2012 Recycling Lorry Banner Competition
The 2012 Games are fast approaching, and to help encourage locals and competitors alike to recycle and do their bit during Games time, Weymouth and Portland Borough Council and West Dorset District Council have teamed up with schools in the Chesil Education Partnership to produce a banner for their recycling vehicles to help spread the message.
If you attend a school that is in the Chesil Education Partnership and would like to take part, please take a look at the brief and information below and get involved!
The Brief
Weymouth & Portland Borough Council (WPBC) and West Dorset District Council (WDDC) would like to produce a number of multi-lingual banners, which thank foreign visitors in their own language for recycling.
The winning banners will be produced by the council for use on the side of actual recycling/refuse lorries in our area in the Olympic/Paralympic summer of 2012! Winning designs may also appear on posters for recycling bins in the area.
This should encourage everyone to recycle more, thus improving our environment.
There will be three age group categories:
- Year five and under
- Years six, seven and eight
- Year nine and above
Languages
Entries must contain;
- A "Thank you for recycling" message, using a minimum of six different languages from the following list, one of which must be English;
Spanish, English, German, French, Belorussian, Portuguese, Chinese, Ukrainian, Croatian, Dutch, Greek, Turkish, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Malay, Finnish, Magyar (Hungarian), Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Serbian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Slovenian, Swedish.
Important information
- Entrants may use the "Olympic Rings" logo if they wish, however generic sporting images should be used rather than focussing mainly on the Olympic rings. Where the Olympic rings are used, the colours should be in the right order
- Please be aware that it is a breach of Copyright Law to use any photos or images from the Internet without the artist's or photographer's permission. Therefore all art work must be original
- Commercial symbols such as the "Nike tick" are not to be used on designs
- Only one entry per pupil/student
- Winning designs will be selected by a panel of independent judges, and winners will be notified by e-mail by Friday 20 April 2012
- The organisers' decision is final
- Entries must be submitted in a high-resolution pdf file
- Recommended size: A4
- Please remember that the text and any images must be clear as designs will be resized. The lorries are white
- In submitting a competition entry, all entrants give permission for the local councils to reproduce the designs and display them on the side of their recycling lorries or on posters
- Entries must be clearly labelled with the entrant's full name, year group and school
Prizes
Winning designs will appear on banners/posters produced by Weymouth & Portland Borough Council and West Dorset District Council.
These banners will be used locally during the summer and autumn of 2012 to promote recycling in our area.
Submitting your entry
All entries must be sent electronically by Thursday 29 March 2012 to
Simon Lewis and Anna Beech:-
A.Beech@westdorset-weymouth.gov.uk
Thank you in advance for all entries, and best of luck!
Simon Lewis (Budmouth College)
Anna Beech (WPBC)
