Annual Nowruz Banner Contest

Farhang Foundation Announces Open Call For Submissions

Nowruz Street Banner Design Competition And Cash Prize

Farhang Foundation is calling on graphic artists worldwide to submit original designs that conceptualize Nowruz (the Iranian New Year) commemorating Farhang's annual celebration of Nowruz in Los Angeles.

The winning design will be awarded a cash prize of $2,000.

Eligible designs will be considered as the central artwork featured on street banners and other marketing material that will proudly promote Farhang's 15th Annual Nowruz Celebration at UCLA throughout prominent boulevards of Los Angeles in February and March of 2025.

Eligible submissions will visualize some aspect of Nowruz or Iranian culture and must be the original work of the contestant. The final selected design must incorporate the following phrasing, as well as Farhang Foundation's official logo.

Celebrating Nowruz / Iranian New Year
March 9, 2025
Royce Hall, Dickson Court at UCLA
Presented by Farhang Foundation
Farhang.org

The selection of the winner is discretionary. Farhang Foundation reserves the sole right to select the design submitted. Upon selection, the artist is required to sign a release for the selected design to be used by Farhang Foundation for the purposes stated above.

DEADLINE & SUBMISSION INFO

Submit your original conceptual design in low resolution format (.jpg, .png or .pdf format) by or before November 4, 2024, 11:59 PM PST.
Include FULL NAME of the artist, LOCATION and TELEPHONE NUMBER
All entries should be submitted via email to Nowruz@farhang.org.

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Upon selection, the artist must submit production-ready artwork in one of the following formats (in order of preference):

Adobe Illustrator - CMYK color. True vector format with no placed images. All type converted to outlines.
Adobe Illustrator - CMYK color with placed images that are CMYK color and 300 dpi at final size. All type converted to outlines. Also, send placed images separately.
Photoshop - Native layered PSD format in CMYK color, 300 dpi at final size.

Files must utilize the official BANNER TEMPLATE.
Note that the template contains a layout for 2 panels and is 1/10 scale. Your artwork must scale to 300 dpi at the final size of 36"x96" per panel.

Illustrator files should be compatible with CS6 or higher.

The banner font is Avenir in various weights. You can may download the required font file here.