GANDIABLASCO announces its 11th International Outdoor Furniture Design Contest.
PARTICIPATION
Participants must be design students or young professionals, aged between 18 and 35 years.
Members of the judging panel are unable to take part; the same applies to their relatives and to people who have on-going professional relationships with them.
SUBJECT
The contest will consist on the design of an outdoor kitchen space.
REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROJECT
The projects must be industrially reproducible. The use of wood is excluded.
Designs must be original and must not been entered in any other competitions or previously published.
Participants will be able to make any necessary enquiries up to 8/03/17 via e-mail address gbconcurso@gandiablasco.com
DOCUMENTATION TO BE SUBMITED
A) Complete the form on the Competition section of the GANDIABLASCO official web site, giving the following information:
-Name, address and telephone number.
-Photocopy of ID.
-Current CV.
-Signed statement that the design submitted is an original piece of work and has not been submitted to any other competitions or previously published. Download Here
B) Upload the following documentation to the website:
-A full description of the project with the identifying title on the front cover, presented in PDF and A4 format.
I. Description of the product and build details.
II. Approximate estimate of manufacturing costs.
– Submit in PDF, A3 format (minimum of 2 and maximum of 3):
I. Floor plans for the proposed design: floors, walls and sections.
II. Technical details explaining how the product is to be built.
III. Isometric perspectives, rendered images or photographs showing attractive views of the product, contextualised in an outdoor setting.
DESIGNER’S RIGHTS
The projects are entrants’ intellectual property, and they will be able to protect their designs by registering them as their own intellectual property before submitting them.
In any event GANDIABLASCO may offer special recognition to the designers of valued works, entailing the possibility of participating in the industrial exploitation of their designs by signing the corresponding contracts handing over or licensing their industrial property rights.
GANDIABLASCO reserves the right to use the material for reproduction in publications or magazines, with acknowledgements for its designer.
JUDGING PANEL
A judging panel will be set up to evaluate the proposals submitted, consisting of professionals from the world of culture, design and the furniture industry sector.
The names of judging panel members will be published from 1 September.
The judging panel will decide on the voting procedure by majority vote.
The judging panel is authorised to make decisions on aspects not covered by these rules, as well as on issues that may arise as a result of this competition.
Candidates will be notified of the dates for both the judging panel meeting and the prize-giving ceremony via the GANDIABLASCO website.
CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES
Projects must be submitted via the Competition registration platform on the GANDIABLASCO website from 1 september 2016 to 9 march 2017.
PRIZE
2 prizes will be awarded:
1st PRIZE 2000 euros.
2nd PRIZE 1000 euros.
The current legal deduction for tax will be applied.
The judging panel will have the option of making honourable mentions of work that they want to highlight in some way without awarding a cash sum.
The results of the contest will be announced via the Company website in late March 2017.
The prize can be declared null and void by majority decision of the judges.
ACCEPTANCE OF THE RULES
The judging panel’s decision is final.
The organizers accept no responsibility for any claims for compensation for damage, delay or loss of deliveries.
Participation in this contest implies full acceptance of these rules.