CALL FOR ENTRIES: The 21st Annual Inform Awards
A program to recognize and encourage outstanding LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR DESIGN, and OBJECT DESIGN.
Eligibility
The program is open to anyone in Inform Magazine’s primary circulation area—architects, interior designers, landscape architects, furniture designers, industrial designers, students, and faculty. Your business address must be located in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Washington, D.C., or North Carolina. All work submitted must have been completed after January 1, 2007.
Awards
Award winners in both the Honor and Merit categories will be featured in a special section of Inform Magazine and announced to the public.
Submittal Requirements
Please register your projects no later than March 2, 2012. Please submit your projects electronically by March 16, 2012.
2012 SCHEDULE
Dec. 1, 2012: Registration opens
March 2, 2012: Registration closes
March 16, 2012: Project submissions must be received by 4 p.m., either online or via fax.
April 20, 2012: Winners will be announced by Inform Magazine and readinform.com
May 7, 2012: Winners appear in a special section of Inform Magazine.
2012 FEES
VSAIA Member Rate: $135.00 per project
Non-Member: $175.00 per project
Fees are non-refundable and non-transferable.
Instructions
Your submission will contain two portable document files (PDFs) named as follows:
FILE NAME: concealedid.pdf
CONTENTS:
- Name and address of the project
- Project completion date
- Designer’s name, firm/organization, address, phone number, and email address
- Owner’s name, address, phone number, and email address
- Photographer’s name, address, phone number, and email address
- If applicable: Fabricator’s name, address, phone number, and email address
- Other names of contributors, as required above
- Page 1: Brief project description (voided of any identifying information such as firm name or designer) and the category to which this project is being submitted. TEXT ONLY on this page.
- Pages 2–6: Photographs, renderings, and images that provide a clear understanding of the project. Please provide plans and/or sections. Also encouraged are process sketches that communicate the development of the project sketches that communicate the development of the project and/or its construction.
PLEASE NOTE: the project PDF as listed above shall not exceed 5MB in size, nor shall it exceed six pages (pages may have multiple project images). You will be asked to resubmit your project PDF if it does not meet these requirements.
The Fine Print
- Entry fees cover jury and program expenses. Any entry not submitted in the manner specified will not be considered by the jury.
- The submitted designer shall clear all photographs and drawings for unrestricted release and reproduction in connection with publicity of the program and publications of the winners in Inform Magazine.
- Any member of a design team may submit that team’s project. All other persons substantially contributing to the design of the project must be given credit within the concealed identification PDF, regardless of profession or discipline. Project authorship will remain concealed throughout jury deliberations.
- Jurors will be allowed the freedom to confer Honor Awards and Merit Awards. Such awards may be given in as many or as few cases as the jury believes are justified by the quality of the submissions. The jury’s decision is final. Award winners will be announced to the news media and published in a special issue of Inform Magazine.
- Anyone with a business address in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, the District of Columbia, or North Carolina may submit for the Inform Awards, but only members of the Virginia Society AIA are eligible for the member rate.
I’m not a member of the Virginia Society of the AIA, but a member of my project team is. Can I submit at the lower “member rate?” Are entry fees refundable or transferrable to other VSAIA programs? I will be submitting three projects. Should I send three registration forms? Can I include the project name in the project PDF? Can I include more than one image per page on the project PDF? Why only 5MB? What happens if I exceed the 5MB file limit or six pages? Can we submit a few days late? How will our PDF be viewed? When will the jury review the submissions? When will the winners be announced?
Yes, to both questions and will be asked to provide your member number.
The fees are non-refundable and non-transferrable.
No, you can indicate multiple project submissions on a single form. (Note that the online registration form allows for this.) Payment, however, should be for the total number of projects you are submitting.
Yes, you can—just make sure you don’t identify the submitting firm or designer. These are intended to be anonymous submissions.
Yes, as long as the total size of the PDF does not exceed 5MB in size.
To ensure consistency during the file management process and as a courtesy to our jurors who will want to to open each file quickly and without trouble.
You will be asked ONCE to reduce the file size and resubmit your project.
In the interest of fairness, no.
Jurors will view projects on both small and large screens. As long as your images are Web-ready (150 dpi is fine), there will be no loss of fidelity.
The jury will meet in April 2012 and winners will be announced to the public on April 20, 2012. Please do not contact Inform or the Virginia Society AIA to inquire about winners until April 20, 2012.
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