DANGERR: A Design Competition

Competition Criteria

We are looking for bold, affordable works of wearable, useable or decorative art to further an awareness of the gun violence epidemic we still face.

Jury will consider overall design originality, skill, impact and production feasibility.  The design’s ability to convey the mission of the RICAGV will be crucial.

Awards

1ST PLACE

The first place winner will receive a purchase order from RICAGV for the purchase of twenty units at their maximum wholesale cost of $100 (value up to $2,000).

FINALISTS

RICAGV will initially purchase the original prototype entries from each of the finalist’s jury-selected designs.

These top designs will be professionally photographed and promoted on the RICAGV website, in mailings, and at events, using the designer’s name in all promotions.

These selected designs will be offered for retail sale to the public by RICAGV and their affiliated locations.

The Jury reserves the right to pick as many design finalists as they wish. The designs will remain the property of the designer with the stipulation that the RICAGV may promote and sell these designs.

ENTRY FEE

• The tax deductible entry fee is USD $30 per entry.
• Maximum of 3 entries total by the same entrant.
• Each additional entry is USD $15 (example: an entrant sends in 3 designs = USD $60 fee).
• Please make checks out to the Rhode Island Gun Violence Education Fund.
• The entrant is solely responsible for costs associated with making their prototype, shipping and insurance
  while in transit to RICAGV.

COMPETITION RULES

• All entries must be received by midnight on June 2, 2018.
• Entrants must be 18 years of age.
• Student work is permitted.
• Entries will be accepted from any country.
• A fully-functional, finished, physical prototype of each entry must be submitted for inclusion.
• Entries must be able to be produced by the entrant on a limited production basis (12-50 units).
• Entries may not exceed 3 pounds and must fit inside a 10.5″ x 8″ x 5″ box.
• By submitting to this competition, the entrant agrees that their designs are original.
• Each entrant may submit up to three designs.
• A photo portfolio showing the object in use will reinforce the entry but is not required.
• A completed entry form listing techniques, dimensions, materials and wholesale cost must accompany the application.
• Design entries, submitted as prototypes, may incorporate imagery of, or actual components from a gun, but must be in-line with the RICAGV mission and thematically anti-violence.
• All designs remain the property of the entrant and will be handled with complete care and confidentiality until selections have been made and results released by the jury.
• Once winners have been notified and the selections are made public, the entrant agrees to offer the designs exclusively to RICAGV, for sale, for a period of two years.
• RICAGV will promote, through photographs, written content, and/or video, the artist’s designs, name and brand along with the RICAGV brand.
• Rejected designs from the USA will be returned to the entrants, insured, at the expense of RICAGV.
• Rejected entrants from other countries must pay for their own return shipping and insurance.