Design Against Fur

à semelhança da iniciativa de 2006 (ver aqui), estão abertas as inscrições para o concurso "design against fur", este ano tendo como tema "as vitimas da moda".

Students and Teachers

As a compassionate designer, you can make a real difference for millions of animals.

The Fur Free Alliance is holding our fifth-annual Design Against Fur poster competition!We invite students and teachers from around the world to participate in this important contest with a conscience.

Design a creative, compelling poster that delivers this year's message that innocent animals are "Fashion Victims". The contest is open to students of fashion, design, fine arts, advertising, marketing, graphic design multi-media, and all other disciplines in colleges around the world.

In the sixties, Jackie Kennedy's world famous fashion designer, Oleg Cassini, created a striking leopard-skin coat for her. Inadvertently, he was responsible for the death of over 250,000 leopards by creating a market for their skins. He took responsibility for what he'd done and worked towards destroying the market he'd created.

We want the modern world to embrace all animals and not victimize them by killing them to wear their skins. We want you to help us make that happen.

Your work will be evaluated by design and marketing experts, and potentially used in national and international campaigns to end the cruel fur trade. The winners will receive handy cash prizes! The competition will take place in two phases. Winners of the Regional Competitions will go forward to an International Competition.

The Grand Prize Winner wins $2,500 US!In September 2007, the regional winners' posters will be part of a high-profile world-wide-web vote for The People's Choice Award.

The poster receiving the most votes wins $1,000 US.The Message: "Fashion Victims"The theme of the 2007 Design Against Fur poster contest is to portray animals as "Fashion Victims".The Goal:Make fur unfashionable. Convince consumers that killing animals for their fur is a fashion faux pas.

Links:

Fur Free Alliance

Fica o convite: veja os vencedores do concurso de 2006 aqui