Announcement for the UMO - International Cartoon contest'05, here is the summary, the details follow...

• Open to everybody
• 3 entries per participant
• No entry fee
• Awards worth Rs 60,000/-
• Deadline: October 24, 2005

This Contest is closed now.

You can view the results at the International Cartoon Contest'05 Page.

The UMO - International Cartoon Contest'05 is held by UsabilityMatters.Org towards the World Usability Day. All the awarded and qualified cartoons will be exhibited on 3rd November 2005 on the World Usability Day.

Participation is open to all cartoonists from every country in the world.

There is no Entry fee.

Please go through the rules and regulations – and in particular – the conditions applicable to the intellectual property rights.

Theme for the Competition

Frustrations caused by Technology

eg., machines, gadgets appliances & internet

Technologies have now become the integral part of modern era. In our daily routine life we encounter with several products and technologies to make our work and life easy but does it solve the purpose always?..

• Sometime it comes as a fear to learn,
• Sometimes it’s dangerous to use, and
• Sometimes it leads to frustration....

Our encounter with technology continues every single moment, when we are relaxing, or when we use different appliances in home or office, our lives are full of moments with technologies, and theme for the competition is to identify such moments, specially the ones that cause frustration and convey them with a humorous and thought provoking cartoon.

Awards and Acknowledgements

A jury will select the top 6 winning entries, the cartoonists will be granted a cash prize award of

• First prize Rs.25,000/- (Rs. Twenty five thousand only)
• Two second prizes of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. Ten thousand only) each and
• Three Third prizes Rs. 5,000/- (Rs. Five thousand only) each

An exhibition of the winning and short listed entries will be held and UMO will publish an exhaustive works report.

The jury and the judgment criteria

We are in process of putting a jury of well-known professionals and socially active personalities. The names will be announced in due course, depending on confirmation.

For Judgment jury will use criteria such as creativity, humor, visual communication, presentation, persuasiveness, originality, cleverness, relevance of content and execution to identify the winner.

Deadline for Submission

Cartoons will be accepted through October 24, 2005

Rules and Regulations

Entries : up to 3 cartoons per person

Size (snail mail) : A4 (210 X 297 mm) or A3 (297X410)

Size (digital) : 300dpi and in dimensions that are suitable for printing

Technique : free

Entries in hard-copy/paper will not be returned. Entries in digital format may need to be re-posted if the resolution is not found good for printing.

Exhibition and Prize distribution

On World Usability Day, November 3, 2005

Submitting your entries

Mail your cartoons keeping the competition name in subject line to usabilitymatters [at] gmail [dot] com.

If you are sending through the snail mail, use the following address:

"Usability Matters.Org"
407E- Block,
Keerthi Apartments,
Yellareddyguda,
Hyderabad-500 045
India.

Please mention a little background information about yourself that may help identify you with your work and the email id that will help us get back to you with any communication.

Intellectual property rights

UMO, in its sole discretion, may use the art-work (images, photograph, written content) for any purpose, and change, alter, amend, add to, delete from and otherwise modify, including but not limited to, any and all the content that is submitted or posted with cuts, edits, rearrangements, additions and deletions and other alterations.

The responsibility for authenticity of all the submitted content, including the art-work and the personal information rests solely with the provider, and UMO will assume no role in case of litigations and copied works. The involved parties shall have to settle the matter themselves, within the conditions the original work was published/released.

We respect your privacy and will not be giving out, or sharing your personal information with any third party, for commercial or non-commercial use.

This Contest is closed now.

You can view the results at the International Cartoon Contest Page.