ECO-Posters

The organizer and the right holder of the Golden Turtle Contest, exhibitions and all facilities and events related thereto is the MY EQUATOR Charity Social Support Fund.

Anyone may submit his/her works to participate in the competition, except for the competition organizers and the professional jury members. Authors from any countries can participate in the contest without restrictions. The official competition languages are Russian and English.

Decisions to award the Semi-Finalist, Finalist or Winner statuses to artwork shall be made by members of the Professional Jury and the Jury of Peers and may not be appealed.

Basic Concepts

Author (designer) shall mean a person who made a project and presents his/her work to the competition, has full copyrights and powers to decide on all organizational issues related to the participation of the work in the competition.

Project (work) shall mean an idea implemented by means of graphic design, created through special computer software, that complies with the competition terms and conditions and is owned by the author.

Software shall mean any computer program applied to create the project.

• Completion of the artwork registration 31.03.2025
• Quarterfinal 01.04.2025 – 10.04.2025
• Semifinal 11.04.2025 – 20.04.2025
• Final 21.04.2025 – 30.04.2025
• Receiving originals 21.04.2025 – 10.05.2025
• Special categories 11.05.2025 – 30.09.2025
• Award Ceremony – Autumn 2025
• Exhibition in Moscow – Autumn 2025

The authors and the works shall be registered at the Golden Turtle Competition web-site in the respective section by a special form.

Carrying out the Registration procedure by filling out a web form on the website http://www.wncontest.ru/, the Participant confirms that he has read and agrees to the terms of the Consent to the processing of personal data and has accepted the obligations indicated therein. 

The author shall complete the registration procedure, then he/she is given a login and a password that are sent to the e-mail address specified in the course of registration.

Then, the author may begin to upload his/her own artwork, edit it, delete it, etc.

At the beginning of the registration, the author shall choose the category to present his/her work in.

Then, the author shall upload the works subject to the following technical requirements:

• The image format shall be JPEG;
• The dimensions shall be 1,920 pixels horizontally for horizontal works; 1,920 pixels vertically for vertical works; the file size shall be no more than 3 MB.

To participate in the competition, the author shall provide the following information on his/her work:

• Author's name;
• The idea behind the project (goals, issues, social importance) containing no less than a 200 symbols.

• The author may submit to the competition no more than 20 works.
• One work may be presented in one category only.
• Works submitted in the Poster category shall have a length and width ratio of 2:3.

In case a work becomes a semi-finalist, the work shall be assigned the semi-finalist status and the author shall be sent an email of the status assignment and a request to submit the large format of the file submitted to the competition, in vector or raster format, prepared for printing (60x90 cm, 150-300 dpi).

The files shall be submitted within 20 calendar days from the date of sending the respective letter.

The author shall provide the organizers with the files through a special form in his/her personal online account.

Requirements for the files to be provided:

1. Images prepared for printing that meet the following requirements:

• The colour model shall be: CMYK
• The vector formats are: Ai., Eps., Cdr. (fonts shall be converted to curves, the linked pixel images shall be attached separately and meet the requirements for pixel images).
• The format is PSD, JPEG or TIFF; the resolution is 300 dpi;
• The name of the file containing the image shall match the work name (e.g., “Penguins on ice”, not IMG_1234.jpg).

If it is not possible to prepare a quality image for the exhibition, the work shall not be displayed but shall remain a finalist.

The work originals shall be used by the organizers for various purposes, including, but not limited to:

• Printing of works required for the work of the jury;
• Preparing the final art album (each author whose work(s) is (are) presented in the album is entitled to receive One (1) author's copy of the album);
• Preparing exhibition copies of the artwork;
• Making an archive of the competition finalists, etc.

A work shall not be accepted to participate in the Golden Turtle ECO-Posters Contest, if:

• The work does not meet the requirements specified in these Regulations;
• The work description includes foul language;

The competition organizers reserve the right not to accept any works that are not of a certain qualitative and technical level, without specifying a reason.

The author should be the right holder of the works they submit. 

The participant warrants that his/her work does not infringe intellectual rights of any third parties. In case any third parties make any claims, the participant shall be fully liable for his/her work.

The author may be a person or a group of persons (a design studio, a design school, etc.). By submitting their works to the Golden Turtle competition, the author agrees with the terms and conditions of the Lisence Agreement.

Projects shall be original and created by the author on the basis of his/her own concept.     

Exhibition copies that are printed at the expense of the Golden Turtle Competition organizers for displaying at the exhibition shall remain with the organizers and may be used by them for the statutory activities of the MY EQUATOR Charity Social Support Fund.

Winner

The winners of the 1st prize receive a cash prize in the equivalent of 75,000 Russian rubles, a glass trophy, a diploma, an album with all the finalists of the competition and prizes from partners.

Stage 1 — Registration of works

Done by: the administration of the contest; online

Timeframe: from December 01, 2024 until March 31, 2025                     

Rules: Done based on the approved and published standards (see: http://www.wncontest.ru/en/design/rules/ ). All selected works receive the REGISTERED status (a.k.a. accepted into the competition)

Deliverable: an image bank of registered artwork

Stage 2 — Quarterfinal

Done by: the members of the professional jury; online

Timeframe: April 1 – 10, 2025                     

Rules:

• A professional jury (5 to 9 people) is formed out of professional designers, winners and runner-ups of international contests
• Participation in the professional jury does not allow its members to participate in the competition as authors by submitting their artwork
• Members of the professional jury vote for works that, in their opinion, deserve to be in the final
• The number of votes from members of the professional jury is published in the personal accounts of the participants
• Works that receive at least one vote from members of the professional jury advance to the semifinal
• The selected works receive the SEMIFINALISTS status. All information received is published in the professional jury members’ private online accounts 

Deliverable: the list of the semifinalists, published in the professional jury member’s private online accounts

Stage 3 — Semifinal

Done by: the members of the professional jury; online

Timeframe: April 11 – 20, 2025                     

Rules:

• The assessment is based on a 5-point scale and is carried out in the member’s private online accounts
• The highest and lowest scores for each work are not included in the final score
  
• The results of the assessment of each member of the professional jury are published in the member’s private online accounts of the contest semifinalists (the authors can only see the scores of the their own artwork)
• Based on the target number of finalists for exhibiting during the Festival (the decision is made annually by the organizers of the Festival), a "passing score" is established
• All works in each category that have received a "passing score" and above become the finalists
• The authors are notified of the status update; the works are published in the professional jury member’s private online accounts without the scores assigned during the previous stages of selection

Deliverable: the list of the finalists, published in the professional jury member’s private online accounts

Stage 4 — Final

Done by: by members of the professional jury; online

Timeframe: April 21 – 30, 2025                     

Rules:

• The winners are determined through the use of the double-rating system
• Each of the members of the professional jury forms their personal TOP-3 rating of the best works in each category (1st place = 3 points, 2nd place = 2 points, 2rd place = 1 point)
• The system automatically selects one work in each category that has scored the maximum number of points based on the results of the voting by members of the professional jury, and separately the work that has been in the TOP-3 best more often than others. If the work tops both ratings, it becomes the winner of the category. In the event that different works top these ratings, an additional vote is held by all members of the professional jury only between the works that claim victory
• The work receives a highly commended mark if it received 3 votes from members of the professional jury in categories where up to 10 works reached the final; if it received 2 votes from members of the professional jury in categories where 11 to 20 works reached the final; if it received 1 vote from members of the professional jury in categories where 21 or more works reached the final

Deliverable: a list of winners and works with a highle commended mark in each category published in the personal accounts of the members of the professional jury

Stage 5 — Special categories

Done by: the partners of the Festival, who have established special categories

Timeframe: May 11 – September 31, 2025                         

Rules:

• The partners of the Festival, who have opted for an appropriate sponsorship package, has the right to establish their own categories (upon approval from the organizers of the Festival).
• After the final selections are finished by the members of the professional jury, the partners of the Festival get access to all the finalists that did not become winners in the basic categories and pick the works they wish to award (the level of access depends on the category).

Deliverable: an additional list of winners in the special categories