CSTA logo

Design competition

Introduction

The Craniosacral Therapy Association (CSTA) is an umbrella organisation that upholds standards for practitioners of craniosacral therapy and the affiliated colleges which train practitioners. It is the largest organisation representing craniosacral therapy in the UK and in the world. Craniosacral therapy (CST) is a light-touch form of complementary medicine which can facilitate profound changes both physically and psychologically. Please see the ‘Craniosacral Therapy Association’ section on this website for more information.

The Association has been using a logo that we now find impractical. It is barely legible when reduced in size and doesn’t reproduce well on computer screens and hence websites so the Association is launching a competition for a new corporate design as described in the brief below. Entries must be submitted by 30 June 2008 and there will be a prize of £250 for the winning entry.

Craniosacral Therapy

It is essential to have a sense of what craniosacral therapy is: please go to the ‘About Craniosacral Therapy’ section on this website for more details. Some words that describe CST are: spaciousness, stillness, motion, flow, grace, centredness, groundedness, holding, listening, awareness, vitality, health, wholeness, integration, clarity.

The population group from which the biggest proportion of clients come is educated women between the ages 25 and 65, but otherwise the demographic is broad.

Craniosacral therapy has both structural and subtle components. It is about people, empathy, contact and a depth of therapeutic listening and relationship. It is human rather than technological and brings together mind, body and soul.

The brief

The new design should present the Association as professional, competent and effective in its role of supervising members and colleges and in accurately and appropriately representing the usefulness of CST to the general public, to conventional and complementary practitioners, and to its other audiences – the media, training institutes etc.

As a professional body the Association effectively acts to give a seal of approval to its members and their work. It is engaged in research regarding the efficacy of CST and is the guardian of the standards of craniosacral training and practice.

The design is currently used in the following settings:

The CSTA website
The CSTA leaflet, CSTA posters and banners
CSTA stationery (A4 letterheads, 1/3 A4 size ‘with compliments’ slips etc)
CSTA official documents (Standards of Practice, Code of Ethics, Register of members etc)
The CSTA Journal/magazine front cover and inside
CSTA advertisements
CSTA membership certificates, CSTA members’ badges
Individual members’ flyers
Some examples of the above applications are shown here

The new design must incorporate the words: Craniosacral Therapy Association.These words may appear in conjunction with a symbol or stand alone. The new design may draw on the existing symbol - but that is not essential.

The new design should be:

Easily legible on screen and when reduced in size
Memorable and unlikely to ‘date’
Simple/understated
The design elements may include a symbol or not and may be in black and white or involve the use of colour. The design must work in black and white.

We would like the design to present the Association as:

Professional and trustworthy
Effective and competent
Dependable
Caring/open/approachable
Well-founded/enduring/stable
Enquiring/modern/innovative/open to change
Ethical/setting high standards
Supportive of clients and practitioners
Authoritative/respected


What would be inappropriate is:


Looking New Age
Looking exclusively feminine
Symbolism of specific religions, philosophies or ideologies.



Entry requirements

The competition is open to all except employees of the CSTA and members of the CSTA Council and their families.

Design proposals for the individual elements (symbol, logotype, colour/s, corporate font etc) should be submitted in black and white, and in colour if appropriate, on plain paper. Please also show how the design would be applied to an A4 letterhead and to the front cover of a document and/or journal. To demonstrate the new design on screen, please also submit it as a jpeg by email (maximum initial viewing size 1Mb – obviously the finished item may be a much larger file size).

Ensure that you include your name, address and a contact number with your entry.

Please post hard copy to Roger James, 9 Ridleys, West Hoathly, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 4HN and email the jpeg to editor@craniosacral.co.uk


Complete entries to be submitted by 30 June 2008.

Original artwork (except for the winning entry) will be returned if a cheque or stamps are enclosed to the value of the postage.

If you require any further information please contact: editor@craniosacral.co.uk or phone 01342 810112 or 0033 46843 1502

Qualifying entries will be submitted to a meeting of the Council of the Association on 21 July and the winner will be contacted within 28 days of that date.

Copyright of the winning entry will be deemed to belong to the Association. The Association may seek to appoint the original designer or another designer of its choice to make any adjustments to the artwork if necesssary prior to its use.

We look forward to receiving your entry.

Competition terms and conditions

  1. These terms and conditions together with the specific rules above (and as defined below) are the Competition Rules and apply to the CSTA design competition. By entering the competition, entrants agree to be bound by these Rules.
  2. The Competition is organised by the Craniosacral Therapy Association (CSTA) of Monomark House, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3XX
  3. Rules of the competition are displayed on the www.craniosacral.co.uk page posting for the competition (the Competition Notice). In the event of discrepancy between these terms and conditions and the Competition Notice, the Competition Notice shall prevail.
  4. The CSTA reserves the right to cancel or amend the Competition, the Competition Notice or these Rules at any time without prior notice. Any changes will be posted within the Competition Notice. A copy of the Rules may also be obtained by sending a stamped addressed envelope to: Roger James, 9 Ridleys, West Hoathly, East Grinstead, West Sussex RH19 4HN
  5. In the event of any dispute regarding the Rules, Competition Notice, conduct, results and all other matters relating to the Competition, the decision of the CSTA shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
Qualifying Entrants
  1. Employees and Council members of the CSTA, the Competition judges or any such person’s subsidiary or associated companies, agents or members of their families or households, are not eligible to enter the Competition. The CSTA reserves the right to verify the eligibility of all entrants.
  2. By entering the Competition, you hereby warrant that all information submitted by you is true, current and complete.
  3. The CSTA assumes that by using its site and entering the Competition (and you warrant that) either you have legal capacity to enter the Competition and agree to the Rules (ie that you are of sufficient age and mental capacity and are entitled to be legally bound in contract) or your parents have consented to your entry of the Competition and use of these Rules.
  4. The CSTA reserves the right to disqualify any entrant if it has reasonable grounds to believe the entrant has breached any of these terms and conditions.
Competition Entries
  1. By entering the Competition, you hereby warrant that any design submitted by you is your own original conception and that you have the legal capacity to confer copyright of your entry to the CSTA and that it is not already subject to any copyright restrictions or the copyright owned by any other person
  2. Competition entries must be made in the manner and by the closing date specified in the Competition Notice. Failure to do so will disqualify the entry.
  3. Proof of posting cannot be accepted as proof of delivery. The CSTA cannot accept responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft, destruction, alteration of, or unauthorised access to entries, or entries lost or delayed whether or not arising during operation or transmission as a result of server functions, virus, bugs or other causes outside its control.
  4. Entrants should note that when they enclose a cheque or stamps to the value of the postage for the return of their original artwork, the CSTA will endeavour to return this material to the entrant. The artwork of the winning entry will not be returned. The CSTA cannot accept responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, delay in operation, theft, destruction, alteration of, or unauthorised access to entries, or entries lost or delayed howsoever arising or other causes outside its control relating to the return of any Competition entries.
Prize
  1. The winning design will be chosen from qualifying entries presented to a meeting of the Council of the Association on 21 July. The winner will be contacted within 28 days of that date. The Association reserves the right not to award a prize if it considers that there are no suitable entries. In all matters, the decision of the judges and the CSTA shall be final and no correspondence or discussion shall be entered into.
  2. The prize winner will be notified by post or telephone within the time specified in the Competition Notice. Return of any prize notification as undeliverable or failure to reply may result in forfeiture of the prize money. Only one prize will be awarded. The Competition winner’s name(s) may be published on the CSTA website or can be obtained by writing to: Competition Prize Winner, Craniosacral Therapy Association (CSTA), Monomark House, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3XX including a self-addressed stamped envelope for the name of the winner.
  3. The prize is awarded at the CSTA’s discretion and no prize will be awarded as a result of improper actions by or on behalf of any entrant.
  4. The CSTA reserves the right to request written proof of age of any entrant.
Intellectual Property Rights
  1. In consideration of the CSTA agreeing to consider entrants to the Competition, each entrant hereby assigns to the CSTA the complete copyright and all other rights in any entry, which shall be for the full period of copyright. The CSTA shall be free to assign such rights to third parties.
  2. Furthermore, any information submitted by you must be personal to and relate specifically to you. You hereby warrant that the information which you submit and/or distribute will not infringe the intellectual property, privacy or any other rights of any third party, and will not contain anything which is libellous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, harassing or threatening. If relevant, the CSTA reserves the right, but not the obligation, to screen, filter and/or monitor information provided by you and to edit, refuse to distribute or remove the same.
Liability
  1. The CSTA cannot accept any responsibility for any damage, loss, injury or disappointment suffered by any entrant entering the competition or as a result of accepting the prize. The CSTA is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer on-line systems, servers, or providers, computer equipment, software failure of any email or entry to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet, telephone lines or at any website, or of any failure of any sort of any postal service, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to entrant’s or any other person’s computer or mobile telephone related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Competition. Nothing shall exclude the CSTA’s liability for death or personal injury as a result of its negligence.
Data Protection and Publicity
  1. Any personal data relating to entrants will be used solely in accordance with current UK data protection legislation and will not be disclosed to a third party without the individual’s prior consent.
Jurisdiction
  1. The Competition and the terms and conditions of this agreement will be governed by English law.
How to contact us
  1. You can contact us in relation to this competition by writing to the Craniosacral Therapy Association at Monomark House, 27 Old Gloucester Street, London WC1N 3XX or by emailing info@craniosacral.co.uk

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