Foscarini Srl, Via Delle Industrie 27, 30020 Marcon (VE), a company that produces and sells designer lamps, is announcing a competition for visitors to the website http://doyoulight.foscarini.com with the aim of encouraging the creativity and aesthetic sense of participants.
The competition is organised according to the contents of Art. 6 of Presidential Decree 430 of 26th October 2001, as prizes awarded will be considered to all effects a supply of a work, recognition of personal merit and encouragement in the general interests of society.
The competition will be announced on the website http://doyoulight.foscarini.com where the initiative will be presented on a dedicated page. The competition aims to stimulate creativity, is not dependent on the purchase of products and therefore has no commercial ends.
The regulations for participating in the competition are as follows:
1.Participation in the competition is free and has no commercial ends.
2.Participation is from 20th April – 30th September 2011.
3.Anyone of any nationality over the age of 18 who is interested in the theme of the competition and wants to express their creativity by placing Foscarini lights in a setting can take part in the competition. The competition is not open to employees of Foscarini, their relatives or any sales representatives currently employed by Foscarini srl and their relatives.
4.The competition includes two sections named: “Do you Light?” and “I like the Light!”.
5.To take part in the “Do you Light?” section you must download the free iFoscarini app for smart phones. This application allows you to place a lamp from the Foscarini collection among those in the application inside a photograph The settings can be real or imaginary. Abstract compositions can be submitted according to the user’s imagination.
6.Each user can publish one or more different photographs. The user must register using Facebook connect (Facebook username and password) or by completing a form and entering the following information: name, surname, country and e-mail address.
7.In both cases the participant must follow the required procedure, as follows: - connect to the website http://doyoulight.foscarini.com and enter the section dedicated to the competition or connect directly to the competition page using the Smartphone app. - formally accept ALL the competition rules, with no exceptions and click on the ‘accept’ button. - give their consent to the use of personal data under Legislative Decree 196/2003 by clicking the appropriate box and allowing their data to be used.
8.Photography submitted must be new and must not be advertising. Foscarini Srl reserves the right – according to its unchallengeable judgment – not to allow and not to consent the publication of photographs it retains vulgar, offensive, contrary to public morals or outside the theme of the competition.
9.Photographs must not contain any kind of advertising message, frame, brand, logo or overlaid image.
10.Photographs submitted will be judged by a qualified jury, made up of 2 members of the company and 2 outside professionals, who will examine the photos and make their judgement. Each of the 4 members of the Jury must give a vote of 4 - 10. The total number of votes determines the classification. In the event of a tie, the jury will vote again to chose a single winner. The jury may be aided by a selection committee who will present it with a smaller number of photographs that it believes are worthy of attention. In making its judgement the jury will take into account the quality of the work, good taste in setting the lamp, the originality and the harmony of the environment.
11.The Jury will produce a report and finish its work by 30th September 2011. It will award a prize to the winner made up of a 2-night weekend for 2 people in Venice, including a visit to Foscarini Srl, a visit to the “54th International Exhibition – The Venice Biennale” and 1 lamp of the winner’s choice from the Foscarini collection(max lamp value €1.500 VAT included – Foscarini public pricelist). Travel expenses from the winner’s city to Venice and back are not included The jury’s opinion is final and unchallengeable under any jurisdiction.
12.The competition section entitled “Do you Light?” can also be voted for by the public. A monitoring committee will check the number of votes given by the public to each photo and will make a report. The person with the photo that obtains the largest number of votes will win a 2-night weekend for 2 people in Venice, including a visit to Foscarini Srl, a visit to the “54th International Exhibition – The Venice Biennale” and 1 lamp of the winner’s choice from the Foscarini collection.(max lamp value €1.500 VAT included – Foscarini public pricelist). Travel expenses from the winner’s city to Venice and back are not included. The jury’s opinion is final and unchallengeable under any jurisdiction.
13.To take part in the section entitled “I like the Light!” visitors to the website must comment on one or more of the photos published. Amongst all the comments the jury makes a classification of merit – by the methods indicated above – exclusively based on the comment made on the photograph and on the basis of its originality and incisiveness. The Jury will produce a report and finish its work by 30th September 2011. It will present the first prize winner with a single prize – a Twiggy floor lamp in the colour of the winner’s choice. The jury’s opinion is final and unchallengeable under any jurisdiction.
14.Photographs and comments will be submitted to the jury and to the monitoring committee anonymously. Winners will only be identified after prizes have been assigned
15.Each user may vote for a photograph once only. Users can return and vote for another photograph a maximum of once a week. The competition is not open to employees of Foscarini, their relatives or any sales representatives currently employed by Foscarini srl and their relatives.
16.It is the responsibility of participants to guarantee that the photographs presented are completely new, have never been displayed, created, published, made available for sale or presented in other competitions. Each participant is responsible for the photograph presented and personally assumes ownership. The organisation will not be held responsible for any plagiarism by participants or for the unauthorised publication or reproduction of unauthorised images.
17.By taking part in the competition the winners authorise the organisers to publish, divulge and use their photographs, along with their name.
18.All photographs presented can be used – with no time limit and free of charge – by Foscarini Srl for promotional or commercial purposes and may be published (free of charge) on any means of support or communication. Photographs may also be displayed as part of exhibitions or trade fairs or be subject to publication and diffusion in the press without any payment due to the competition participants.
19.Participation in the competition implies acceptance of and consent to all the rules that govern it, with no exception. A copy of the competition, authenticated by a notary can be consulted at New Promotional Mix srl – Via Molino delle Armi 3 – 20123 Milan.
20.For further information, contact the competition secretary at Digitcom, Tel 041.639.18.90 email info@digitcom.it.
21.A copy of this competition announcement has been authenticated and deposited at the Notary’s Studio: Associati Marin & Privitera - via Podgora, 11 - Milan.
22.Participants’ data will be protected according to Legislative Decree 196/03.
23.Payment for taxes on prizes will be made by the competition organisers.
