About the Festival
Book
Illustration Festival "BookILL Fest" is organized for the fourth time by
Banat Cultural Centre and Novi Sad Fair during the 21st
International Book Fair in Novi Sad (Serbia). Book Fair is going to take place
from the 18th to 25th of April, 2015, and Book
Illustration Festival is going to be organized on the 20th of April,
at Novi Sad Fair.
"BookILL Fest" includes internet
competition for the best illustration of the book, exibition of selected works,
the announcement of winners, and exhibitions and lectures related to the book
illustration.
The Aim of the Festival
The book
illustration is important, but also specific area in the process of graphic
designing of books, which is why "BookILL Fest" seeks to draw
attention to illustration and illustrators in public, but also to publishers
who care about the equipment of their books.
Illustrated book is
an art object that is signed by the co-authors: the writer and illustrator. Organizer
affirmates the principle that the text of the book and its visual component –
illustration – are both equally important and valuable.
Contests
for book illustrations are very rare in the world, and thus, this festival is
more important.
Registration for the Contest:
The
contest is open for the authors from all over the world.
Each
author submits 4 illustrations of the book: at least 1 illustration of the
front page is required, and 3 illustrations of their own choice from the book, in
digital format (JPG, TIFF, PSD format, RGB mode, 300-600 dpi, up to A4).
You
can send everything to the e-mail address: bookillfest@gmail.com You can send
illustrations done in all artistic and graphic techniques or computer
processing. The photographs which illustrate books will be also accepted.
Unpublished artistic designs, published
books, scanned, completed works or just
projects will be accepted as well.
If the
author wants, he/she can send his/her book and CD with drawings and data, to
the following address: Banatski kulturni centar, JNA 35, 23 273, Novo Miloševo.
The authors must send their personal data by email (name, surname,
address, phone number, a short professional biography) titles of the works, and
the specific category for submission. They should indicate whether the book was
published or in the project.
The
works must be sent until the 5th of April, 2015.
The categories for submission are:
1.
Illustration
of the poetry book
2.
Illustration
of the fiction book
3.
Illustration
of the book for children
4.
Photo-illustration
of the book
Jury / Arts Council
The
selection of works and awards – one for each category – is going to be done by
the following members of the jury: Slobodan Ivkov, president, mr Sibila Petenji
Arbutina and Senka Vlahovic Filipov.
The Announcement of the Winners and
Exhibition
The
announcement of winners and the award ceremony will be held on 20th of
April, 2015, at Novi Sad Fair, and the opening of the exhibition of selected and
awarded works.
A
detailed program of the Festival will be announced at the end of the
competition.
*The organizer reserves the right to
present works from this year's and previous competitions and exhibitions in
other towns and countries. It also reserves the right to print thematic
publication (catalog, monography, flyers, etc.) of the received works in propaganda or
retrospective exhibition purposes, or for the affirmation of the "BookILL
Fest" competition project and to have the possibility of scientific
research analyzes of illustrations as artistic discipline in the light of this
project.
By submitting their works, the authors
accept the above mentioned items.
Guest exibition
Exhibition
"Slovak illustrators awarded at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava
1967-2013" will also be opened on 20th of April, organized by the Banat Cultural
Centre and Novi Sad Fair, in cooperation with BIBIANA, International
House of Art for Children from Bratislava (Slovakia) and Foundation Babka Gallery from Kovačica (Serbia).
"BookILL
Fest"
2014
At last year's
competition over 600 works were received by 95 authors from 9 countries. The
jury selected about 100 works by 75 authors that were exposed at the Book Fair
in Novi Sad.
How last year's
festival looked can be viewed here: BookILL
Fest 2014.
Contact
For
additional information, comments and suggestions, contact us via email: bookillfest@gmail.com or phone number:
00381 (0) 23/783-155.