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coa.gov.in Design Competition for Logo of Architect 2015 : Council of Architecture

Organization : Council of Architecture
Competition Name : Design Competition for Logo of Architect 2015
Applicable For : Individuals
Applicable States : All India
Competition Last Date : June 30th, 2015

Website : http://www.coa.gov.in/
Contest Rules : https://www.contest.net.in/uploads/252-Logo.pdf

Design Competition for Logo of Architect 2015:
The objective of this public competition is to design the logo ofArchitect. Information on how to enter and about the prizes is part of these Official Rules. To the extent of any inconsistency, these Official Rules prevail.This document describes the official rules (“OfficialRules”) of the Design Competition (“the contest”) for Logo of Architect organized by the Council of Architecture (“COA”).

Eligibility:
1. The Contest is open only to individuals. The Contest is not open to companies, educational institutions, organizations, etc. or to groups associated with such institutions.
2. Members and employees of the Council of Architecture, the contest judges and their immediate family are not eligible to enter the Contest.
3.Entrants must not be born after May 1st 2002, and standing to enter into a contract with COA as required below.

How to Enter:
1.Entries must be submitted online through the website of the COA (www.coa.gov.in) or through its partners; details of which shall be available on website of the COA (www.coa.gov.in). The entries must be submitted as a scalable vector graphic in EPS format, and also as a JPG/ PNG. See the Submission Guidelines below for further information.
2.Name, age, postal address, phone number, Photo ID card number, and email address of the Entrant.
3.No more than 3 Entries may be submitted by any one Entrant.
4.Entries must conform to the Submission Guidelines set out below. Entries which fail to do so will be rejected.
5.The Last Date for Entries is 1700 Hours on June 30th, 2015, Indian Standard Time.
6.We will attempt to acknowledge all entries within one week of receipt; however, we cannot be responsible for lost responses.
7.There is a fee to enter the Contest, entries without the requisite fee shall be rejected. See submission guidelines below for further information. www.coa.gov.in

Submission Guidelines:
The purpose of the contest is to design the Logo of Architect. The logo will be used online, in print, on merchandise and to create stickers that can be placed on vehicle etc. Flexibility is a key requirement, including the need to resize easily and to look good in black and white as well as colour. The final version of the logo will need to be suitable for high quality printing. While the logo needs to look good at relatively small sizes, it will not need to be shrunk for use as a Favicon.

Because of the requirement to register the logo as a Trade Mark, Entrants should take care to ensure that their Entries are not in any way similar to existing logos or other copyrighted images. A logo that cannot be registered as a Trade Mark, no matter how well crafted, cannot win the Contest.

The logo may or may not contain the words “Ar” or “Architect”. The logo must not contain any other text besides that required above. Due to the requirements for high quality printing and re-sizing Entries must submitted in scalable vector graphic format (EPS) as well as in JPEG/ PNG. We advise against the use of halftones and gradients. Colour in this version must be CMYK. Maximum three colours could be used on a white background for the design of the Logo.

The size of the final design should not be smaller than 232 square cm (36 sq inches). Without the need for conversion, the limit on attachment sizes is 5MB.

The Logo should represent the ethos of the profession as widely accepted.

The Logo should be original work of the participant and must not infringe the Intellectual Property Rights of any third party.

The entries received without the requisite fee shall be out rightly rejected.

Entry fee for resident Indians :
INR 1000 (1st Entry)
INR 1500 (2nd Entry)
INR 2000 (3rd Entry)

Entry fee for resident non-resident Indians: USD 50. For sake of calculation 1 USD shall be calculated as INR 65.

Entry fee for resident Indian students :
INR 500 (1st Entry)
INR 750 (2nd Entry)
INR 1000 (3rd Entry)

Non-resident Indian students are required to pay USD 50 as Entry fee An entrant can send a maximum of three entries. For each entry, separate registration fee is required.

Ten entries shall be shortlisted for the award. The shortlisted entry would have to be later accompanied by a brief explanation of the Design and how it best symbolizes the Indian Architect along with the bio-data of the applicant. Shortlisted entrants shall be invited to make a presentation to the jury at New Delhi, the dates of which shall be notified in July 2015.

Prizes:
Subject to the legal requirements outlined above, the winning design will be announced at the Award ceremony at New Delhi in July 2015. The COA reserves all rights to schedule or reschedule the award ceremony. Every effort will be made to inform the winner in time for him or her to attend. The COA shall also arrange for travel (III A.C return train fare) and accommodation of the winner.

The winning entrant will receive:
1. A INR 100,000 cash prize.
2. A trophy.
3.A complimentary membership to Architecture Time Space and People magazine for one year.
4. The right to identify him/herself as the designer of the Logo of Architect.
5. All shortlisted entries shall be provided with III A.C return train fare and citation for their effort along with a complimentary membership to Architecture Time Space and People magazine for one year.

Judging and Selection of Winner:
1. The winning design will be selected by judges appointed for the purpose. Their decision will be final. No further correspondence in this regard shall be entered into.

2. All entries received by the stipulated date and time and found in order, shall be evaluated by a Jury of Examiners comprising five to seven members from the following:
a) President – Council of Architecture/ Nominee
b) President – Indian Institute of Architects/ Nominee
c) Director – Industrial Design Centre – IIT B / Nominee
d) Director – National Institute of Design, Ahmadabad/ Nominee
e) Ministry of Human Resource Development / Urban Development – Nominee
f) Padma Awardee – art/ design/ architecture
g) Special appointee – Media/ Industry

The COA reserves the right to change the composition of the jury panel at its sole discretion.

3.The COA reserves the right not to select a winner if, in its sole discretion, no suitable entries are received.
4.COA reserves the right to disqualify any Entrant or Entry at its sole discretion. No correspondence in this regard shall be entered into.
5.The winner will be required to sign a contract assigning all ownership rights of the logo and its design to COA.
6.Accepting the prize constitutes permission for COA to make public and otherwise use winner’s name, and country of residence for publicity purposes. Further personal data may be requested but is not required.
7. The results of the Design Competition for Logo of Architect will be tentatively announced on July 15th, 2015.No timetable is set for the announcement of a winner due to the need to confirm that the winning entry can be registered as a Trade Mark.

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