In short

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Organizer

The organizer of the competition is the EUROJAZZ Foundation for the Popularization of Jazz Music, the publisher of the RadioJAZZ.FM online radio and the JazzPRESS magazine.

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Participants

The competition is open. We welcome both students and professionals.

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Task

The competition participants are asked to design a poster. The topic is "KOMEDA 55".

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Awards

12 000 PLN

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Deadline

August 30, 2024, 11:59 p.m

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Opening

Warsaw, Poland
Browary Warszawskie, September 22, 2024

Terms

DATES: Deadline for submitting works: August 30, 2024 / Competition results: September 12, 2024 / Final exhibition of the competition: September 22, 2024.

AWARDS: 1st prize - PLN 6,000 / 2nd prize - PLN 3,500 / 3rd prize - PLN 2,500 / The amount of the prizes is gross amount and will be reduced by the tax due on the prizes.

TECHNICAL PARAMETERS OF POSTERS: Each author may submit a maximum of 2 posters / dimensions: 70x100 cm (vertical) / file format: JPG / colors: CMYK / resolution: 200 dpi / Please note! SIGN FILE NAME: country_surname_first-name_poster-title.jpg

The poster does not have to include the competition title! Works that do not meet all technical parameters will not be evaluated by the jury!

Regulations

The organizers will select the submitted posters. Selecting 25 works from among them. Out of the selected 25 final posters, three winning posters will be chosen, whose authors will receive a final prize. The jury will also award distinctions. The selection of posters and the selection of winning work will be made by a jury appointed for this purpose, consisting of experts and representatives of the organizer. The results of the competition will be announced on September 12, 2024, on RadioJAZZ.FM and on the website JAZZPRESS and on social media. Please be advised that the author, by submitting his works, grants the organizer of the project, free of charge and for an indefinite period of time, a non-exclusive license to use the submitted works. Under the license, the organizer of the competition is authorized to use the works in all fields of exploitation known at the time of granting the license, in particular: (1) recording and multiplying the works by creating copies of the work by printing, reprographics, magnetic recording, and digital technique, (2) lending or renting the original or copies of the work, (3) publicly exhibiting, displaying, and making the works publicly available in such a way that everyone can access them at a place and time of their choice. The project organizer may sublicense the use of the works to other entities in the scopes listed above. By submitting works to the exhibition, the participant declares that they have the proprietary copyrights to the work and its’ submitted digital version, and agrees to publish their name, surname, and nationality.

Questions about the competition? Write to: wewantjazz@radiojazz.fm

Jury

Lech Majewski

Prof., graphic designer, poster artist, head of the Department of Visual Communication at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Co-founder of the International Poster Biennale in Warsaw. Member of the jury of art competitions. Honorary member of the Association of Applied Graphic Designers (STGU). Author of jazz posters. He has an important track record in the field of book and album design, many of which have won awards and distinctions. Laureate of the 7th Polish Poster Biennale in Katowice, the International Poster Salon in Paris and the Poster Triennial in Trnava.

Tomasz Kipka

Dr hab., graphic designer, assistant professor at the Art Institute of the Art Department of the University of Silesia, associate professor at the University of Technology in Katowice. laureate of awards and distinctions for posters, visual identification, and book design, including the International Council of Graphic Designers Associations ICOGRADA Excellence Award, the international Grand Prix for an ecological poster, Śląska Rzeczy. Organizer and curator of the project of the cyclical exhibition of the ecological poster "Ekoplakat" (since 2006) and poster exhibitions of the International Jazz in Ruins Festival (since 2009).

Andrzej Wąsik

Director, graphic and animation designer, author of many book publishers. A graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Toruń. Winner of awards and nominations at the YachFilm festival. Director of television programs, author of documentaries, non-profit artistic projects, music videos, commercials and many graphics for TV stations and programs.

Milena Nawrat

Warsaw Brewieres
(Browary Warszawskie)

Agnieszka Holwek

EuroJAZZ Foundation

KOMEDA 55

The year 2024 marks the 55th anniversary of the death of one of Poland’s most important jazzmen and the world’s most important film music composers, Krzysztof Komeda. He wrote music for nearly 70 films, and gained worldwide recognition through his collaboration with director Roman Polanski. This resulted in such iconic pictures as “Knife in the Water” and “Rosemary’s Baby”, “Fearless Vampire Hunters”, among others. His extraordinary music, as well as his legendary and unchanging status as a cult figure in Polish jazz and film for decades, means that his compositions are being rediscovered by successive generations of musicians. In 1966, he and his quintet recorded the album “Astigmatic”, considered by world jazz critics to be the most important album in the history of Polish jazz.