Nowadays
organizations aim at training their manpower by breaking through the
traditional paradigms to reach at productivity and business excellence.
Our age is the age of talented people as the main asset of
organizations.Even simple concepts such as intelligence, literacy ,and
function have changed deeply and creativity is the dey to many of the
challenges ahead.MCG with years of experience in this regard and with
cooperation of university professors and artists is after benefiting
from cultoons to provide managerial concepts in a funny, peripheral and
tangible way. Experts believe that most of our memory depends upon our
visual input of which the funniest part is the everlasting one. The
present cultoons indicate potentiality to benefit from managerial
reminders in various situations.
Productivity could simply be defined as ?doing the right work in the right way?.
Hence, to show
this concept in patterns that make learning as simple as a smile,
We
invite cartoonists all over the world to take part in
the first
International Cartoon Festival with the theme of Productivity.
Theme:
Productivity and city management
Productivity
and city-dwelling
Productivity and nature
Productivity and
technology
Productivity and culture
Productivity and human
being
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to see the winning cartoons in the First National
Productivity Cartoon Contest ,click here:
Also
another special competition titled ?Productivity and Cell Phones
(Mobile)?
will be held whose winners will be announced
separately.
The regulations of the festival are as
follow:
1-A maximum of 3 works in each section
2-Only original
Artworks are accepted, without any kind of frame,
accompanied by the
entry form and author?s short biography and photo.
3-Works by
computers are also acceptable, provided the print
versions are signed
by the cartoonist. The computer
version should be in TIFF format with
300-DPI resolution on CD.
4-No photocopies or photographs will be accepted.
5-Name , surname
,address , phone No and email of
the participant should be
written on the back of each cartoon.
6-The size of the works should be A4 and maximum A3 .
7-There is no limit on the techniques employed for cartoons.
8-The deadline
for all submissions is April 30, 2007.
9-The opening Ceremony is
May 22, 2007.
10-The participating cartoons will not be returned.
11-All cartoonists whom their cartoons are published in the catalogue will receive a free copy.
12-The
organizers will do their best to protect all
submitted cartoons from
any probable damage,
but takes no responsibility of the damages
caused by post or bad transport..
13-The
organizers hold all the rights to publish the
cartoons
submitted to the festival and use them in any
form.
14-The works
should be sent to the following address:
No.60, Western Golnabi (Ketabi) St., Hemmat
Highway,
Shariati St., Tehran, Iran, Iranian House of
Cartoon
Tel:
(+9821)22868600
Fax: (+9821) 22867080
http://www.productoon.com
http://www.irancartoon.com
15-The
Prizes:
1. First prize: 3000 Euro and Trophy
1. Second prize:
2000 Euro and Trophy
1. Third prize: 1000 Euro and
Trophy
In
addition:The first winner will be
awarded a mobile with the accessories valued at 1000 Euro as well.
The
second winner will be awarded a mobile with the accessories valued at 500
Euro.
The third winner will be awarded a mobile with the accessories
valued at 200 Euro.
Ten other top works will be chosen to be
awarded.
It needs to be
mentioned that the festival jury is comprised
of international members
with a combination of artistic vision
(cartoonists) and
scientific vision (management scholars).
Organizers: Maad system group and Iranian House of Cartoon