Conditions of entry: The Northern Design Competition is open to all students in pre-16 education and further or higher education studying at a school, college or university which is based in Scotland, Wales, Northern England or Northern Ireland. Entries are welcomed from students who have a permanent residence outside of these areas as long as their education institution is located in one of the UK entry zones. For full details of the UK entry zones and to check eligibility for entry, please click here. Entries will not be accepted if your place of study is outside the UK entry zones specified on this website. Please check before you register.
We welcome collaborative entries by more than one designer. If this is the case for your entry, you will need to nominate the lead person who has their name on the entry and then include the names of other participants in the description. You should ensure you make it clear what part each person played and whether you are entering as equals. Entering in this way ensures the judges know that the entry is a collaboration and should you be short listed you will each receive an invitation to the awards. If your entry is suitable for more than one category, you may prefer to nominate a different leader in different categories. This is also acceptable however you must ensure all participants are listed in the description and that you tick to say the entry is original.
The deadline for submitting entries is Friday 23rd April 2010 no entries will be considered after this date.
You must register your details through the official entry form before you can submit your entry. Entries will not be accepted by any other means.
Information provided on the entry forms and through submissions will form the basis for information which will be posted on the Northern Design Competition website for short listed and winning entries.
You can submit a maximum of three entries in each of the categories but each entry must constitute three separate projects and should bear no relation to each other.
You can enter the same piece of work into different categories as long at the project is relevant to the brief outlined for each category that the work is entered into.
Each entry must be accompanied by a rationale (a written submission) which describes the entrants work and underpins the brief that was given when they started the project. Entrants that take time to produce a thorough and grammatically correct rationale will be awarded additional marks for professional conduct.
The judges reserve the right to re-categorise entries if they consider another category to be more suitable.
Entries from students aged 16-18 years on the closing date of the competition will automatically be entered into the Young Northern Designer Award.
We accept no responsibility for loss or damage to materials submitted.
The judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
The intellectual property rights in any entry to the Northern Design Competition (including, without limitation, patents and rights to inventions; copyright and related rights; moral rights; trade marks; registered and unregistered design rights; database rights; rights in confidential information) remain the property of the entrant. By submitting an entry, the entrant grants permission for the University to reproduce their entry royalty-free for use in publicity and other promotional activities by the University and its partners, including without limitation in publications and online media. The entrant will be identified and credited as appropriate.
Leeds Metropolitan University reserves the right to update the conditions of entry and competition rules at any time.
How to enter: Please ensure you have read and fulfilled all of the conditions of entry.
Make sure you have written and spell checked your rationale to accompany each entry submission. Please see the category pages for further details.
Please follow the submission criteria for each category. Submitted files should not exceed 50MB. When using JPEG’s please ensure they are in RGB format and at a high enough resolution to be judged properly. All PDF entries must not exceed four pages. Each page should be no bigger than A2 in size.
In the case of Film & Animation please supply URL links to online videos hosted by YouTube for example. Also, website entries must be hosted online. Entrants are reminded that PDF presentations with screen shots and supporting information are also welcomed for website, video and electronic games entries. PDF’s can also be supplied for submissions in the Digital Media category in addition to full media entries when applicable or relevant.
