- Submit By: June 28, 2016 at 10:00 AM
- Selection Period Starts: June 28, 2016 at 10:00 AM
- Artists Selected: July 12, 2016
All times are in Pacific Time.
#IfWallsCouldTalk
Design Mural Street Art for Xi-Design
Briefing
Xi-Design invites artists from around the world
to design a mural inspired by the theme: "If walls could talk."
This is your opportunity to have your artwork brought to life by Xi-Design on a gigantic house wall in Berlin, Germany.
The wall is located in a historic site in former East Berlin. It’s built directly next to the former border seperating the GDR and western Germany, opposite of the East Side Gallery, a permanent open-air exhibition within the longest preserved part of the Berlin Wall.
If this wall could talk, what would it say?
Please consider the following when creating your design:
This is your opportunity to have your artwork brought to life by Xi-Design on a gigantic house wall in Berlin, Germany.
The wall is located in a historic site in former East Berlin. It’s built directly next to the former border seperating the GDR and western Germany, opposite of the East Side Gallery, a permanent open-air exhibition within the longest preserved part of the Berlin Wall.
If this wall could talk, what would it say?
Please consider the following when creating your design:
- The mural should visually interpret the theme “If walls could talk”. Besides that, there are no further specifications for your design. Let your creativity reign free!
- Your design should work on a big surface area of roughly 12 x 20 meters and be recognizable from a distance.
- Your submitted design should have a minimum size of 3000px
x 5000px
- You may submit illustrations, graffiti, typography or graphic design of any sort.
Xi-Design is on the lookout for
innovative street art which makes good use of the exceptionally big surface of
a house wall as an artistic canvas. Artists are encouraged to check out this
Pinterest board for inspiration.
One
Selected Artist will receive the opportunity of having their mural painted on a
gigantic house wall in Berlin, Germany. The Selected Artist will also
receive €1,000 and a graphic tablet by Wacom worth €2,500.
About XI-Design
The trend-oriented communications company Xi-Design puts murals on facades, houses and gable walls all over Germany as hand-drawn advertising messages for innovative brands.
The exclusive locations of the facades as well as the creative adaption of motifs as street art play an important role in the process: the designs blend into the urban space so that anyone passing by has a pleasant and natural experience discovering the art as well as the messaging behind it.
THE CAREER OPPORTUNITY
One Selected Artist, as chosen by Xi-Design and the guest
judge, will receive:
- The opportunity to have their mural brought to life on a gigantic house wall across the East Side Gallery in Berlin, Germany
- Exposure for their work across Xi-Design’s and Talenthouse’s social media channels
- A Cintiq Companion 2 graphics tablet and a Bamboo Spark by Wacom worth €2,500
- €1,000
Two Highly Commended Artists, as chosen by Xi-Design and their guest judge, will each receive a Intuos Pro M graphic tablet and a Bamboo Spark by Wacom worth €500.
MEET THE JUDGES
CREW XI-DESIGN
Jörni, Bolle and Kimo aren’t just long time friends who have been painting together as "The Dixons" for more than 25 years. They are also the minds behind the creative forge that is Xi-Design in Berlin, Germany.
Together, they share a vision: more appreciation for artists and their craft. Not just for street art, where their roots lie, but for every form of creativity.
Joab Nist
Joab is the founder of the blog "Notes of Berlin" and is also a nonfictional writer for the publishers Ullstein and Goldmann. In addition, he runs StreetArt in Germany, the biggest Facebook fanpage in Europe on urban culture.
Joab studied cultural sciences, cultural institutions studies and media management at the Viadrina European University and the Free University of Berlin. He lives and works as an independent content creator in Berlin.
CREATIVE INVITE guidelines
- This opportunity is open globally to those who are at least 18 years of age at the time of entry. Void where prohibited by law.
- One (1) submission per artist or artist team during the submission period.
- The submission should interpret the motto 'If walls could talk' visually.
- The submission should have a size of at least 3000 x 5000 pixels.
- Artists should retain their original artwork files but work must be submitted in JPEG or PNG, max. size 10MB.
- All submissions must be original artwork (meaning not using third party pre-existing copyright materials).
- The Selected Artist grants Xi-Design a worldwide, non-exclusive, limited, royalty-free license for one year to use his submitted work as a mural on a house wall in Berlin, Germany and to present it on Xi-Design and their partner’s (for example StreetArt in Germany) online and social media channels. The artist will be credited accordingly. In return, the Selected Artist will receive the specified incentives. For this purpose the Selected Artist will have to sign an awardee agreement.
- The selected submission may be adapted to suit the intended purpose stated above. The realization of the mural by Xi-Design may alter from the original design due to local circumstances (for example structural restrictions).
- Artists who are not selected will retain ownership of their work, however Xi-Design receives the right to promote all submission on their own online and social media channels in connection with this Creative Invite. All artists will be credited accordingly.
- Artists must join Talenthouse using an active email address in order to ensure they can be contacted should they be selected.
- Selected Artists must respond to Talenthouse within 3 days of receiving the notification email or else will forfeit all incentives.
- Talenthouse reserves the right to remove inappropriate, offensive and harmful submissions as well as submissions that do not fit the brief or guidelines.
- No purchase necessary to enter.
HOW XI-Design WILL CHOOSE
Xi-Design and their guest judge will select from all qualified submissions. A qualified submission is one which meets all the Terms & Conditions, Guidelines and Official Rules.
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