Endeavor – Advent of a new space age
PREMISE
UNI invites Architects, Visual/Graphic Designers, and the student fraternity for the second edition of its series of Graphic Design Challenges as part of its unit block, Graphis. Challenges under ‘Graphis’ are carefully curated to bring out the best of visual communication and graphic language to educate, reflect, and inspire change with respect to pertinent world issues through visuals. A picture is worth a thousand words, and Graphis abides by that adage, to inspire participants to try and portray complex ideas and emotions through a still image.
The competition understands the importance of efficient and effective communication in the digital age and aims to recognize innovative ideas and techniques that aim to redefine the notions guiding conventional graphic design, and foremost, create impact.
UNI邀請建築師、視覺/圖形設計師和學生參加第二屆圖形設計挑戰，作為其單元塊Graphis的一部分。圖形設計挑戰是精心策劃的，以發揮視覺傳達和圖形語言的最佳效果，通過視覺來教育、反映和激發有關世界問題的變化。一幅圖像抵得上千言萬語，Graphis也遵循這句格言，通過靜止的圖像來激勵參與者嘗試描繪複雜的思想和情感。
本次競賽體現了數字時代高效溝通的重要性，旨在確認創新理念和技術，旨在重新定義指導傳統平面設計的理念，最重要的是創造影響。
THEME
On May 30, 2020, a commercial rocket for the first-time ferried astronauts into Earth orbit. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft took off at 3:22 p.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center. That’s in Cape Canaveral, Fla. It carried U.S. astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station ( ISS ). Called Demo-2, the launch and flight were the ultimate tests of the ability to use this new system to take a crew into orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket then returned to Earth and safely landed on a platform, followed by the astronauts returning safely a few weeks ago.
This event marks a point in the history of the human civilization of bringing back a lost cause of exploring space back into the priority among our pursuits as a species. This also marks the first step of humans progressing to a multi-planetary species in years to come. The challenge is to design a graphic/poster that aims to inform and make people aware of this exceptional feat and inspiring more human thought weighing on these facets of explorations.
2020年5月30日，一枚商業火箭首次將宇航員送入地球軌道。美國東部時間下午3點22分，SpaceX的“神龍”號飛船從肯尼迪航天中心起飛。那是在佛羅里達州卡納維拉爾角，它載著美國宇航員道格·赫爾利和鮑勃·本肯前往國際空間站。這次發射和飛行被稱為Demo-2，是對使用這一新系統將機組人員送入軌道能力的終極考驗。隨後，“獵鷹9號”火箭返回地球並安全降落在一個平台上，隨後宇航員幾週前安全返回。
DELIVERABLES
You have to deliver a graphic/visual outcome representing the given theme, based on the following outlines. Only one final graphic design needs to be submitted. The image should be of size [2800px x 3200px] in portrait or landscape digital format ( JPEG only ). The graphic may be entirely hand-drawn and rendered, digitally created, or a combination of both. The usage of photographs, stylized/credited or otherwise, directly is strictly not allowed. The use of lassoed graphics lifted from an existing image is limited to half of the total graphic. ( The guidelines are indicative, and are placed only to reduce plagiarized artworks – any infringement detected or reported will be notified, and may be removed from competition if found guilty )
The list of deliverables are:
- Title
- Subtitle
- Artwork
- A statement in about 100 words supporting the artwork – You can attach this as an additional image below your artwork.
JURY
- Nigel Holmes
Owner, Explanation Graphics, United States - James Armstrong
Owner, Armstrong Design, Australia - Ellen Lupton
Senior Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper Hewitt, United states
SCHEDULE
- Oct 1, 2020 15:00 GMT – Early registration starts
- Oct 22, 2020 15:00 GMT – Early registration ends
- Oct 22, 2020 15:00 GMT – Regular registration starts
- Mar 22, 2021 15:00 GMT – Regular registration ends
- Mar 23, 2021 15:00 GMT – Submission ends
- Apr 7, 2021 15:00 GMT – Shortlisted entries announced
- Apr 13, 2021 15:00 GMT – Jury evaluation starts
- Apr 13, 2021 15:00 GMT – Public voting starts
- May 7, 2021 15:00 GMT – Jury evaluation ends
- May 8, 2021 15:00 GMT – Public voting ends
- May 20, 2021 15:00 GMT – Result announcement
Current round grants
Winner
50 USD Cash + e-certificate
People’s Choice
e-certificate
