YAKU – 4th international poster exhibition
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The Art & Graphic Design career from the San Ignacio de Loyola University has the pleasure to invite all designers, plastic artists and visual communicators from all the five continents to participate in the fourth international poster exhibition named YAKU (which means "water" in Quechua language). The exhibition will take place in the city of Lima, Peru, while establishing a close connection within all the diverse artists around the world.
The fourth international poster exhibition is the result of the extensive effort from the Art & Graphic Design career to create a space where our students and every designer in the field can express their own point of view on a common issue. The exhibition tries to alert everyone about the problem our world is having in regards to this vital element, water.
Objective
Participants need to express their point of view on the main theme (WATER). They can touch topics such as scarcity, pollution, waste, etc, but always keeping in mind the need of rising awareness about what mankind doing with this vital element to earth's life.
Prizes
All selected participants will receive a diploma in PDF format, via e-mail certifying your participation. This will be given by The University of San Ignacio de Loyola, Art & Design Programme. The first three places will receive a printed diploma and the ocial book of the exhibition via standard mail.
The exhibition will be in Lima, Perú, from 1 October 2010 to 30 October 2010. It will be at the "Hall of RAUL PORRAS BARRENECHEA" in the "Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma" (Av. Larco 770, Miraflores).
Rules
- All local and foreign designers, artists and visual communicators are invited to participate in this international exhibition.
- There are no limits to the amount of proposals presented. There could be just an individual proposal or a series of them, making a series.
- All posters must be 70cm x 100cm, landscape or portrait.
- The poster should be between 200dpi and 300dpi, JPEG format (all posters that do not keep these conditions will not be accepted).
- Photos must be in good conditions, avoiding any blur or distortions.
- The techniques are free, given that the poster's format will be digital.
How to enter?
Name the files of your designs like this:
- NAME_SURNAME_01.JPG
- If there is one piece, write 01 and if there are two pieces, write 02, and so on.
Fill-in the entry form and send it together with your poster design to yakuposter [at] gmail.com (please replace [at] with @). Write "SUBMISION POSTER" in the subject box.
Once your poster is received, you will be sent a confirmation.
