Supernovae – PDP Poster Design Exhibition Competition
The 10th international PDP Creative Media Conference invites designers, graphic artist illustrators and anyone in between and beyond, to participate in Supernovae – its poster design exhibition competition.
The competition is open to young professionals and students from around the world.
Technical requirements:
artworks will be printed on the Riso printer. The paper size should be A3 (420 x 297mm); paper characteristics – white, uncoated. It is necessary to include a 15mm safe space along all four sides of the artwork. artworks will not be trimmed so your artwork must be within the given margins.
Each participant may submit a maximum of three artworks.
The color scheme is limited to the following colors :
- Orange (Riso color name: Orange; hexadecimal code: ## FF6C2F)
-Black (Riso color name: Black; hexadecimal code: # 000000)
It is not allowed to use any other color.
Please send a full color PDF file of your artwork but keep in mind when preparing a document with multiple color layers to separate each layer by color and then save each layer as a separate PDF document.
Due to the restrictions of the printing technology, application of gradients is not possible (e.g. a color made up of 20% black and 70% orange). It is, however, possible to print overlapping colors and thus achieve a desired tone, such as making an orange object with a 40% opacity and a black object with 20% opacity and placing them one over the other, resulting in the desired tone at the overlapping regions.
The Riso printer cannot print 100% ink density across 100% of the paper. Too much ink coverage can cause paper to stick to the stencil/drum, and also cause extra splashes, needle marks and smudges on prints. For large areas of ink reduce the color opacity to 75% or less.
As each color is printed one layer at a time, registration will never be 100% accurate. Therefore, when designing your artwork, ensure there is room to allow for 2-3mm shifting. Extend color under line work for neater results, use trapping to avoid white spaces, and avoid small details that rely on registration to be 100%.
The file-naming format for each artwork should look like this:
Name_Surname_artwork_NumberOfWork.pdf
For example, if you're submitting 3 artworks the names of the files should be:
John_Smith_artwork_1.pdf
John_Smith_artwork_2.pdf
John_Smith_artwork_3.pdf
How to apply
Send us your .pdf file at pdp.plakat@gmail.com
The subject of the e-mail should be
"Name Surname artwork", for example " John Smith artwork".