International Competition to design the new SAMSON logo

Prize US $1000

On the 19th March we launched a global competition to design the new SAMSON Logo. This competition is open to any student or early career researcher from any country in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Eligibility criteria

Applicants must be students or early career researchers (defined as being a current Masters/MD/PhD student or within 5 years of obtaining a Masters/MD/PhD), and be based in a Sub-Saharan African country.

Closing date for the competition

Extended Deadline: 17.00 GMT Friday 1st June

Competition brief

The Sub-Saharan African MuSculOskeletal Network – SAMSON - is a research network across West, East and Southern Africa which aims to build sustainable capacity in Musculoskeletal Health Research. Musculoskeletal Health Research includes studies of bones, joints and muscles and the diseases that affect these systems. SAMSON focuses on Musculoskeletal Health Research in human populations throughout the lifecourse.

SAMSON is a newly established network and requires a logo, colour scheme and branding for its new website and associated materials. Your brief is to design a new logo for this purpose.

The SAMSON logo needs to;

Include the acronym SAMSON
Indicate the geographical scope of the network
Be able to be reproduced in both colour and in black and white
Be suitable for use on the website and printed material

The colour scheme used within the logo will form the basis of the SAMSON website design.

How to enter

Entrants must complete this application form, which should be emailed to info@theSAMSON.org as a PDF along with

a short (maximum 2 page) curriculum vitae (saved as a PDF)
a signed letter from your supervisor confirming your position and thus eligibility (saved as a PDF)
a high resolution image of your logo saved as an SVG, GIF, PNG, JPEG, TIFF, or BMP

For use in printed material the higher the resolution the better. We suggest a minimum height of 400 pixels, but it must still work as a logo when shrunk down to a height of 100 pixels for use on the website.

The winner

The winner will be chosen by the SAMSON panel. The winner will receive US$1000 to be spent on educational activity.

The winner will be asked to write a 500 word short report on how they used the prize money to further their educational activity; this report will be published on the SAMSON website.