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Thursday, 13 January 2005 | senay
The UniKeep Design Awards
Second Annual UniKeep Design Awards Contest - Design a UniKeep Cover to Win
$10,000 in cash prizes!
Create a cover for any size UniKeep View Case Binder- students, professionals, hobbyists - any art you are willing to share
Post your cover on your site or ours - enter online; All entries will be available for download in the UniKeep Gallery
First 50 entries each month receive FREE UniKeep Binder
Win $100 monthly cash prizes in each category
$500 grand prizes in each category
$1,500 for overall Best of Show
Contest open to participants ages 13 and up
Entries will be accepted online January 1 through December 31, 2005.
Contest Rules & Guidelines
The UniKeep Design Awards were initiated to encourage our users to share their unique and creative ways of customizing their UniKeep View Case Binders. Our goal is to make the widest variety of covers and cover templates available online that can be used by anyone, anywhere.
By hosting your designs on your own site, your contest entries can increase the traffic to your site from a targeted audience.
Entry Requirements
There are a few minimum requirements that determine whether an entry can be accepted.
1. All contestants must be 13 years of age or older as of January 1, 2005 to participate.
2. All entries must be files in either Adobe's Portable Document Format (PDF), Microsoft Word (.doc), or JPEG format (.jpg).
3. Each file must be available for download on the entrant's web site throughout the duration of the contest OR sent to UniKeep along with a release for us to post your entry on our site indefinately. Reciprocal links to the UniKeep Gallery are requested, but not required. See Resources for link information and button image. Files sent to UniKeep to be hosted on the UniKeep site should not exceed 2MB.
4. The page where the file is located on your site must contain a description of the cover referring to "UniKeep" in plain text as well as a thumbnail image of the cover for reference. The thumbnail image must be a JPG or GIF approximately 150 pixels wide with the phrase "ukp05" as part of the file name. If you send your files directly to UniKeep, your files may be renamed to conform to contest rules.
5. The designer/contest entrant must own the copyright for all content or post authorization to use copyrighted or use-restricted content that includes approval for rule 6.
6. The designer must display a grant of rights to all visitors for their individual use. See Resources for suggested content. Each entrant must grant UniKeep the right to use and display prints of the cover for marketing purposes.
Sample site listing:
Categories
General categories are required for the purpose of judging and for helping users find templates that are of particular interest to them. There will be some overlap in content, but each entry must choose only one category to participate in.
1. Arts & entertainment. Anything involved in creating, distributing, promoting or displaying any form of artistic expression. May include photo albums, portfolios, scripts, sheet music, recorded music or video.
2. Business & professional. Covers designed to be used for work. May include presentations, reports, archives, personal record keeping, marketing and sales materials or business publications. This is the only category where entries are not required to be useful for others. You may submit company-specific designs to share your concepts and be eligible to win.
3. Education. Anything used for school or teaching. May include school reports, memory books, homework, notebooks, records, project presentations, teaching plans or school publications.
4. Sports. Big league to little league, anything sports-related fits here. May include record books, rule books, play books, stats, memory books or team rosters.
5. Hobbies & recreation. Fun and non-profit. May include scrapbooks, travelogues, journals, home decorating planners, family albums, or craft and project files.
Judging Criteria
Within each category, entries will be judged using the same judging criteria.
1. Appropriate content (10 percent) Does the content fit the category? Is the content suitable for public use? We won't presume to judge whether or not it's art, but if it wouldn't be acceptable for a Times Square billboard, it won't be accepted here.
2. UniKeep Brand (10 percent) Does the cover embrace the UniKeep brand promise? This doesn't mean it needs to have our logo, but each entry will be judged on its contribution to organization and clear communication.
3. Technical specifications (10 percent) Is the overall size and layout correct? Is the file format JPG, PDF or Microsoft Word and is it under 2MB? Are all the fonts and images embedded in the file?
4. Ease of Use (10 percent) Can the file be downloaded easily from a dial-up connection? Can my mother open and successfully print the file? The answer doesn't have to be yes to these questions, but they could really help your score. Keep in mind we can't judge a file we can't open and print!
5. Overall design (30 percent) Is the layout clean? Does the design communicate well? Is it unique in design and interesting to wide audience of UniKeep users?
6. Overall organization (20 percent) Does this cover help general UniKeep users organize important information in a useful and flexible system?
Contest Rules
No purchase necessary. Although it's a lot of fun to use what you design, you don't actually have to purchase a UniKeep View Case Binder to create a template. You can use our sample templates as a guide for your layouts.
Void where prohibited by law. Any disputes arising under the terms and conditions of this contest will be governed by the law of the State of Ohio, U.S.A.
All contestants MUST be age 13 or over as of July 1, 2003.
Your template MUST be posted on the internet for others to freely download. Your link will be listed at www.unikeep.com Reciprocal links to www.unikeep.com are encouraged, but not required. However, the links must remain active and accessible throughout the contest in order to remain eligible. Entries may be judged ineligible if posted on sites with generally offensive content as determined by general contest criteria. If you send us your files, we reserve the right to rename the files and post them indefinately for our users and your cover file should be no larger than 2MB.
All entries must be submitted online. Entries hosted on contestants' sites must be submitted to UniKeep along with an active URL where the template may be downloaded. The JPG thumbnail must appear on your site along with copyright information allowing at least individual single use rights. Suggested text that you can paste on your site is available in Resources.
Must conform to standard format. All entries must be posted and available for use as PDF, Microsoft Word, or JPEG documents. Templates can be designed for 0.5, 1.0 or 1.5 inch View Case Binders, but ALL must print easily on standard paper sizes: 22 x 17, 11 x 17 inch paper or letter sized paper that can be connected.
All entries must be designed as UniKeep covers or organization systems. Photos, illustrations and other art that is not formatted for UniKeep products will not be eligible for prizes. UniKeep reserves the right to post all material that is submitted.
No limit to entries. As long as the entries are significantly different as judged by our jurors, you may enter as many times as you wish. Entries from employees, vendors, or contractors of UniKeep LLC or Univenture, Inc. are not eligible for prizes.
No multiple categories. Each design may ONLY be submitted in one category.
One winner per category per month will be selected from entries received during that month only. All entries received during the contest will remain eligible for one grand prize in each category at the end of the contest and for one overall Best of Show winner.
No copyright infringement. All work must be released for individual usage or purpose usage grants. And all entries must contain copyright-free art or art released for entrant's and public use. No unauthorized use of any copyrighted images, text, or other material will be accepted.
Jurors' decisions are final. Preliminary judging, including fitness of purpose, will be conducted by UniKeep. Final judging for Best of Contest will be conducted by a panel of design professionals.
Winners will be notified by email. Prizes will be mailed to name and address provided on the entry form. Cash prizes will be awarded directly to the entrant or to an institution or recognized charity of entrant's choice.
You will be notified by email when your entry is received. UniKeep cannot be responsible for entries not received due to technical issues and accepts no responsibility for technical support of any entries.
Cash prizes will be paid in US dollars. All applicable taxes or fees are the responsibility of the winner.
Free binders will only be shipped to the first 50 entrants each month with addresses in the continental US.
UniKeep reserves the sole right to determine eligibility and to adjust contest rules if necessary based on volume of entries or legal requirements. All prizes will be awarded. Contest participants are responsible for checking this site for changes.
Entries will be accepted beginning at 12:00 am January 1 EDT and ending at 11:59 pm EST on December 31, 2005. Monthly and final prizes will be awarded within 30 days of judging. If a prize is undeliverable to a recipient, the prize will be awarded to the next eligible contestant.
All entries will be judged according to the month in which they are received. Entries must be received by midnight EDT/EST on the last calendar day of the month to be eligible for that month's awards. All entries must be received by midnight EST December 31, 2005 to be eligible for grand prizes.
UniKeep LLC is not responsible for any additional content on th esites of our contestants, nor is the company responsible for any damage to contestant or visitor computer equipment or data that may result from system malfunction or corrupted/infected files. Scanning any file prior to download with a virus protection program is recommended.
http://www.unikeep.com/awards/rules.html
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