Introduction
In 2012, the first OPPO Mobile Theme Contest marked a triumph with a final collection of 1,135 sets of designs, among which seven exquisite works won big awards. Now in 2014, OPPO, together with ZCOOL, launches the 2nd OPPO Mobile Theme Contest. We are here again with full passion and sincerity and we also bring more and bigger awards! We do this in an expectation to discover designs that will amaze us at first sight and even echo with our emotion. We believe that you, the great talents with extraordinary visual sensitivity, superb design techniques and powerful imagination, will create mobile themes special for OPPO, as our joint tribute to technology and art!
Be it classic or modern, skeuomorphism or flat design, works that are applicable to OPPO mobile phones, excellent in interactive communication and able to touch users' eyes and hearts are all highly possible to win the big awards!
Are you the ONE?
Time Schedule
Design Submission: March 3 - April 20 24:00 (Beijing Time)
Judging Session: April 21 - May 12
Results Release Day: May 13
Judging Criteria
Judging criteria include but are not limited to:
Applicable: good information delivery and applicable to OPPO mobiles
Artistic: striking and vivid visual effect
Creative: excellent display of imagination that resonates with users
Awards
Grand Prix (1 Entry): 50,000 RMB + OPPO N1 + Certificate
Second Prize (3 Entries): 20,000 RMB + OPPO F5 + Certificate
Third Prize (5 Entries): 10,000 RMB + OPPO F5 + Certificate
Prize for Creativity (3 Entries): 6,000 RMB + OPPO F5 + Certificate
Prize for Excellent Work (20 Entries): 2,000 RMB + Certificate
Honorable Mention Prize (60 Entries): 1,500 RMB + Certificate
· All the awarded designs would be exhibited on OPPO online theme market ,with name recognition, for global users to download;
· All the awarded designers would obtain the opportunity to join OPPO theme design team as part-time partners and win marketing support from OPPO theme market.
Jury
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Min Wang
Dean of the School of Design, CAFA; Chang Jiang Scholars Chair Professor; AGI member; Design Director for Beijing 2008 Olympic Games Committee
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David Jia
Founder and Chairman of the Board of LKK; founder and Creative Director of [SANSA上上]; associate research fellow at Institute for Cultural Industries Studies, Peking University
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Jinian Yan
Supervisor of Sina Weibo UDC and was the Visual Design Director of Tencent CDC
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Hailong Zhang
Deputy General Manager of the Mobile Product Department of Amap.com; 15 years' experiences in UE design; 9 years' experiences in managing UE design team; expert in subtraction design
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Yu Cai
OPPO Chief User Experience Engineer
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Yang Gao
OPPO Mobile Theme Product Manager
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Guichun Zheng
OPPO Visual Director on User Experience
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Steven Ji
ZCOOL Chief Editor
Description for Design
1. Please follow the Design Description in designing; you can find it on the REQUEST page;
2. The designer shall well preserve the original raw files of the design (PSD files, with icons, background and other design elements on different layers which can be edited independently);
3. The design shall be based on the special template we provide for the Contest and it shall be saved in RGB mode and PNG format so that the design can be easily exhibited on line.
Conditions for Participation
1. The participants shall be well informed of and comply with the rules and requirements of the Contest prior to design submission; participants or works that violate the rules and requirements of the Contest would be disqualified by the Sponsor.
2. The participant shall fully guarantee that he/she possesses all the rights to the submitted design(s); where the designs are made in cooperation with other party(-ies), the uploader shall guarantee that he/she has obtained all the necessary authorizations and provide all designers' names at submission.
3. The participants shall guarantee that the copyrights of the submitted works have never been transferred or permitted to a third party; where infringements of copyrights occur, the participants shall bear the legal liabilities arising therefrom.
4. The participants shall not transfer to or permit any third party to use the submitted designs or participate in any other similar contest with the same designs.
5. Each participant may submit as many designs as he/she wishes; the award will be granted based on specific designs, i.e. one participant may win more than one award.
6. The awarding notice will be sent within 5 business days since the release date of results to the designers' email box, which shall be provided at design submission; designers shall guarantee that their contacts are correct and effective.
7. Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd reserves the right of final interpretation on the Contest.
Notice for Awarding
1. Awarded participants shall check their email boxes for reminder emails 3 days after the results release day and assist the Sponsor in collecting original files, signing copyright transfer or permission agreements and delivering money and in-kind awards. Where the participants do not respond to the reminder email promptly, he/she will be considered to have voluntarily abandoned the award, and the award would be granted to another participant.
2. Awarded participants shall bear the taxes and fees arising from the money award granted by the Sponsor; the Sponsor offers money and in-kind award only and do not bear extra expenses arising therefrom.
3. All participants shall well preserve the original raw files of the designs; where a participant is awarded, he/she shall deliver the original raw files to the Sponsor and sign agreements regarding copyright transfer or permission; where the participants are not able to provide the original raw files, he/she will be considered to have voluntarily abandoned the award.
4. Awarded designers shall assist the Sponsor in modifying the awarded designs after the Contest; all awarded designers shall, if necessary, assist the Sponsor in adapting the awarded designs for good purpose.
Copyrights
1. The Sponsor fully possesses the property rights and copyrights of the designs awarded the Grand Prix, the Second Prize and the Third Prize; the designers of the above-mentioned designs shall sign the Copyright Transferring Agreement with the Sponsor. The Sponsor will be entitled to redesign, produce, sell, exhibit and publish the awarded designs and the designers retain the permanent right of authorship.
2. The property rights and copyrights of the designs awarded the Prize for Creativity, the Prize for Excellent Work, and the Honorable Mention Prize belong to the designers and the Sponsor possesses the use right of the designs; the designers of the above-mentioned designs shall sign the Copyright Permission Agreement with the Sponsor. The Sponsor is entitled to redesign the works into "OPPO Smartphone Themes" based on development needs and put the designs on OPPO online theme store with name recognition for global users to download; where the Sponsor expects to sell the designs, the consent of the original designer shall be obtained and a profit sharing agreement shall be reached with the designer; the Sponsor shall be informed if the designer authorizes a third party to exhibit, report, advertise or publish the design(s).
3. All awarded designers shall not participate in any other similar contest using the awarded designs.
4. The Sponsor and Organizer are entitled to advertise, report and exhibit with name recognition all the designs submitted.
5. The submission of design shall be considered as the designer's consent to comply with the rules and requirements of the Contest; where the submitted design infringes any third parties' copyrights and hence causes disputes over the commercial use of the design, the designer shall take the legal responsibilities arising therefrom and the Sponsor will be free from any liabilities.
6. Where the designer fails to fulfil corresponding copyright transferring and permission obligation, he/she is deemed to voluntarily have abandoned the award.
7. Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp., Ltd reserves the right of final interpretation on the Contest.
Organizers
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