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| Competition | | Posted on 21.03.2011 | Posted by LB
Poster Contest VISUAL CREATIVITY of Blipoint
Creating harmony between letters and images, without limits regarding techniques or format to give space to imagination, convey a clear, direct message of what you want to express, using a means of communication as powerful as is the poster.
First prize of 1.000 euros cash to the author of the best poster. The 15 winning images will be displayed at Maxó gallery. Barcelona - Spain, from 21 to 28 july 2011.
To participate go to: http://blipoint.com/contests/
The Blipoint´s team wishes you luck!
Prize:
• First prize of 1.000 euros cash to the author of the best poster.
• W’ll organize an exhibition from July 21st until July 28th 2011, of the 15 poster winners, in the Maxó Gallery. Barcelona - Spain.
• Second prize: A Tucano brand digital camera bag.
• Third prize: A Tucano brand laptop bag.
• Fourth prize: A Tucano brand bag for storing cables and ipod.
To get to know the contest’s panel of judges, you can visit the galleries of their works in Blipoint:
Graphic artist. He will select the poster participants in the contest Visual Creativity.
Santiago Pol: http://gallery.blipoint.com/santiagopol/
Professional photographer, president the Association of Photographers from Catalunya. The curator of photography of the posters to be selected.
José Antonio Andrés Ferriz: http://gallery.blipoint.com/jaandresferriz/
RULES:
Legitimization to take part:
• Only premium users can participate.
• They can participate people major of 18 years old and people under 18 who are relying on express authorization of their parents or legal representatives, and once they are known and accepted by the participant the conditions of registration, protection of information, intellectual property, and all those other conditions that, with general character, should be additionally considered necessary for the participation of the users in Blipoint.
• For technical reasons the participants of the contest will have to be registered in Blipoint.
• In order to award the first prize and to mark the occasion of the opening of the VISUAL CREATIVITY exhibition, there will be a cocktail on the 21st of July, 2011 at 19:30hrs in the Maxó gallery.
• The day of the inauguration, all of the contest winners will be presented with a certificate.
• Prizes for second, third, and fourth place will be directly awarded by Tucanos, the sponsoring company, from their headquarters in Italy.
• The day of the inauguration, a video will be made and photos will be taken, and they will be published in our blog and in various other media such as a digital art magazine, local press, blogs that specialize in art events, and social networks, among others.
Contest Workings: The contest will take place in 3 stages:
Stage I: publication stage:
• Beginning of the publication stage of the image to participate in the Visual Creativity, contest organized by Blipoint. It starts 16/03/2011 and ends 06/06/2011 GMT local time (Barcelona - Spain).
• Only those posters that represent the concept Visual Creativity, will be allowed to be online within the contest; photos and images that don’t represent the topic will not be accepted, concept (that also must be in English).
• Each poster to be published must contain the title: Visual Creativity and those that want to may design the poster using some phrases of the same concept (that also must be in English).
• Each contestant can publish up to a maximum of (2) two posters.
• Any technique may be used. Photographs, collages, paintings, illustrations, or mixed format techniques can be submitted.
• Only digital posters will be accepted, and they must not be larger than 1.5 megas, and in jpg format.
• Posters that have been awarded a prize or simply participated in previous Blipoint contests will not be accepted.
• With the sending of the posters, you confirm automatically that you own the author’s copyright and that your images are free of rights to third persons.
• You will preserve the entire author’s copyright and other rights that you already possess in relation with the images that you publish in Blipoint. On having sent, having published or having shown these contents, you will grant to Blipoint a perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, exempt license of royalties and not sole right to reproduce, to adapt, to modify, to translate, to publish and to distribute the contents that you send, publish or show through Blipoint. This license has, as a merely purpose, to allow Blipoint to show, to distribute and to promote its services.
• On the present bases, you accept that no commentary or other information that you provide to Blipoint will violate any personal right or any property right of any third one (including, without limitation, the author’s copyright and brand rights). Also, you accept that no commentary or other information that you provide to Blipoint will be slanderous, obscene, harassing, improper or illegal, and that you remain as the only responsible for the contents of any commentary or other information that you provide to Blipoint.
• Competitors who fulfill the established conditions will receive an e-mail from Blipoint asking them receipt of Participation Request. They will be able to raise questions and doubts they have regarding the development of the contest to the same address: photo@blipoint.com
Stage II: voting stage:
• From 06/06/2011 until 20/06/2011 GMT local time (Barcelona - Spain) the voting process with the star voting system will take place: by way of this voting system, one can only vote once for each poster that one wants to receive the most votes; votes cast by Blipoint users with a complete profile that are active in Blipoint will have greater value; votes cast by those users that register and immediately vote will have very little value. In this way, users that have more friends are prevented from ending up in first place.
• The voting will be done by the artists, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, and individuals themselves that are active within the Blipoint community. On 20/06/2011 GMT local time (Barcelona - Spain) the voting period will end and the first 100 posters that obtain the best quality of votes will be pre-selected.
• Blipoint, as the organizer of this contest, saves itself the right to modify at any time its conditions, including the dates of the contest, even its whole cancellation, before the closing date of the contest, providing that there was a valid reason, and promising to notify with sufficient anticipation the new bases, conditions or, if necessary, the definitive cancellation.
• In the supposition that Blipoint was detecting that any participant of the contest is using any type of method or automated process, appellant or carrying out any type of fraudulent conduct that alters the normal functioning of the contest, Blipoint will be able to give up immediately from the contest the above mentioned participant (who will be sent an e-mail informing him or her about the immediate expulsion of the contest), leaving without effect the points accumulated up to this moment by the above mentioned participant.
• In the supposition that Blipoint was an object of any claim, judicial or extrajudicial, initiated by third part and based on possible infractions of the rights of intellectual property or image of those third part, derived from the utilization on the part of Blipoint of the images contributed by the participant, this one will assume all the expenses, costs and indemnifications that could stem from such judicial actions, answering in front of Blipoint or in front of that third ones, as it corresponds.
• In case the present promotion was remaining suspended by reasons of major force, Blipoint will remain exempted from any responsibility on the same one.
Stage III: final stage
• Of the 100 pre-selected posters, the winning images will be selected by a qualified panel of judges.
• In the case that your poster is selected for the exhibition, you will be informed by email. From that moment on, you will have a maximum of 10 calendar days to send us the image in 300 dpi, so that we will then be able to print it.
• Only one print will be made in A2 size on semi-matte photographic paper, placed on a rigid forex base, bordered by a wood frame.
• In the exhibition, diptychs, postcards with the image of the exhibited photographs and the names of the authors, will be printed.
• A digital certificate registering your participation in the exhibition will be sent via email.
First prize of 1.000 euros cash to the author of the best poster. The 15 winning images will be displayed at Maxó gallery. Barcelona - Spain, from 21 to 28 july 2011.
To participate go to: http://blipoint.com/contests/
The Blipoint´s team wishes you luck!
Prize:
• First prize of 1.000 euros cash to the author of the best poster.
• W’ll organize an exhibition from July 21st until July 28th 2011, of the 15 poster winners, in the Maxó Gallery. Barcelona - Spain.
• Second prize: A Tucano brand digital camera bag.
• Third prize: A Tucano brand laptop bag.
• Fourth prize: A Tucano brand bag for storing cables and ipod.
To get to know the contest’s panel of judges, you can visit the galleries of their works in Blipoint:
Graphic artist. He will select the poster participants in the contest Visual Creativity.
Santiago Pol: http://gallery.blipoint.com/santiagopol/
Professional photographer, president the Association of Photographers from Catalunya. The curator of photography of the posters to be selected.
José Antonio Andrés Ferriz: http://gallery.blipoint.com/jaandresferriz/
RULES:
Legitimization to take part:
• Only premium users can participate.
• They can participate people major of 18 years old and people under 18 who are relying on express authorization of their parents or legal representatives, and once they are known and accepted by the participant the conditions of registration, protection of information, intellectual property, and all those other conditions that, with general character, should be additionally considered necessary for the participation of the users in Blipoint.
• For technical reasons the participants of the contest will have to be registered in Blipoint.
• In order to award the first prize and to mark the occasion of the opening of the VISUAL CREATIVITY exhibition, there will be a cocktail on the 21st of July, 2011 at 19:30hrs in the Maxó gallery.
• The day of the inauguration, all of the contest winners will be presented with a certificate.
• Prizes for second, third, and fourth place will be directly awarded by Tucanos, the sponsoring company, from their headquarters in Italy.
• The day of the inauguration, a video will be made and photos will be taken, and they will be published in our blog and in various other media such as a digital art magazine, local press, blogs that specialize in art events, and social networks, among others.
Contest Workings: The contest will take place in 3 stages:
Stage I: publication stage:
• Beginning of the publication stage of the image to participate in the Visual Creativity, contest organized by Blipoint. It starts 16/03/2011 and ends 06/06/2011 GMT local time (Barcelona - Spain).
• Only those posters that represent the concept Visual Creativity, will be allowed to be online within the contest; photos and images that don’t represent the topic will not be accepted, concept (that also must be in English).
• Each poster to be published must contain the title: Visual Creativity and those that want to may design the poster using some phrases of the same concept (that also must be in English).
• Each contestant can publish up to a maximum of (2) two posters.
• Any technique may be used. Photographs, collages, paintings, illustrations, or mixed format techniques can be submitted.
• Only digital posters will be accepted, and they must not be larger than 1.5 megas, and in jpg format.
• Posters that have been awarded a prize or simply participated in previous Blipoint contests will not be accepted.
• With the sending of the posters, you confirm automatically that you own the author’s copyright and that your images are free of rights to third persons.
• You will preserve the entire author’s copyright and other rights that you already possess in relation with the images that you publish in Blipoint. On having sent, having published or having shown these contents, you will grant to Blipoint a perpetual, irrevocable, world-wide, exempt license of royalties and not sole right to reproduce, to adapt, to modify, to translate, to publish and to distribute the contents that you send, publish or show through Blipoint. This license has, as a merely purpose, to allow Blipoint to show, to distribute and to promote its services.
• On the present bases, you accept that no commentary or other information that you provide to Blipoint will violate any personal right or any property right of any third one (including, without limitation, the author’s copyright and brand rights). Also, you accept that no commentary or other information that you provide to Blipoint will be slanderous, obscene, harassing, improper or illegal, and that you remain as the only responsible for the contents of any commentary or other information that you provide to Blipoint.
• Competitors who fulfill the established conditions will receive an e-mail from Blipoint asking them receipt of Participation Request. They will be able to raise questions and doubts they have regarding the development of the contest to the same address: photo@blipoint.com
Stage II: voting stage:
• From 06/06/2011 until 20/06/2011 GMT local time (Barcelona - Spain) the voting process with the star voting system will take place: by way of this voting system, one can only vote once for each poster that one wants to receive the most votes; votes cast by Blipoint users with a complete profile that are active in Blipoint will have greater value; votes cast by those users that register and immediately vote will have very little value. In this way, users that have more friends are prevented from ending up in first place.
• The voting will be done by the artists, photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, and individuals themselves that are active within the Blipoint community. On 20/06/2011 GMT local time (Barcelona - Spain) the voting period will end and the first 100 posters that obtain the best quality of votes will be pre-selected.
• Blipoint, as the organizer of this contest, saves itself the right to modify at any time its conditions, including the dates of the contest, even its whole cancellation, before the closing date of the contest, providing that there was a valid reason, and promising to notify with sufficient anticipation the new bases, conditions or, if necessary, the definitive cancellation.
• In the supposition that Blipoint was detecting that any participant of the contest is using any type of method or automated process, appellant or carrying out any type of fraudulent conduct that alters the normal functioning of the contest, Blipoint will be able to give up immediately from the contest the above mentioned participant (who will be sent an e-mail informing him or her about the immediate expulsion of the contest), leaving without effect the points accumulated up to this moment by the above mentioned participant.
• In the supposition that Blipoint was an object of any claim, judicial or extrajudicial, initiated by third part and based on possible infractions of the rights of intellectual property or image of those third part, derived from the utilization on the part of Blipoint of the images contributed by the participant, this one will assume all the expenses, costs and indemnifications that could stem from such judicial actions, answering in front of Blipoint or in front of that third ones, as it corresponds.
• In case the present promotion was remaining suspended by reasons of major force, Blipoint will remain exempted from any responsibility on the same one.
Stage III: final stage
• Of the 100 pre-selected posters, the winning images will be selected by a qualified panel of judges.
• In the case that your poster is selected for the exhibition, you will be informed by email. From that moment on, you will have a maximum of 10 calendar days to send us the image in 300 dpi, so that we will then be able to print it.
• Only one print will be made in A2 size on semi-matte photographic paper, placed on a rigid forex base, bordered by a wood frame.
• In the exhibition, diptychs, postcards with the image of the exhibited photographs and the names of the authors, will be printed.
• A digital certificate registering your participation in the exhibition will be sent via email.
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