News Source: SAIC School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Date: 06/07/2010
Country: Estados Unidos
The 9th Francisco Mantecón International Publicity Poster Design Competition 
The 9th Francisco Mantecón International Publicity Poster Design Competition is organized by the Spanish wine company TERRAS GAUDA.
Graphic artists, design schools and universities from all over the world are invited to take part in the competition. For more information, please visit our websites www.terrasgauda.com or www.franciscomantecon.com
During the meeting held on 21 December 2001 a decision was adopted which reads as follows:
"The Board of Directors of Bodegas Terras Gauda, S.A., has unanimously agreed to set up an annual Advertising Poster Design Competition as a tribute to the artist who was not only solely responsible for the design of the corporate image, but also been a friend, efficient collaborator and partner since the creation of the Company. The winning original will form the basis for the Company's advertising campaign for a one year period".
Terras Gauda Wineries and the Vigo Port Authority are once again the proud sponsors of the enormous and prestigious communications project that the Francisco Mantecón International Advertising Poster Competition has become. In an effort to establish a permanent connection between the competition and the city of Vigo and Galicia, both parties have signed a collaborative agreement wich will allow the Port of Vigo (one of the most important in the world) to serve as a annual exhibition of the original Competition entries. The Port will also host meetings of the panel of judges and the ve the site of the award ceremony.
The following announcement is the fruit of this agreement:
• Participants
This competition is open to any natural or corporate person subject only to the restrictions imposed by current legislation.
• Works
Original copies of entries, which must be unpublished, are to be submitted or mailed (by recorded delivery if the participant so wishes) to the offices of Bodegas Terras Gauda offices in O Rosal (Galicia, Spain). All entries must be submitted in two formats:
- Recorded on a CD or diskette (in PC-readable format)
- Printed and affixed to light card, suitably protected, with a size 50x70 cm.
Any form of photographic, painting or computerised techniques, etc may be used.
Under exceptional circumstances originals created using painting techniques (oil, watercolours, guasch, pastels, etc) may be accepted without a computerised format.
Each participant is allowed to present a maximum of two entries.
Participant may base their entries on the theme of their choice, although ideally they will reflect corporate issues of the organising company, principally relating to its white wines of the Albariño variety Terras Gauda and Abadía de San Campio wines. Credit will be given for creativity and the incorporation of the Company's logo into the design.
If requested, Bodegas Terras Gauda will provide the designers with a vectored copy of the logo that may be apllied to the works, as well as images of their products. These will be available at the following www.terrasgauda.com and Images and Logo.
• Presentation
The works will be presented inside a sealed envelope bearing the author's pseudonym. It is critical that the following information be included:
- Artist's full name
- Photocopy of his/her Identity Card
- Address, Telephone Number and email
- Written acceptance of the competition rules available at www.franciscomantecon.com.
• Addres and closing date
The works are to be sent to Bodegas Terras Gauda, S. A., at the following address: Carretera de Tui-A Guarda, km. 46, O Rosal - 36760 Pontevedra, Spain, before 6 p.m. on 30 September 2010. All those works postmarked prior to 6 p.m. on 30 September will be accepted.
• Conditions
The winning works and all corresponding rights will become the property of Bodegas Terras Gauda, S. A., that likewise reserves the right to reproduce the finalists´ works.
The rest of cartels participant will be destroyed before notary to guarantee to his authors not utilization of the sames ones.
• Panel of judges
The jury of the Ninth edition of the Francisco Mantecón Poster Design Prize will be chaired by José Mª Fonseca Moretón, Chairman of Bodegas Terras Gauda, with the additional members:
- Pilar Barreiro Mosquera - Philologist and widow of Francisco Mantecón
- Emilio Gil - Graphic designer
- Enrique Costas Rodríguez - Managing Director of Bodegas Terras Gauda
- Corina Porro Martínez - President of the Vigo Port Authority and the Port of Vigo Foundation
- Agustín Quevedo - Art Director for Hola magazine
- Paulino Novo Folgueira - Philologist (Panel secretary)
- Ángel Luis González - Winner of the past edition
The judges' decision is final an they hold sole responsibility for resolving any situation not contemplated in these rules and conditions.
• Prizes
Terras Gauda Wineries shall award:
• GRAND PRIZE, WORTH 10,000 EUROS
• 1st HONORABLE MENTION, THE PORT OF VIGO FOUNTATION AWARD, WORTH 2,000 EUROS
• 2nd HONORABLE MENTION, WORTH 2,000 EUROS
• SPECIAL MENTION, WORTH 2,000 EUROS
(The warehouse reserves the right to grant a Special Mention).
The judges may opt not to award any of the prizes. In this event, the corresponding prize money is to be donated to an organisation that, in the opinion of the panel of judges, has made an outstanding social or cultural contribution to Galicia.
• Award ceremony
The jury's decision will be announced at a public event to held before 31 December 2010, on a date and at place to be comunicated ind due course to those designers whose entries are accepted as finalists in the competition, and also published on the www.terrasgauda.com and www.franciscomantecon.com websites
For further information, please contact Bodegas Terras Gauda, S. A.
Telephone: +0034 986 621 111 / 981 227 200
Fax: +0034 986 621 084
E-mail: comunicacion@terrasgauda.com
• Clause regarding the organic law for the protection of personal information
As stipulated by Organic Law 15/1999, we inform you that your personal information will be included in a file, for which BODEGAS TERRAS GAUDA, S.A. is responsible. Their corporate address is: Carretera Tui A Guarda Km 46, 36760 O Rosal (Pontevedra). The purpose of this file is to process information from participants in contests organized by this company. We inform you that your information may be provided to the media in order to publicize participants and winners in contests we organize. If you so wish, you may exercise your right to access, rectify, cancel and object to this information by writing to the address indicated above, including a photocopy of your National Document of Identification.