The World Games 2017 Wroclaw MASCOT CONTEST launched!
On December 12th at the Contemporary Museum in Wroclaw, a competition for the design of The World Games 2017 mascot was officially announced. It was introduced by Wroclaw’s Deputy Mayor Wojciech Adamski and Piotr Przygonski, the President of the The World Games 2017 Wroclaw Organizing Committee.
The contest will be watched over also by three ambassadors. They include Piotr Socha, a well-known and respected illustrator, graphic artist and designer of books and board games. Adam Ptak, vice president of Se-ma-for and Polish puppet and animation studio and film producer who is also involved in reviving drawing figures. The contest’s female ambassador is Maja Włoszczowska, an outstanding mountain biking athlete and one of the most exciting sports personalities in Lower Silesia, a silver Olympic medalist and World and European Championships multimedalist.
During the event, Wojciech Adamski handed art workshop participants huge wooden pencils which have become a symbol of this competition’s launch.
Piotr Socha gave participants basic principles of good sketching. This was taken further in workshops for children by prof. Anna Kramm from the Wroclaw Academy of Fine Arts. The presence of Adam Ptak was an opportunity to show the contest participants methods for animating still designs of mascots.
The Mascot is an important item in the promotion of each sport event. As pointed out by Piotr Przygoński, the uniqness of our mascot will be the fact that its creators will be children and young people. Students who are at least 9 years old but not more than 19 and still in high school and are residing in Poland, can take part in this competition and become the creators of The World Games 2017 mascot.
Competition submissions - made in any technique on paper or in the form of a graphic file - can be submitted until May 23rd of 2014.
For the winners attractive prizes are foreseen. Three teams - the authors of the best works, will be rewarded with unique sports and tourism packages.All details of the "Hero of our greatest sports event" competition can be found at:
