The Irish Writers’ Centre is rebranding and to celebrate the rejuvenation of the Centre they are inviting interested parties to create a new logo for the organisation this summer.
The aim is to portray the sense of community amongst the Prose writers, Poets and Playwrights of Ireland. The winning design will be selected for its innovation and understanding of the concept of the Irish Writers’ Centre. The Centre encourages aspiring and established designers to partake. The logo will be chosen by a panel of judges made up of board and staff members of the Irish Writers’ Centre.
Submissions should be sent to info@writerscentre.ie
Closing date: 20th August 2010
- Designers can submit up to five entries.
- The company name must appear in the logo in both English and Irish, ie. 'Irish Writers' Centre' and 'Áras na Scríbhneoirí'.
- The entries must be submitted as a scalable vector graphic in EPS format, and also as a JPG. *see below
- The Irish Writers' Centre assumes all entries are original creations and the work and property of the entrant with all rights granted. Entrants should take care to ensure that their Entries are not in any way similar to existing logos or other copyrighted images.
- Modifying, enhancing or altering someone else’s artwork does not constitute an original, valid entry. Pictures taken from stock art websites and other such sources are not permitted.
Some Design Tips
We've spent the last year rejuvenating the Centre, it has been completely revived with a new website, new staff, and a new program of events. We want something unique to reflect our fresh outlook. The Irish Writers' Centre supports and promotes contemporary Irish writing, its main focus is writers that are alive and breathing today.
As we're going for something new, variations of our old logo will probably not win this competition. We have no set colour scheme in mind and have no particular attachment to the old colours so the designer has free reign.
Flexibility is a key requirement, including the need to resize easily and to look good in black and white as well as colour. The final version of the logo will need to be suitable for high quality printing.
*Due to the requirements for high quality printing and re-sizing Entries must submitted in scalable vector graphic format (EPS). We advise against the use of halftones and gradients unless created inside a vector graphics programme. Colour in this version must be CMYK, no spot colors.
JPGs 1000 pixels square of the logo is also requested so that entries can be posted to the web site without the need for conversion.
