Announcement of ANBD 2019 - Colombo Special Exhibition

Asia Network Beyond Design (ANBD) was found over a decade ago for the purpose of culturalvalue expansion through convergence of each area’s characteristics, focusing mainly on Korea,
Japan, China and Taiwan. It is constructing a network of asian design professionals andacademics, aiming to promote many valuable exchanges and to promote Asian identity overvarious boundaries such as the area of creative activity, generation, region (country), gender,work style, and specialities.

Furthermore, The territory of design is magnified and globalize today, and border between art
and design, and differences of the genre are coming to be meaningless as well. The design of thepast was demanded one role as industry, and this time demands design as the culture producer
and the culture creator. Thus, ANBD aimed at exhibitions, research, and exchange activities forthe purpose of forming Asian identities that make full use of the features in each region. Overthe past years, many exhibitions were held by the ANBD, exhibiting over 13,000 artworks until
now.

Currently ANBD is participating in periodic exhibitions in permanent areas such as Seoul, Tokyo,Taipei, Tianjin, Tainan, Kuala Lumpur, and Shanxi, and have started working with Sri Lanka,Thailand and Germany, and the area is planned to gradually expand in the future. Except theseregular exhibitions which are held in 4 areas each year, the ANBD Special Exhibition will takea lasting role to inform Asian identity to the world.
Following the sparkling success of the ANBD 2018 Munich Special Exhibition, the board of
directors of the ANBD have decided that the 2019 special exhibition is to be held in Colombo,
Sri Lanka in the early February of 2019.

The specific contents of the year 2019 special exhibition are as follows.
Eligibility to Exhibit and Particiaption
Those who agreed to the purpose of the exhibition and their level of work are recognized by theBoard of Directors of active participants in each region.

Exhibition Theme

Illuminating Asia
The exhibited work is an unpublished work, and in the case of a work already announced, thewriter must obtain permission for posting the ANBD work collection to the responsible personof the relevant institution which was announced.

Furthermore, the contents of violation related to ANBD copyright (such as the symbol of thecountry, national flag, symbol, logo, photograph and illustration work etc) are not used.
Eliminate elements that will cause political and social problems between countries. Also, it ispossible to exhibit not only works in the digital data format but also pieces of works such as
three-dimensional work, plannel and video.
Exhibition Section
1. Solo Exhibition Section
Personal works can be exhibited on free themes. In principle, participants should join theopening ceremony and display works in the exhibition place. If necessary, pamphlets forexhibition will be produced and distributed for each.
If you wish to have a personal exhibition, please send three representative artworks to theAsia Secretariat mail (jeehyun0208@hanmail.net) for applying. If there are many applicants,
we will close the deadline in order of arrival due to the limited number of personal exhibition
spaces.

2. Group Exhibition Section
The works of the group exhibition should follow the theme of the exhibition. It allows one
artwork per member. Collaborative production is also allowed.
Exhibition Period & Place
February 11th to 15th, 2019
Opening Ceremony: February 11th, 2019 (to be announced)
Main Auditorium, Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT)
New Kandy Road, Malabe, Sri Lankawww.sliit.lk
Submission Method
Deadline to submit work: January 27th , 2019
Please login to the webhard site(www.webhard.net / id: anbd2008 pw: anbd) and create a new
folder with the name of submitter as follows.
Click GUEST folder → Click UPLOAD ONLY folder → Click ASIA OFFICE folder →Create New folder with the submitter’s name
Please upload following contents (①、②).
① Exhibition application form
(Name、Address、Telephone number、Mail address、Title of the artwork)② Artwork data for exhibition、Data for artwork pamphlet 、Photo of artistArtwork data for exhibition：A2 (420mm x 594mm,250dpi、JPEG file、CMYK

color mode)

Data for artwork pamphlet ：A6 (105mm x 148.5mm、250dpi、JPEG file、CMYK
color mode )Artist’s profile photo (30mm x 40mm(vertical type)、250dpi、JPEG file、Gray Scale)When uploading artwork data, please refer the following format for file naming.
File name for Exhibition DataLast name, Given name - A2.jpg

File name for Portfolios Data

Last name, Given name - A6.jpg

File name for Profile Picture

Last name, Given name.jpg

Process of After Exhibition
After completion of the exhibition, the exhibits must be stored in each exhibition place or discarded as a rule.

ANBD Special Exhibition Award
After judging by the ANBD jury committee, select the excellent works among the 5% of exhibited works. The
selected excellent works will be awarded at opening ceremony.

Contact Information
Chairman, ANBD, Prof. Cho Youl(Tainan University of Technology, Taiwan) luycho＠naver.comThe Secretary General of ANBD Asia, Prof. Jeehyun Kim(Hansung University, South Korea) jeehyun0208＠hanmail.net
On behalf of ANBD Colombo: Prof. Janaka Rajapakse (Tainan Natiponal University of the Arts)
janakaraja@gmail.com or anbdcolombo@gmail.com