“World Biennial of Student Poster” is open

The Eleventh World Biennial of Student Poster, organized by the University of Novi Sad and the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, is open to all undergraduate and graduate students of art colleges where the discipline of poster art is a part of the curriculum.

ENTRY DIVISIONS
All posters must represent the student’s work performed within the last two school years.

COMPETITIVE CATEGORIES
Free subject: posters made during the last two school years as a part of the curriculum.
Only students at academies and colleges of arts where the discipline of poster art is part of the curriculum have the right to participate in the competition. One can take part in three
works at most.

HOW TO APPLY:
All received posters will become a part of a special Biennial’s collection at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad and can be used for didactic purposes. They will be presented at the Biennial’s website. By filling in the application form, the entrants accept the terms of the organizer of the Biennial exhibition.
The Selection Board is entitled to reject those works that are not in agreement with the undisputed world standards on human rights to identity, nation, religion, language and the like.
The organizers of the Biennial have no authority to transfer any rights to a third party in the sense of using and reproducing works from the Biennial. The entrants accept that their work can be used for non-commercial purposes as well as in the promotion of the Biennial.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES
Poster entries MUST be submitted via this website as digital files, using the online ENTRY FORM. Through the electronic submission process, an entry form and labels will be automatically generated. Information on the entry form will be used in the exhibition’s catalog and other Biennial publications.

PLEASE, CAREFULLY READ ENTRY GUIDELINES BEFORE SUBMITTING POSTERS.

ENTRY GUIDELINES
All posters must be submitted digitally through this Web site, using the online ENTRY FORM.
Convert your Poster files to meet these conditions: JPG – quality 10, CMYK – 8 Bits/channel, 3900 pixels on the longer side.
The file size must not exceed 12 MB.

DEADLINE:
All entries must be received by 23rd November 2024.
There is no entry fee to the Biennial competition.
Each student can participate with three (3) posters.

AWARDS AND PRIZES
The 1st prize winner gets the right to organize a solo exhibition at the next Biennial with ten (10) posters as an optional choice. The prizes and awards consist of monetary prizes, plaques and certificates.

STUDENT’S PRIZES
1st prize ……. €1000
2nd prize ……. €600
3rd prize ……. €300

The posters will be judged by a five-member jury. In addition to the main prizes awarded by the jury, special prizes will also be presented by companies and individuals. The judges’ decision is final and the winners will be announced at the opening ceremony of the Biennial in Novi Sad.

COPYRIGHT
The submitted posters must be designed by the entrant. If the work has the intellectual right or copyright dispute, the organizer will cancel the qualification of the entry right. The entrant must undertake all the consequences. The entrant should ensure the organizer not to generate any copyright or other intellectual right dispute for the use of the posters. The organizer has the right to exhibit, publish (including digital publishing) and collect the selected posters.

CALENDAR
The deadline for the receipt of the entries is 23rd November 2024.

CATALOGUE
A colour catalogue of the Eleventh World Biennial of Student Poster – Novi Sad 2024 will be published in digital form. It will include works of all participants selected for exhibition by the Selection Jury. The catalogue will be presented on the Biennial website and ready for free download.

ORGANIZER
AKADEMIJA UMETNOSTI
Djure Jaksica 7
21000 Novi Sad
Srbija
[email protected]

Link to the competition: https://www.studentbiennial-ns.com/2024/index2024.php

Maria Papaefstathiou

VISUAL DESIGNER since 1996 and blogger since 2010. Living in Athens, Greece. She has been focusing her research on poster design and particularly on social poster design and portrait design. Her main poster project is a series of posters celebrating great personalities of traditional and popular culture in Greece and Jamaica. These include actors, singers, musicians, poets etc. This is an ongoing project. “I believe that design is a powerful tool that we designers can use to spark enthusiasm, change mindsets and bring positive actions to our world and our culture”. FOUNDER AND EDITOR OF GRAPHICART-NEWS.COM BLOG. She carefully curates high-quality designs, illustrations, and art, from all over the world that will teach and provoke other designers. Many consider her blog to be an exceptional educational tool. CO-FOUNDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL REGGAE POSTER CONTEST which was launched on December 2011, partnering, the creative activist Michael Thompson aka Freestylee. (www.reggaepostercontest.com)