All successful contributions will receive a IBDC certificate. As an award winner you are entitled to use the IBDC logo for commercial purposes.

The panel of jury will also recommend how the prize money how a total prize money of NTD 500,000 will be distributed among some of the 30 winners.

Meanwhile, the participants could possible receive a prize of sponsors and an internship opportunity. The school with remarkable achievement will be rewarded by organized. 

Awards ceremony

The winners of IBDC 2013 will be announced at the awards ceremony and all winners will be invited to be on stage to receive the certificates. The awards ceremony will take place in an official setting during TAIPEI CYCLE..

Exhibition of IBDC 2013

All winning-contributions and the results of the workshop will be presented during TAIPEI CYCLE 2013 which runs from March 20 till 23 at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall.

iF online exhibition

All winning contributions will be represented with up to two images and a description in the iF online exhibition on the iF website and on the IBDC website.

Documentation of IBDC 2013

All winning contributions will be published free of charge in the documentation of the IBDC 2013. Each award winner will receive one free copy. Free copies will also be sent to a large number of manufactures, international media representatives and academic institutions.

Press

Before, during and after the competition iF‘s comprehensive PR work ensures the IBDC will receive a great deal of attention in the national and international press. With this comprehensive communication package, iF achieves optimal publicity for the IBDC’s winners.

Participation in the IBDC is free.

Professional designers and students of all design related courses and programs (for example, product, fashion and communication design, architecture, marketing and engineering) who are interested in design of bicycle and relevant service are welcome to register their entries for the IBDC. Participants should either register their entries as professionals or students . Projects should show their degree of innovation and design quality in a certain level. In addition to projects by individual designers, we also accept works by groups of designers with no more than 4 team members/team.

REGISTRATION

Registration deadline: Sep. 15, 2012

Registrations for the IBDC are only offered online. You can register as a user at the iF website and enter your product in the competition for the IBDC 2013.

When you are in the login area, and have registered an account, please fill in one registration form for each entry you want to submit. After you have submitted your online registration, we will immediately send you a confirmation email. This email will contain an entry identification code (xxx-xxxxxx) for each submitted entry. The entry ID helps us to clearly identify and assign each entry. Please make sure that the relevant entry ID is contained in all communications with us.

Additional information on how to complete the registration form

Please use the index tab address data of the registration form. Create a new address as university address under additional address to enter the full name and address of your current (or former) university.

If you have studied at more than one university, please enter the one where the project you submit has mainly been designed. Please also enter the full department name and the title.

Additional information for team projects

Teams with up to four members can submit one or more entries together. You can only create one user account for the whole team.

All team members, including the registering team member, have to be listed with their full names in the field “Responsible designers“. Unfortunately, it is not possible to register an additional team member at a later date. Should the field responsible designers not show under an already existing address, click “change” under the address and the field will show.

All correspondence will be sent to the team member who created and owns the user account for the team.

The projects submitted must not violate the patent and protective rights of other parties. The organizers assume no liability for such infringements.

Premise：All designs must be the entrants’ own original work；If legal protection for intellectual property rights has been applied for; the holder of the patent rights must be the entrant.

1. To protect the entrants’ intellectual property, the organizer encourages entrants to apply for legal protection for intellectual property rights before they submit their entries.

2. If the participants had applied for legal protection for intellectual property right and this had been approved before the competition (The entrants should pay the necessary expense themselves). The entrants should discuss with the organizer, and sign an agreement, allowing the organizer to commercialize or promote the product.

For any profit earned from intellectual property rights, the entrant will be entitled to 20% of the organizer’s net income from these rights.

3. The organizer has the priority to apply for legal protection for intellectual property rights for any entries that have not yet been applied for. If the entries are qualified to apply for legal protection for intellectual property rights directly without modification, the organizer will pay all the necessary expenses for legal protection and the entrants still will be the inventors and should help the organizer to provide necessary documentation during the procedure of applying for legal protection. For any profit earned from intellectual property rights, the inventor will be entitled to 15% of the organizer’s net income from these rights.

4. For entries that have not applied for any legal protection for intellectual property rights, if someone makes improvement to facilitate application for legal protection for intellectual property rights, both entrants and improvers could be the inventors of the design. The entrants should provide the necessary documentation to help the organizer apply for legal protection and the organizer will pay all the necessary expense. For any profit earned from intellectual property, the inventor is entitled to 10% of the organizer’s net income from these rights.

5. Based on the requirements of research and publicity, the entrants grant the organizer all rights to copy, photograph, video-record, publish, display in public or publicize the documents, pictures and files of entries. All entrants are obliged to provide relevant photographs and information regarding entries.

Materials for registration

1) Description

We need a description of your entry. Please use the text fields under the header “entry data“ to enter a description of your entry and its special features in English. This description should be no longer than 650 characters (incl. spaces and punctuations). The jury will use this description to help arrive at their decision.

If you receive an award, the description and images will be used in the special commemorative album of the IBDC 2012 and in the iF online exhibition. 

2) Images

Please upload one or two images of your entry. Make sure you have these images available before you open the registration form. If you receive an award, we will use these images for the iF online exhibition and for our PR work. Please make sure to use the following formats for your images:

file format: JPG

file size: max. 5 MB

color space: RGB

3) Student ID

If you are still a student, please upload a photo or scan of your student ID. If you are a recent graduate, please upload a photo or scan of your graduation certificate. In exceptional cases, an official document from the university proving the student status can be accepted.

4) Presentation Poster

We need a presentation poster for each entry you submit. Please create a digital poster for each entry and upload this poster until registration deadline.

The presentation poster is the foundation for the jury decision. The poster should clearly represent your entry in words and images. The essence of your design should be immediately obvious. Please also add some information about yourself. 

Summary of poster specifications:

format: A1 horizontal (594 x 840mm)

font size for description and index data: 20pt

font: Frutiger or other sans serif fonts such as Arial, Franklin Gothic, Futura, Helvetica, Univers

resolution: 300 dpi at 100% positioning data must be sent as platform independent PDF-X3 file maximum file size: 5MB

The information about yourself, your team and your entry must be also be included: entry-ID code, category, project title, name(s) of designer(s), name of university, city, country and university department, email address.

Description and images for the presentation poster

The presentation poster must contain a description and images. You might have uploaded a description and one or two images with your registration form. You can also use these for the presentation poster. If you prefer, you can create an alternative description and images for the poster.

Please note: the description and all other text on the presentation poster must be in English. You may additionally include the text in another language of your choice.