Rules & Regulations

AGREEMENT TO OFFICIAL RULES:

Participation in the First International Reggae Poster Contest 2012 constitutes your full and unconditional agreement to and acceptance of these Official Rules and the decisions of Reggae Poster Contest 2012, which are final and binding. Winning is contingent upon fulfilling all requirements set forth herein in a timely manner.

ENTRY PERIOD: The First International Reggae Poster Contest 2012 begins on December 26, 2011 and ends on March 30, 2012 (the “Entry Period”).

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS & PROCESS: To enter, complete the online entry form and check the appropriate permission boxes provided. You must include on the entry form your complete and accurate information, including your E-mail address, your name from your poster Entry or Entries, a description of the submitted poster Entry, and all other information requested. To qualify, your submission must conform to the following specific Contest Rules:

1. Each Entry must be an original work that you have created that does not include material in which a third party has intellectual property rights.
2. The work should be created Poster size: 50cm x 70cm portrait or vertical oriented poster format.
3. Each Entry must not, in the sole discretion of the First International Reggae Poster Contest 2012, be obscene, indecent, offensive, violent, hateful, or libelous, or contain any other content otherwise inconsistent with the purposes of the Reggae Poster Contest 2012 as described in these Official Rules and related materials.
4. Each Entry must be available for poster reproduction at 300 dpi (CMYK) or greater for reproduction purposes.
5. *IMPORTANT* Each Entry must be submitted in JPEG (.jpg, .jpeg, or .jpe) or GIF format, size 50cm x 70cm, 72dpi and may not exceed 5MB.
   
6. Please do not enter promotional or advertising poster in the contest, these will not be accepted.

Artists/Designers are allowed to submit any number of original poster Entries, however, you may not submit the same Entry more than once. Reggae Poster Contest 2012 reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to restrict participation in the Reggae Poster Contest 2012 to any person at any time for any reason and/or to disqualify any entry at any time for any reason

JUDGING: Reggae Poster Contest 2012 competition poster entries are judged in two phases by two different international juries. The first phase is judged online by our pre-selection committee. The committee is made up of members of the design professionals around the world. They will select 400 posters to go forward to the final judging phase.

The final phase will be conducted by our jury of 10 leading design professionals from around the world. They will convene to select 100 posters that will be published in the “First International Reggae Poster Contest 2012” catalogue and exhibited around the world.

From the 100 best posters they will select the 10 posters that will be entered into the permanent collection of museums and design institutions internationally. The final 3 will be the winners.

We will also include these 10 posters in the proposed Reggae Hall of Fame museum in the future.