[关于比赛]
The Kokuyo Design Award competition was established in 2002, inviting innovative and ingenious ideas that will contribute to the creation of user-oriented products. We have since welcomed a significant number of participants, both from Japan and overseas. Some of the award-winning ideas have taken shape and are now offered to our customers in the form of commercial products. 　We have selected the concept of “OKUYUKI” as the theme of the current award. Kokuyo Co., Ltd. is commemorating its 100th anniversary this year, and we want to take this opportunity to re-examine the nature of the products found in our daily lives, opening up design possibilities in the process. We encourage you to take part in the 4th Kokuyo Design Award.

[主题] OKUYUKI

[主题解释]
The word “OKUYUKI” is used to indicate distance and dimensions, or used figuratively to describe a character or to convey a sense of reserve. Machiya, a traditional townhouse in Kyoto, is a typical example of a structure with depth─it is a house with a small entrance built on a deep, narrow lot. 　As another example, the iPod is designed to perform a variety of complicated functions, yet it is simple and easy to operate. This too can be described as a product with depth. 　The handle of a Japanese cooking knife, a simple wooden bar, can be gripped in any way. This simplicity of structure enables the user to find his or her ideal grip. 　Shoji, a Japanese paper sliding door, is more than just a simple partition. It is made to give a sense of natural light, or to hint at the presence of something or someone on the other side. The design of a shoji thus also may be said to incorporate the concept of depth. 　Taking these examples into consideration, we can see the extent to which culture itself is infused with notions of depth. 　A product with a small entrance that leads into a deeper space; an easy-to-use product with a complicated structure; a product that allows myriad individual methods of handling: the staff of the Kokuyo Design Award 2005 is asking you to add to these examples your own concepts of depth. We are soliciting designs that implement such new concepts, in the hopes of countering─even to a small degree─a notable global tendency toward superficiality.

[设计范围]
All products used in daily life

[奖项]
Grand Prize Award (one award for the entire competition): Two million yen prize
Second Prize Award (four awards for the entire competition): 500,000 yen prize for each winner
Jury’s Special Award (five awards for the entire competition): 100,000 yen prize for each winner
※Indicated prize amounts are after withholding of income tax

[发表刊物]
Axis design magazine

[参赛资格]
Entries will be accepted regardless of business organization, individual or group status, age, gender, occupation, and nationality. Only works that have not yet been released in Japan or overseas will be accepted.

[赛事日程]
* Entries accepted: March 15, 2005_May 31, 2005
* Works submitted must be postmarked:March 15, 2005_June 30, 2005

[作品数量限制]
None

[评委会成员]
Taku Satoh (Jury chair, graphic designer)
Katsutoshi Ishibashi (editor-in-chief, Axis design magazine)
Shunji Yamanaka (industrial designer)
Tokujin Yoshioka (interior/product designer)
Akihiro Kuroda (President, Kokuyo Co., Ltd.)
(honorifics omitted)

[在线报名]
Applications are available on the Award website
* Your personal information we receive will not be used for any purposes other than identifying you as the applicant, checking your work, judging your work, and contacting you with information regarding the award.

https://www.kokuyo.co.jp/award/award2005/e/guide/e_entry.html

[作品提交]
How to submit your work:　
Fill out all of the items on the Work Submittal Form, sign and place your official personal seal on the form, and then send the form to the Award office together with your work. Be sure to keep a copy of the form for yourself. Entries sent with postage due or collect are not accepted.
Please contact the Award office beforehand if you wish to deliver your work in person.
* What to submit
* Work Submittal Form (required):
Please use the Work Submittal Form attached to this pamphlet or download and print the form from the Award website.

Fill out all of the items on the Work Submittal Form, sign and place your official personal seal on the form, and then send the form to the Award office together with your work. Be sure to keep a copy of the form for yourself.
When submitting numerous works, registration is required only once. Please be sure, however, to attach a separate Work Submittal Form for each item of work submitted. Photocopies of the original form are acceptable.
Please carefully read the agreement included on the Work Submittal Form before signing the form.

* Data or design board (required):
· For each work, please indicate the work’s title, concept, an overall rendering, and three views (front view, plane view, and lateral view) on one A3-sized board.
· When necessary to include designs and concepts other than an overall rendering and the three views, you may add one more A3-sized board.
· ※For details concerning the submittal of work in computer format, please refer to the separate section, “Rules for submittal in computer file format.”

* Model (optional):
Models must not exceed total linear dimensions (length + width + height) of 100 cm. Please submit models packed in sturdy boxes to prevent damage during storage. Models sent with postage due or collect are not accepted. Please contact the Award office beforehand if your model is larger than the designated size.
※ Please fill in the required items on the official work label (photocopies acceptable) and affix it at the specified position on all items submitted.
(Design board: affix to the lower right on the reverse side; mockup: affix to the base; model box: affix to the top.)
[Rules for submittal in computer file format]

* Acceptable file formats：
JPEG（.jpg）、PDF（.pdf）
· Please note the following
· ※The works must be produced precisely in A3 size (297 mm x 420 mm)
· ※ The files can be freely named; however, extensions are required.
· Ensure that you attach output samples to all files submitted. (The samples should be reduced to smaller format).
· Works may be provided either in Macintosh or Windows format; no specific application software is specified.
· Please use an output resolution of 300 dpi.
When submitting JPEG (.jpg) files, please use overall image sizes of roughly 4960 by 7016 pixels. Make sure that your work is generated at the highest image quality (i.e., with low compression) and provide bleed at the margins.
· Please ensure that color data is in CMYK mode. Work submitted in RGB color mode cannot be color-corrected when converting to CMYK mode.

* How to send works：
CD-R and MO (128, 256, or 640 MB) disks are acceptable media. Please send your works in the selected media to the Award office by mail or delivery service.
We will not accept data sent with postage due or collect. Please contact the Award office beforehand if you wish to deliver your data in person. We cannot accept works sent via e-mail.
Please create a separate folder for each item of work and ensure that the folders are appropriately titled if you have saved multiple items of work on a single disk, and prepare a separate Work Submittal Form for each item of work.
Please specify the title of the work, your name as entrant, and indicate your telephone number on the disk you provide.

* Judging：Judging will be based on A3 size CMYK output.

[作品提交]
Sufficiently fulfills the essential required functions of tools
Provides new design concepts
Items that show concern or affection for people
Involves proposals for future use of materials and technologies
Involves the possibility of developing new businesses

[结果公布]
Announcement of judging results:　Ｔhe announcement of judging results is planned for late October 2005. In addition to contacting contestants directly by mail or e-mail, we will post the award results on the following website after the official announcement.
http//www.kokuyo.co.jp/award/

[权利义务]
· * Entries must be the original works of entrants and must have not yet been released in Japan or overseas.
· * Entries may not be entered in other competitions in addition to this competition. Moreover, entries may not be released elsewhere without the consent of Kokuyo Co., Ltd.
· * For entered works that have been awarded prizes, all rights concerning patents, utility models, designs, trademarks, and copyrights in Japan and all other countries shall belong to Kokuyo Co., Ltd. The prize money awarded as determined by Kokuyo Co., Ltd. shall be allocated as the cost for transferring said rights.
· * For entered works that have not been awarded prizes, all rights (including but not limited to intellectual property rights) and responsibilities pertaining thereto shall in principle belong to the designers themselves.
· * Should an entered work be deemed to replicate or bear a close resemblance to a previously released design, or infringe upon the intellectual property rights of a third party (including cases of said infringement after entry), any award given to such a work may be revoked, even after the award results are announced.
· * We may make inquiries to entrants concerning the works entered, both in the judging stage and during the process of turning the work into a commercial product.
· * When necessary to make arrangements based on matters other than those included in the entry requirements, such decisions shall be made at the discretion of the sponsor. Entrants objecting to the details of such arrangements may withdraw their entries. However, any expenses incurred in connection with such entries shall not be reimbursed.
· * Although the sponsor shall employ every precaution in managing and shipping the works after receipt, it shall not be held responsible for natural disasters or other unforeseen accidents, damage, or any loss.
· * Submission of works is based on the advance understanding and agreement of participants that entered works will not be returned.
· * Works entered in this competition may be released for publicity and public relations purposes in connection with this competition.
· * Works may be modified as necessary in the process of development into commercial products.
· * Please carefully read the agreement included on the Work Submittal Form and sign or stamp your official personal seal.
· * Should the entry of a minor win an award, written consent of the minor’s guardian shall be required.
· * Should the entry of a minor win an award, written consent of the minor’s guardian shall be required.

[联系地址]
Kokuyo Design Award office
5-2-2 Ueno, Taito-ku, Tokyo 110-0005, Japan
Fax : +81-(0)3- 3836-7310
MAIL:award@mrk.kokuyo.co.jp

[详细网址]
http://www.kokuyo.co.jp/award/award2005/e/index.html

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