Terms & Conditions

Entries for the 2011 Qantm Create Design Awards close 5:00pm on 11 March 2011
for Round 1 (free entry), and 5:00pm on 17 June 2011 for Round 2 (paid entry).
Entries must be received at 142 Dorcas St, South Melbourne, VIC 3205 on or before
this date and time to be accepted into their respective rounds.
Submissions in all categories must be projects completed between January 2010 and
June 2011 only. Entrant studios/designers must be based in Australia.
You must complete the online entry form, submit it, and print the confirmation page
(sent to you via email). You are required to send this in with your entry. Entries
submitted without this printed confirmation or without an online application completed
and submitted will be ruled invalid. A disc of high res and low res digital images of
your entry must be sent with your confirmation form (as per instructions on the Entry
Kit (downloadable from www.createawards.com.au). Entries that do not conform to
these specifications will be rejected outright.
Entries must be registered online and complimented with a physical entry via
post, courier or personal delivery. You cannot submit entries via email under any
circumstances. This is primarily because we will require an example of the completed
project to be submitted with the entry and in most cases this will be a physical
example. Digital entries (ie Animation) may be submitted solely on disc.
Niche Group and its partners will not be held responsible for any loss, damage or
non-receipt of entries however so caused.
Entries will not be returned unless prior arrangements are made with Niche Group
and Desktop magazine.
Entry into Round 1 is free. Entry for Round 2 is at a cost of $59 per entry and $29 per
subsequent entry, payable via Paypal only.
Each entry may only be submitted into one category. This must be specified on the
registration form. Only qualifying entries may be submitted in each category, and are
subject to instant disqualification from any category not suited to that entry.
Each category has specific criteria for entry with which you must comply. Items
deemed by the short-listing judges not to meet these criteria, will be deemed invalid.
All entries must be commissioned works. They must NOT be items created
specifically for the Create Design Awards, speculative works, client pitches, mock-
ups or other works not taken to final execution for whatever reason. The Emerging
Talent category is exempt from this condition.
By ticking the box on the entry form all entrants warrant that they have permission
from all parties including clients, copyright holders and collaborators allowing
Desktop magazine and its partners to publish works submitted in any form they deem
appropriate as part of the 2011 Qantm Create Design Award program, the 2011
Qantm Create Design Awards website, event, relevant editions of Desktop, and all
associated promotional activities and publicity, without limitation.
By ticking the box on the entry form you indemnify Niche Group, Desktop, the Create
Design Awards and its employees, agents and supporting partners from any liability
for wrongful use or misrepresentation of the works submitted. You assert that you
are the author of the work and own the intellectual and moral rights to the work under
the Copyright Act. Wrongful assertion of such rights will render the entry invalid and
the entrant accepts all liability for any claim for damages or loss resulting from such
wrongful assertion.
All entrants must include a synopsis (maximum 100 words) outlining the detail of the
original brief and how the final project delivered upon that brief. By ticking the box on
the entry form, you assert the truthfulness of this information and assign copyright
in this text to Niche Group, further authorising the editing and publication of this
synopsis by Desktop and its partners in the shortlist categories, relevant editions of
Desktop and any associated promotional material, posters, advertising etc. including
the 2011 Qantm Create Design Awards website, without limitation.
All entrants must obtain their client’s permission to enter the project into the awards.
In the event that an award winner is subsequently found to breach the terms and
conditions of entry, their work may be ruled invalid and the award deemed null and
void. The entrant will be liable for any costs incurred and must return any prize(s)
received.
Judges reserve the right at all times to determine whether an entry qualifies as an
acceptable work within the category for which it is submitted. Works the judges deem
not acceptable will be ruled invalid.
Employees of Niche Group and their immediate family members are ineligible to
enter.
Terms and conditions may be amended, deleted or added from time to time at our
discretion and we will publish the revised terms and conditions on the 2011 Qantm
Create Design Awards website in a timely manner. By downloading the entry form
and submitting it with your entry you agree to the full terms and conditions so read
them carefully.
All judges’ decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into relating to
the judging process or the outcome.
Privacy Information – Desktop, Niche & Create Design Awards maintain a database
of registered details. We may send you promotional material or pass on your
information to other companies that support the Create Design Awards.
Niche Media reserves the right to change parts of the terms & conditions an their
discretion.