Lukmon Oloyede.
Eight ad experts have been selected as jury for the 2015 Cristal festival Poster Contest taking place this Thursday, 28th of May at La mango Restaurant, Ikeja GRA in Lagos.
The list of jury include: Chima Okenimkpe, Creative Director at Inisght Comm.; Creative Managing Director of Noah’s Ark, Lanre Adisa; Uzoma Okpaye, Managing Director of Etu Odi; Babatunde Sule, CreativeDirector of DDB Lagos; Atunwa Ranti, Creative Director, TBWA Concept; Kunle Shittu, Director, New Business & Special Projects of STB McCan; Chuma Obumselu, Executive Creative Director at BBDO and the Creative Director of 141 Worldwide, Chamberlin Ukenedo.
A few weeks ago, the Cristal Festival invited all designers to showcase their creativity by designing a poster to promote the event. The winning artwork to be picked on thursday will be used in Crital’s international communication campaign as poster, catalogue cover,  website banner,  and on invitations, newsletters, and press insertions.The poster, according to ACF, should be designed around a simple and symbolic visual associating the advertising world via the various competitions: films, outdoor campaigns, print, and radio to the conviviality of meetings in warm surroundings.
Also, contestants are to illustrate the African Cristal Festival that will hold from September 30 to October 2, 2015 in Marrakech, Morocco.
Eligible contestants are either single or two member teams’ max. Several entries per team can also be submitted.
For the finalists, an accreditation will be offered to the 4 finalists and the finalist shortlist will be featured on festival’s website and in press releases.
Prize for the winners include: A free pass to Marrakech for each person of the winning team (maximum 2 people) for the 3rd edition of the African Cristal Festival starting from September 30 to October 2, 2015 including transportation – airplane tickets for one team member, as well as accommodation and delegate passes i.e access to all festival venues, official lunches, cocktails & dinners, after parties, etc for the two team members.
There is also a 10% discount on the global participation fee for the winning agency. Targeted audience for the event include advertisers, advertising agencies, marketing, interactive and media agencies, producers, directors, industry leaders, journalists and the communication industry at large.
