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Enter your work in HOW magazine’s Interactive Design Contest. All winning entries will be featured in HOW’s March 2012 Design Annual and will receive a $100 discount toward registration for the 2012 HOW Design Conference. One Best of Show winner will be prominently featured in the March 2012 Design Annual and will be our guest at the 2012 HOW Conference (round-trip airfare, hotel and registration paid by HOW).

JUDGING CRITERIA
Your entry will be judged using the following criteria:

* How well does the entry achieve its client’s mission?
* How well does the entry communicate?
* How easy is it to navigate the entry?
* How strong is the entry aesthetically?
* How strong is the entry technically?

Please include a description of the objectives of your entry with your entry form to help the judges fully evaluate your project.

Interactive Design Contest CATEGORIES

* Business-to-business Websites
* DVDs/CD-ROMs
* E-mail Newsletters
* Online Promotions
* Games
* Motion Designs
* Consumer Web sites
* Kiosks
* Self-Promotional Web sites
* Online Advertising
* Student Work
* In-House Work…anything created by a designer working for a corporation (not a design firm or agency)
* Other

WHAT’S ELIGIBLE
Work must have been created between July 1, 2010, and July 1, 2011. Any interactive, interface or motion designs for the web, for kiosks, for broadcast or for use on Macintosh or Windows platforms, including CD-ROMs and DVDs, are eligible.

ENTRY FEES

* Regular Entry – $125
* Multimedia Campaign – $200
* Student Entry – $55
* Student Multimedia Campaign – $100

A multimedia campaign is a group of related projects that work together. It could be a website with corresponding banner ads and identity (logo, etc.). It could be print and web working together.

DEADLINE
All entries must be submitted online by 11:59 EST or postmarked no later than July 15, 2011. Entries submitted online or postmarked after July 15, 2011 will not be accepted.

PAYMENT
Make checks payable (in U.S. funds, drawn on a U.S. bank) to F+W Media, Inc. Payment must accompany entries. Entries received without payment will be disqualified. Entry fees are nonrefundable. One check may be used to cover multiple entries if all entries are submitted in the same package. Credit card charges will appear on your statement as “F+W Contest” within 90 days of the contest deadline.

MAIL TO:
HOW Interactive Design Awards
4700 East Galbraith Road · Cincinnati, OH 45236
USA

HOW TO ENTER

1. Entries may be submitted online.Simply provide the website URL or upload the files. All other entries may be registered online. You would then send in samples with a copy of your online entry form.
2. For all entries submitted offline, send two well-protected disks or CD-ROMs for each entry. Submit your entry on DVD or CD-ROMs (Mac or Win). Include instructions for loading and running the entry. Web sites may be entered on one of these formats or by providing the URL for the site. Include password if entry is protected.
3. Complete an entry form and make three clear photocopies of it. Firmly attach one form to each copy of your entry, and include the other two forms with your payment.
4. Type or print your entry form. Entries accompanied by illegible forms will be disqualified.
5. Mail entries to:

HOW INTERACTIVE DESIGN AWARDS
4700 East Galbraith Road
Cincinnati OH 45236

website: http://www.howdesign.com/design-competitions/interactive-design-awards/