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WHAT IS THE GREAT PILLOW DESIGN COMPETITION™?
The Great Pillow Design Competition is an opportunity for emerging designers, students or aspiring designers to stretch their creative legs. It's an opportunity for seasoned or established designers to work in a different medium, blow off some creative steam or just design for the sake of designing.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?
The Great Pillow Design Competition is open to any designer. We encourage submissions from all design disciplines. Employees of Inhabit or any partners are not eligible. All entrants are bound by the Official Rules. Entrants must be 18 years of age to enter.

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Inhabit is looking for designs, for a series of three double-sided pillows. You can see examples at www.inhabitliving.com. We are looking for fleshed out art, not concepts. It must have the ability to be printed as flat art on fabric. Consider the Inhabit brand and the Inhabit customer. We're looking for well-thought-out designs that could be incorporated into the Inhabit 2007 Spring line. We're looking for your ideas, either done on the computer, hand drawn or some combination thereof. Have fun with it. Don't feel constricted by, or feel you have to replicate Inhabit's design style. Again, consider the brand and the customer, but put your unique style into it.

Judging will be based on the following criteria, not in any specific order of relevancy.

  • Is this an original or progressive design for this category?
  • Does it fit the Inhabit brand and its customer?
  • Quality of the design
  • Visual appeal

IS THERE A FEE TO ENTER?
Yes. $25, but we will throw in a free t-shirt too.

HOW DOES THE COMPETITION WORK?
You design the pillows and submit them following the online submission form. If you do not have access to the internet, entries can be mailed to Inhabit at 1238 N Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, Attn: The Great Pillow Design Competition. Payment must accompany the entry or the entry will not be considered.

The designs will be judged and narrowed down to three finalist's collections. The final three collections will be posted at www.inhabitliving.com and voted on by you, your friends, and your friends, friends, Joe in California... well, you get the idea. The people decide. Additional sites may be added for viewing finalists.

HOW MANY DESIGNS CAN I SUBMIT?
Enter as often as you like. Color tweaks or small changes to previously entered designs will not be considered new art. The altered designs will be disregarded in favor of the earliest received designs. If you are going to enter more than once, please make sure they differ enough from a prior submission. The decision about what is considered "similar" is at the sole discretion of Inhabit.

It's quality of design that will catch our eye, not quantity.

WHEN DOES IT START?
If you are reading this, it already has. Good luck.

WHEN DOES IT END?
Submissions are due by Oct 15, 2006 and must be posted on our server by exactly 12:00pm EST. or postmarked by this date. What if I oversleep and my entries are a little late? You will not be considered. What if my dog ate my design? In addition to having a pulpy mess in the yard, your entry will not be considered. You're getting the point, no late entry will be consider no matter how beautiful it is.

Between Oct 16, 2006 and Nov 1, 2006, the entries will be narrowed down to the three finalists. These will then be posted to the earlier mentioned websites and voted on by the public at www.inhabitliving.com between Nov 2, 2006 and Nov 19, 2006. The winner will be posted at the same sites on Dec 1, 2006.

WHAT DOES THE WINNER RECEIVE?
The winner will receive $1000 and 5 sets of the award-winning pillows for their enjoyment, and the bragging rights that go along with winning the first-ever design competition for something squishy. The winning design will also be part of the 2007 Inhabit Spring line and credit the winning designer's name. and receive 3% of royalties of the sales from the winning design for two years.

Second place will receive $150 and 3 pillow sets of their designs.

Third place will receive $100 and 2 pillow sets of their designs.

HOW DO I KNOW IF I AM A FINALIST?
We will notify the three finalists by phone or e-mail. Please do not call and ask, because we will probably not call you back. Please do not e-mail and ask, because we will not e-mail you back. We are not trying to be difficult, but we are a small studio and are not staffed to handle the additional call and e-mail volume. We do appreciate your interest, and thank you in advance to anyone who enters.

WHO CAN I E-MAIL WITH QUESTIONS REGARDING THE ENTRY PROCESS?
Send e-mails with questions only to tgpdc@inhabitliving.com. Do not send entries to this address or questions about whether you are a finalist or not. Follow the entry instructions for submitting designs.

HOW DO I ENTER?
1.) Each entrant should fill out the online entry form. Please follow the diagram on the entry form for formatting and sizing.

For entrants with no access to a computer they can be mailed to Inhabit, 1238 N Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202, Attn: The Great Pillow Design Competition. Each series of designs must be submitted separately with its own entry form.

2.) The artwork you submit must be submitted in accordance with the entry rules, entries that do not follow this procedure will not be considered. By entering this competition, you agree to abide by these rules and you warrant and represent that (i) your entry is your original work and is not derived from any other prior work, (ii) you have the sole and exclusive rights to the material you are submitting, (iii) these rights have been legally obtained and created, and (iv) publication of the material via various media will not infringe on any third party rights, including, without limitation, contractual rights, copyrights and other intellectual property rights, publicity and privacy rights, and rights against libel, defamation, and slander.

3.) By entering this competition and accepting the Prize, you grant Inhabit the right to edit, publish, promote, and otherwise use your entry either as submitted or in edited form without further permission, notice, or compensation, including but not limited to Inhabit's printed materials, future products and on the World Wide Web. If you win the competition, you further grant to Inhabit the right to sell products incorporating your work and to create derivative works for commercialization, without further permission, notice or compensation.

GENERAL CONDITIONS
Information provided on the official entry form may appear on the following website: www.inhabitliving.com and in Inhabit's Spring 2007 catalog. It may also appear on other blogs or media outlets as news. Inhabit accepts no responsibility for incorrect information provided on entry forms. Inhabit assumes that all works are original and have been designed by the stated entrant, with all rights guaranteed there-in. Inhabit is not liable for violations of any third party rights, including, but not limited to claims of copyright, trademark, patent infringement, defamation, trade secrets, or trade dress on the part of the entrant. Inhabit assumes that all designs and information provided with entries are free of any third-party rights. The entrant also agrees to inform Inhabit if any of the information provided becomes false or incomplete. The entrant also understands that even if they win, Inhabit can choose not to conduct the competition or discontinue it at any time. The entrant also understands that all decisions by Inhabit are final and not subject to challenge or appeal. If the design is a collaboration of multiple individuals, then the entry form must be credited accordingly. Any violation of the above rules will result in immediate exclusion of the identified applicants design(s). Inhabit is continuously developing new designs and has a large catalog of existing designs, therefore Inhabit accepts no responsibility for new designs that may resemble a design submitted for this competition. If Inhabit was interested in using an exact design submitted for this competition at a later date, the applicant would be notified and reimbursed accordingly.

Entrants agree (a) that Inhabit, its affiliated companies, advertising and promotion agencies, insurance companies, and their respective officers, directors, employees, representatives and agents have no liability whatsoever for, and are released and shall be held harmless by participants against any claims or liability for any injuries, losses or damages of any kind, to persons, or property, including but not limited to death or rights of publicity or privacy resulting in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, misuse or use of any of the prize, participation in The Great Pillow Design Competition, or in any related activity, and those acting pursuant to Inhabit's authority to use the finalist's name, photograph, voice and/or likeness and any likeness, drawing or description of finalist's designs for advertising, trade and promotional purposes without further compensation, at any times or time, in all media now known or hereafter discovered world wide and on the Internet and World Wide Web without notice or review or approval. All finalists will be required to complete, sign, and return a liability release, and a photo/publicity release, where lawful. If releases are not returned within seven (7) days of date of notification, or winner is found to be ineligible or not in compliance with these Official Rules, or if prize notification or prize is returned as undeliverable, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner may be selected. All taxes on prizes are solely the responsibility of the winners. Contest entrant must be 18 years or older.

As a condition to entry, all finalists must agree to transfer all rights to their designs exclusively to Inhabit for manufacture and sale by Inhabit if Inhabit desires to manufacture and sell such design. In addition, all finalists must enter into a Winner's Agreement, Release/Indemnity and Publicity Consent. Should Inhabit choose to manufacture and sell the design submitted by a finalist (which decision is solely in the discretion of Inhabit), then the finalist will be entitled for a (2) two years period to a royalty of 3% of the actual sales price of the design paid and received by Inhabit (or its agent), less sales taxes, returns and refunds, subject to the entering into of an agreement between Inhabit and the finalist with all customary terms and conditions. Such agreement will require that the finalist transfer all rights to the design to Inhabit.

 

 


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