The Design Trust for Public Space will be mounting an outdoor exhibition of top competition entries September 13 through October 14, 2008 in Grand Army Plaza. If your entry is selected for inclusion in the exhibition, you will be required to provide a high-resolution version of each submitted image to the Design Trust for Public Space.
The Design Trust will also publish the results of the competition online, and potentially in print form. In any exhibition, publication, or website, the Design Trust will make every effort to properly credit the appropriate competitors. The Design Trust retains ownership of all competition materials and reserves the right to utilize them for publication, promotional, or for any other purpose without compensation to the entrants.
The jury will award three cash prizes. First prize is $5,000; second: $2,000; and third: $1,000. One additional prizewinning entry will be selected by the public in an online Community Choice Award competition.
A number of additional competition entries, including all of the award winners, will be exhibited in the September 2008 competition exhibition.
Application Process: All competition entries were required to be submitted digitally through an online submission process.
Fees: There was a required $30 fee per entry. At the end of the application process, all entrants were guided through the payment process. All fees were required to be paid through PayPal. Submissions were not considered finalized until payment was processed.
Anonymity: To ensure anonymous review, all submitted text and images were required to be free of any marks, logos, or writing that identifies authorship. The presence of any such insignia resulted in disqualification. Deadlines: All submissions were required to be submitted by 5:00 p.m. (EST) on April 25, 2008.
All materials submitted to the competition are the property of the Design Trust for Public Space, and will be retained for archival purposes and possible exhibition and publication. Each competition entrant retains full copyright of all their materials, and will always be given appropriate credit if and when their material is used.