GET CREATIVE: STB intern Gina Moor showing the previous design artwork of RWMF, which has been used for the past three years.
KUCHING: Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) is looking for aspiring art designers to help create the new look for the Rainforest World Music Festival and Borneo Jazz.
The new design will refresh the external appearance of the festivals represented by STB at many tourism-marketing exercises and promotional campaign overseas.
The design competition provides an opportunity to excite and challenge not only professional art and design communities but also members of the public (amateur or students) to showcase their talent and win attractive prizes from the festival organiser.
This design competition also provides everyone with an opportunity to showcase his or her talent as a designer. The winning design will be used to brand RWMF and Borneo Jazz 2014 in promotional materials including posters, brochures, leaflets, souvenir programme, websites or other social media platforms.
Individual or group entries are permitted. The idea must retain the characteristics that feature the significances and authenticity of each festival.
Entry in this competition constitutes the agreement to allow your idea to be published through any of STB’s marketing and publicity material either in print or electronic media worldwide.
This will include the use of material by STB marketing partners such as Tourism Malaysia or the airlines, among others.
The artwork will become the exclusive property of Sarawak Tourism Board, which retains exclusive rights to the reproduction of the design and the submitting artist relinquishes all rights to such design.
As in any other art and design competition, the entries must not violate any copyright, trademark, publicity right, privacy right, or any other right of any third party.
The best artwork design will be selected and the designer will receive 10 sets of 2-day tickets to the festival in 2014 together with certificate (Borneo Jazz) and 10 sets of 3-day tickets to the festival in 2014 together with a certificate (RWMF).
Although this is a digital competition, hard copy proposals will also be accepted.
Online entries can be uploaded via DropBox and sent to [email protected] in three formats (Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop and PDF in high resolution) not later than Nov 29, 2013. A ZIP file via email will also be accepted.
The artwork should include a technical summary in writing. Entries should include all necessary information to clearly explain the proposal especially description or the meaning of the design. Entries must follow the festival criteria.
For Borneo Jazz, it must contain an element of Jazz music icon with not more than three colours.
For Rainforest World Music Festival, it should have an element of World Music icon, Sarawak ethnic design/concept and it is compulsory to incorporate the colour green in the design.
The design must incorporate the respective festival logos, which are downloadable via http://www.sarawaktourism.com/.