The Rules

Categories

The Rules

Categories & Rules

A. Three Dimensional

This category will include all carved, sandblasted, and/or routed signs. Materials can include HDU, MDO, sculptural playdough, plastic, wood, cement, wax, marshmallows, sugar cubes, etc. This includes wall mounted, freestanding, hanging, stuck to a post or posts, etc. It can be painted, stained, gilded, vinyl, wallpapered, or covered with crayon... If it has dimension, it belongs here.

B. Two Dimensional

This category will include all non-carved, sandblasted, and routed (other than outside panel shape) signs. Materials can include HDU, MDO, plastic, wood, etc. This includes wall mounted, freestanding, hanging, stuck to a post or posts, etc. It can be painted, stained, gilded, vinyl, wallpapered, or covered with crayon, too... If it has no dimension and is as flat as a pancake, it belongs here.

C. Vehicles

This includes all commercial vehicles, street vehicles, motorcycles, and race cars... Roundy rounds and straightliners both. "Street Art" such as flame jobs, pinstriping, murals, etc. will also be included in this category. Yeah, tuners, too.

D. Windows, Walls, and Banners

Pretty self-explanatory? All window splashes, window lettering, wall lettering and murals, and banners of any type (vinyl, paper, sign cloth, etc) will be found in this category.

E. Design and Art

This is where all logo design, business card art, flyers, posters, paintings, etc will be posted.

F. Electric Signs

This category is for all pylon signs, channel letters, neon signs, electric ground signs. If it is internally illuminated, has neon, or LED illumination, it belongs here.

G. Miscellaneous

This is for everything that doesn't fit into any other category. Here is where you will find Letterhead projects, glass art panels, pinstriped teapots and toasters, etc... Body painting is definitely included in here...

There will also be an "Overall Winner" award. This will be the winner with the most votes. In the event of a tie, the moderator will decide the winner with the tie breaking vote.

Any winner of a category will be ineligible to enter that category for one (1) month. They will, however, remain eligible to enter any of the remaining categories. ie: The winner of Group B in January will not be allowed to place an entry in Group B in February but will be allowed a Group B entry in March. They will be allowed an entry in Group A, C, D, E, F, or G in February.

We will be limiting all entrants to one (1) entry per month in any of the six categories. This means only one, period. It doesn't mean one (1) per category. Just one, singular entry per month.

These rules are set this way to keep anyone from dominating the field in any of our categories. We can all make jokes about so-and-so kicking everyone's butts and cleaning up, but no one is going to enter a competition if they feel that they will not have a shot at winning. There are many art contests that have similar rules so, there is some precedent for this type of rule.

We will be accepting entries from 12:00 AM of the 1st to 11:59:59 of the 15th of every month. They will be posted by the 20th. Voting will commence after that until the 25th of the month. Winners for that month will be posted by the 28th and awards will distributed accordingly.

All voting will be done by e-mail only. A link for the email voting will be supplied on the viewing page. The reason for this is to keep all voting personal and that no one sees who voted for who and to keep the voting uninfluenced.

If there is less than two (2) entries for any category, the one entry will be saved until there is another entry. No entry will be allowed to be exhibited unopposed for competition.

All entries should be no older than six (6) months old. We won't be asking for proof. It's an honour system.

Any project entered in previous SOTM contests will be ineligible for future SOTM contests.

We will accept the first six entries for every category. Any additional entries will be carried over to the next month. I am not going to judge any of the qualities of any of the entries. It is a "first come... first served" entry thing. Just like the dog shows. Not that any entries are dogs...

Any moderator or coordinators of the SOTM contest are ineligible to enter the SOTM contest until they are no longer affiliated with the SOTM contest.

The moderator will have no influence on the outcome of the voting except for in the event of a tie in a first place of a category or a tie in the number of first place votes for "Overall Winner". In the case of that event(s), the moderator will cast a deciding vote.

Please keep the entry photos to under 60K and must be .jpg format. Multiple photos of an entry will be allowed and will be posted at my discretion as space allows. This will allow the entrants to show exceptional details of the projects that may not show up in the overall photo. I am not responsible for poor quality photos. You send me crap, I will post crap. That's just the way it is...

These rules aren't etched in stone. They may be changed or modified at any time for any reason but not by just anybody.

This contest will start in January of '07. I am looking forward to seeing everyone's great work!

When sending in entries, please include the following information:

Name of Project

Sign Company Name and City

Designer's Name and City

Brief description of project including materials used, techniques, types of coatings, and any other additional pertinent facts you may feel obliged to include.