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Our food
Afang. Edikang ikong. The clay pot and the shared plate. Fresh fish off the boat at Oron.
Public logo competition
Design the logo for
our Christmas.
One design becomes the festival's official mark.
Taste of Akwa Ibom: Our Food, Culture and Heritage. ₦10,000,000 in prizes. Free to enter.
His Excellency, Pastor Umo EnoGovernor of Akwa Ibom State
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Entry each
The brief
Draw what Akwa Ibom tastes like.
Three things in one mark, and it has to survive being printed on everything.
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Our culture
Ekombi and Ekpe. Raffia weave. The cowrie. Something an Akwa Ibom person names without being told.
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Our heritage
The estuary. The palm belt. The Christmas hearth. Where we come from, drawn for now.
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And it must work
On a billboard and on a cap. In colour and in black. At 12 millimetres. Most entries lose here.
Directions a mark could take — illustrations only, not entries.
Prizes
₦10m across five placements.
Paid by the State into your own verified bank account.
2nd
₦3m
Second place
₦3,000,000
1st
₦5m
Winning design
₦5,000,000
Your logo becomes the festival's official mark, credited to you.
3rd
₦2m
Third place
₦2,000,000
How to enter
Four steps.
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Create your account
Your name, email address, phone number and a password — about a minute. Before you can start an entry you confirm who you are: your NIN, a bank account in your own name, and a photograph taken on the spot.
One account per NIN02
Upload your design
Four files: a big preview, your vector source, a colour PNG and a black PNG.
Checked in under a minute03
Explain and declare
A short rationale, your colours, anything you did not make yourself, and whether you used AI.
AI statement required04
Submit
You get a reference by email and SMS. Edit it any time before entries close.
One entry eachWhat came before
The marks that came before.
These carried Ibom Christmas Unplugged in previous years — on the banners across Uyo, on air and on every shirt. They are here so you know what the job is, not so you can make another one. The panel marks originality, and the surest way to score badly is to hand in a fourth version of what is already on this page.
Ibom Christmas Unplugged 3.0
Script wordmark, plug motif, foliage and snowflakes.
Ibom Christmas Unplugged 2.0
The same idea in white, with holly and berries carrying the colour.
How it is judged
Nobody on the panel knows your name.
The panel sees your reference, your files and your rationale. Nothing else.
Seven members score independently, out of 100.
Members cannot see each other's scores.
The top ten are compared side by side.
The Sponsor approves before anything is announced.
Scoring rubric
100 pointsTheme interpretation
30
Originality and creativity
25
Technical quality
20
Versatility and reproduction
15
Cultural authenticity
10
Read before you export
Four things that lose good entries.
All four take ten minutes to avoid. None can be fixed after entries close.
A soft or small preview
Export at 300 ppi rather than 72, and at least 3,000 pixels on the longest side.
A "vector" that is really a picture
A photograph placed inside a PDF is not a vector file, and we check for real paths.
Using the State crest or ARISE mark
Those are the Government's own marks, and your design may not include them.
An AI statement that does not match
Using AI is allowed, provided you say so honestly. Misdeclaring it is a disqualification.
Questions
The ones we are asked most.
Do I need to be a professional?
No. The panel scores the design, and it never sees your name.
How many designs can I enter?
One. If you withdraw it, your slot is freed and you may start again while the window is open.
Is there a fee?
None. Nobody may charge you to enter, and if anyone asks you to pay, report it to the help desk.
Do I lose my design if I do not win?
No. It stays yours. Only the first-place design assigns to the State, and you are credited as its designer.
Can I use AI tools?
Yes, but you must say which tools you used and what you used them for. Declaring AI use does not disqualify you; misdeclaring it does.
One of these designs becomes our Christmas.
It could be yours. Entry is free, and the panel will only ever see the work.
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