EIDD Design for All Europe competition 2008
EIDD Design for All Europe invites submissions to the EIDD Design for All Competition, Endorsed by Icograda.
Torino World Design Capital, 17 October - 17 November 2008.
1. Call for Entries
EIDD Design for All Europe invites submissions of posters, institutional videos and guerrilla
marketing tools dedicated to capturing the differing perception of its work in the field of
Design for All, i.e. design for social inclusion, all over the world and applying it for promotional
purposes.
Further information about the topic is available from the website www.designforalleurope.org
2. EIDD Design for All Europe award scheme is endorsed by Icograda (International Council of
Graphic Design Associations); the organisational aspects are the responsibility of Design for
All Italy IIDD and Design Center Bologna
3. Who Can Enter
Offices, studios, agencies, freelances and students working in the sectors of graphic design
and visual communications in general (including street artists, advertisers etc.) are all eligible
to take part.
4. Categories
The award scheme comprises three categories. Each participant may enter for all three
categories, but only one entry per category is allowed. The possibility of a form of co-ordination
between entries presented for the three categories is not a necessary criterion.
5. The three categories are:
Posters: cm 70x100
Institutional videos: 30 seconds
Guerrilla marketing: unpredictable material, for actions along the lines of street art.
6. How to Enter
Entries must be uploaded in the form of pdf files, in the case of posters and guerrilla marketing,
and of avi files, in the case of the videos, onto the ftp server:
ftp.design-center.it
username: designcenter
password: centerdesign
in the poster, guerrilla marketing and video folders respectively, using an alphanumerical
codename of two initial letters followed by four final numbers containing the participation
form attached to the call for entries identified with the same codename as the folder; the
same codename must also be used for the material (pdf or avi files) sent with the following
suffixes: p for posters, v for videos and g for guerrilla marketing.
7. Rules
The purpose of the rules stipulated in article 6 above is to guarantee anonymity: failure to
comply with them will lead to automatic exclusion from the competition.
8. Deadline
The deadline for uploading entries is set at 21 September 2008.
9. The prizes
1st, 2nd and 3rd prize for each category
special prize for students
20 selected entries in each category.
Icograda Achievement Award
10. Acknowledgement
The winning entries in each category will be used by EIDD Design For All Europe to promote
its activities for 2009-2010. The second and third prizes shall be used to promote special initiatives, also at national level, dedicated to Design for All. The special student prize winner shall be used in campaigns targeting education and training.
The selected entries shall be collected in a catalogue to be published for the occasion,
which shall accompany the exhibition in its international venues, and on the EIDD DfA
Europe website. First venue: Torino (Turin World Design Capital) Accademia Albertina di Belle
Arti, September – October 2008.
11. The Jury
The entries shall be selected by a jury comprising: Finn Petrén (President, EIDD Design for All
Europe), David Berman (Icograda Board Member), Avril Accolla (Vice-President, EIDD Design
for All Europe), Marco Berveglieri (Publisher, Red Publishing), Giovanni Anceschi (Professor,
IUAV Venice; President, Design Center Bologna Advisory Committee), Carlo Branzaglia
(Professor, Bologna Academy of Fine Arts; EIDD National Director for Italy) shall serve as
executive secretary without voting rights.
12. In the case of a high number of entries, a pre-selection jury shall be established,
comprising members of the IIDD Design for All Italy Executive Committee: Marcella Gabbiani
(President), Luigi Bandini Buti (Secretary), Chiara Cerea (Treasurer) and Carlo Branzaglia (EIDD
National Director for Italy), plus Pete Kercher (Ambassador, EIDD Design for All Europe).
13. Intellectual property in the entries shall remain vested in their authors; the winners shall
grant an unrestricted licence to EIDD Design for All Europe (by signing a due authorisation
for this purpose included in the registration form), so that it can be used and applied in
such media as EIDD shall see fit.
14. The names of the authors of the winning entries in all the above categories shall be
mentioned on every occasion when their creations are used and shall also feature in
pertinent press releases related to the development of the initiative.
15. A copy of the entries shall become part of the Icograda Foundation archive (a due
authorisation for this purpose shall be included in the registration form) and the EIDD
Design for All Europe archive.
16. EIDD Design for All Europe hereby undertakes to reproduce said material exclusively for the
purposes of exhibitions, relevant publications in all media, activities promoting Design for
All, or as illustrative attachments to press releases.
For more information:
Email
competition@design-center.it
Download
Competition Regulations (pdf, 37 kB)
Visit
www.designforalleurope.org
www.icograda.org