GIF Me Your Best is the European Elections GIF Competition which aims to collect as many creative perspectives as possible on why Europe and the European Union is worth a vote. It invites European graphic designers, animators, typographers, illustrators, photographers and artists who are living in the European Union to take a stand and use the transnational language of design to create a GIF.

Who can apply

• graphic designers, animators, typographers, illustrators, photographers, artists and beyond, living in one of the EU Member States
• participants should be of legal age.

Prizes

• jury made up of designers and communication experts from all over Europe will be appointed to award the three best GIFs;
• the three winners will be invited for one day to Strasbourg, France, in July to attend the first session of the newly elected European Parliament;
• all GIFs submitted to the competition will be shared and promoted on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Giphy.

How to apply

• submit your GIF online;
• the submitted GIFs should be from a person, not from agencies or other companies;
• each participant can upload a maximum of three GIFs;
• the GIF must not be longer than 10 seconds;
• the GIF must have no sound;
• the GIFs may not contain brand logos or any reference to the author or owner of the rights;
• the GIFs generally may not contain special messages from particular political parties, groups or candidates;
• don’t send GIF stickers.

Deadline: 24^th May 2019.

The competition is a private non-profit initiative of Robert Eysoldt. It is supported by the European Union, DG COMM.

Read more here.