Terms of participation

No participation fee is required
from designers submitting their works
for the competition.

TERMS OF PARTICIPATION

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1 EXHIBITION CATEGORIES

A Posters (ecological, cultural, political, advertising, social
and others)

B Corporate identity, promotional and advertising graphics
- corporate identity (companies, institutions, cities); trademarks, logos, symbols; corporate printed matter; stationery, business cards; annual reports; yearbooks; design manuals etc.
- orientation, communication systems for public space; direction, street, and building markers etc.; public transport markings, maps and timetables; pictograms etc.
- promotional design; leaflets, prospectuses, commercial catalogues, advertisements; invitation cards; calendars etc.
- other applications - large, three dimensional and experimental projects, in photographic documentation only (e.g. banners or billboards as A2 prints); if a project includes a signature tune, video clip or display of experimental visualization - the printed material can be extended by a DVD.

The exhibition will NOT include:
book, magazine, CD and DVD covers; graphic design and illustrations for books, newspapers and journals; packaging design; labels and stickers; postage stamps; exhibition and TV design - unless being part of one of the category B projects (above).

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2 PARTICIPATION
The Entry Form in printed version is a part of the present Terms of Participation; the electronic version is available at

www.moravska-galerie.cz/entry-form

The participants may apply on their own behalf; or on behalf of an organization of which they are members; or through a publishing house, agency or company with whom they work.

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3 NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS
Each participant may enter a maximum of four submissions.
Category B unit will be considered as one item. The total area of all exhibits must not exceed the limit of 3 square metres. Submitted works should preferably be printed. Marks and symbols should be sent in as photographs or printed matter, their dimensions being approx. 15x15 cm, the dimensions of the documentation (category B) should be approx. 30 x 40 cm.
Only works conceived or created between 2006-2009 will be accepted.

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4 DELIVERY OF SUBMISSIONS
Each submitted exhibit should bear a label including data identical with that in the Entry Form. Two copies of each work shall be sent, unframed and unmounted, in a hard protective cover together with a signed entry form and photographs (See 5). The exhibits must reach the organiser by 31 December, 2009 at the latest. Any package burdened by any outstanding customs or postal fees shall not be accepted. That is why NO INSURANCE VALUE should be stated on any packages in any case.

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5 EXHIBITION PROMOTION AND CATALOGUE
A compulsory part of the submission is a written commentary of the author, explaining the context of the work's origin, in the extent of 350 characters max. (including spaces), submitted in either Czech or English. A condition of entry is that the organizer is entitled to freely use any submitted texts, photographs and/or slides (including the making of photo/slide reproductions and video recordings of the exhibits) in order to promote the exhibition, produce
the catalogue, and for educational purposes. The illustrated catalogue, publshed by the organizer, will be available to each entrant at a 50% discount.

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6 RETURN OF EXHIBITS
The works submitted for the competition shall not be returned nor insured, unless a special request is received from the entrant concerned, and then only after the full payment of all related costs. The prize winning and some other selected works shall become part of the Moravian Gallery's collection. Each exhibitor shall receive a certificate of participation after the exhibition.

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7 SELECTION OF EXHIBITS
The Pre-selection Committee shall make selections from the submitted works in accordance with its professional experience, and with regard to the entrant having complied with the terms of participation, and space available.
Designers selected for the Brno Biennial competition will be announced and notified in February 2010. They will then be asked to submit a short movie presenting themselves to be used in the exhibition installation. The video shall not exceed 1 minute lenght.

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8 AWARDS
The works on display at the Brno Biennial 2010 shall be judged by the International Jury that shall award the Grand Prix, main and special awards in the two exhibition categories. In addition to these, the jury shall also confer the other special prizes of institutions. Upon conclusion of the Biennial, the Visitors' Award shall be awarded following a vote by the public.

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PRE-SELECTION COMMITTEE
Erwin Bauer (Austria)
Olga Benešová
Emil Drličiak (Slovakia)
Karel Haloun
Lada Hubatová-Vacková
Marek Pokorný
Marta Sylvestrová

INTERNATIONAL JURY
Petr Babák (Czech Republic)
Karel Martens (The Netherlands)
Lizá Ramalho (Portugal)
Koichi Sato (Japan)
Paula Scher (USA)
Igor Stanisljevic (Croatia)
John Walters (United Kingdom)
Alan Záruba (Czech Republic)

BOARD OF THE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
Aleš Najbrt, graphic designer, Prague (Chair)
Tomáš Machek, graphic designer, Prague (Vice-Chair)
Marcela Stránská, Prague (Vice-Chair)
Marek Pokorný, Brno, Director of the Moravian Gallery and the Brno Biennial
Marta Sylvestrová, art historian, Brno, Curator of the Brno Biennial
Rick Poynor, art critic and theoretician, London, Guest Curator of the Brno Biennial
Miroslava Pluháčková, head of exhibitions and publications, Moravian Gallery in Brno, Organization Secretary

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CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES
31. 12. 2009

BIENÁLE BRNO
Moravská galerie v Brně
Husova 18
CZ-662 26 Brno
Czech Republic

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