BRIEF 6 : Being Twenty poster brief

TERMS OF PARTICIPATION:
Each student may only submit one poster, imperatively at the
dimensions 60x80 cm, upright format.
On each poster must appear obligatorily
in body 12, as a signature, in any font, the following:
"Étudiants, tous à Chaumont!",Name, First name, 2009.
It is possible to submit a poster as a collective work.
The projects must imperatively be reproduced by photography
or printer at the required dimensions.
Collages – roughs are not accepted.
Each poster must be sent in with a completed participation
form, a photocopy of the student card and an i.d. photo of
the participant. These documents should, under no
circumstances, be pasted onto the poster. The poster must
neither be framed nor backed. It should be carefully
protected for shipping, which is at the student’s charge.
THE POSTER COMPETITION-EXHIBITION is aimed
at graphic design students from art schools,
universities, technical and vocational schools,
may they be public or private, enrolled for
the current year.
This competition will give rise to an EXHIBITION OF
A SELECTION OF POSTERS ENTERED and an award
in the context of the 20TH CHAUMONT POSTER FESTIVAL
on Saturday, 16ST May 2009.
The organizers reserve the right to cancel the competition
in case of absolute necessity.
Theme 2009:
BEING 20
ENTRY DEADLINE FOR RECEPTION:
FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2009
BEING 20
This year, the Chaumont Festival will take place for the 20th time.
Twenty years of experience means celebration as well as self-examination.
For a cultural event, reaching the age of twenty is already a lot in terms of time and
experience. One can analyse and understand its necessity, measure its anchorage in the
public space and in the consciousness of those who witness it in their town year after
year. In regards of the scale of art and culture History, it its a very short period of
time. A period of time, just about sufficient to write and create its own space in this
very History.
The Festival was born relatively at the same time as the students, who this year will
participate to the 16th « Students, all to Chaumont ! » Competition. Let us remind that
the first editions were dreamt up and organised by one of them, Manuel Delannoy, student
at ENSAD, Amiens, as the subject of his diploma.
Being twenty is for everyone an major moment.
Transition from childhood and adolescence to adulthood, from emotional and material dependence
towards an existential autonomy in perpetual progress.
One asserts its choices, resists against whom despises them and becomes its own witness of
an uneasy and sometimes painful progression onto another step called maturity.
Daily things take up an important space that one could not have imagined. They are mixed up
with more complex ideas on life one has created while maturing its own thoughts and critical
sense.
Exalting moment, that Pablo Picasso thought was the more artistically prolific of all and
that Paul Nizan would described as such:
« I was twenty. I would never let anybody say it was the most tender years. Everything is
a threat to the young man: love, ideas, loss of his family, taking part with grown-ups. It is
difficult to learn one’s own part of the world. What our world looked like ? It looked like
the chaos that the Greek described as the origin of the world. Yet we thought that it was
the beginning of the end, the real end, not the one that is the beginning of beginning.»
We would like to question your experience at the very moment it is developing and asking
a simple yet complicated question, what is it like to be twenty today, yesterday and
tomorrow... May your energy turn into a magnificent poster full of life.
Thank you.