2025 Graphic Design Contest
The 2025 Program Committee invites ASBH members and nonmembers to submit original art to be featured in the graphic representation of the 2025 ASBH Annual Conference, with an artistic interpretation of the Society and the conference description. Submissions were accepted from January 21, 2025 through 11:59 PM CT on February 28, 2025. You can view this year's winner and previous winning designs here.
General Information
Eligibility
Both ASBH members and nonmembers may submit entries. A submission may be from an individual or a group of up to five collaborators.
Entry Limit
Up to two submissions per individual or group are allowed.
Deadline
Entries meeting all required specifications must have been submitted to ASBH by 11:59 pm CT on Friday, February 28, 2025.
Recognition for the Winning Entry
The winning entry will be chosen by the Program Committee and announced at the end of March 2025. The design (or portions of the design) may appear on 2025 Annual Conference promotional materials.
The individual artist or artists will be recognized in conference materials with their artist statement and a brief biography. The winning artist(s) will be granted one complimentary registration for the 2025 ASBH Annual Conference and a complimentary one-year ASBH membership.
Design Requirements
Design Theme
Submissions must offer an artistic interpretation of the Society and the 2025 conference description, included below.
As American culture becomes increasingly polarized, the need for interdisciplinary collaboration, high-quality research, and ethical practices grows ever stronger. How can the past guide our present? How can diverse perspectives offer unique insights into perennial issues? We encourage you to explore the intersections between bioethics and humanities and consider how their intersection may be greater than the sum of their parts.
Copy
Inclusion of the ASBH logo or text referring to the Annual Conference in the submission is not required. Those items will be incorporated into the final overall design by the ASBH staff, using the winning design.
Media
Any mixed media suitable for reproduction as a poster or cover are allowed, including digital graphics and photographs. All submissions must be original art. No trademarked or copyrighted images or phrases shall be submitted as part of any design. ASBH will require written permission from any subject included in any photographs.
Artificial Intelligence
Due to the risk of copyright infringement, ASBH may only accept AI-generated material that was developed "in a sufficiently creative way that 'the resulting work as a whole constitutes an original work of authorship,'" or "material originally generated by AI technology [modified] to such a degree that the modifications meet the standard for copyright protection." (Source)
Submission Format
Digital designs should be submitted as a 300 dpi JPG or PDF. If a traditional painting or drawing is submitted, it should be scanned and sent as a 300 dpi JPG or PDF. Submission dimensions must be at least 8.5 x 11 inches. Larger sizes are acceptable.
Contest Terms
One design may be chosen by the Program Committee and announced at the end of March 2025. All or part of the winning design may be used, at the sole discretion of ASBH. The design (or portions of the design) may appear on conference materials, signage, or the ASBH website, as deemed appropriate by ASBH. ASBH reserves the right, for any reason, to select no winner or winners.
The individual artist or artists will be recognized in conference materials with one paragraph describing the winning submission and one biographical paragraph. The winning artist(s) will be granted one complimentary registration for the 2025 ASBH Annual Conference and a complimentary year of ASBH membership.
Rights
All artists will retain the rights to their work but must grant ASBH unlimited license to use all or part of the design in relation to the 2025 Annual Conference. To the extent allowed by law, the artist grants a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, sublicensable, unconditional, and transferable license to ASBH to edit, modify, cut, rearrange, add to, delete from, reproduce, store, modify, copy, transmit, publish, post, broadcast, display, adapt, exhibit, and/or otherwise use or reuse the artist's entry, name, and biographical material, including, but not limited to, use for advertising, promotional, commercial, or any other purposes without further review, notice, approval, consideration, or compensation to the entrant or any third party. The determination of eligibility of entries and any interpretation of these rules is at the sole discretion of ASBH and shall be final and binding upon all entrants. By participating, the entrant agrees to abide by and be bound by these rules.