In the year

2018

the world's best football nations will compete for the trophy at the

World Football Championship

in Russia, and for the sixth time

tschutti heftli

is taking care of the artistic highlight of this major sporting event. Since

2008

tschutti heftli have been publishing a sticker album of a special kind: instead of mere photographs the

tschutti heftli collector's album

presents real works of art.

The contest is calling for

illustrators

,

graphic designers

,

cartoonists

, and

other artists

– with a pencil, on the computer, glued together, kneaded, or molded in clay.

There are two main section:

•

Main competition

: Design a portrait of the football legend Diego Armando Maradona.

•

Under-13 category

: Design a portrait of your favourite football player.

For the realisation of the portrait,

all techniques are allowed

as long as there is no infringement of copyright laws. All works must be digitalised. Three-dimensional works must be photographed. Analogue submissions will not be considered. Format: Digital (

PDF or JPG

), size not smaller than A4 format, at 300 dpi.

Submissions must be sent via email to

[email protected]

. Only one submission per participant will be considered.

There is no entry fee

.

Eligibility

Open to anyone worldwide.

Prize

The winners will have the privilege to design one of the teams of the 2018 World Cup for the tschutti heftli legendary collector's album. The distribution of the album in Switzerland, Germany, and further European countries will offer you a great platform to present your work to a large audience. All artists represented in our album will receive a lump sum for their expenses, the amount of which will be determined by the sales figures of our album.

Moreover, the best works will receive cash prizes totalling

5,000 Swiss Francs

(

approx. 5,140 USD

).

For the

Under-13 Category

, the best 11 portraits (

selected by a jury under the guidance of the tschutti heftli team

) will be part of our collector's album. They will be made into a sticker for a special page in the album called "

Under-13 All Stars

". In addition, you will get an album complete with all stickers, plus a

tschutti heftli

surprise package full of great presents.