Brain Awareness Week
Sticker
Design Contest
The results are in! More than 2,500 people voted around the world and selected Brain Awareness Week partner Marianne Bacani of Vancouver, Canada, as the first place winner; Nicole Peltier of New York, as the runner up; and Sunober Siddiqi of California as the third place winner. Congratulations to these three finalists and to all who participated! Read our
blog to learn more about the artists behind the art.
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First Place:
Marianne Claire Bacani
Events Director, Neuroethics Canada
Vancouver, Canada |
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Second Place:
Nicole Peltier
PhD student, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester
New York, US |
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Third Place:
Sunober Siddiqi
Medical student, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
California, US |
Though the contest is now closed, check back in early September, 2018, for the 2019 contest announcement.
Contest Entry Requirements
Deadline: Entries
must be submitted to bawcontest@dana.org. Please use the email subject, “BAW Sticker Contest.”
Format: All
images must be submitted as a high-resolution PDF AND either a high-resolution Illustrator file or a jpeg created at
300 dpi or higher. Stickers can be round or square. The winning image will be sized to fit on either a 3” circle or a 3” x 3” square.
Design criteria: Sticker
designs must be original work and include the words “Brain Awareness Week 2019”.
Creativity is encouraged!
Eligibility: The
contest is open to members of the public worldwide, but entrants are limited to
one design per person. Employees of the Dana Foundation and their family
members are not eligible to enter the contest.
Permissions:
Entrants assert that they either own or have the rights to use all content used
in their designs. Entrants using third-party material (i.e. material not owned
by entrant) must have received explicit permission from the owner to use these
materials. The burden of determining that any material is not protected by
copyright, trademark, rights of privacy, publicity, or any other proprietary
rights rests with the entrant. The entrant shall bear the sole liability for
any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, proprietary rights,
or any other harm resulting from such a submission.
In addition, entrants grant the Dana Foundation
royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to the
images.
Judging
The top five finalists will be selected by Dana Foundation
staff. Designs will be judged according to creativity and overall design. The public will then vote on their favorite designs, and
tallied votes will determine the top three winners.
Prizes
The first- second- and third-place winners will be awarded a
selection brain-themed art, books, and novelty items.
