Posters For Future: “Green For Good”

Posters For Future: “Green For Good” now is over!

Posters For Future: “Green For Good”: Creatives For Future invites you to take part in the 1st edition of their international poster competition about human-caused climate change, to raise awareness and cool down our carbon footprint (as well as our handprint).

➜ Short description

Creatives For Future invites you to take part in the 1st edition of their international poster competition about human-caused climate change.

The intention is to raise awareness and cool down our carbon footprint (as well as our handprint).

The this year motto is “Green For Good”. Posters For Future is established as an annual event. Every year, participants are assigned two colors. One color will represent the motto of the year, joining the hues of paper and black. In 2024, that color is green.

Come up with your own slogans, let the illustration take centre stage, allow a photo to say more than 1,000 words. The only limits to your creativity are those set by the printing process of risography.

You can use this year’s motto “Green For Good” as a slogan if you like, but since Creatives For Future are looking forward to receive a diverse variety of posters, you are free in your design and wording – as long as you follow the color requirements and make sure your poster is about climate change.

Some topics to inspire you:

➜ Protecting the climate
➜ Deforestation
➜ Plant extinction
➜ Green energy
➜ Climate and social justice
➜ Urban greening

To ensure equal conditions for all, each participant may enter up to two posters.

The 50 winning posters will be printed and assembled into one giant poster and exhibited in several locations across Germany.

When the posters eventually get printed, organiser will use the risography technique. Risography is an environmentally friendly printing process. The ink is made of rice bran oil, and the master foils are made from hemp fibers. Riso printing only requires a fraction of the energy used by a digital printing press. Similar to screen printing, colour applications and offsets have special characteristics and halftone pattern modulation and colour overlays create new tones. A riso print is never perfect, but that's what makes it so exciting!

➜ Submission requirements:

Technical specifications:

➜ Format: PDF
➜ File size: up to 3 MB (low-resolution)
➜ Dimensions: DIN A3 (portrait)
➜ Colours: black and green (spot colours)
➜ Bleed margin: 5 mm
➜ Font size: at least 6 pt

For typography and important details, maintain a protective zone of 6 mm all around the final dimensions. Large solid colour areas often cause problems. Therefore, please use 80% opacity for such areas.

➜ Who may enter?

The minimum age to participate in the competition is 16 years. You are welcome to work in groups of up to three people.

➜ Prize:

The 50 winning posters will be printed and assembled into one giant poster and exhibited in several locations across Germany.