Seoul International Design Competition
Seoul International Design Competition 2010
Design for all
Future technology and daily living.
The motto of Seoul International Design Competition 2010 envisions the realization of an egalitarian society and human values through design proposals that are easy, convenient, and pleasant to use. Especially in the environment of a contemporary city, as well as product and space, the importance of communication is rapidly increasing (most of it is based on digital technology), and design can bring convenience, safety, equality and pleasure to citizens through establishing a new order between components constituting a city.
The ‘design for all’ objective is made to increase the efforts and the pursuit of design production that can be shared by all, removing emotional and physical barriers by becoming an universal communicative social solution.
Categories
Awards
The total prize money of Seoul Design Competition 2010 amounts to USD 26,000 certification and prize money awarded by the mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government and special benefits for those who are awarded with golden and silver haechi prizes (within 3,000 USD for individual/team including grants for overseas training for Korean winners and invitation to the awards ceremony in seoul for international winners).
- golden haechi prize: one winner, USD 10,000
- silver haechi prize: three winners, USD 2,000 each
- bronze haechi prize: five winners, USD 1,000 each
- iron haechi prize: max. ten winners, USD 500 each
- honorable mention: within two hundred people, certification for each
- people's choice awards: twenty winners, certification for each
The winning submissions will be exhibited during the exhibition period of Seoul design fair 2010 from September 17 to October 7, 2010. The award ceremony of Seoul design fair 2010 will take place on October 7, 2010 at Jamsil sports complex in Seoul Metropolitan City, Republic of South Korea.
And as always designboom will publish an exhaustive results report.
The Jury
The jury will be composed of international professional designers and members of the organization.
Design Criteria
Projects should be original and not be currently in serial production. The designs entries may not be marked with any form of identification (name, logo...). Entries will be disqualified under these terms.
It is important that you keep your design(s) confidential. Please don't send them to print or digital publications until the results of the competition are published.
The jury will award designs and concepts which are innovative in terms of their formal / technological aspects as well as their social relevance. Please don't send in vague concepts, but go a step further. it's not the idea which is the art, it's more the way somebody handles the idea that makes art.
Submission Deadline
Application registration will be accepted until July 13th, 2010. 17:00 GMT
Registration
To submit an entry, participants need to register at no cost with designboom.
or visit http://www.designboom.com/seoul_design_fair.html for further information and to register.
Teams register with one name only! When submitting works you should add all team member’s names.
Submit your entry / entries
Whether you're an individual or group, you can submit a maximum of two entries for each category.
For every entry you will be requested to supply:
1. Up to 3 files for uploading to our server
Images or a composition of more images of your project. To upload your images please note: use only .gif, .jpeg, (72 dpi) max 150 kb each file, RGB color mode.
max image size width: 600 pixels.
max image size height: 800 pixels.
The entry submitted is a low-res version of your original work. You are asked to prepare high res solution images in 300 dpi. These original high-resolution image(s) will be requested only if your work is shortlisted.
You can also submit a video clip (acceptable formats: flv or swf files).
You are asked to prepare a high resolution video but are asked to submit only a low resolution version in size 640 x 480; max 10MB when creating a video clip, make sure the file is a video or flash file data supported by windows media player ver.9.0, flash player, quick time player or can be automatically played.
2. Explanation of ideas
A brief description of your work. (English text only, explanation is expected to be very concise)
3. You will be requested to accept the competition guidelines
Competition guidelines: Projects participating to the competition must be original works. Projects must be free from copyrights and any kind of obligation. the design shall not in any way infringe any third party’s right, including but not limited to copyright, logos, trademark, trade names, or other proprietary rights of publicity or privacy.
Only entries with a declaration of authorship are accepted!
(When submitting your design you will be asked to tick a box of declaration)
Once you have registered, you can submit your entry HERE or visit
http://www.designboom.com/seoul_design_fair.html for further information and to submit an entry.
Copyright
Any moral and paternity right regarding the project sent in for application is designer’s property.
However by submitting a design in the competition, the participant agrees to provide SEOUL METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT and SEOUL DESIGN FOUNDATION with the right of first refusal to the exclusive use of the design. This option is valid until the end of 2010.
SEOUL METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT and SEOUL DESIGN FOUNDATION exercise the option to use the rights for production on an exclusive basis and sine die (without time limitations).
SEOUL METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT and SEOUL DESIGN FOUNDATION undertake to pay a one-off fee to the designer (amount to be determined among the parties).
By participating in the competition, all participants authorise designboom, SEOUL METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT and SEOUL DESIGN FOUNDATION to publish and exhibit all the designs (including project data submitted) – waiving compensation – at exhibitions and events and/or to use them in any publications that the organisers may deem suitable and/or necessary.
Results announcement
Final results will be announced in August 2010.
If you have any further questions you can send an email to mail@designboom.com (put "design for all" in the subject line).
