Rules

	Event objectives 1 Themes 2 Promoters 3 Construction Sites 4 Graphic Program 5 Documents to be Presented 6 Judging Criteria 7 Prizes and Honorable Mentions 8 Jury 9 Calendar10 Registration11 Organizing Body12 Q & A13 Eligibility14 Submission delivery15 Anonymity16 Rights and Obligations17 Back to the main page
The Rules
	This section presents the full version of the rules of the competition.

1	Event objectives Promote the competition procedure world wide. Unit all artists in an interdisciplinary field: graphic design. Select the "International Competition Network logo. Fun.
2	Themes Architectural structure of graphics design ; Graphic-contextual planning relating to the integration to different graphic context ; Art, multimedia and the world wide web.
3	Promoters The International Competition Network. This competition project was launch on the initiative of Zone Architecture Quebec and is a collaborative work of all the ICN members and the event donators.
4	Multiple Sites You are invited to visit each ICN sites to study the graphic context in which your proposal will be installed. The Icn competition announcement tag marks the place of the competition site
5	Graphic Program A total of 3 graphics items are required for the competition: Here's the description of each graphic object to submit for the competition: item 1 the icn partner tag. This graphic object will be posted on the partner sites. This component must integrate in a flexible manner the different ways the word " Competition is formulated ". The multicultural uniqueness of the ICN is underline by the respect of each countries language and cultural characteristic, mainly its language. In this regard, the Partner TAG will have to be submitted in one example using a "free of choice" language of the word "competition". This part of the object will have to be easily replaced by the other formulations of the word "competition". The other imposed words are " International Competition Network " - the abbreviation ICN is suggested but not required. and " Partner ". ITEM 2 The ICN listed competition TAG. This graphic object will be posted on the competition sites that are listed on the ICN sites. The imposed words are " International Competition Network " ( or ICN ) and " Listed in ". ITEM 3 The ICN hyperlink TAG. This graphic object will be posted in directories and web sites that recognize the initiative. The imposed words are " International Competition Network ".ICN is suggested but not required.
6	Documents to be Presented To submit a graphic project in the " submit logo " box, the participant must attach to his e-mail : 1 ICN partner TAG; 1 ICN listed comp TAG; 1 ICN hyperlink TAG. In the body of the message the e-mail the participant must included the name, address, phone number. Upon reception of your project, a e-mail will confirm reception and will include your ID number. martin Leblanc, z-1, will be the only person aware of the identity of the authors. The identity will not be revealed until the final decision. martin Leblanc is not A voting member of the jury.
7	Judging Criterias esthetic and graphic quality ; flexibility of integration; visual impact ; coherence of the three objects.
8	Prizes and Honorable Mentions The awards are described in the PRIZE section. All the awards will be distributed within 90 days after the announcement of the winner on September 2nd 1998. Please note that some of the national magazine issues may be sent in a single shipment at the end of the registration year. this is accordingly to some agreements with the donators of the prizes. The country representative is the only responsible of the awards they are offering. The other partner site owner are not linked in in any way to the prizes associated to the respective country.
9	Jury The jury is comprised of the members listed in the JURY section. The selection procedure will be based on step by step elimination directed by voting calls of the 34 jury members taking part in a on-line debate hosted by irc.kubos.org ( France) . The debates will be formatted and posted on the competition site. The technical Committee will examine, prior to judging, all entries for compliance to the regulations. The committee will also retain from posting in the exhibition logos with racist, sexist, violent or content. The Technical Committee will disqualify any project that: is submitted after the stipulated date and time ; does not contain the required drawings; contravenes the anonymity rules; contravenes the conflict of interest rules ; does not comply with any other regulation clause. Following the awards, the jurors shall sign the jury report and proceed in the following manner: they will take cognizance the First Prize winner’s identity; they will verify the eligibility of the winner; they will then take cognizance the identity of the other laureates; if there is a disqualification, the other winners will move up the established order. The awards and the jury’s decision will be motivated in a written report. The report will describe the general competition results and outline the design considerations that influenced the jury’s choices. The report may also include comments on any project submitted. The jury’s decisions are at its sole discretion. They are final and determine the competition laureates. The judging procedure will be annexed to the report. In the event that the jury should learn that one or some of the winners have contravened any of the rules of the present competition including, but not limited to, the rules governing conflict of interest, this or those participants shall be disqualified. The laureates ranked behind those disqualified will move up the established order. All the prizes awarded to those disqualified will be redistributed according to the newly established ranks.
10	Calendar Launch 15th of may 98. Submission deadline 21st of October 98 Technical committee 22nd of October 98. Exhibition start 7th of november 98. Pre-selection jury 27th of October to 7th of November 98 "Winner Selection" Jury and public forum 7th of november to 19th of november 98 Winner announcement 22nd of november 1998.
11	Registration There is no registration fee. Only one project by participants. The submittal of a project constitute the registration.
12	Organizing Body Jean Beaudoin, Z1 director of the competition Montr�al Canada Jean Brang�, Kubos Jury coordinator Paris, France Jean-Nicolas Delage, Phillips Friedman Kotler intellectual property and other legal matters. Montr�al, Canada Mario Cipresso, DbA Sponsorship North America Chicago, United States Jairo Medina, Arquicol Sponsorship South America bogota, Colombia Hans andersson Sponsorship Scandinavia gothenburg, Sweden Paul Clerkin, ArchEire Sponsorship Europe Dublin, Ireland Kees van der Hoeven, Architectenwerk Sponsorship Europe Amsterdam, Netherland SunJu Lee, Indiworld Sponsorship Asia/ Oceania Seoul, Korea Translations: English ( original text) : All. French: Jean Beaudoin,Qu�bec. Spanish: Felix Arranz, Spain. Deutch:K. v.d. Hoeven, holland. Italian: Marco, Brizzi, Italy. svensk: archihub. Collaborators: M. Brizzi, Arch'it, Italy S. Waller, Archinet, U.K. E. Mendicutty, Archired, Mexico. R. Koth-Afzelius,Nextroom,Austra. F. Carrera, iAz, spain. -, Arqa, Argentina. Zhao, Design Online, China. T. Fabian, Byggeinfo, Denmark. T. goode, AA, Australia.
13	Q & A Questions can be sent by email, until 21st of september august 1998. All relevant questions and associated replies will be posted exclusively on the Competition’s Web page every Friday during the competition.
14	Eligibility The competition is open to any person interested in Architecture : architects, apprentices, interns, students, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, artists ... Are excluded from competing all those susceptible of being in conflict of interest, including the following: employees of the Organizing Body or of the Sponsors of this competition; anyone having been closely associated with the preparation of the competition; anyone having, with the Organizing Body, the Professional Advisory Board or a member of the Jury: a close family tie (father, mother, spouse, child, brother or sister); an employee or employer-type relationship; a continuous and close professional association or partnership; Discussions of any type relating to the competition between participants and jurors are strictly prohibited until the official awards announcement. Participants may only participate in one project.
15	Submission delivery Projects shall be received before 5 PM, Montreal time, on september 21st 1998 thru the e-mail procedure describeb in the SUBMIT LOGO ! section Participants are solely responsible for the timely arrival of their submissions. Participants, by virtue of entering the competition, agree to save harmless the organizers, sponsors and anyone else involved with the competition, for any delay, damage or loss, real or perceived.
16	Anonymity To ensure the anonymity of the projects, participants must strictly abide by the submittal procedure described in the SUBMIT! section. The e-mail used for shipping will be be archeived and will served as the iD documents. Each participants is responsable to check that their shipping was received by taking note of the confirmation reply. The organizers will only take charge and include in the competition the complete submittals that they will have confirm reception of.
17	Rights and Obligations The competition announcement constitute a contract offer. Registration in the competition constitute a contractual agreement and thus implies the competitor’s acceptance of all the regulations of the competition. Entries will become the property of Zone Architecture Quebec , acting as all the ICN partners thrustee. Entrants shall retain the copyright in their design to the exception of the first prize winner who will assign his/her copyright to Zone Architecture and who will sign any document for this copyright assigment( this procedure is standard in any logo design projects). The participants automatically allow the organizers to use all or part of their entry for publication purposes in any medium. Proper credit will be given in any publication relating to the competition results. The participants are responsible for the identification of the authors of the projects submitted. These authors will be identified by the archived submital e-mail. The participants agree to save harmless the promoter, the organizing body and any person linked with the organization of the competition from all claims, of any nature whatsoever, relating to authorship of any project. Without restricting the generality of the foregoing, by registering in this competition, the competitors accept that the promoter, the organizers and any person linked with the organization of the competition are not in any way responsible for damages, real or perceived, suffered by the participants as a result of taking part in this competition. Should a conflict of any nature arise, the participants recognize and accept that the applicable law shall be the Law of the province of Quebec and the competent tribunals shall be the courts of the province of Quebec, district of Montreal. Should there be a conflict between the English and other language versions of the competition rules, the English version shall prevail.


	you can use those hyperlinks to visit the different pages if you don't have a suitable browser... but being able to see graphics on the web is a major plus in a internet graphic competition. RULES JURY PRIZE SITES SUBMIT LOGO Q and A Exhibition Critic's Forum