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Calling all graphic designers!

As many of you know, the International Guild of Visual Peacemakers (IGVP) is in the process of building a new website and, more importantly, a community of like minded people committed to the ideals of promoting peace through visual imagery.

Mario Mattei, founder of IGVP has asked that I announce and hold a competition to design icons that represent core values of IGVP. These will be an integral part of the new website and will be used to designate or ‘award’ images and photographers as upholding or representing these values. The 5 awards are as follows:

“This image embodies/ captures/ displays…”

1. Common Humanity – Showing connection, building bridges of peace through images
2. Dignity & Beauty – The inherent quality & value of a human being
3. Local Context – Life among locals, a feeling of “place”
4. Hope for Humanity – Images that show relationships, human resolve, and acts that inspire
5. Mysteriously Emotive – Visual poetry that emotes something unspeakable about the mysterious human experience

Your assignment, should you choose to accept it, is to design graphical representations or interpretations (icons) of these 5 themes, either contained in a square shape, or unbound objects/shapes -not too flat, not too glossy or embossed, but polished looking. Similar to the IGVP leaf.

Icon Specs

Icon submission should be transparent 24bit .pngs (winner provides .psd or .ai);

Icon sizes: 225×225 300dpi, 100×100 72dpi, 40×40 72dpi (submit only the 100×100 72dpi)
Colors: Icons will sit on Grey background hex#1b191a. Cornerstone color options to use for icons are: Green hex#89a843; Orange hex#d48642; Blue hex#4684a9. White and black are suitable in design as well.

Prize

You will receive a free standard membership to visualpeacemakers.org for one year when the new site launches, which will include your own gallery and peacemaker profile page, $150 USD in cash, and your choice of one of David duChemin’s books; Within the Frame, or his newest release, Visionmongers.

Eligibility

To be in the running:

1. Submissions must be received by March 10th, 2010
2. You must be following @IGVP on twitter
3. You must be a fan of IGVP on facebook

Submit

Please use the following form to submit icon designs

Tags: Competition, Design, Icons, IGVP, International Guild of Visual Peacemakers, Visual Peace

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