Logo Design Open Call

Culture& is calling for logo design proposals from University of Staffordshire and Keele University students or recent graduates for our upcoming cross-arts programme, The Unhomely: Explorations of Diaspora, Displacement, Belonging and Identity.

The selected designer will develop a distinctive logo and visual language that can be used across the programme’s activity, including exhibitions, screenings, printed material, digital platforms and publicity.

Eligibility

Call open to: University of Staffordshire and Keele University students or recent graduates with experience in visual communication/identity or graphic design, and concept-led graphic practice. Applicants should be confident in developing visual identities and logos and have access to relevant design software (e.g. Adobe Creative Suite or equivalent). Experience in research-led, thematic, or culturally responsive design is desirable.

The Unhomely

Culture& is an Arts Council England supported organisation based at the University of Staffordshire. The Unhomely public programme aims to examine how histories of migration, displacement, belonging, and Identity shape both personal and collective understandings of home. Through art exhibitions, interventions, events, and creative research, the programme seeks to create a space where artists, curators, and communities can explore what it means to live between worlds where the familiar becomes strange, and the past continues to echo within the present.

The Unhomely draws on psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s concept of the uncanny and the notion of hauntology, the ghostly return of  historical events. At its core, the programme asks:

• What happens when something once familiar becomes strange?
• How is the idea of “home” unsettled through migration, climate crisis, inherited memory and cultural displacement?

Commission Timeline & Detail:

Commission fee: £500

The selected designer will develop a distinctive logo and visual language that can be used across the programme’s activity, including exhibitions, screenings, printed material, digital platforms and publicity. The commission will form part of the wider Unhomely programme, which includes a university-based screening, student-led activity, and a major exhibition at The Brampton Museum (Sept–Dec 2026).

Final outputs:

• 1 primary logo for use in print and online
• A simple visual identity system (e.g. typography, colour palette, graphic motifs)
• Logo supplied in relevant formats (For example but not limited to SVG / PDF / PNG / JPG)
• A short-written rationale explaining the concept and approach

Timeline:

• Call for proposal open until end-of-day 1st Feb 2026
• Selection & Initial artist meeting: Week commencing Monday 2^nd February 2026
• Deadline for final Logo: Monday 23^rd February (12.00 noon)

Contractual details: The commission fee is £500 (inclusive of time, materials and any expenses), and the commission will run during February 2026, with payment made in line with Culture& / University processes (details to be confirmed with the selected designer).

The fee includes:

• Initial briefing meeting
• Research and concept development
• One mid-point review with feedback
• Revisions following feedback
• Final delivery of all agreed assets

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If you have any questions, please contact info@cultureand.org