howard. UK
Heitor Alvelos. PT
Jessica Helfand. US
Paula Scher. US
Pep Montserrat. ESAdrian Shaughnessy
Adrian Shaughnessy is a self-taught graphic designer. He was creative director and co-founder of Intro, the London-based graphic design company. In 2004 he left to pursue an interest in writing and consultancy. He is currently consultant creative director of This is Real Art, the design and advertising company. Shaughnessy has written three books on design for music (the Sampler series) and edited a book of Intro work (Display Copy Only). His book How to be a Graphic Designer Without Losing Your Soul has sold extensively around the world. He is currently working on a follow-up, entitled A User’s Manual: the A-Z of Graphic Design, to be published in 2008. He writes for many of the leading design publications including Eye, Creative Review and Grafik. He has a monthly column in Design Week, and is a guest contributor to Design Observer. He also writes for The Wire. Shaughnessy is editor of a new magazine called Varoom – the journal of illustration and the made image. He has been interviewed on TV on five occasions, and lectures extensively around the world.Andrew Howard
Andrew Howard is a self-taught graphic designer and divides his professional time between running his studio, teaching, curating exhibitions and conferences and nurturing ambitions to write more often. Having originally studied Fine Art, he began working as a freelance designer in London in the 1980’s for NGO’s, local government and health authorities. In 1993 he moved to Portugal where he established and continues to run a design studio specialising in work for museums and cultural and educational institutions. At the same time he also began teaching at the ESAD Escola Superior de Artes e Design where he developed the schools typographic programme. Although not teaching at present, he is still involved in college activity as coordinator of the Personal Views project. In 2005 he was invited by the Serralves Foundation to curate and design a two-year series of communication design exhibitions. The series, entitled Idioms, explores the day-to-day world of graphic design by looking at the visual languages and forms that designers use, and the impact these have on the messages they create. The first exhibition which took place in January 2006 was entitled 175X120 and looked at Portuguese street posters; Read Before Using, (June 2006) explores the world of visual instructions, and Alphabet, (February 2007) celebrates the graphic code we know as letters. The forth exhibition in the series (May 2007) is entitled Chamadas Fotográficas: Imagens do quotidiano (Photographic Calls: Images of the everyday) and explores mobile phone photography. He has won various international design awards, was president of the Clube Criativo de Portugal design jury in 2003, and jury member on various other design competitions. His writing on design has been published in Eye, the International Review of Graphic Design, and in the Canadian magazine Adbusters. His writing has also been included in the anthologies, Looking Closer, Critical Writings on Graphic Design, issues 2 & 4 (Allworth Press, New York, 1997 & 2002). In 1986 he also collaborated in the authorship and production of Culture and Democracy, The Manifesto (Comedia Publishing Group, London, 1986). He is currently compiling and editing a book of essays to be published as a result of the Personal Views project.Heitor Alvelos
Born Viseu, Portugal, 1966. Doctor of Philosophy in Communication Art and Design (Royal College of Art, London, 2003). Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communication (School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1992). Professor and Researcher in Design and Cultural Criminology, with papers presented internationally since 2001 and research work published since 2003. Head of Communication Design at the University of Porto, Course Director of BA and MA Design and Multimedia Programmes. Visiting Tutor at the Drawing Studio of the Royal College of Art. Member of the Editorial Board of Crime Media Culture (Sage Pub.). Member of the General Council of the Gomes Teixeira Foundation, University of Porto. Design and Intermedia Arts: Exhibits internationally since 1989. Regular collaborator of the UK media label Touch in Design, Photography and visual work for live events (Biosphere, Fennesz, BJNilsen, among others). Works under the alias Autodigest in the production of conceptual sound pieces, released on CD by Ash International (UK), the Gulbenkian Foundation (UK) and Crónica (Portugal). Performs regularly in international events. Curator of Design exhibitions and conferences since 2002.Jessica Helfand
Jessica Helfand is partner with William Drenttel in Jessica Helfand | William Drenttel, a design consultancy in New York that concentrates on editorial design and the development of new models for old and new media. Clients include Newsweek, Business Week, Lingua Franca, America OnLine and Champion International Corporation. Helfand is also media columnist for Eye magazine and a contributing editor of I.D. Her book, Six (+2) Essays on Design and New Media was published in 1995 by William Drenttel New York. She is visiting lecturer in graphic design at Yale University School of Art and adjunct professor at New York University’s graduate program in Interactive Telecommunications, and has lectured at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, the Columbia University School of Jounalism and the Netherlands Design Institute, among others. She holds a B.A. and a M.F.A. in graphic design from Yale University.Paula Scher
Paula Scher studied at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and began her graphic design career as a record cover art director at both Atlantic and CBS Records in the 1970s. In 1984 she co-founded Koppel & Scher, and in 1991 she joined Pentagram as a partner. Paula has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, packaging and publication designs for a wide range of clients. Drawing from what Tom Wolfe has called the “big closet” of art and design history, classic and pop iconography, literature, music and film, Paula creates images that speak to contemporary audiences with emotional impact and appeal. Three decades into her career, these images have come to be visually identified with the cultural life of New York City. Paula is a member of the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame and a past recipient of the Chrysler Award for Innovation in Design. She has served on the national board of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), and in 2001 she was awarded the profession’s highest honor, the AIGA Medal, in recognition of her distinguished achievements and contributions to the field. She holds an honorary doctorate from the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and she is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). She currently serves on the board of directors of The Public Theater, and in 2006 she was named to the Art Commission of the City of New York. Her work has been exhibited all over the world and is represented in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., the Denver Art Museum, the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Her teaching career includes over two decades at the School of Visual Arts, along with positions at the Cooper Union, Yale University and the Tyler School of Art. In 2002 Princeton Architectural Press published her career monograph Make It Bigger.
Pep Montserrat
I started illustrating brochures and children books and magazines while finishing my Arts course at Llotja Art School in Barcelona, in 1988.After this, I also studied Graphis Design in Eina School, in Barcelona also.From tose days, I’ve been illustrating a lot of children books, some of them distinguished with awards like the Nacional del Ministerio de Cultura (1995), Internacional Catalònia (1997), the Generalitat de Catalunya Award (1998) or to be included on the IBBY’s Honour List (1998). I have published bokks in many european countries, as well that in the United States of America, Brasil, Corea…As a Press illustrator, I’ve published or I’m still publishing regularly on the newspapers Avui, La Vanguardia and El País, in Spain, and The Chicago Tribune on the States. I’ve also published with The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe… as well as with many spanish and american magazines, like Woman, Quéleer, Cuerpomente o Ser Padres in Spain and The New Yorker o Travel&Leisure among others, in the States.I’ve created with the catalan writer Montse Ganges, a televisión series wich is called ’Miniman’, produced by Cromosoma, I was the Art Director of the catalan publisher Edicions de la Magrana from 1995 to 2001.From 1998 I teach illustration in La Massana Arts School, in Barcelona.
Call for entries
27th May 2008 / 23rd January 2009Jury’s selection
February 2009
Results divulgation
Awards ceremony and Exhibition
April / May 2009
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