Deadline:
Submissions accepted starting
February 1, 2018 through March 15, 2018 (11:59 p.m. PST)

Grand Prize:
$700 and CWCJ Jacket

PROJECT DESCRIPTION:
The “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition is seeking someone to redesign CWJC’s logo branding to spread and enhance the organization’s message to build further awareness to the suffering of hundreds of thousands of women and girls, euphemistically called “Comfort Women,” who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese Imperial Armed Forces in thirteen Asia-Pacific countries from 1931 to 1945. Most of these women died during their wartime captivity. This dark history was largely hidden for decades until the 1990s when the survivors courageously broke their silence. They helped move the world to declare that sexual violence as a strategy of war is a crime against humanity for which governments must be held accountable.

CWJC is seeking a new logo that will fulfill the following:

1. Appeals to a broad audience;
2. Emphasizes the timelessness of the issue at-hand;
3. Emphasizes strength, resilience, and peace over victimhood and weakness, and the resilience of women around the world;
4. Emphasizes the “Comfort Women’s” long search for justice which is still unfulfilled and hence their continual struggle and courage to fight along with all women who are fighting for justice from sex trafficking and violence today.

ORGANIZATION BACKGROUND:
The “Comfort Women” Justice Coalition is a multi-ethnic, multi-interest human rights coalition formed to support the passage of the “Comfort Women” resolution in September 2015 by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The “Comfort Women,” system is the largest government operated system of sexual slavery and trafficking in the 20th century. We seek to help bring justice for the hundreds of thousands of victims and survivors. Join us to redress the wrongs. Help us design a powerful logo.

DELIVERABLES:

• Create a logo that is modern, timeless, simple, and reflects the organization’s message and character;
• Three different formats for submission:
  • A low-res 72-dpi JPEG file
  • A low-res 72-dpi PNG file
  • A high-res 300-dpi PDF file
• All entries must be submitted online at this link http://tiny.cc/CWJC-LogoContest. Be sure to provide your name, contact information (email, address, telephone number, mailing address), and a brief statement defining your design concept and color schemes (logo must be easily duplicated in black-in-white for photocopies and leaflets).
• Please visit our website remembercomfortwomen.org to see current logo branding and to reference other collateral.

CONTEST PROVISION:

Contestants must submit his/her own original work that has not been copied from others or from previous designs, including their own, and does not violate the copyright/intellectual property rights of any other person or entity.

The Executive Committee of CWJC will select a winner. Contestants agree that submissions become the sole property of the CWJC.

The winning submission may be used for any purposes, including, but not limited to, display on websites, social media, business cards, letterhead, posters, publications, and other materials in any medium. The winning contestant shall assign all ownership rights, including all copyright/intellectual property rights to the logo, to CWJC. CWJC shall have all rights to adapt, edit, modify, or otherwise use the winning  submission, in part or in its entirety in whatever manner it deems appropriate in the sole discretion of CWJC.  The winning submission must later be available in a scalable vector graphic format (EPS) and available in CMYK color as well as black and white.

CWJC reserves the right to not select a winner and/or the right to choose not to use the winning submission, in its sole discretion.

CWJC is not responsible for any lost, late, misdelivered, incomplete, illegible, or otherwise unusable entries, including any lost or unusable entry due to computer, internet, or electronic problems.

SUBMISSION PROCESS::

Please complete your submission online at http://tiny.cc/CWJC-LogoContest and upload your submission files (JPEG, PNG, and PDF file).

By submitting to this contest, you are agreeing to the Contest Provision statement above.

ANY QUESTIONS? PLEASE CONTACT:

Questions about the contest can be directed to Melissa R. Sipin at melissa.sipin@gmail.com.