Japanese designer Shinji Nukumi was announced as the winner and was awarded €10,000 for his brilliant artwork entitled ‘INFINITI Passion’.
If you are a professional designer, a design enthusiast or student at art school, you need to enter! Participants are asked to design an experience that can be generated through a digital artwork, interior installation piece, or unique performance. These will be displayed in the new showrooms that is opening throughout Europe and during other premium events of the brand.That’s why they are inviting artists to design the ultimate digital experience of what the curve brings to you. This can be in the form of:
1. digital artwork in the form of images and/or videos: you can (and are encouraged) to include the car or elements of the car as part of the artwork
2. physical installation in the form of a sculpture, 3D mapping, or other exciting media works: installation should take up no more space than an Infiniti car - installation must work in ambient light. You can (and are encouraged) to include the car or elements of the car as part of the installation. Any form of installation that requires bespoke build must be provided by the artist.
3. INFINITI experiential cinema: unique curved cinema experience where you can create a 180° or 360° video installation. Sound and interactivity are optional but will enhance the experience
4. Interactive art piecethat works with Microsoft Kinect: this can be a complete work or conceptual prototype and technology available will be Microsoft surface and Kinect sensors.
5. Live performances- including dance, light, interactive music, body art, or another unique experience
Your works will be installed and managed by a third party, and thus should be both easily assembled and cost effective. Projects that are too expensive or difficult to produce will not be realized and thus cannot advance to the second stage of the competition, even if they are originally selected by the jury as winning designs.
· The winning formula must be clearly linked to INFINITI’s DNA and should express the theme of the competition: CURVED VISIONS.
· Conceptually or physically, INFINITI cars should be in some way the heroes of the creation and are encouraged to include the car or elements of the car as part of the artwork
· Of course, the most impactful projects will achieve a mix of innovation and interactivity, generating an emotional response in those who experience the work.
· Projects may take any form, as long as they address in some way the idea of CURVED VISIONS
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INFINITI has provided a library of images and videos that participants can use either for inspiration for their project or to include within their entry (see below in ‘For Your Article’)
The winner will receive a prize of €10,000 and, as always, designboom will publish an exhaustive results report.
Registration is now open through 10 July 2012 so please fill out the form. You may submit your design at any time after registering. Team submissions are welcomed, but please register with one name only. When submitting your design, you will have the opportunity to list all team members’ names.
1. Up to 6 files (images and videos) for uploading to designboom
· : image size: 818 pixels wide. To upload your images, please use only .gif or .jpeg files at 72 dpi in RGB color mode, maximum 200 kb each file.
· should include a storyboard, video, or other imagery to express the progression of the live event. The designer is responsible for providing any props, equipment, costumes, or performer(s).
· we accept flv or swf files only. 818 pixels wide. maximum file size 10MB.
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- sound files: separate sound files may be submitted as .mp3 or .wav files. The designer must have all rights to any sound or music uploaded.
- The entry submitted is a low-res version of your original work.Please note that high-resolution image(s)/video will be requested if your work is shortlisted.Broadcasting of the shortlisted entries will require HD files, 1920 x 1080, non-compressed (mov, avi, etc.)
2. Explanation of ideas
A brief description of your design or performance (English text only - please be concise).
3. Statement of acceptance of the competition guidelines
Competition guidelines:
Projects participating in the competition must be original works.
Projects must be free from copyrights and any kind of obligation.
The design shall not in any way infringe on any third party’s right, including but not limited to copyright, logos, trademark, trade names, or other proprietary rights of publicity or privacy. - Works can be submitted up until 10 July 2012.
The shortlist resultswill be announced 4 weeks after the submission deadline.
Intellectual Property
Any moral and paternity rights regarding the project sent in for application are the designer’s property, however, by submitting a design in the competition, the participant agrees to provide INFINITI with the right of first refusal to the exclusive use of the design. This option is valid for 6 months after the end of the competition. In the event that INFINITI exercises the option to use the rights for production on an exclusive basis and sine die (without time limitations), INFINITI will make an agreement with the participant on usual royalties conditions for the transfer of intellectual property rights.
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By participating in the competition, all participants authorise designboom and INFINITI to publish and exhibit all the designs (including project data submitted) – waiving compensation – at exhibitions and events and/or to use them in any publications communications or promotions that designboom and INFINITI may deem suitable and/or necessary. In any cases, each time the creation is used, they must refer to the competition they originate from. designboom and INFINITI will credit the designer’s name to properly attribute authorship of work to promote the author adequately. INFINITI will have the right to apply minor change amendments without damaging the integrity of the artwork – e.g. add the INFINITI logo and text, reframing, translation, changing colours, cutting the background or parts of it, etc…
In case designboom and INFINITI want to bring major changes to the submitted artwork for publication, designboom and INFINITI will contact the designer and inform him/her about the use to obtain the designer’s consent.
The two new experiences that are being offered are Natural Goodness and Winter Highlife valued at $30k. You can even take three friends! So how do you win this? All you’ve got to do is take a video OR send a photo of what you’d trade for a trip to New Zealand – making sure it’s a real object! Choose three of your best friends that you’d want to come along with you and then share it round via Facebook/ Google+/ Twitter to get as many votes as possible.
You can check out the two winners from Phase 1 here:
There is also a second prize draw just for voting! Vote for an entry and be in to win flights for two to New Zealand.
Out of the two, I think I would have to go with “Natural Goodness”. The idea of being somewhere so remote is appealing. Waking up in the morning and hiking followed by some extreme sports later on, would be so cool.
Here’s a teaser video:
With this prize, you would be adventuring around the South Island, hiking through national parks, climbing glaciers, rafting rivers, kayaking with dolphins, getting up close to whales, then seeing birds and seals along the stunning coastlines. When it’s time to put your feet up, we’ll have hot springs nestled in the mountains waiting for you.
To enter this amazing competition go to www.storiesbeatstuff.com and don’t forget to check out the entries on the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/purenewzealand/app_141439529289323.www.storiesbeatstuff.com and don’t forget to check out the entries on the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/purenewzealand/app_141439529289323.
“What would you trade for the story of a lifetime?”
Over the next 12 months that is what Tourism New Zealand are asking people. They believe “Stories Beats Stuff!”
What would you give up? Your subscription to Travel Spy, your new plasma TV or your new Porsche?
This is the time to trade your stuff for an unbelievable adventure to the other side of the world. All you have to do is make a video or send a pic of what you’re trading, for a chance to win one of six trips of a lifetime.
Every couple of months Tourism New Zealand will be launching amazing uniquely New Zealand experiences. To start with two amazing prizes are up for grabs during December and January while it’s summer in NZ: Summer Rhythm, and Beaches & Boats. Win one of these and you’ll be winging your way to New Zealand with your best mate.
Experience One: ‘Summer Rhythm’ A two-week long road-trip along the East Coast of New Zealand ending in Gisborne for Rhythm & Vines – 3 day music festival set in a vineyard that has featured some of the best artists in the world. The line-up this year is no exception including Calvin Harris, Pendulum, Example, Cut Copy and Grandmaster Flash. Gisborne is the first place in the world to see the sun rise every day. This year will be the first on the planet to welcome in 2012 in what The Guardian has called one of the best New Year celebrations in the world.
Check out the video:
Experience Two: ‘Beaches and Boats’ /Set at the very top of New Zealand’s North Island, the Bay of Islands is New Zealand’s hottest summer destination. With 144 islands, it’s little surprise that beaches and boats are central to this amazing location. Spend two weeks exploring all that’s on offer. Swim with dolphins, dive the Poor Knights Islands (rated by Jacques Cousteau as one of the top ten dive sites in the world), slide down giant sand dunes, hit white sand beaches for some sunbathing, laze on a launch as you cruise though crystal clear waters and party till dawn. This is the place to spend your January.
Check it out:
Travel Spy has been to New Zealand and can thoroughly recommend the experience. Sure it takes around 24 hours to get there and your jetlag will last days…but it’s worth it! Christchurch reminded us of the Lake District, Queenstown is for the extreme sports fans and Auckland has a Canadian feel.
The competition closes on 7th December and is open to all people 18+ all over the world. Get your thinking cap on and enter the competition here
