1. DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES
The closing date for entries is 5 p.m. on Friday 23 April 2010.

2. ELIGIBILITY
To be eligible for the 2010 competition, you must be a student on any year of an Art or Design course at HND or degree level. The competition is open to international students and to MA students. The competition is not open to students on an Art Foundation course.

There can be only one named entrant per entry.

3. ENTRY AND SUBMISSION FORMS
You may download the entry form found on the Downloads page of the website. You will find a total of two forms:

(1) entry form
(2) submission form

Only one entry form is required per entry (per prize).

A separate submission form, fixed to the back of each piece of work, must accompany each submission.

The sender must prepay all shipping costs, insurance, customs duties and handling fees for all entries.

All submissions must be posted with your entry form in a single shipping container to:

Penguin Design Award
80 Strand
London
WC2R 0RL

4. DESIGNS
You may not enter more than one design for each category. You are permitted to enter designs for both the Penguin Adult Prize and the Puffin Children’s Prize.

5. SUBMISSIONS
You must provide the following submissions for each design entry:

• An A3 board showing full jacket to scale 1:1. This must show front, back and spine and must be designed to the dimensions supplied in the brief. There should be no additional work shown on this board.
• An A3 board showing the front cover only (without the spine or back cover) to scale 1:1.
• An A3 board demonstrating the development of the thought process from the original research to the final concept.
• A bound photocopy of sketchbook work relating to the brief (no bigger than A3).
• A short, typewritten text (max. 50—100 words only) submitted as a hard-copy printout and also saved as a Word document, explaining the concept for your design.

All of the above (except the sketchbook) must also be submitted as high-resolution PDFs (or a Word document as appropriate) on a CD. Please label the CD with your first name and surname.

All work must be submitted on A3 lightweight card (except the sketchbook and CD) and must be clearly labelled with a submission form. Submission forms must be typed or clearly written in blue or black ink with capital letters. Please ensure your email address is legible.

6. COLLECTION OF WORK
Please note that your work will not be returned to you. You can arrange collection from our offices at 80 Strand, London WC2R ORL by prior arrangement. To arrange collection please email mail@penguindesignaward.co.uk. Any work not collected by Monday 28 June 2010 will be destroyed.

7. CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

1. Closing date for receipt of entries is 5 p.m. on Friday 23 April 2010.
2. No purchase necessary to enter the competition.
3. This competition is open to students of any year of an Art or Design course at HND or degree level, international students and to MA students. This competition is not open to students on an Art Foundation course or employees of Penguin, their families, agents and anyone else connected with this competition.
4. No responsibility can be accepted for incomplete, illegible, lost or damaged entries. Proof of sending is not proof of receipt. Entries via agents or third parties are invalid.
5. All correctly completed entries will be forwarded to a judging panel made up of Joanna Prior, John Hamilton, Jim Stoddart, Will Self and Marion Deuchars for the Penguin Adult Prize and Francesca Dow, Anna Billson, Joe Berger, Jan Pieńkowski and Charlie Higson for the Puffin Children’s Prize, who will select a shortlist of entries for each category.
6. The shortlisted entrants will be notified in writing by 19 May 2010 and they will be invited to resubmit their entry following feedback and further art direction from the Penguin/ Puffin Art Directors. Shortlisted entrants will be required to resubmit their work on an A3 board showing the full jacket scale 1:1, and also mocked-up on a book (which Penguin will supply). The closing date for the shortlisted entrants’ resubmissions is 4 June 2010.
7. A first-, second- and third-prize winner will be selected from each category for the Penguin Adult Prize and the Puffin Children’s Prize. The winners will be the designs which, in the opinion of the judges, best fulfil the brief from all entries received. The prizes are: The first-prize winner of the Penguin Adult Prize will receive a six-week work placement in the Penguin Design Studio and a cash prize of £1,000. The first-prize winner of the Puffin Children’s Prize will receive a four-week work placement in the Puffin Design Studio and a cash prize of £1,000. The second-prize winners of the Penguin Adult Prize and Puffin Children’s Prize will each receive a cash prize of £350. The third-prize winners of the Penguin Adult Prize and Puffin Children’s Prize will each receive a cash prize of £250.
8. The prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered to the first-prize winners. However, if, at the sole discretion of the judges, none of the entries in either or both categories is of a sufficiently high standard to merit the awards, no prizes, or only second and third prizes, may be awarded.
9. The winners will be announced at the awards ceremony in June 2010. The winners’ details will be made available after the awards ceremony on this website.
10. Events may occur that render the design competition itself or the awarding of the prizes impossible due to reasons beyond the control of Penguin. Penguin may, at its absolute discretion, vary or amend the promotion, and the winners agree that no liability shall attach itself to Penguin, provided that any prize shall not be of lesser value than the one advertised.
11. The decision of the judges is final and correspondence will be entered into only at the absolute discretion of Penguin.
12. The winners agree to take part in reasonable post-event publicity and to the use of their names and photographs in such publicity.
13. All entrants hereby license to Penguin the use of their entry for display on any Penguin-owned website and for display in a physical exhibition. Appropriate credits will be given to each item displayed, but Penguin shall not be under an obligation to hold such exhibitions, or to include every entry if it does. Each entrant warrants to Penguin that his/her entry is original, and made without the inclusion of material owned by any third party.
14. Entries will not be returned to entrants.
15. Penguin will use any data submitted by entrants only for the purposes of running the competition, unless otherwise stated in the entry details. By entering this competition, all entrants consent to the use of their personal data by Penguin for the purposes of the administration of this competition and any other purposes to which the entrant has consented.
16. It is a condition of entry that all entrants abide by the rules of the design competition.
17. Promoter: Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL.

Write to us at:
Penguin Design Award
80 Strand
London
WC2R 0RL

Email us at: mail@penguindesignaward.co.uk