DESCRIPTION
The TINCAN Magazine is a perpetual container for the distribution or storage of culture, art, and its creators.
The TINCAN Magazine Graphic Design Awards is an exciting opportunity to show new and innovative work while gaining exposure to an extensive international audience. The TINCAN Magazine Graphic Design Awards aim to celebrate talented visual artists around the world who are using illustration processes and images to realize their creative ideas. This competition is on a mission to discover the most imaginative, talented, creative illustrators out there, regardless of location, age, background, or experience level.
ELIGIBILITY
The TINCAN Magazine Graphic Design Awards is open to anyone, amateurs, and professionals alike. Entries are welcome from any country in the world.
The competition is open to all forms of illustration, from commissioned, published, unpublished, or personal work.
There is no time or date restriction on when the image was taken.
Images with signatures or watermarks are not allowed.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK
One simple and smooth way to submit to our competition is FilmFreeway. It is a platform mostly focused on Film Festivals, but they also accept Illustration contests, and live events of many genres. The platform is great, both for submitters and event managers and it is also an excellent judging platform for the international judges.
After you create an account, go to add project, select “Photography/Design”, and fill in the requested information. Each submission must come with:
– a title
– the author’s name
– the author’s country
– an author’s statement, or a brief description with a minimum of 5 lines and a maximum of 20 lines.
JUDGING PROCESS
Judges score on a scale of 1-10, based on the criteria below:
*Originality (Uniqueness of Concept / Expression of Theme)
*Creativity (Storytelling / Mood)
*Technical Execution
*Subject Matter / Relevancy to Category Topic
*Overall Impression / Wow Factor
Entries receiving an average score under 5 do not qualify for an award.
CATEGORIES
The TINCAN Magazine Illustration Awards categories consists of:
Storyboard, Film Artwork / Poster.
ENTRY FEES
Professional / Emerging / Non-professional: $17 (1-10 images with same theme, submitted in one category)
Students: $15 (1-10 images with same theme, submitted in one category)
ARTIST’S RIGHTS
All artists retain full copyrights for their own work. Winners grant The TINCAN Magazine limited and restricted use of winning images only to promote the artists themselves and in connection with marketing The TINCAN Magazine Graphic Design Awards competition itself. Details can be found in the Competition rules.
AWARDS & PRIZES
All semi-finalists, finalists and winners will be listed on our website.
AWARD CERTIFICATE
All winners will get a digital award certificate and official winner laurels.
PUBLIC AWARENESS
All winners, finalists and semi-finalists will have their submitted works published on the magazine website, under the Artists’ Profile category.
PROMOTION
All winners will be interviewed (in writing) and their interviews will be published on the magazine website, under the Artists’ Spotlight category.
The winners will be selected for each of the following categories:
*Storyboard (Any technique – free theme).
*Film Artwork / Poster (Any technique – free theme).
RULES AND TERMS
1.1. The TINCAN Magazine Graphic Design Awards competition is open to professional and amateur illustrators.
1.2. By entering the Competition, you hereby accept these competition rules.
1.3. Entries must be submitted no later than the deadline of listed on the Competition URL,
https://filmfreeway.com/TINCANawards
1.4. By entering the Competition, you agree and acknowledge that The TINCAN Magazine is permitted to receive and review your registration data. Participants agree that personal data including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, phone number, and email address may be collected, processed, stored and otherwise used for the purposes of conducting and administering this illustration competition. At any time, participants have the right to access, review, rectify or cancel any personal data held by The TINCAN Magazine by sending an email to the following address: support[at]tincanmagazine.com.
2.1. To enter the competition, you must submit your entries to the Competition URL, https://filmfreeway.com/TINCANawards. Participants must also pay the entry fee(s) and complete the submission form in order to be considered for the competition. Once a submission fee has been paid, there are no refunds provided. If you have been wrongly charged for any reason, we will be happy to credit the amount that is due.
3.1. All entries will be reviewed by our editors and judges and an international group of industry professionals. The screened entries are then reviewed by our international jury. The jury will choose the winners. The decisions of the jury are final.
3.2. Submissions that have been awarded in a previous The TINCAN Magazine competition are not eligible to win prizes in subsequent competitions. Please consider entering new work. Submissions that have been selected as Finalists in previous competition ARE eligible to win a prize in subsequent competitions. An *illustrator* may win multiple awards but the same illustration cannot win multiple awards. If an illustration was submitted to a previous competition but received no prize, then that illustration is still eligible.
3.3. Winning illustrations may be included in the future in traveling group gallery exhibitions and/or screenings and projections at arts institutions and festivals worldwide. Each illustrator retains copyright of his or her images, and proper credit lines will be attributed to each artist when exhibited or screened anywhere by The TINCAN Magazine.
3.4. The full name of each entrant whose work is selected as a winner, juror’s pick, or finalist will be published online.
4.1. The TINCAN Magazine reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify and remove any illustration that does not comply with the following requirements, even after the illustration appears on the website. You warrant, in respect of the illustrations submitted by you, as follows:
4.1.1. You are the sole copyright owner and creator of the illustration.
4.1.2. You have the right to enter your illustration in this competition.
4.1.3. To the best of your knowledge, the illustrations do not contain any infringing, threatening, false, misleading, abusive, harassing, libelous, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, scandalous, inflammatory, or profane content.
4.1.4. To the best of your knowledge, the illustrations do not contain any material that could constitute or encourage conduct which would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any law.
4.1.5. The illustration does not infringe upon the copyrights, trademarks, contract rights, or any other intellectual property rights of any third person or entity, or violate any person’s rights of privacy or publicity, and your illustration does not include:
4.1.5.1. trademarks owned by third parties.
4.1.5.2. copyrighted materials owned by third parties.
4.1.5.3. names, likenesses, or other characteristics identifying celebrities or other public figures, living or dead.
4.1.5.4. entries in which you have purchased or secured the rights to use stock images.
4.2. You agree to fully indemnify The TINCAN Magazine in respect of all royalties, fees and any other monies owing to any person by reason of your breaching any of the foregoing.
4.3. You confirm that each person depicted in the illustration has granted permission to be portrayed as shown—and has the right to grant that permission.
5.1. The TINCAN Magazine recognizes you retain full ownership of the copyright in each illustration that you have submitted.
5.2. Not every illustration submitted to the competition will be publicly visible on The TINCAN Magazine. There are too many submissions for each one to be shown on the site. The pictures on the website are pre-selected by The TINCAN Magazine’s editors. Whether or not your entry is selected by the editors for display has no effect on your standing in the competition—the jury’s judgments begin after the competition deadline has passed.
6.1. All entrants agree that all illustration(s) submitted to the competition may be reproduced (with illustrator copyright credit) and used to conduct and promote The TINCAN Magazine competitions. You hereby grant The TINCAN Magazine with a right to use submitted illustrations in the framework of such promotional activities.
7.1. Any illustration used by The TINCAN Magazine shall carry a credit line. Any failure to provide such credit line shall not be deemed to be a breach, as long as The TINCAN Magazine uses its reasonable endeavors to rectify such failure within a reasonable period from the date of notice of such failure.
7.2. You acknowledge that The TINCAN Magazine and its event partners assume no responsibility and are not liable for any image misuse.
8.1. The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility for any incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete information, whether caused by website users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Competition, and The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility for technical, hardware or software failure of any kind, for lost network connections, garbled computer transmissions, other problems or technical malfunctions with regard to the Competition. The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, corruption, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alteration of entries. The TINCAN Magazine is not responsible for any problems or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail addressed to The TINCAN Magazine on account of technical problems, human error or traffic congestion on the internet or any website, or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to your or any other person’s computer related to or resulting from participation or downloading any materials in the Competition. If for any reason a contestant’s illustration cannot be viewed or is not capable of running as planned, including infection by computer viruses, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud or technical failures, The TINCAN Magazine assumes no responsibility.
9.1. In no event will The TINCAN Magazine, its members, event partners or its officers, directors, employees, be responsible or liable for any damages or losses of any kind, including direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special or punitive damages arising out of any contestant’s access to and use of the website and participation in the competition. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, everything on the Website is provided “as is”, without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for purpose or use or non-infringement.
10.1. You agree to participate in related publicity and to the use of your name and winning images for the purposes of advertising, promotion, and publicity for The TINCAN Magazine and the Competition without additional compensation. Such requests will not be unreasonably withheld.