The campaign for designing propaganda forms in service of political mission and decoration of Ha Noi City in 2016 proves to be a timely guideline advanced by Ha Noi with the aim of ornating and beautifying the Capital, particularly during occassion of celebrating major national and municipal anniversaries and events. It is hoped that with the due investment in time and synergy, the drive will be able to find out a number of new sample designs, making worth contribution to making Ha Noi Capital ever greener, cleaner and more charming.
The campaign for designing propaganda forms in service of political mission and decoration of Ha Noi City in 2016 has been formulated aimed at seeking and selecting new ideas of propaganda and decoration, making contribution to education of traditional revolutionary history, creating joyful and triumphant atmospheres throughout the occassions of national holidays, Tet festival, significant national and municipal anniversaries and events.
By various means of propaganda and decoration, the campaign will at the same time partly help cardres, party members and Capital Hanoians learn more deeply of important significance of events; encouraging and mobilizing the entire Party, the people and the Military to highten their utmost patriotism, self-reliance, great national solidarity, striving for achievements in celebration of major national and municipal anniversaries
Propagandization and decoration within city, especially during occassion of celebrating major national and municipal anniversaries and events will meet in a timely manner the requirements of ever more increasing cultural appreciation among people, in contribution of maintaining and enhancing national cultural identities and Ha Noi uniquely characterized values – City of thousand year of culture, peace and heroism.
In order for the campaign to be effective and substantive, designs should manifest political, cultural, historical meanings at the times of each event and celebrations. Design samples should have high aesthetics fit in the environmental setting and city’s lighting system. And it must be highly feasible with priorities given to the ideas which use new technology, proper materials, with elegant colours, meeting technical, aesthetical and environmental requirments, and making sure it is safe in the process of installation and operation.
With the above in mind, the drive will be implemented with a focus on the two main objectives: propaganda forms in service of political missions and fine decoration of Ha Noi city.
Regarding propaganda form for political purpose, the design would consist of 4 categories, these are: a cluster of iconic models, cluster of propaganda posters, cluster of flags and other related types. The said designs would be used for the events namely: propagandazing the poll of National Assembly deputies of 14th legislature and members of People’s Council at all levels for 2016-2021 term; celebrating 71th anniversary of the August Revolutionary Day and National Day of 2nd September; celebrating th 62nd anniversary of the Capital Liberation Day (10 October 1954 – 10 October 2016); celebrating the 70th anniversary of Ho Chi Minh’s Day calling on the entire people for the resistance war (19 December 1954 – 19 December 2016) and welcoming the new year of 2017.
On decorations to beautify the city, to make it on a pilot basis before it could be expanded widely over the whole city, the Organizing Committee has selected 4 group of sites for competition, i.e First: Squares and public gardens: Cach Mang Thang Tam, Dong Kinh Nghia Thuc, Ly Thai To Monument; Second: Key traffic points: Cua Nam, State Bank, O Cho Dua , My Dinh, Mai Dich; Third: Streets: Đinh Tien Hoang, Le Thai To, Trang Tien, Hang Khay, Trang Thi, Ba Trieu, Hai Ba Trung, Phan Dinh Phung, Dien Bien Phu, Hung Vuong, Thanh Nien, Giang Vo, Kim Ma, Nguyen Chi Thanh, Tran Duy Hung and Fourth: Areas with main city entrance and huge bridges.
Authors are requested to make an overall design for beautification of the said areas, provided the decorations should be used daily as well as in major events and anniversaries of the capital city and nation. It includes decoration of buildings’ facades, trees, pavements, lamp posts,..; along the road sides and roads’ partition lines; priorities are given to the usage of new technologies …
To be able to select fine and impressive design samples, participants in the drive is not constrained. The participation could be either organization or individual bearing Vietnamese citizenship. It could also be overseas Vietnamese those who wish to join and their capablities are suitable with the drive’ regulations. In the mean time, members of the Organizing Committee, Jury Panel and Advisory Group shall not be allowed to participate to ensure of its fairness.
According to the regulations, work for competition must be prepared in paper size of A3 or A4. Each author is entitled to taking part in the competition for differrent sites and proposing various design options with no limit to the number of work pieces. The registered author shall be comletely accountable for the copyrights of the created work, making sure that it has not yet been sent for any other competition and has not been made public under any forms (not to violate rules on the copyrights).
Apart from that, the Organizing Committee will issue certificates to those authors and units who have won the prizes. For the selected designs, together with prizes they received, will be paid 2 millions dong per sample.
The campaign for designing propaganda forms for political tasks and city decoration is not for business purposes. Work pieces registering for competition will not be returned to their authors while the Organizing Committee will have rights to use the work pieces which have won the prizes for propaganda activities under any forms and on any mass media on occasions of anniversaries, celebrations or events if deemed appropriate.
The dossiers for competition include:
- Aerial decor (3D);
- Technical drawing (front, back and lateral sides);
- Actual image;
- Idea interpretation (less than 200 words);
- Work plan (if any);
- Author’s CV (inclusive: Full name, date of birth, awards, contact address, telephone, email).
The work registering for competition needs to be enveloped and sealed or well packed in fixed box. The Organizing Committee will not be responsible for any registered work for competition not in due course as provided as well as any damage and loss during the process of sending their registered work for competition.
On Prizes structure:
+ As for the political propaganda designs, The Organizing Committee will award:
– 01 First prize worth 10 millions dong
– 02 runner-up prizes worth 8 millions dong/each
– 03 Third prizes worth 5 millions dong/each
– 05 Consolation prizes worth 3 millions dong/each
+ As decoration designs for city beautification, the Organizing Committee will award:
– 01 First prize worth 20 millions dong
– 02 Runner-up worth 15 millionsdong/each
– 03 Third prizes worth 10 million dong/each
– 05 Consolation prizes worth 5 millions dong/each
Author must be held accountable to the copyrights and other relevant rights in accordance with the laws, and strictly observe the campaign’s regulations. The Organizing Committee shall not be responsible for any disputes of copyrights and other related rights. The Organizing Committee will also revoke the prize money and certificate subject to the exisiting laws and regulation, once any breach of copyrights and other relevant rights has been discovered. Act of submission of registered work for competition means that the author has been agreeable to the campaign’s rules and transfer the use rights of the work to the Organizing Committee. After the prize-winning designing options have been selected by the Organizing Committee for implemetation, their author is requested to make necessary amendments or adjustments according to the Organizing Committee’s comments. The prize-winning author will be prioritized to have his designing plan executed as requested.
Dateline for work submission:
Phase 1: As of 18 April until end of 22 April, 2016 for the propaganda decoration in service of the poll of National Assembly deputies of 14th legislature and members of People’s Council at all levels for 2016-2021 term.
Phase 2: As of 25 till 30 May, 2016 for the rest of propaganda and decoration forms.
Place for work submission: Secretariat’s Office at 47 Hang Dau Strret, Hoan Kiem, Ha Noi. Tel. 04.39347902. Mobile. 0989152811 (Ms. Tran Thi Thu Huyen).
Upon submission of registered work for competition, the Secretariat will together with the author double-check on site as to whether the files are valid as regulated in terms of deadline and sufficiency (without checking the insides). Once things are fine, it will be accepted, sealed and the file submission receipt is given to the author. The Organizing Committee has a responsiblity to keep the secrecy of the work’s content until it has been compiled and rated. The results of the designing campaign will be noticed on the Portal of the Department of Culture and Sports of Ha Noi, and on other mass media.
Phuong Uyen