Come Up With a Symbol for "Night of Geography – 2023"

Фото: Александра Косарева

The Russian Geographical Society announces the launch of an international competition for the best version of the symbol of the traditional educational campaign "Night of Geography – 2023".

Applications are accepted until March 23 inclusive. The winner and runners-up will receive memorable prizes: souvenirs with the symbols of the Society. Anyone can become a co-author of the official symbol of the "Night of Geography – 2023" campaign, regardless of age and place of residence. Each participant has the right to submit no more than three variants of the symbol/emblem of the campaign.

Graphic color images in PDF or JPG format are accepted for the competition. The symbols participating in the contest must meet the following requirements:

— originality and uniqueness: the contest participants guarantee that they are the authors of the submitted graphic works;

— the symbols must not repeat, duplicate or otherwise coincide with the emblems of other companies and events, including not being confusingly similar to symbols previously registered as trademarks;

— the symbol’s image content should not contradict public interests, as well as the principles of humanity and morality;

— emblems should not include textual indications or graphic images of the words "Russian Federation" or "Russia", as well as words derived from these names;

— images must not contain graphic or textual indications of names or pseudonyms of a person known in the Russian Federation.

Applications for the competition will be accepted until March 23, 2023, inclusive. Only one participant will be able to win the competition. No more than two more people can become runners-up by the decision of the organizers.

The name of the winner (and runners-up, if there are any) will be announced no later than April 17.

The Regulations on the competition can be found here (in Russian).

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