OFFICIAL CONTEST RULES
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN
PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE AN ENTRY'S CHANCE OF WINNING
VOID WHERE PROHIBITED
1.CONTEST DESCRIPTION: The Design Center of the Carolinas Highest Design artist contest is a contest in which professionals, age 18 and older, from Charlotte’s Design Community working in such businesses as advertising agencies, photography studios, graphic design firms, printing companies, architectural firms, as well as students of the arts programs at local universities and community colleges may submit their art work to be judged for selection to be installed on the Design Center of the Carolinas water tower. Artwork must be original and unpublished, two dimensional work in horizontal orientation. Submission Requirements: (1) Must be in digital form (format should be any acceptable web image format that is able to display on the website: ie. jpeg, gif, png.), (2) Submission file must be under 10 MB, (3) Must have a title, (4) Must be your own, non-commercial, work, (5) Cannot take any elements from any other artists pieces. An entrant may submit more than one entry.
2.HOW TO ENTER: To enter, email artwork submissions togetinspired@designcentercarolinas.com. Before being awarded a prize, an authorized representative of The Design Center of the Carolinas will verify the contest entrant’s identity, including name, address, city, state, zip code, age, phone number (including area code), and e-mail address. www.designcentercarolinas.com reserves the right to not award prizes to entrants that do not meet eligibility requirements and/or who do not provide sufficient proof of identity. Online entries must include a valid e-mail address. Online entries must be received by 11:59:59 PM Eastern Standard Time on 3/16/12. All entries become the exclusive property of Design Center Carolinas and Ram Realty Services (collectively, "Sponsor") and will not be acknowledged or returned. Sponsor reserves the right to remove any submission from the website that is illegal, obscene, indecent, offensive, or any other imagery deemed to be an inferior submission in the Sponsor's opinion. Sponsor and its agents are not responsible for incorrect, lost, late, misdirected, damaged, incomplete, or illegible entries.
3.WINNER SELECTION: Judging will be based on the www.designcentercarolinas.com/contest user votes. www.designcentercarolinas.com reserves the right to modify vote counts for entries which are not deemed unique. www.designcentercarolinas.com reserves complete discretion over which votes are deemed unique and which are not. If any of the eligible entries in the opinion of the judges is deemed to be an inferior submission it will be considered ineligible. Winners will be notified on or about May 1, 2012 by phone or email.
4.PRIZE AND PRIZE VALUES: One (1) Grand Prize will be awarded: $1,000 cash and $5,000 worth of classroom supplies to the entrant’s selected Charlotte-Mecklenburg school partner, chosen at time of entry. Total retail value of all prizes is approximately $6,000. All taxes and any expenses not expressly mentioned above as being paid by Sponsor are the winner's responsibility.
5.ELIGIBILITY: This contest is open to legal residents of the United States, age 18 and older, who are on the date of entry professionals from Charlotte’s Design Community working in such businesses as advertising agencies, photography studios, graphic design firms, printing companies, architectural firms, as well as students of the arts programs at local universities and community colleges. Employees of Sponsor, their affiliates, subsidiaries, dealers, distributors, retailers, advertising and production agencies, and their immediate families and residents of their households are not eligible. All federal, state, and local laws, rules, and regulations apply. Prize acceptance constitutes winner's consent (except where prohibited) to use his/her name, signature, likeness and biographical data for advertising and promotional purposes without additional compensation.
6.CONSUMER DISCLOSURE/AWARD RULES: Sponsor reserves the right, at its own discretion, to substitute a prize of equal or greater value if the particular prize described above is not available or violates applicable law or regulation. In the event of inadvertent errors in the structure of, or printing of materials used in connection with, this contest, the sponsor reserves the right to terminate or amend this contest, in whole or in part, without prior notification and with immediate effect. In any such event, prizes may be awarded based on entries received prior to date of termination or amendment.
7.GENERAL: The Sponsor will attempt to contact the potential winners by phone or email and the potential winner must respond within 48 hours following notification attempt or an alternate potential winner will be selected. Any prize notification letter or affidavit or other documents described in these Official Rules that are returned as undeliverable or any failure to comply with these Official Rules, will result in a forfeiture of eligibility to win any prize. Entrants agree to abide by the terms of these Official Rules, which are final on all matters pertaining to this Contest. By entering the competition, the entrant represents and warrants to Sponsor that he or she is the sole creator of the art work. The winning entrant further represents and warrants that he or she will be fully empowered to transfer and assign and, by entering, does transfer and assign, all right, title and interest in and to the art work and the good-will associated therewith worldwide exclusively to Sponsor, its successors and/or assigns solely for purposes of displaying the winning artwork on the Design Center water tower for a period of twenty-four (24) months from announcement of the winning entry. The winning entrant by submission of his or her art work to Sponsor for this Contest grants Sponsor the right in perpetuity to use any photographic, video or digital image of that artwork as displayed on the water tower for no compensation to the entrant. Each entry must be the original work of the entrant; must not have been submitted to another contest, promotional event, or for publication; must not have won previous prizes; must not have been published previously; must not be obscene or indecent (in the opinion of the Sponsor); and must not infringe any third-party rights. Prize is not transferable or redeemable for cash. Each winner releases Sponsor, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all claims, liability, loss, or damage, including any third party claims, arising from or relating to, in whole or in part, this contest or the possession, use, misuse of, or inability to use a prize. Entrant agrees that if any third party makes a claim for breach of copyright or any other intellectual property right, or any loss or damage arising from entrant's submission to the contest, entrant will indemnify Sponsor, its affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from any and all such claims, including reasonable attorneys' fees related thereto.
8.WINNER LISTS: Winners will be posted at www.designcentercarolinas.com/contest. Consumer Information: Names of prize winners will appear on the website and in printed lists which will be available on or about May 11, 2012.
9.SPONSOR: Design Center Carolinas LLC and Ram Realty Services, 4801 PGA Boulevard, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418.