Typography Day 2019 Logo Design Competition

Typography Day 2019 Logo Design Competition now is over!

Typography Day 2019 Logo Design Competition organised by Industrial Design Centre (IDC) of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is currently accepting entries inviting all students from India and from all around the world to partecipate.

About Competition

The Industrial Design Centre (IDC) of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay is currently accepting entries for its Typography Day 2019 Logo Design Competition.

Typography Day will be organized for the Twelfth time on 2nd to 4th March 2019 at IDC School of Design (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai with support from India Design Association (InDeAs) and Aksharaya.

The event will feature a day of workshops on Typography and Calligraphy followed by two days of conference dedicated to ’Experimental Typography’. The international conference will be devoted to addressing issues faced by type designers, type users and type educators. The conference includes presentations by invited keynote speakers, eminent academicians, blind juried papers, industry professionals, research scholars and students. The event will also host an exhibition of selected posters and typographic works of students and faculty members from Design Institutes.

The theme for this year’s event is ’Experimental Typography’.

Guidlines:

• Design a logo for ‘Typography Day 2019’ so that it expresses the theme of the event - ’Experimental Typography’.
• As the conference is being held in Mumbai, you are encouraged to include the context of Mumbai in the design of logo.

• Calligraphic or digitally created letterforms or existing fonts, or a combination of these can be used for the logo. The logo should also include the words ‘Typography Day 2019’ or ‘Typo Day 2019’.
The resulting logo should be of the size and specification given below.

Submission Specifications:

• You need to submit the solution along with a brief write-up of around 100 words written in English langauge.

Poster:
Size of the final logo: 300mm x 100mm only in wide format
Resolution: 300 dpi
File type: JPEG or PDF
Color Mode: CMYK

Write-up + contact Info+Bio:
Format: in RTF, TXT or PDF format
Write up about the design: Maximum 100 words and should be written in English language.
Contact Info: Name, Postal Address, Email, Telephone number, Name and Address of Institution in English.

Your Bio-data/Personal Information: Maximum of 100 words and should be written in English.

Each participant is allowed a maximum of 3 entries.

The winning logo will be used as the official visual identity of the Typography Day 2019 event scheduled for 2nd—4th March, 2019 at the IDC School of Design (IDC) IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. In addition to the winning design, a total of 6 Runner Up designs will be selected.

Declaration of results is scheduled for 30th August 2018.

There is no entry fees to partecipate in this competition!

Eligibility

Typography Day 2019 Logo Design Competition is open to students. The competition is open to all non resident Indians, as well as foreign citizens can take part in it.