Deadline: June 15, 2014
Eligible and interested applicants are invited by the British Journal of Aesthetics (BJA) to compete for the 2014 Cover Design Competition.
BJA holds this competition each year open to students on full-time undergraduate or graduate courses at art and design schools or in fine art/design departments in any country to design a cover for the journal, which is published by Oxford University Press (OUP), both in print and online. The overall cover design includes an image, generally a black & white photograph of a sculpture or a detail from a print. It is normally but not necessarily a monochrome image. But winning entries in the competition have varied considerably from this norm.
Entries to the competition will consist in a .jpeg or .tiff containing an image, and a cover design incorporating the image , which can be assembled using a template that can be downloaded. The winning entry will showcase the distinctive style of the artist, while remaining consistent with the series of covers as a whole.
Prizes:
- Shortlisted designs will be displayed on the BJA website.
- The winning design will be used on the cover of the October 2014 issue of the BJA. The issue will carry a half-page about the winner and his or her work.
- The winner will receive 5 printed copies of the issue featuring their design, and will also be invited to choose £150-worth of books published by OUP, free of charge.
- Runners-up will also be considered for future issue covers of BJA and will be notified in due course. Should they be selected, a half page feature on the artist will be published in the same issue. The winner and runners-up will be notified by email in July 2014.
Eligibility:
To be eligible to enter the competition:
- You must be enrolled on a full-time undergraduate or graduate course at an art school on 30 January 2014.
Criteria:
- The image must be an original, unpublished work that does not contain, incorporate or otherwise use any content, material or element that is owned by a third party or violates a third party’s intellectual property rights, including but not limited to the law of copyright or trade marks.
- It must not be subject to any third party rights or agreement which may require the BJA or OUP to seek permission from or pay any sum of money to any person or entity as a result of its use.
Application procedures:
- Entries to the competition must be submitted by email to: [email protected].
- Entrants should submit a .jpeg or .tiff file containing their image, as well as a .jpeg or .pdf file of the cover design incorporating their image.
- All entries must be accompanied by a .pdf containing a scanned letter, signed by the entrant, stating details of the course on which he or she was enrolled on 30 January 2014, together with the entrant’s contact details.
Judging procedure:
- Each entry will be judged by a panel of judges consisting of the Editor and Associate Editor of the BJA, the Publisher of OUP’s philosophy journals, Victoria Smith, and the distinguished graphic designer John Morgan.
- Decisions and rulings of the judges are final and binding.
- The judges reserve the right not to award the prize if no entry is submitted which they judge worthy of the prize.
- The judges’ decisions will be final and no correspondence will be entered into in relation to their decisions or the competition.
Intellectual property right:
- Each entrant will retain ownership of all intellectual property rights in the image submitted (including moral rights). However, by entering the competition, each entrant grants to the BJA on a royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide basis, any necessary and relevant permissions relating to the reproduction of their entry in any media, as part of the publication and promotion of the journal.
- Each entrant accepts that the BJA and OUP reserve the right to alter and/or adapt the entry for the purposes of the production and promotion of the journal.
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