Unveiling of the results of the Visual Identity Competition

The aim of the competition was to select a design that would identify the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures as an intercultural institution, open to social dialogue, cooperating with academic and business sectors as well as involved in the initiation of artistic projects.

All the competition entries submitted have been evaluated by the Jury,
presided by Peddy Mergui – a world-class designer specialising in branding and visual communication. Apart from Peddy Mergui, the Jury included: Dr habil. Dawid Korzekwa – designer and President of the Polish Association of Graphic Designers, Jarosław Koziara – visual artist and graphic designer, Dr Justyna Kucharczyk – designer, specialist in Visual Identity, assistant professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Dr Sławomir Plewko – designer, owner of KONTRASTUDIO, and Piotr Franaszek – Managing Director of the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures in Lublin, territorial marketing expert and consultant, creator of the “Lubelskie. Taste life!” brand.

After four hours of debating the Jury decided to award the following prizes:

1st Prize – 15 000 PLN – Agata Wrześniewska (Lublin / Kraków)

2nd Prize – 8 500 PLN – Paweł Miszewski (Warszawa)

3rd Prize – 5 000 PLN – Robert Król (Kraków).

– I am happy that the winner, as it turned out after the identities of the authors of the competition entries have been decoded, is so young (24 y.) – says Head Judge Peddy Mergui. It reminds me of my own beginnings. At the age of 26, I was also a winner of a design competition.

In addition, the CMC team decided to award two competition entries with a special mention and a prize of 1 000 PLN. The authors of the first prize are Paweł Hadrian and Tomasz Kwiatkowski.

– These presentations the best represent, to our wind, the values that the institution aims to fulfil, says Piotr Franaszek, Managing Director of the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures. Its overt reference to the culturally universal symbol of the tree and the plurality of interpretations inherent in it that draw on such signifiers as a microchip, fingerprint, brain, labyrinth all embody the ideas of the modern humanities that we also espouse.

– The second work that we would like to reward with our special prize was created by Paweł Miszewski. The designer, in a way that is the closest to the aesthetics compatible with that of the institution we are creating right now, has managed to give shape to its ideas, which also informed the creation process undertaken by Bolesław Stelmach, the architect of the Centre for the Meeting of Cultures. “The unfinished state” and “being constantly in the process of becoming” – these two qualities are intellectually anchored in this simple yet uniquely capacious sign, adds Piotr Franaszek.

     1st Prize - Agata Wrześniewska                                       

     2nd Prize - Paweł Miszewski

    3rd Prize - Robert Król

     Special mention - Paweł Hadrian,Tomasz Kwiatkowski