Logo Design Competition Announced for International ‘Connective Holocaust Commemoration’ Event
By Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden
New year, new design challenge. Find out how you could play a part in the work of the Lab and gain international exposure for your design work.
Today we launch a competition to design a logo for our inaugural ‘Connective Holocaust Commemoration’ Expo event, which will bring together experts in Holocaust memory and education, creative and digital industries, academia, policymakers and funders.
The winner will receive an award of £500 and see their design feature across all promotional material for the Expo. They will also win tickets for the event, including travel expenses, catering and accommodation to attend the Expo which takes place at the University of Sussex this June.
The challenge presents a great opportunity to gain exposure to your work by reaching a wide range of sectors across several continents.
The event
The Expo is not your ‘typical’ academic conference. Instead, it aims to ‘create digital futures together’ by showcasing existing projects and work in progress through discussion, hands-on play, experimentation and learning, networking and presenting excellent practice and research.
For examples of projects in the field of digital Holocaust memory read our blog.
From our call for submissions, we already have projects from North and South Americas, across Europe, Israel and Australia.
The brief
We are looking for a bespoke logo for the event that complements our brand identity and captures the spirit of the Expo.
The logo should include the words ‘Connective Holocaust Commemoration Expo 2025’.
It must be readable in both small and large formats, including on merchandise such as banners, notebooks, tote bags and conference packs, as well as in digital assets like presentation slides.
The logo must:
- Avoid cliches related to Holocaust memory, for example, the use of black and red, iconography such as barbed wire, candles, the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau, striped uniforms etc.
- Reflect our brand identity which represents a symbiosis between organic and technological agents – we recognise that digital Holocaust memory is created through the coming together of people, sites and material objects with computational software and hardware.
- Capture the ‘humanness’ of the work we plan to do at the Expo, and a sense of all coming together from across the world.
- Convey our aim to create digital futures together – we want participants to ‘learn, share, connect and co-design’ whilst showcasing existing projects and work-in-progress.
Eligibility to enter
We are making this a completely open competition. We welcome your logo design, whatever experience you have and whether you are an undergraduate or postgraduate student, academic staff member, a professional working in a Holocaust memory and education organisation or a designer.
Don’t assume that if you’re new to design, you won’t win.
How to submit your design
When your design is ready, email the image as a .jpeg or .png file along with a 250–500-word explanation of how you consider the image to meet the brief to: LandeckerDigitalMemoryLab@sussex.ac.uk
Submissions are due by 13 February 2025.
Good luck!