International Student Book Design Competition "The Fire-Book"

Regulations

1. Who Can Enter
Students of any design school as well as any art or design department of colleges or universities worldwide are eligible to enter the competition.
Entries can be submitted either by students directly or by their departments. Multiple entries are accepted. There is no entry fee.

2. Categories
2.1 Category V. Class Project
Video presentation of a school project of a multi-page publication that is suitable for printing as a book, not a one-off. Class assignments, term and degree projects are eligible.
2.2 Category B. Competition Project: Category B is not available in 2015 because of organizing and financial problems.
A printed book designed expressly for this competition according to the competition guidelines.

3. Submission Guidelines
3.1 Category V. Class Project
3.1.1 School projects created as class assignments; term and degree projects are eligible.
3.1.2 Presentation Format: video presentation of the printed book design. Video has to contain titles with following information: project title, student and professor’s names, name of the school.
3.1.3 Objective: to provide a clear idea of the overall appearance of the book, of its exterior and interior design, structure, and components.
3.1.4 Creative brief: to demonstrate the interconnected relationship between the various graphic, compositional, typographic and constructive elements of the design, as well as the choice of the components, pre-press, press and binding techniques and their working together toward the intended intellectual and emotional impact of the project.
3.1.5 Specifications: size — from 1280×720 to 1920×1080 px; duration — not over 180 sec.; codec — H.264; file type — .mp4; bitrate for video—1200—200 Kbps, for sound — not less than 126 Kbps.
3.1.6 File format: mp4-file (saved with the name: category (V)_FirstNameInitial-FamilyName_number (in case of multiple entries).mp4; e.g.: V_J-Smith_1.mp4).

3.2 Category B. Competition Project: Category B is not available in 2015 because of organizing and financial problems.
3.2.1 A printed book designed expressly for this competition.
3.2.2 Subject: «Selected Chapters from my Country’s Constitution» (Constitution of the Country of student’s residence).
3.2.3 The Objective: to express the national spirit and the national vision, as well as the personal reflection on the basic law of the entrant’s country of residence. The choice of constitution’s chapters, their number, sequence and hierarchy is open. The entries that are deemed by the jury as extremist, hateful or defaming to the law of any country or its citizens, will be disqualified.
3.2.4 Creative Brief: selecting the tone of voice; establishing a hierarchical structure of the text appropriate for the selected tone of voice.
3.2.5 Specifications:
— The text of the constitution must be quoted in official language of the country (in case when there are two or more official languages the project can be designed as bi- or multilingual)
— Only one typeface can be used in as many sizes and styles as required by the design. Projects using more than one typeface will not be not accepted. Legal font license is responsibility of the entrant.
— No images are allowed in this project.
— Page format: 140×200 mm (portrait orientation). Any other format is not accepted.
— Number of pages: 16. Projects with more or less than 16 pages will not be accepted.
— The project should not have a cover: the first and last pages have to have clear indications of the beginning and the end of project; the first page must contain the following information: first name and family name of the student; academic year, name of department/course etc.; first name and family name of the professor/project advisor; name of school; town; country.
— The project has to be designed for printing in two inks, chosen from of the following colour combinations: Black+Pantone 186U, Black+Pantone 299U, Pantone 186U+Pantone 3405U, Pantone 298U+Pantone 1505U; Project can be designed for one color, Black and its halftone, or any of above-mentioned Pantone colours and their halftones.
3.2.6 Submission of entries: printed and folded copy+PDF-file (saved with the name: category (B)_FirstNameInitial-FamilyName_number (in case of multiple entries).pdf; e.g.: B_J-Smith_1.pdf).
3.2.7 Pdf-file specifications: Adobe PDF (Print); High Quality Print; Pages: Pages; Compress Text and Line Art; Marks: Crop Marks, Registration Marks, Page Information; No colour conversion; Black: Black, overprint; Ink Manager/sequences: Black(2)+Pantone186U(1), Black(2)+Pantone299U(1), Pantone186U(1)+Pantone3405U(2), Pantone298U(2)+Pantone1505U(1).

4. Awards
4.1 Category V
4.1.1 No less than 20 projects will be selected for the shortlist. Final number is up to the discretion of the Jury.
4.1.2 One Grand Prize and five Honorary Mentions will be selected.
4.2 Category B: in 2015t here will be no awards in the category B
4.2.1 No less than 10 winning projects will be selected for the shortlist. Final number is up to the discretion of the Jury.
4.2.2 Three Honorary mentions will be selected. The competition awards projects as a whole. Both the student and the professor involved in the winning project will receive identical diplomas. If the winner is not present at the award ceremony, the diploma will be sent to him by mail.

5. Publicity
5.1 Full list of entries will be published on the web site of the competition www.zharkniga.ru.
5.2 Entries included in short-list will be published on web site of the competition www.zharkniga.ru following the decision of the jury.
5.3 Entries included in short-list will be shown at the Zhar-Kniga Book Design Festival www.zharkniga.ru.
5.4 Submitted projects can be reproduced partly or integrally in any publications about the competition.

Jury

Separate Jury will judge each category. The Jury for each category will be composed of 3 graphic designers and design educators, to be announced.
Only those entries compliant with the specifications above will be allowed to take part in the competition.

Submission

Entry forms can be downloaded from this page (see below). One entry form per each entry. Entry forms are filled digitally and each entry have to be saved with the name: category (V or B)_FirstNameInitial-FamilyName_number (for multiple entries)_z_.pdf; e.g.: V_J-Smith_1_z_.pdf).

Entry form for the Category V have to contain following information:
Section «School Info»:
— Full official name of the school and of the department;
— address (full mail address including postal or ZIP code and e-mail address);
— website.
Section «Project»:
— Student’s information: first name, family name, academic year, e-mail address;
— Professor’s information: first name, family name, title,
e-mail address;
— Project’s title;
— Brief description of Project’s concept;
— Specifications: page size, number of pages, components and techniques;
— link(s) to file-transfer servers where the entry is stored (the period of storage has to be not less than 10 days).

Entry form for the category V »

Filled entry forms for the category V have to be sent
to e-mail address: zharstudents@mail.ru

Entry form for the Category B (Category B is not available in 2015 because of organizing and financial problems) have to contain following information:
Section «School Info»:
—Full official name of the school and of the department;
— address (full mail address including postal or ZIP code and e-mail address);
— website.
Section «Project»:
— Student’s information: first name, family name, academic year, e-mail address;
— Professor’s information: first name, family name, title, e-mail address;
— Project’s title;
— Brief description of Project’s concept.

Entry form for the Category B »

Filled entry forms for the Category B together with the Project submitted have to be compressed into zip archive (saved with the name: category (B)_FirstNameInitial-FamilyName_number (in case of multiple entries).zip; e.g.: B_J-Smith_1.zip) and have to be sent to e-mail address: zharstudents@mail.ru
Each zipped archive should contain only one project.
Printed copy of the competition project has to be sent together with printed copy of entry form to the postal address:

Innokentii Keleinikov
Ul. Panferova, 11–71
119261 Moscow
Russian Federation

The competition committee is not responsible of any damage incurred during shipping. Entries will not be returned.

Deadline

Electronic entries must be received by midnight of September 19, 2015 (UTC+03:00).

Feedback
The competiton committee will notify every entrant when his entry is received via e-mail.
The same e-mail address will be used for further correspondence about the competition and other Zhar-Kniga events.