The Chwarae Teg Design Contest

Use your creative talent to put the focus on fair play for women at work.
For nearly 20 years Chwarae Teg has been working to further the economic development of women in Wales.

This includes working to develop, influence and promote policies and workplace practices that create a balanced and fair working environment where women and men have the same opportunity to progress and develop their careers.

Also central to the work of Chwarae Teg are the projects and training we deliver to women and businesses, ensuring that on a daily basis we are actively putting workplace theory into practice in order to make a lasting positive difference for women in Wales.

The Chwarae Teg design contest is your opportunity to create a fresh perspective on the importance of striving for fair play for women in Wales. Using our existing green and purple "ribbons" logo the objective is to create a piece of work that will show this symbol of "Fairplay for Women" in a new and innovative context. It is open to female students based in Wales studying in any of the creative disciplines at school, college or university.

It is important to stress this isn't a contest to design a new logo, instead your challenge is to use, adapt and apply the ribbons as you wish into a piece of your own design work.

As background information, the ribbon logo represents two arms reaching out towards each other, with the curved points representing hands with one hand offering guidance and support to the other.

The green and purple colours are important as they provide an historical reference to the Suffragettes.

Contest Timeline:

Start of contest: Friday 7th October 2011

Submission closing date: Sunday 18th December 2011

Shortlisting of finalists: Tuesday 20th December 2011

Judging of finalists: Mid-January 2012

Winner announced: Thursday March 8th 2012

Entering the contest:

1 Start by downloading the Chwarae Teg ribbons click here. These need to be used within your work. There are no restrictions as to how you use the ribbons, as the contest is looking for your creative interpretation and adaptation of them. It will however help your thinking if you take time to gain an understanding of Chwarae Teg and the work the organisation undertakes.

2 Once you have completed your design, click here to complete the entry form and follow the submission instructions. Please note the closing date for submissions is midday on Sunday 18th December 2011.

3 Completed submissions need to include a digital photograph of your work, this will be uploaded to the Chwarae Teg website where visitors to the site will be able to view and comment on your work.

For your consideration:

To help ensure entrants have as much creative freedom as possible this contest has very few restrictions.

However one consideration you need to make is the scale of your work, as the intention is for the three finalists to have their actual designs included as part of our museum exhibition in the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea.

This does dictate that your submission will need to be capable of being transported and securely displayed.

It is advisable to contact Chwarae Teg on 029 2047 8900 in the first instance should you be considering submitting a design that:
• Would in 3D exceed 70cm x 70cm x 70cm
• Is more than 70cm x 70cm for a wall hung piece
• Would exceed 10kg if being suspended from the ceiling
• Consists of fragile materials

The Contest:

After the closing date our panel of judges will meet to review all entries to determine a shortlist of finalists. The number of finalists will be determined by the numbers of submissions the judges need to physically see in order to make a fully informed and expert decision.

The judging panel will examine the entries on the following criteria:

• Creativity
• Innovation
• Applied use of / interpretation of the Chwarae Teg ribbons
• Public comments and ratings
• Delivering a fresh perspective on Chwarae Teg

Heading up the judging panel is Rachel Jones, Director of Arts & Business Cymru, a charity and membership organisation which specialises in promoting and enabling mutually beneficial partnerships between business and the arts across Wales.

Hailing from Neath in South Wales, Rachel is a music graduate of Goldsmiths’ College,UniversityofLondon. She worked for Artistic Management Agency, Van Walsum, before returning toWalesto work for Live Music Now!, an organisation with which she retains close links as a committee member. Rachel joined Arts & Business Cymru in 1996 as its administrator and took up her current role in 1999.

Joining Rachel is Robert Lloyd Griffiths, Director of Institute of Directors, Mari Thomas, award-winning designer jeweller, and Lampeter based award winning designer Jo Conti.

The shortlisting process will begin after the contest closing date on 18 December 2011, and three finalists will be chosen at a judging day held on 27 January 2012.

The overall winner will be announced at Chwarae Teg’s twentieth anniversary launch event being held on 8th March 2012 at Swansea’s National Water front Museum.

As part of their prize the winner and two runners up will have their entries displayed at the museum for 3 months, as part of an exhibition charting 20 years of Chwarae Teg’s achievements in supporting the economic development of women inWales.

The finalists will be invited to present their submissions to the judging panel in Mid-January 2012.

After reviewing the finalists the judges will identify the winning submission and two runners up.

The three finalists will be invited to the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea on the evening of International Women's Day - March 8th 2012 as part of a reception to launch an exhibition to celebrate Chwarae Teg's 20th Anniversary. Here the winner will be publically announced and the finalists submissions will be included as part of the exhibition.

The prizes:

The three finalists:

• Will have their work on display as part of the Chwarae Teg exhibition at the National Waterfront Museum in Swansea which runs for three months. This will include biographical details of the artists and will hopefully serve as an excellent vehicle to support their ongoing careers within the Arts.
Should the exhibition tour to other museums across Wales the finalists work will also be included.
• Each be presented with a trophy
• Will receive personal membership to Chwarae Teg for 5 years

In addition:

• The overall winner will receive £100 cash
• The two runners-up will each receive £50 cash