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WinSoft Arabic Typography Contest

Reglementation

Contest Reglementation

> 1. Contest presentation
> 2. Who can participate in the contest?
> 3. Contest Theme
> 4. Software to be used
> 5. Number of accepted designs
> 6. Technical specifications and formats to be respected
> 7. How to submit an design
> 8. Design selection
> 9. Prizes
> 10. Patent rights and intellectual property
> 11. Processing of personal information processing
> 12. Information request
> 13. Applicable legislation
> 14. Disputes resolution
> 15. Acceptance of Regulations
> 16. Modification and cancellation of the contest

Contest presentation
WinSoft International SA with its headquarters at 24 rue Louis Gagnière, 38950 Saint Martin le Vinoux, FRANCE, of capital of €508.038, RCS Grenoble B 334148293 Siret 33414829300031, is organizing an Arabic typography design contest dedicated to the rapprochement of cultures, from 18 October 2009 until the midnight of 15 January 2010 (Paris time zone).

Who can participate in the contest?
The contest is open to any person or legal entity. Participation is free of charge. Collaborators (or their family members) related to the companies directly or indirectly involved in the organization of the contest can not participate in the contest.

Contest Theme
UNESCO proclaimed 2010 the International Year for the Rapprochement of Cultures, a value to which WinSoft International has been profoundly attached since the company’s creation in 1985. WinSoft International is thereby organizing an Arabic typography contest promoting the values of collaboration and exchange.

Typographers, graphic designers, calligraphers and artists, by profession or hobby, are invited to illustrate in text their vision of a world where a dialogue between cultures is both natural and enriching.

Contestants will be asked to use Arabic typography and graphic design to illustrate in words the idea of a rapprochement between cultures. Contestants are free to use their own words or words extracted from an Arabic text or poetry.

Software to be used
Entries must be created with Tasmeem and InDesign Middle Eastern version. Any other desired software can be used in addition to the obligatory aforementioned programs.

Number of accepted designs
Each contestant can provide up to 3 designs. The results will be published afterwards on the WinSoft International website. A representative of WinSoft International will moderate each entry and decide whether or not to publish it on the site.

Technical specifications and formats to be respected
The project must be submitted in numeric format to WinSoft International web site (www.winsoft-international.com/contest).
The maximum size of your document(s) to be submitted must be 1600px x 1600px, it (they) should be in JPEG or PNG format and be less than 10 Mo.

ATTENTION :
The name(s) of your file(s) ready to be sent to us must indicate your first and the last names, the name of the first file being «last name_first name1».
For example : «Smith_John1».
Following the same pattern, your second artwork will be named «last name_first name2» (in our example: «Smith_John2»), etc.

How to submit a design
Your artwork must be uploaded to the WinSoft International website (www.winsoft-international.com/ contest).
Participants will have to submit a document indicating their last name, first name, email address, post address, name of the artwork, a text explaining the creative reasoning behind the design, as well as the photos and other graphic elements and software used in the edsign in their respective fields.

Projects submitted in any other way will not be taken into consideration.
A message confirming successful upload will be displayed at the end of the uploading process. Contest organizers refuse any responsability in case the project or file(s) uploaded by participants is not received, lost or damaged, whatever the reason.

After the winners have been decided, they will be contacted by WinSoft International, and asked to submit their source files via a site like «Yousendit ».

Design selection
The selection of the designs will be as follows.
Uploaded designs will be published on the WinSoft International website starting from 9 November 2009. They will be submitted to a public vote starting from the end of the legal submission period, the midnight of April 6 (GMT+1), and until the midnight of April 21 (GMT+1).
This public vote will be counted as 40% of the votes.

60% of votes will be added by a jury composed of minimum 4 persons comprising experts in the field of Arabic typography or representatives of Arabic society (see the page «Jury» on-line for a presentation of jury members).
This jury will decide the winners collectively at the end of January / beginning of February 2010.
Results will depend on the overall impact of the submitted work, typographic skills and creativity.

Prizes
The first place will be awarded with the prize of a total store value of €5,111 (including VAT) that will contain:
- An electronic (downloadable) copy of Adobe InDesign CS5 Middle Eastern version
- An electronic (downloadable) copy of Tasmeem
- Electronic (downloadable) copies of 16 Arabic Tasmeem fonts: Naskh, Nastaliq, Emiri, Al Quds Regular, Alwadi Grand, Al Quds Bold, Arabetics Mehdi, Hassan Hiba, Hassan Noor, Bassim Marah, Nassim Regular, Nassim Medium, Nassim Heavy, Nassim Semibold, Nassim Bold, Qarandash

The second and the third places will each be awarded with the prize of a total value of €2 577 TTC that will contain:
- An electronic (downloadable) copy of Adobe InDesign CS5 Middle Eastern version
- An electronic (downloadable) copy of Tasmeem
- An electronic (downloadable) copy of the Saba font collection of Tasmeem

The fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth places will each be awarded with the prize of a total value of €898 TTC that will contain:
- An electronic (downloadable) copy of Tasmeem
- An electronic (downloadable) copy of the Emiri Tasmeem font

All received entires as well as the contact information (first name, last name, company, website, email address) provided by participants will be displayed on the Winsoft website (winsoft-international.com) during the entire year of 2010.

The prizes values are estimated based on public prices fixed by their respective editors on 8 Octobre 2009. These prices might be subject to reevaluation at any moment, thus possibly varying during the contest.

If the jury considers that none of the presented entries corresponds to the conditions needed to be fulfilled in order for a prize to be awarded, it may refrain from awarding the prizes.

The jury’s decisions are final and not subject to appeal. The winners will be contacted individually by WinSoft International SA using the email address provided during the registration process.
The awards are planned to be transmitted in February or March of 2010.
The list of the winners will be published on the WinSoft International website (www.winsoft-international.com) as of this date.

Patent rights and intellectual property

Participants guarantee that they are the authors of submitted artworks and to respect all the copyright laws rights, in particular those for the use of added elements (graphics, texts, typology, etc.).
Participants agree that they will be held responsable in case of eventual infractions as to the regard of third parties and they will protect organizers and sponsors of the contest from eventual complaints or disputes and their consequences, judicial or other.

Participants grant WinSoft International SA their authorization to publish their works free of charge for the purposes of eventual promotion campaigns and communications about WinSoft International products or events, provided that the author of the project is always mentioned.
They authorize the reproduction of their artworks on paper, on the Internet or CD by WinSoft International SA, provided that the author of the project is always mentioned.

Participants also accept to have pictures taken of themselves in the context of the contest, and authorize the use of such pictures in all promotional campaigns and communications related to the contest.

Personal information processing

The personal information of participants will be processed by WinSoft International SA in conformity with the law 15/1999 of 13 December 2006, regulating the protection of personal information, in order to complete the present contest successfully.
A participant can exercise his rights of access, correction and cancellation by addressing a letter in writing to:
WinSoft International S.A.
24 rue Louis Gagnière
38950 Saint Martin le Vinoux,
France
The following should be mentioned on the letter : «WinSoft Arabic Typography Contest».

Participants also accept that organizers and sponsors use their contact information for the communication about their products.

Information request
All the requests for additional information can be addressed to tasmeemcontest@winsoft.fr
tasmeemcontest@winsoft.fr

Applicable legislation
The current contest as well as the transmission of patent and intellectual rights to WinSoft International SA are conform to the French legislation.
All reclamations concerning the application of present regulations should be addressed by registered mail to WinSoft International headquarters at the above address on 31 December 2010 at the latest. All the reclamations will be examined by the jury whose verdict will be irrevocable.

Disputes resolution
In case of a disagreement between a participant and WinSoft International SA concerning the contest or current regulations, a dispute resolution will be carried out by courts of Grenoble (Isère - France).

Regulations acceptance
Participation in the contest implies full acceptance of the current regulations. All difficulties concerning its iterpretation will be treated by WinSoft International.

Modification and cancellation of the contest
WinSoft International SA reserves the right to modify, extend or cancel the current contest in case circumstances require. WinSoft International may not be hold responsible in case of modification, extension or cancellation of the contest.