Poster Fighters GREENWASHING competition for students

For whom?

Male and Female Students:

• SWPS University,
• Polish-Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Gdansk, Poland
• University of Silesia, Faculty of Arts in Cieszyn
• University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Dates:

deadline for submitting works: until June 15, 2025

competition deadline: June 30, 2025

exhibition date: August-September 2025

Places:

place to share works: DISK

exhibition venue: PEJOTKA Gallery, WI PJATK branch in Gdańsk

Competition:

Poster Fighters is the idea of courting the rights of the excluded, the environment and social justice. In the form of a socially engaged poster, we want to draw attention to problems, orient to social reality, challenge the status-quo, irritate - in general, communicate (to) the environment. We invite students from design schools, training in the field of visual communication, graphic design and communication design to join the project.

Contest theme:

Greenwashing is a practice in which companies and organizations pretend to be greener and more environmentally friendly than they actually are. The goal of greenwashing is to attract consumers, who are increasingly looking for products and services that care about the planet, without actually implementing sustainable measures. The phenomenon involves image manipulation, often through the use of vague slogans, environmental symbols or attractive images to give the impression that a company has a positive impact on the environment. In reality, however, companies using greenwashing are not taking real action to reduce their negative impact on the planet.

Technical requirements:

• 70 x100 cm poster
• file format: pdf / CMYK / 150 dpi
• Information in doc. file including name, title, ideological assumptions of the work up to 500 characters.