Swiss Original

HANDMADE CREATIVE PROJECT

The value, practice, and symbolism of HANDMADE have always been a foundational element shared by the world of fine artisan production and many forms of art and expression. In this competition, HANDMADE refers to two possible approaches and types of works and artworks:

- Physical Objects: works, artworks and design artifacts (also a hybrid: hardware/software), all with a significant component of manual craftsmanship and technique

- Digital Products: works that tell stories of manual skills, manual skill processes, and expressions and valorizations of forms of hand craftsmanship

KEYWORDS

If any work wishes to draw inspiration from certain keywords, here are a few to start with: Animal Welfare; Authentic; Circle/Hole; Craftsmanship; Grass; Expertise; Handmade; Nature Care; Original; Precision; Red/White; Sustainability; Swissness; Tradition; Taste, Time; Tools. NB: the possible input offered by the keywords here specified is entirely optional, not bounding, and does not grant any right to a greater or automatic attribution of value to the competing artwork.

Upload Guidelines

General The first image uploaded from the contest page, represents the preview image of your project in the gallery. In order to present it at best, we suggest using the content that most of all summarise your project in a single slide, including all contents that will possibly be further explained in the next images. Besides, we suggest you use all five images available from the upload page. You are also invited to possibly attach additional material inside a. ZIP archive (NO other file extensions are allowed, such as .RAR) through the “Archive File” field on the upload page. The maximum size of the . The ZIP archive is 100MB.

Project categories:

Physical Work Any artwork that for exhibition purposes has a tangible, physical and three-dimensional presence. The artwork may be produced using any technique, such as for example Sculpture, Painting, Ceramics, Collage, Origami, 3D Printed, Interactive or Reactive Structure (Internet of Things), Organic Structure, Food Artworks… and any Mixed Technique using any material and combination.

Use the abstract and description fields for a short introduction on your project.

When possible, represent through photos or images, various views of your project also specifying the size. Among the materials, you may consider adding CAD files, PDF files with detailed descriptions of the project, photos of possible models or prototypes, further photos or images at high resolution and 3D files (possibly in .stp or .igs format - in case you may also provide a 3D PDF to enable a more convenient visualization).

Digital Work

Any artwork that for exhibition purposes has an exclusively digital dimension, produced exclusively using one of the three following techniques:

- Video

- Photography

- Short Message Story

Video (of any kind and produced using any technique, with a duration from 45 seconds to 180 seconds)

Use the abstract and description fields for a short introduction of your video. In the upload page, you are invited to attach some frames at your discretion, possibly those that are most representative, to add using the fields File 1- File 5.

The video shall be included inside a .ZIP archive attached through the relevant “Video file” field. The maximum size of this archive is 50 MB.

Photography (photo story, with a sequence/composition of from 1 to 9 photographs)

Use the abstract and description fields for a short introduction on your project.

You are invited to attach your photos using the relevant field on the contest upload page. If you want to send more than five images or if you want to attach higher resolution images, you are invited to use a. ZIP archive (NO other file extensions are allowed, such as .RAR) where you can also provide further descriptions and materials. The maximum size of the. The ZIP archive is 100MB.

Short Message Story (a short textual story, of max 420 characters, including spaces NB: an English version is required in all cases; a version in the artist’s native language, if not English, is optional and welcome).

Use the abstract field to share your project. If needed, use the description field to further explain your project.

For the presentation of your project, you are required to also include the text in the form of an image, with a 4:3 slide to attach using the file 1 field, in .jpg format.

Desall required files

Minimum 1 image, up to 5.
Recommended dimensions: 960 x 720px (player size) ; allowed format: .jpg , .gif , .png; color mode: RGB;
allowed resolution: 72 dpi ; max file (for each one) size: 1 mb.

Entering the competition is free and open to everyone over the age of 18 on the date of registration, without any limit of nationality, profession, education, expertise or other forms of restriction, except for being 18 at the time of participating in the contest.