To submit your work for the (Un)limited Design Contest, you can visit one of the events we will organize this year or go to any of the FabLabs (they are located in Amsterdam, The Hague, Utrecht, Groningen and Gent/Berlin). These high-tech workshops have computers and special computer-controlled prototyping machines you can use to design and 3D-print nearly any object you can imagine.
(Un)limited Design Contest 2010 is divided into four categories: Form, Food, Fashion and Fusion. Have you thought of a product you’d like to make – or is there one out there you’d like to change? Show us your talents!
These are the 6 easy steps to follow:
Step 1. Go to a Fablab or an event we organize.
Step 2. Consider what you will make.
Step 3. Make your design digital.
Step 4. Print the product.
Step 5. Assemble the product.
Step 6. Submit your design!
Entries can be submitted until 9 September 2010. The winners will be announced during a special Award Ceremony at PICNIC '10 on 24 September in Amsterdam.
Jury
An expert jury will examine and judge selected entries of the contest. Friday 24 September prizes will be handed out by the chairman of the jury: Matt Stinchcomb (Etsy.com). The other jury members are: Bre Pettis (MakerBot.com), en ontwerpers Joris Laarman (jorislaarman.com) en Matt Cottam (tellart.com).
Audience favourite
Visitors of the website are able to vote for their favourite design. The designs with the most votes in each category are automatically part of the selection of designs to be judged by the jury.
Fabulous prize this year: your own 3D printer
In each category a winner will chosen by the jury on several criteria. This year we have an open source 3D printer for every winner available! You can win the cutest rapid prototyping machine ever: The CNC Cupcake Basic, worth $ 750! No need to put it on your wishlist any longer, you can start making your own 3D designs at home.
Online sales through Etsy.com
All products can now be sold through the online retail channel of Etsy.com. Etsy is one of the largest online retail channels in the world for personal fabricated prodcts. The Etsy community spans the globe with buyers and sellers coming from more than 150 countries. Etsy sellers number in the hundreds of thousands.
Copyright and design registration
Now for the legal stuff. By uploading your design to unlimiteddesign.nl you publish your design under the conditions of a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.
Hereby you grant everybody the right to copy, distribute and transmit the design as well as to adapt the design under the following conditions:
- They must attribute the design in the manner specified by the author, original designer or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse them or their use of the design).
-They may not use this design for commercial purposes.
- If they alter, transform, or build upon this design, they may distribute the resulting design only under the same or similar license to this one.
This Creative Commons license is non-exclusive and non-revocable. See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/nl/deed.en for the complete license deed. More information about Creative Commons licences can be found at http://creativecommons.org/
By uploading your design to unlimiteddesigncontest.org you declare that you have not and shall not register your design under the terms of industrial design, and that you shall not seek protection under the terms of industrial design for the design you uploaded.
