CREATIVE CAREERS competition

Design a logo for CREATIVE CAREERS competition

Design Brief and Competition Guidelines

Creative Careers’ clients will be 16 – 50 year old professionals from all cultures in South Africa’s creative industries: art, music, dance, entertainment, fashion and media. The client base will include a wide variety of creatives, ranging from freelance sound engineers and art gallery managers to music professors, fashion design assistants and festival organisers. Creative Careers will be the first online career portal that caters exclusively for these industries.
Creative Careers is passionately committed to the well-being of the South African creative and performing arts industries. By providing this job portal we believe that we are connecting job seekers with recruiters in a meaningful and effective way.
There will be three kinds of clients:
1. Job seekers
2. Job advertisers
3. General product/ event advertisers

The web address is www.creativecareers.co.za, and the site is scheduled to go live during January 2011.

The logo needs to be truly unique, but it doesn’t need to include a symbol – it could simply be built and designed around the font and the wording. It needs to represent all the creative industries in a meaningful way and must also be:
 Happy
 Simple
 Sophisticated
 Modern
 CREATIVE

The slogan is:
“Work opportunities in South Africa’s music, dance, art and entertainment industries.”
This slogan will more often than not appear with the logo.

Prizes
 The winner’s name and institution of study/ name of business will be mentioned in Creative Careers’ first newsletter that will go out to 3,000 people currently active in South Africa’s creative industries.
 The winner will receive R1,000 by means of an electronic funds transfer into his/ her bank account.

Competition guidelines
 Competition entries can be emailed in high resolution JPEG or PDF format to marelize@creativecareers.co.za, and needs to include one logo design without the slogan, and one with the slogan.
 The winner of the competition will be available to work with Creative Careers in fine tuning the logo to suit Creative Careers’ needs. Creative Careers will not ask for more than 3 x changes to the original logo.
 Copyright of the winning design will belong to Creative Careers.
 Participants are allowed to submit as many entries as they want.
 The competition closes on 9 November 2010 and winners will be announced on or before 17 November 2010.
 The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding this decision.

Please feel free to contact Marelize de Beurs with any questions you might have on marelize@creativecareers.co.za

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CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTS
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES,DEVELOPMENT AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
HOWARD COLLEGE CAMPUS

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The Film Festival duties include:
• Contribute to festival design; establish and manage film selection processes within pressured deadlines; review film entries; research, negotiate and invite films and aligned filmmakers; programming of films into overall festival screening schedule
• Research and development of audience development strategies, workshops, seminars, special events and training programmes; liaison with industry stakeholders including government and education specialists; management of workshop programmes.
• Compile and write data for festival publications, press releases, promotional materials, reports, etc
• Oversee film jury processes; management of temp staff
• Assist in negotiating funding support for special festival projects, films, participants; maintain and support relationships with funders and partners.
• Commitment to the orderly upkeep of CCA archives, database systems; compilation of post-project
reports, analyses and follow-ups.
Website management and related duties include:
• Translation of publications to a format suitable for website and other e-publications.
• World wide exchange of data including photos, film print sources and festival contacts with international press and other festivals.
• Research developments in media convergence for use in website development.
• Manage CCA photography archive; design and compile photo sheets for reports; produce photo discs
• Manage video projects; oversee video production service providers and projects.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
• Senior Certificate
• Proficiency in MS Office suite, Groupwise, internet, HTML, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Premier Pro
• 5 year experience in similar environment
ADVANTAGES
• Photography
• Excellent communication skills, and specialist knowledge in film.
Applicants are required to submit a covering letter highlighting their experience in, and providing evidence for, each of the minimum requirements and advantages as listed above, together with a detailed CV including the names, full addresses, fax numbers and e-mail addresses of three referees, to Ms M Reddy, Centre for Creative Arts, Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 4000, Fax No +27 031 260 3074. E-mail Reddym7@ukzn.ac.za 

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