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WHO CAN ENTER THE 2010 COMPETITION? YOU! All designers, art directors, design firms and departments, ad agencies, marketing and branding practices, clients, manufacturers, student and non-professional or novice designers are welcome to compete, or just join the Spark Community. Spark accepts and promotes a wide range of design types. As you'll see on our Categories page, this ranges from product design to advertising, digital animation to brick and mortar architecture. Professional Category admission is for designs launched from January 2000 forward, and a design may be entered again, in later years if it did not win. Students and novices (non-professionals) may enter each category, without their product being in production. (Proof of status required to win.) Each entrant may enter as many designs as they wish. There are awards for concept or prototype design--innovative designs that have yet to find a manufacturer or are in preliminary stages of development. In 2010 these will be judged separately from developed work. Spark also tries to identify and highlight serious aspirational designs. Each entrant may submit any number of products. This will be a single-phase competition--new in 2010. All entries received by deadline will be judged by the live Spark jury. Jury decisions are made from the actual product or graphics. Large equipment, interiors, public spaces, buildings, digital and website design all may be submitted as visuals. Most other designs are best judged in physical, production, model or published form. Please note—designs should not be sent to Spark prior to the published delivery period. Please remember to document your design creation process. Consider all media for this--video, still photography, text. This is important for your own development and records and potential sharing for educational and promotional reasons.
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