EMERGENCY and Desall Announce “Draw Your Future” Contest Winners for Artivists X EMERGENCY Collection
DRAW YOUR FUTURE: HERE ARE THE WINNERS OF EMERGENCY AND DESALL’S INTERNATIONAL CONTEST TO IMAGINE A PEACEFUL FUTURE AND CELEBRATE THE NGO’S 30TH ANNIVERSARY
THE TWO ILLUSTRATIONS WILL BE USED ON TWO T-SHIRTS IN THE SPECIAL “ARTIVISTS X EMERGENCY” COLLECTION, TOGETHER WITH ELEVEN OTHER PROFESSIONAL ILLUSTRATORS
Milan, 2 May 2024. Two designs will be used on T-shirts in the special limited edition collection called “ARTIVISTS X EMERGENCY”, together with those from renowned illustrators such as Fabio Magnasciutti, Lillo, Fumettibrutti and Laika. This is the prize for the two winners of Draw Your Future, the international contest created by EMERGENCY for its 30th anniversary in collaboration with Desall – an open innovation platform dedicated to the world of design and innovation.
The two illustrations that have won the contest evoke many of the organisation’s founding values such as the right to care, respect for others, peace, and the daily commitment to make these principles concrete.
Aimed at students, young designers and emerging talents from all over the world, the contest asked participants to create an illustration that interpreted the work and values of the Organisation using EMERGENCY’s logo, the “E” circled in red, as a starting point. A creation that would tell a vision of a possible and desirable future, based on the principles that have guided EMERGENCY’s work since its foundation: the right to care and health for all, equality, dignity, respect, peace.
185 designers took part in the competition, whose entries were assessed by a jury composed of Angela Fittipaldi, coordinator of EMERGENCY’s Graphics Department; Max Casalini, architect, founding partner of Arcoquattro and partner of the architectural and urban design studio Arcoquattro_Architettura, Guido Scarabottolo, architect, illustrator and graphic designer, Mauro Biani, satirical cartoonist for La Repubblica, contributor to L’Espresso and other international newspapers, Davide Scomparin, industrial designer, entrepreneur, and founder of Desall.
The winning works – selected taking into account criteria such as the ability to convey the message, consistency with the brand, aesthetic quality, and emotional impact – are The red braid by Giancarlo Alci, and Persons, humanity, care by Valentina Stecchi.
The red braid by Giancarlo Alci is composed of three bandages woven 30 times, representing 30 years of EMERGENCY’s activities, at the top of which is the Organisation’s logo. An iconic image that represents the union to give strength to each other, for a common purpose such as peaceful coexistence and the universal right to care, and that recalls care and healing in the choice of bandages as the depicted image.
The image submitted by Valentina Stecchi depicts three human figures interacting with EMERGENCY’s logo: a seamstress sewing, a reference to the suturing of wounds, but also to the act of repairing fractures between territories, peoples and cultures; a doctor with a stethoscope auscultating the central part of the E of the NGO’s logo to represent care and attention to deep listening, and finally a baby crawling and playing with its hands dipped in red paint. Overall, an allusion to the organisation’s commitment to human rights, its daily practise of the right to care in Italy and around the world, and its future.
The contest’s winning illustrations will become the theme of two T-shirts, one for adults and one for children, and will be added to the collection of special EMERGENCY T-shirts designed by 11 internationally- renowned illustrators. The “ARTIVISTS X EMERGENCY” T-shirts will be sold online and the proceeds will go towards the organisation’s activities. The winners of Draw Your Future will also receive the entire collection of T-shirts as a gift by the end of 2024, and their names will be featured alongside those of the 11 artists who have chosen to participate in the initiative.
The first three T-shirts in the collection, which are already on sale at EMERGENCY’s online shop, are by Fabio Magnasciutti, Olga Grebennik and Dario Sansone, while the others to be released later this year will be by Lillo, Fumettibrutti, Camilla Falsini and five other established illustrators.
Together with the winners, the jury of the Draw Your Future contest also highlighted two special mentions for the illustrations submitted by two other participants: Noemi Cascino and Gianluca Maroli will receive the special T-Shirt collection as a gift.
In the first illustration, entitled For a path of peace, EMERGENCY’s logo becomes a container of symbols: the sun, which illuminates and warms our path, the white dove to represent freedom, the olive tree for peace, sustenance and fertility. Completing Noemi Cascino’s image is the inscription ’30 years of care, for a world without wars’.
A ship sailing on the sea and lashed by the wind, an element that in the sky is composed to form the big E of EMERGENCY’s logo, is the basis of Gianluca Maroli’s illustration. All in strict red and white, it is entitled AiutarSea: a play on words that, together with the image, simultaneously expresses both the mutual help offered among members of the same community, as the human family is, and the sea where EMERGENCY carries out search and rescue activities, which rescued 1,219 people between December 2022 and the end of 2023.
For more information on the contest:
https://en.emergency.it/draw-y-our-future/
https://www.desall.com/Contest/EMERGENCY-Draw-Your-Future/Awards