The RAIC Emerging Practitioners/IRAC Relève Praticiens is a national initiative, recently formed to advocate for students, interns and young practitioners as they progress through their professional growth. To read more about them, check out this previous post.
They will formally launch at the Festival of Architecture 2016 in Nanaimo, BC and are on the look out for ‘an exciting, simple and iconic logo to represent the organization and its intent’.
Call for Entries – RAIC EP Logo Competition
Eligibility
This competition is open to all architecture students, graduates, syllabus students, interns, and newly licensed architects (up to 5 years post-licensure) registered and residing in Canada. Submissions will be accepted from both individuals and teams. There is no maximum to the number of entries per person or team.
Submission Requirements
Email entries to competitions@raicep.ca no later than 11:59pm Central Time on May 27/2016. Late entries will not be accepted.
File size and Format
- Email size (for submissions) to be a maximum of 5MB.
- Entries must be submitted digitally in .eps vector format as well as PDF
- PDF to include:
- page 1 – entrant / team information, and
- page 2 – logo design.
Page 1 – 8.5” x 11” [Entrant/Team Info]
- Name
- Association registered under and membership status (intern architect, architect, graduate architect, etc.) or university and program enrolled in and year of study or RAIC membership status and year enrolled in syllabus program
- Mailing address
- Phone number and e-mail address
PAGE 2 – 8.5” x 11” [Design Criteria] – Do NOT write your name or team name on page 2
Size of logo to be submitted within 8”x6” area on 8.5”x11” page
- Colour: No limitation on number of colours used, however, logo must be legible and distinct in both colour and black and white.
- Professionalism: This logo must reflect the professionalism required of a national body in the field of architecture.
- Aesthetics: Design should be eye-catching, simple, iconic and recognizable.
- Adaptability: The logo must be easily reproduced and scalable for large and small formatting, able to be printed on all types of media.
- Integrity: Logo entries must be original and not infringe the intellectual property rights of others.
- Bilingualism: the logo must be presented as a single bilingual logo.
- Content: “RAIC EP” + “IRAC RP” must be included in the logo graphic.
Process
The competition jury consists of members from the architectural community across Canada. The jury will judge the blind submission and choose a winning entry based on the criteria noted. The decision of the jury will be final.
Jury
- Elsa Lam – Editor at Canadian Architect Magazine
- Tyler Loewen – RAIC Intern Director
- Maxime-Alexis Frappier – Associate at ACDF* Architecture, RAIC Young Architect Award
- Rachelle Lemieux – Past RAIC Intern Director + Emerging Practitioners Steering Committee
- Michael Cox – RAIC 2nd Vice-President + Regional Director, Saskatchewan/Manitoba
Honoraria
1st prize: $1000 Canadian Dollars + 1 RAIC registration membership for 1 year
2nd prize: $400 Canadian Dollars + CCA gift prize
3rd prize: Honorable mention + CCA gift prize
Schedule
May 06/2016 Announcement of Competition
May 27/2016 (11:59pm Central Time) Deadline for Submissions
June 08/2016 Announce winner for logo competition at Festival of Architecture – Nanaimo 2016
Questions
All questions are to be directed to competitions@raicep.ca before May 24/2016, 11:59pm Central Time.
Good Luck!
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