Inspired by Dutch Product Design Competition - Tirana Architecture Weeks [En]Visioning Future Cities
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INSPIRED BY DUTCH DESIGN COMPETITION
In the framework of Tirana Architecture Week - [En]Visioning Future Cities, Albanian Netherlands Alumni Association, POLIS University and Co-Plan financed by the Netherlands Embassy in Tirana, Albania are organizing a product design competition. The purpose of this Product Design Competition is to create a small, smart, and functional product designed and inspired by renowned Dutch Design. The winner will be chosen out in early October 2014. The winning design will be exhibited together with the 10 best finalist designs during Tirana Architecture Week - [En]Visioning Future Cities.
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT DESIGN COMPETITION
PARTICIPATION
*Participation in this Design Competition is free of charge and open to everyone.
*This is a competition open internationally to all students of fine arts and design, professional artists and designers.
*Participation in design groups is also accepted.
NOMINATED DESIGNS AND WINNING DESIGN
*The competition designs will also be published on the Internet, on the Tirana Architecture Week website, in various exhibition spaces during Tirana Architecture Week, via social media and also a special issue of MAD Magazine and FORUM A+P.
SELECTION CRITERIA AND SELECTION
*Each design must provide proof of their insipration by dutch design refered either to a specific object, a design theory or a dutch designer specifically expressing: functionality, sustainability, and the renowned “subtle sense of humor” of Dutch Design. The winning design must be marketable and fit to be given away to important contacts of the Dutch Embassy.
*All participating designs will be judged by an international jury of experts among the fields of Dutch Culture, fabrication techniques, industrial and graphic design.
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
*Each submission must contain the following:
a. Representative images and technical drawings of the design in 1 A1 digital file in pdf-format
b. Designers are also encouraged to submit CAD 3D drawings with proper file extentions.
c. a completed participation form, in (maximum) 2 A4 pages stating their personal information and the design description of their project.
THE DESIGN AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
*The submitted design must be new and original.
*The submitted designed may not be made public yet via any website or in any other way, and until the final selection of the winning design, the participant shall not participate in any other competition with the submitted design. Until the date of the selection of the winning design, the participant shall not publish in any way the submitted design.
*The participant remains under any event the owner of the copyrights and other intellectual property rights vested in the submitted design, reserving TAW the rights to publish and produce the design.
*The participant declares that his design does not infringe on any third-party rights and that he is free to participate in this Design Competition.
*The participant warrants that he is the sole designer of the submitted design or, in the event the design was submitted together with others, that he and these others are the sole designers of the submitted design.
*The participant indemnifies the Embassy against any third-party claim, such as a claim that the submitted design would infringe on any third party (intellectual property) rights.
IMPORTANT DATES
26 April – 1 July / Open Call: /Competition Announced, Questions & Answers/
All the participants can sent their questions at the mail: [email protected]
1 July – 28 September: / Selection:/Project Submission/
Participants artists/designers will be asked to send their work(s) in 300 dpi resolution together with the participation form which must include the full name, address, telephone and email address.The files must be sent at: [email protected] or by a CD at the address:
Universiteti Polis, Rr. Bylis 12, Autostrada Tiranë-Durrës, Km 5, Kashar Kodi Postar 1051, Kutia Postare 2995, Tirana, Albania
September - October:/ Jurying - Exhibition/
The selected works will be exhibited during Tirana Architecture Week and the jury will chose the three winners. The winners will be contacted privately by email and will be asked to participate on the final winner annoucement ceremony.
October: / Ceremony : Final winner announced/
The ceremony will be held in the venues of Polis University where the board will declare the
winning posters. Artists/designers will be present to carry their prizes.
PRIZES
1st prize.............. 750 EUR
2nd prize............ 500 EUR
3rd prize............. 250 EUR
*Including publications regarding TAW and in MAD Magazine.
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