Sunday, 10 April 2005 | senay
Designing Unseen Wellness
Submission: From 1-5-2005 to 1-6-2005
Designing Unseen Wellness is a design competition organized by the department of Industrial Design of the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven in the Netherlands, supported by the Italian wellness company Technogym. We hope to involve young designers and design students in the discussion about the role of pleasure and wellness in interactive products. The competition is part of the Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces 2005 conference that unites international players from both industry and academics to share the newest developments in the field.
We warmly invite young designers from all over the world to join the discussion through this competition. The best 10 are invited to exhibit at the conference (trip to the Netherlands and conference fee included) and get a shot at 3500 Euro prize money. So do submit and show the world your previously unseen vision on wellness.
Submission
From 1-5-2005 to 1-6-2005
Competition Rules
Who
The competition is open to all the students or young designers born after 1st January 1977.
The participation is open to singles and groups. Groups have to be composed by max. three persons, but one person only must be registered and designated as the team leader.
By registering in the competition, the participants automatically grant the authorization to use their personal data for all phases concerning and pertaining to the procedures of the competition.
When
Registrations will be accepted starting from 1st May 2005 and till 1st June 2005.
The projects for entering the competition must be sent starting from 1st May 2005 and within 1st June 2005, by 12:00 a.m. GMT + 1h, (Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stokholm time) and not later.
How
Registration have to be one directly at the web-page of the portal www.wellness.tue.nl filling in an ONLINE FORM. You will be assigned a username and a password that you will use to upload the competition material. Every project will be named with a 5 digit numerical code randomly and unambiguously generated for every submitted project. Not even the author of the project will know this numerical code. The jury members will review the projects, following these codes, and will rate them. For this reason we require the images and the text do not contain any references to the identity of their authors.
Each project must be an original work by the designer and it shall not breach any third parties' intellectual property rights, or any third parties' rights of use and economic/commercial exploitation.
The projects for entering the competition must be sent exclusively on line by means of the up-load (using one's login and password) in the web page http://www.wellness.tue.nl.
What
The projects files must comply with the following requirements:
--The submission should have a maximum of 800 words of text. Use the online form to compose your submission. The official language is English.
--Images must be in jpg format with the minimal measurements of 800 (width) x 600 (height) pixels and maximum 1280 x 1024 pixels.
--The images have to be minimum 3, maximum 6.
--When a movie is included, it should be a Quicktime file with mp4 compression.
--Maximum file size 10 MB, frame size maximum 768 x 576 pixels. The movie should be playable with the standard Quicktime Player 6.5, available at www.quicktime.com
--Each participant can send by means of a single up-load more than one design proposal, but it is not possible to submit more than 10 images overall.
--The description must contain the title of the project/projects, and must not contain any reference to the identity of the designers.
If the proposed project is chosen as finalist, the organizing committee will send to the designer a communication by e-mail or will phone him/her. The designer must answer to the above-mentioned communication before and not later than 10 days from the date of sending of the nomination communication message to accept to participate to the conference and present his/her project. If such communication will not be done penalty is the exclusion from the classification. The organizing committee considers as valid only the e-mail address and the telephone number given at the moment of registration (in case of changes, kindly inform us specifying your name and surname sending an e-mail to Competition_dppi05@tue.nl.) Therefore it is very important to check that all the given data are complete, correct and valid at least 5 months.
When the nominations will be communicated, the 10 nominated designers will have to produce more detailed material. This material will be used for the exposition that will take place during the DPPI conference. Models and working prototypes will be welcome.
Designers may send such images and other possible material requested via e-mail or, using a CD Rom or via normal mail.
If the Designer does not observe one or more points of the present Competition Guidelines, the designer will not be admitted to the International DPPI Competition or will be immediately excluded. Names of selected designers (winners) will be published in the site www.wellness.tue.nl.
Technogym shall have the first right to request negotiations according to reasonableness and equity for collaboration agreement with one or more of the competitors in the DPPI'05 competition; under the strictest confidentiality commitment and under the agreement with the competitor, Technogym may start to exploit designs submitted in the competition also before the nomination of the 10 finalists. The participants will always be guaranteed the intellectual ownership of the elaborated project ideas, in compliance with the copyright law in force.
http://www.wellness.tue.nl
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