Rules & Instructions

Come to Sweden and Citronelles are organizing a poster competition where we are looking for a travel poster with the theme "Summer in Sweden".

The competition is aimed at anyone in the world, but primarily at artists and illustrators.

Deadline

All entries must be delivered no later than January 8, 2025, by file transfer. Use this form to submit your poster and pay notice to the technical specifications listed there.

RULES

• You may participate with only one poster.
• The entries must be unsigned, but a signature can be added later (the jury processes the entries anonymously).
• The poster must have a name that you come up with yourself. This name should not appear on the poster itself, but you name your files that you submit to us according to this name.
• The poster must be illustrated or a collage. Photographs are not accepted.
• The poster should attract people to travel in (or to) Sweden and it should contain the slogan ”Come to Sweden” or ”Summer in Sweden”.
• All works must be newly created just for this competition. Any form of plagiarism is prohibited, and all entrants take full legal responsibility for this and each entrant is legally responsible for their work not infringing anyone else's copyright. Participating means that the participant confirms that the work does not infringe third party copyright.
• No racist or other offensive elements may appear in the poster. The artist is legally responsible for his work.
• The use of artificial intelligence is strictly prohibited when creating your poster.
• We support Ukraine. No participants from the Russian Federation or Belarus are allowed.
• Contact posters (at) cometosweden.se if you have questions.
• The participant undertakes not to distribute or share their work before February 26, 2025, when the final results are published.
• The results are published on cometosweden.se and here on myswedenposter.com.
• The winner, runner-up and honorable mentions will be notified personally.
• Participation in the competition implies consent to the competition conditions.

Contest conditions:

The finalists (5-10) will be announced on January 17, 2025. The winner, the runner-up and the three honorable mentions will be published – after the public vote – on February 26, 2025.

Come to Sweden has the right (but not the obligation) to exhibit any of the finalists in any future exhibitions. No separate compensation is paid for this right.

The artists whose works are selected for the final by the jury undertake to adapt their works to any other dimensions if Come to Sweden so wishes.

Come to Sweden has the exclusive right to produce new products (such as postcards, large posters, wooden cards, calendars, etc.) based on any of the finalists. However, if the finalist has not been contacted within six months of the publication of the winners (i.e. 26 August 2025), copyright will automatically revert to the artist.

If Come to Sweden chooses to produce new products based on one of the finalists' competition entries, a separate agreement is drawn up between the artist and Come to Sweden, and a royalty is awarded to the artist based on Come to Sweden's standard contract. If Come to Sweden does not contact a finalist before August 26, 2025, the copyright for the work will revert to the copyright holder.

If Come to Sweden chooses to include any of the finalists in the product range, a guarantee royalty of SEK 3,000 is paid (the guarantee is then deducted from any future royalties).

You can read the standard agreement here.

By participating in the MySwedenPoster poster competition, the participant agrees that their artwork may, if it reaches the finals and if Come to Sweden so chooses, be used in accordance with the standard contract mentioned above.

The winner, runner-up and three honorable mentions will be revealed on February 26, 2025.

Come to Sweden reserves the right to modify the image when necessary in the production of products based on the competition entry (which has reached the final), for example when a product has different proportions than the original work or to make the same poster in different language versions. Come to Sweden also has the right to edit any slogan in the poster or change the font.

Persons who can be considered to be close to one or more members of the jury are prevented from participating.

Come to Sweden also has the right to use the finalists and other works covered by the royalty contract in its digital operations. The aim is for the artist's name to be given as far as possible and space.

Further information is provided in English and Swedish via posters (at) myswedenposter.com

How the winners are selected

Shortly after January 8, 2025, the jury meets and selects the posters that qualify for the final.

The jury's selection cannot be appealed.

The jury consists of graphic experts and connoisseurs.

After the finalists have been chosen, the public can vote among the finalists via our voting page myswedenposter.com. Only one vote per person. The organizers have the right to invalidate votes if abuse is discovered.

The finalists can also be exhibited in a public place in January-February 2025. Participating in the competition implies consent that one's work can be exhibited for the vote without separate compensation being paid.

The work that received the most approved votes is named the winner. The second most votes gives second place, and then three honorable mentions follow in descending order of votes.

The organizers undertake to follow the results of the public vote. If there is obvious abuse in the voting, the organizer has the option to reject suspected false votes.

The final result of the competition and voting is final and cannot be appealed.