CAN you design a poster for Holy Week and Easter?
The act of designing a leaflet and a poster for the Church Times promotions month, triggered a memory of a contest that we once ran within the paper. It seems to have been in 2012, after we invited readers to submit suggestions for posters that may communicate the meaning of Easter and encourage people to take part in Easter services.
We wrote on the time that it needn’t be a recruitment poster: it could function simply as something to make people think. Twelve years on, readers might imagine of posters as too retro; but, if anything, the expansion of social media has fed people’s appetite for immediate, eye-catching images and snappy slogans.
So, we’re running the competition again this yr. Please email your entries to editor@churchtimes.co.uk, writing “Poster competition” in the topic line. Deadline: 9 a. m. on Friday 22 March.
The editor’s decision, how ever arbitrary it could seem, is final.
The senders of the six winning posters will each receive a pack of six Real Easter Eggs, kindly supplied by the Real Easter Egg Company.
Important small print:
- Unlike much that appears only online, we want medium- to large-sized files to work in print: nothing under 1MB, please.
- Images are to be sent as attachments or via certainly one of the common image-transfer packages.
- Entrants can be assumed to have cleared any copyright in the photographs that they use, including any AI-generated images. We recommend the usage of a web based image-copyright checker.
- At the identical time, entrants will retain copyright of any images that they produce, simply granting the Church Times permission to publish the photographs in print and online. These will appear in our Maundy Thursday issue, on 28 March.
- Please enclose a postal address in your email. If you win, we are going to need this to send you your Easter eggs.
