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 42ND ANNUAL UCDA DESIGN COMPETITION The UCDA Design Competition recognizes the best of the exceptional design work done to promote educational institutions (secondary, vocational, or higher education). The UCDA Design Competition for 2012 is now underway. UCDA is looking for your biggest and best ideas for our annual design competition — whether it be print, electronic, green, and even student work! This year's show will be on display at the 42nd Annual UCDA Design Conference, October 13-16, 2012 in Montreal. Awards will be given out on Sunday, October 14, with certificates being mailed to winner's after the conference. Enter today! Early entry deadline: June 15, 2012. Entry deadline: July 13, 2012. Entries must arrive by the deadline dates. • looks great on your resume • be part of history (all winning entries become part of the UCDA Design Collection, featuring 40 years of educational design) Enter Your Best Work • Publications • Digital • Integrated Campaign • Green • Strategy (new categories added for 2012) • Illustration • Photography • Electronic Media • Student Work, including Classroom Work/Assignments Deadline Entries must be received by the following dates: Early entry deadline: Friday, June 15, 2012 Entry deadline: Friday, July 13, 2012 Enter early and avoid the last minute rush to gather, prepare and package your entries. But why wait? Now accepting entries. Eligibility Any work designed, published, or used by an educational institution is eligible. Work must have been published between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. Peer Reviewed 'Inspired design' happens in context. This year we've assembled panels of judges comprised of designers and design educators working in educational institutions or doing a significant portion of their work for institutions. Your work will be reviewed by others who understand the environments in which you create. Competition Judges UCDA Design Competition judges' biographies can be found here. Print, Illustration, Photography and Student Categories • Dave Holston, Communications and Marketing, Georgia Tech • Kara Hooper, Creative and Visual Services, Middle Tennessee State University • Rick Landesberg, Landesberg Design Digital Categories • Ben Agoes, Interactive Design, Boston University • Susan T. Evans, mStoner • Steve Wilkison, Watkins College of Art, Design & Film; Digital Vision Media Entry Fees Early Entry Fees (Early Entry Deadline: June 15)
Entry Fees (After June 17, Entry Deadline: July 13)
** Non-members may join UCDA and be eligible for member entry fees by completing the UCDA membership section on Entry Form A Designate new membership status on Form A. *** Please include your partner member membership number, available from the partner organizations main office. Judging Criteria Print entries will be peer reviewed and judged for excellence in concept, design, illustration, typography, and printing, as well as effectiveness, quality, and creativity in solving the problems inherent in institutional design. Digital entries will be peer reviewed and judged for appearance, flexibility, interactivity, and suitability for their intended audiences. Creativity in solving the problems of designing for electronic media is primary. Work accepted for the show will receive Awards of Excellence, Silver or Gold. Photographs of Entries Along with your entries, please provide an electronic image of the piece(s) you are submitting. Images may be submitted as PDF files, JPGs or TIFs and saved on a CD or DVD. All images may be on a single CD/DVD even if entering in more than one category. You may also submit more than one image per entry. Providing these images will ensure inclusion in the competition awards show and CD. Entries may also be included online at the UCDA website. Please label your CD with your last name and institution name. File should be named: CATEGORY#_LASTNAME_ENTRYTITLE Send Entries Send entries with Entry Form B attached, and completed Entry Form A with payment to: UCDA Home Office UCDA Design Competition 199 Enon Springs Road West, Suite 300 Smyrna, TN 37167 USA 615-459-4559 Notification • Winners will be notified by August 31, 2012. • Hanging fees have again been eliminated for this year. • Winners will be required to send in a duplicate copy of their winning entry. • Winning entries become part of the UCDA Design Collection.
Rights Statement Submission of entries to the UCDA Design Competition acknowledges the right of the University & College Designers Association to use them for exhibition, publication, and publicity. Entrants agree to hold UCDA harmless of any claims that may be made against it by reason of such reproductions. Securing releases is the sole responsibility of the entrant. Entries become the property of the UCDA and cannot be returned. UCDA takes no responsibility for determining official authorship or ownership of websites or digital entries. The judges will review all pieces submitted to the competition, and the final number of pieces accepted into the show will be at their discretion. The judges may recategorize entries; if so, there will be no adjustment of entry fees. Decision of the judges on entries accepted and the level of awards are final. |
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