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Designtope 5th Design Competition |
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Type:
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Competition
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Registration Deadline:
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19/07/2004
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Submission Deadline:
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31/07/2004
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Open to:
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All
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Entry Fee:
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see below |
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Awards: |
300,000 yen as the initial loyalty and runnning royalty for Grand
Prix
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Jury:
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The judge for the competition is a product designer, Naoto Fukasawa with
the support of Maruni's ' NEXTMARUNI PROJECT COMMITTEE, whose task is to
examine the technologies and the costs necessary for the
commercialization of the products.
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Designtope 5th Design Competition
organizer: Nextmaruni Project Committee + Designtope
theme: Wodden Small Chairs
type: idea competition for commercialization
jury: Naoto Fukasawa
open to: any indivisuals and groups
prize: 300,000 yen as the initial loyalty and runnning royalty for Grand
Prix
registration deadline: July 19, 2004
submissin deadline: July 31, 2004
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The theme ?Wooden Small Chairs?
MARUNI Inc. a Japanese furniture company is now seeking for ?the designs
of small chairs? whose conceptual theme is ?Messages for Japanese
thoughts and esthetic senses?. We?d like you to propose your own ideas
of small chairs that represent your own understanding of ?Japanese
thoughts and their esthetic senses?. That is, as it were, the designs of
small chairs as ?a dialogue with Japanese culture?. This does not
necessarily mean, however, that we are expecting the designs of small
chairs of Japanese
Several Selected Works:
The excellent works that have the future possibility of
theircommercialization will be taken up as Selected Works.
< The creators of the Selected Works will make the two-year
prioritycontract with sponsoring company for the consideration of
theircommercialization. If they are decided to be commercialized, the
runningloyalty for them will be paid after their production starts.>
The Announcement Of The Competition Results
We have requested 11 world-famed designers [ whose names are to be
announcedsoon ] to design a small wooden chair with the same theme of
this DesignCompetition. The work that won the Grand Prix Award in this
competition willbe introduced in the ?Exhibitions? held in Milan and
Tokyo and in the bookentitled ? The Dialogue With Japanese Culture? to
be published later alongwith the 11 works designed by 11 world-famed
designers.
Designtope will announce only the name of the Prize Winner because of
thenature of this competition of commercializing the Prize Winning
work[s]. Thedetails of the work that won Grand Prix Award as well as
Selected works areplanned to be after their commercialization that will
be in April of 2005.
Schedule [Times and Dates are according to Japan time]
The Schedule for the year 2004
April 19[Mon] --- July 19[Mon]: Application Period
April 26[Mon] --- July 31[Sat]: Work Submission Period
August 9[Mon] --- October 10[Sun]: Viability Examination Period for
Presented Works
October 13[Wed]: Final Review and Decision of Grand Prix Award Winning
Work, Decision of Prized Works [The results will be notified to their
designers.]
October 20[Wed]: Period for Final Trial Production of the Work [The
trial product will be manufactured through the opinion exchanges between
its designer and the competition sponsors.]
The schedule for the year 2005
In the mid-April: Exhibitions, Press Release are to be held.
A book, ?Dialogue with Japanese Culture? will be published.
The qualifications for the application
No restrictions are set such as your status, jobs, ages, nationalities,
etc. And both individuals and groups can participate in the competition.
Application Method
Fill in the application form in the web-site and send it. Later you will
receive your application number and password by e-mail. Please keep the
application number and the password for the work submission as they are
required when you submit your work to the competition site. You can
submit more than one work but you need to make an application for each
of your works respectively.
The conditions and the method for the work submission
Requirements: 3 visual images and two paper texts
1. Comment A: 'The title of the work and what you want to express by
your designs with their special characters.'
The language used for the text is to be English. Those who speak
Japanese should put the text In Japanese along with English one. The
maximum length for the Comment A is 400 words in English and 200 letters
in Japanese.
2. Comment B: 'The Message for Japanese Esthetic Senses.'
The language used for the text is to be English. Those who speak
Japanese should put the text In Japanese along with English one. The
maximum length for the Comment B is 800 words in English and 400 letters
in Japanese.
3. One three dimensional visual image showing the main design
500 x 500 pixel [only RGB / in JPEG format / within 100kb]
4. The technical drawings of the work seen from the three angles.
Detailed measurements and required materials have to be shown in them.
500 x 500 pixel. GIF animation will also be accepted. [only RGB / in
JPEG format / within 100kb] [only RGB / in GIF format / within 300kb]
5. One detailed drawing with the measurements and the materials
500 x 500 pixel. GIF animation will also be accepted. [only RGB / in
JPEG format / within 100kb] [only RGB / in GIF format / within 300kb]
*Each of the presented visual image files should have the name in
English-one-byte characters with the file extension of [-jpg/-gif].
Example: compefile1.jpg, compefile2.gif
The method for the work submission
The period for the work submission Apr.26---July 31. 2004
The submission and the reception of the works are done on the web-site.
When you have the required forms, three visual images, and the two
text-files [Refer above] ready to be sent, please complete the
registration process for your work[s] following the instruction of the
application form for the work submission [Click the ?Work Submission?
button in the web-site and follow the instruction]. Remember we will not
accept the works submitted in the form of attached files to e-mails.
Important
1. Don?t put any information on any of the images from which the
applicant may be identified.
2. The images can be in any forms. For example, they can be photos of a
model, hand-drawn sketches, 3D computer graphic images, etc. It is
totally up to the applicant.
3. The presented works are limited to unreleased ones.
Others
The rights concerning the presented works such as their copy rights,
intellectual property rights belong to their presenters. The right for
their commercialization is, however, to belong to MARUNI Inc. And the
sponsor will hold the rights to keep, record, exhibit, publish and
advertise the presented works for free.
In the case that any award-winning work is revealed to be an imitation,
a piracy, etc, which possibly impinges the intellectual property rights
of other individual[s] or organization[s], the award will be nullified
even after its announcement.
None of the personal information put on the application form etc. is to
be revealed to any third person other than MARUNI Inc. and DESIGNTOPE.
The great attention is paid to the protection of personal information by
all concerned with the competition.
Inquiries
Direct inquiries to:
DESIGNTOPE Competition Secretariat
[email protected]
However, details regarding selection standards will not be disclosed.
Please refer to the instructions on the registration form and the FAQs
regarding questions on application procedure.
website: http://compe.designtope.net/nextmaruni2004/index_e.html
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