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Deadline: July 31, 2010
Felicity
CHANGE YOUR CITY, CHANGE YOUR LIFE
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF GRAPHIC DESIGN - Venice, Italy
Introduction
The primary objective of this project is to promote a debate around the basic theme of
life in the community and how improvements can be made.
The International competition of graphic design is an opportunity for graphic artists from
all over the world to express, manifest, symbolize and imagine solutions for a better city
capable of improving the lifestyle of its inhabitants.
Philosophy
2 visions / 2 ways to participate
1. Intellectual proposal (critical / constructive / thematic / social)
2. Intervention (active / real / practical / urban)
1.
Does graphic art have a sense in times of crisis?
When the life conditions of a community are put into discussion and everything seems to
take on a connotation of urgency, graphic art can be a tool for channelling a statement,
to sensitize and propose new solutions, to transmit ideas, sensations and opinions.
Over the years the needs of people change and diversify, professional qualities also
change and diversify as well as the way of representing and communicating them.
Felicity aims at providing a contribution to reflection beginning from an anthropological
vision and arriving at modern times, in the expectation of a future where the city can be
a better place for self-improvement.
2.
How can a city grow qualitatively?
The project disciplines of visual culture are often privileged interlocutors of the
relations between man, territory and the city. More and more, other professional figures
apart from town planners, architects, and urban sociologists, are capable of
administering the image of the city through a deeper and more articulated approach.
With this interpretation in mind, the link between graphic art and the city is even
richer, allowing to interpret the urban context as a grand score of notational signs,
many of them being administered and generated by graphic art.
In this manner, urban spaces propose a new urban setting, to the point of influencing
the form of the city and its architecture.
The competition
The competition is open to graphic artists all over the world without limits of age or
birth place. Works already presented in other competitions may be sent. The best works
of technical and conceptual importance will be selected by the jury.
To use graphics to interpret and narrate the concept of a city to the size of man. To
improve the quality of the city in order to improve the quality of life.
Sensitive themes:
• Integration of different cultures and religions
• Citizen needs: Youth, Disabled, Children, the Aged, Outcasts...
• Technological innovations
• The Community as protagonist
• Interaction between urban areas and nature
• Safety
Jury
David Carson Graphic designer
Woody Pirtle Graphic designer
Armando e Maurizio Milani Graphic designer
David Tartakover Graphic designer
Raymundo Sesma Graphic designer
Chaz Maviyane Davies Graphic designer
Yossi Lemel Graphic designer
Maurizio Varratta Architect
Andreas Kipar Architect
Marco Navarra Architect
Participation
• Participants may only present one work
• The size of works must be 70x100 cm or 100x70 cm
• Works must be sent in JPG (72 dpi) or pdf format
• Art works can be created with any technique but the final image sent must be in
digital form, uploading them in the relative section of the web site.
• An image in high resolution will be requested for printing only for awarded works
Deadline 31 July 2010
The winners
Winners will be sent a catalogue of the exhibition.
All winners will be ex-equo, deserving works will be exhibited and published.
Selected works will be:
• Exhibited during the exhibition in Venice. The exhibition will be held in October
2010 at Venice
• Published on the web site www.felicityproject.it
• Published in the catalogue with a limited number of copies and sent to all of the
awarded artists
Project committee and info
info@felicityproject.it Stefano Meneghetti
P.zza S.Leonardo 16 Giulia Comba
31100 Treviso - Italy Veronique Mounition
Tel. +39 0422 541865 Margherita Maggiolo
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