Rules 2012

All category rules along with general rules for 2012 are listed below.

Category rules

1. The Grand Prix and Chairman’s Award will be selected from all entries. You cannot enter into this category.
2. Only those entering other categories in the awards will be eligible to enter this category. Entrants should enter a portfolio of work from the past year.
3. Work in this category must have been designed for the submitting company by the submitting company.
4. Student Category - Design – Open to all Scottish universities/colleges that provide a graphic/digital design course. Students MUST be enrolled in a full time course to qualify. Students should submit a piece of work they have worked on from academic year 2010 until 2011. Student work can fall under the following disciplines – Graphic (publications, poster, direct mail ect), Craft (photography, Typography, Illustration & Copywriting) and Digital Media (Use of Visual Design, Digital design and App design).   Architecture – Open to all Scottish universities that provide an architecture course. Students MUST been rolled in a full time course to qualify. This category will enable both pre graduate (years 1-3) and post graduate (4-5) to submit a project they have worked on from academic year 2010 until 2011. Pre graduate and Post graduate work will be judged separately and awarded accordingly. Please clearly state on entry form your university and year group.
5. This category is open to architectural lighting design projects that include exhibitions and event installations that were in excess of 3 days in duration or installations that were used or erected in more than one location and open to the public in excess of 3 days. The lighting design projects shall either be the work of a designer based in Scotland or for a client based in Scotland, but may be for projects sited anywhere in the world.
6. May be a commercial or residential interior
7. Projects in this category should be an environmental scheme, building project (new build or upgrade of an existing building) or a programme of new signage or artworks and should form part of a wider plan for the area’s physical and economic social regeneration.
8. Affordable housing relates to homes provided by local authorities, housing associations, private developers and individuals and includes housing for rent and subsidised home ownership projects.
9. This category includes Leisure / Culture buildings such as; sports facilities, theatres, arts centres etc.
10. Health covers hospitals, medical facilities etc.
11. Education covers schools (public and private), Universities and Colleges.
12. Retail category covers individual shops as well as retail outlets and shopping centres.
13. Can be publicly funded or for public use.
14. This project must be in a proposed state until at least March 2012. Proposed meaning not under construction but still in the planning stages. For buildings under construction see the Future Buildings section.
15. This category will reward a project for excellence in the sphere of conservation, restoration or adaptive re-use and should involve a listed building. Submissions should include information about the condition of the building before the work was undertaken, a short statement about the building’s significance and a description of the intention behind the works undertaken.
16. 1This award recognises engineers working on projects where the engineering of the structure of the services has posed a significant challenge.
17. Covers hard and soft landscaping.
18. Judges will look for excellent master plan design and evidence that the location, orientation of the buildings, the activities that they contain and the design of the surrounding space formed a critical component of the brief and proposed/ complemented project. It is also important to make evident how people have primacy in proposals.  For the purpose of these categories, master plan is analogous to the development plan, design framework, development framework etc.
19. This category will reward a project where the architect has managed to address the issue of sustainability alongside broader design quality.
20. The Future Building categories are designed to reward buildings that are under construction but not completed.

General rules

1. Entries submitted into the graphic design categories, 7-22, must published, displayed, broadcast or mailed between 1st January 2011 and 4th February 2012. Work entered into previous Scottish Design Awards will NOT be eligible.
2. Projects submitted into Architecture categories, 25-42, must be completed or scheduled for completion between 1st January 2010 and 4th February 2012. Work entered into previous Scottish Design Awards will NOT be eligible.
3. Projects submitted into future buildings category 42, must have been under construction and not completed within the time frame of 1st January 2010 and 4th February 2011. Work entered into previous Scottish Design Awards will NOT be eligible.
4. All submissions must be accompanied by an individual entry form, please ensure that the forms are attached loosely to the back of the entries.
5. As the judging will be anonymous please ensure your branding is not shown on your submissions
6. Work entered into more than one category must be treated as a completely separate entry and payment made for each.
7. All entries must be supplied in the specification stated in submission formats.
8. Entries must be received by no later than Friday 9th March 2012. Please note that we cannot guarantee that entries received after this deadline will be considered.
9. Only entries received before 6th January will receive the early bird entry discount rate.
10. Entries are open to all architects, lighting designers, structural engineers, urban designers, landscape designers, commercial developers and community groups.  Design consultancies, Advertising agencies, direct marketing agencies, printers, games development companies and client companies in Scotland, or whose client is based in Scotland.
11. The judges reserve the right to re-allocate entries that in their view are incorrectly entered.
12. The organisers reserve the right to retain entries for subsequent publication/exhibition in relation to the awards.
13. The organisers reserve the right to verify that all entries have been commercially produced for a commercial client. Proof of publication or transmission may be requested.
14. Unfortunately due to the number of entries received, no correspondence will be entered into regarding entries or feedback given.
15. The judges’ decision is final. Entering work is at your own risk – entries will not be kept after the judging and cannot be returned.
16. Whilst every care will be taken in the storage of entries, the organisers will not accept responsibility for loss or damage of entries.

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