Helvetica World, Design Competition and Event

On May 9, 1957, Max Midinger presented the world with the Helvetica font, which is still popular and is not going to give up its positions, either among consumers or designers. Someone loves Helvetika, someone hates her, and this year, with the support of TypeDNA (Sweden), High-Logic (USA) as well as Freelansim and Huntim (Russia), we organize an event on an annual basis called “Helvetica World” .

We invite designers to participate in an online contest, with prizes in: Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch, as well as TypeDNA font managers for Mac / PC and MainType Professional for PC licenses. An informal offline party will also be held in 5 cities: Moscow, St. Petersburg, Chelyabinsk, Kiev and Chicago.

About the event:

Helvetica World is being held for the first time and is planned on an annual basis. We will gather designers and ordinary spectators for recreation, exhibitions, live communication and competitions on May 10 in different cities of the world. And for the next year, the event’s website www.helveticaworld.com/en will serve as a showroom for the exhibition works of designers participating in our contests and competitions.

This year: We have in our program a competition for designers, an exhibition in 5 cities, and also watching the film "Helvetica", for which we received permission to display, and the soundtrack was sent for re-sounding to the guys from AlexFilm. Also, depending on the city that will receive guests, various entertainments, whether it be games on old consoles, or in an atmosphere of comfort and tranquility - board games. In addition, you should not forget about lively communication with like-minded people, meeting new people and potential colleagues outside the network. And of course, gifts for the contest participants.

About the contest

Anyone can take part in the competition regardless of the city and country of residence.
For participation, it is enough to create a design on a free theme, in any style from minimalism and photography, to modern and 3D. The key rule is to use fonts and combinations in the work: Helvetica, Akzidens Grotesk and Neue Haas Grotesk.
The work must be sent to contest@helveticaworld.com until May 8, inclusive, having issued it in the form of an A3 or A4 poster.

About Prizes

The best works will be licensed to TypeDNA Font Manager and High-Logic MainType Professional font managers with extension plugins for Adobe products, as well as the Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet.

Guests are welcome

On the links of the event page Vkontakte.
Time Club “Gnezdo” (Moscow),
IT-Bar “KLUTCH” (St. Petersburg),
Art Center “Crane” (Chelyabinsk),
Free Space “Dial” (Kiev),

We were supported

TypeDNA (Sweden),
High-Logic (USA)
Freelansim and Huntim (Moscow)

as well as resources: designmodo , Intelligent Magazine , public about freelance - Volnitsa , public about Helvetik , as well as public about design All About

Rates:

We really wanted the event to be free to attend, as in other things we planned to find a partner who would provide free ice cream, as the guys in the USA organized it, but in our country no one made contact. We will try to fix this omission next year.

Participation in the competition is free, and the entrance to the event is designated by the institutions:
Moscow - 420 rubles.
Kiev - 90 UAH.
Chelyabinsk - 150 rubles.
St. Petersburg 250 rub.

Time : On the night of May 10-11, from 00-00 to 06-00, all the details are on the pages of the events.

If you have ideas, suggestions, we are glad to cooperate and communicate.
Good luck!