Professional Eye on the Music Design Awards

As the acclaimed all-embracing analysis of clear architecture and beheld culture, Eye will accompany its all-around ascendancy to blade on calling for entries area clear design, art administration or analogy has created something amazing for the music industry. It could be packaging, or CD or vinyl art, bartering and marketing, designs on merchandise, posters, clothing, books. Or it could be architecture accompanying to apparatus makers, music marketing, music promoters, tours, festivals, individual concerts, TV shows, casting identities, web and Myspace website design, additional books, magazines, area music and music software of every kind, from MP3 icons and adaptable apps, to visualizers and computer games.

Eye is appear annual and is able-bodied admired worldwide. “The all-embracing address of Eye annual marries acutely able-bodied with the all-embracing ambitions of the new Music Design Awards,” confirms Hannah Tyson, managing administrator of Eye. “To be active in establishing chat with architecture teams in the 7 continental regions covered by the Awards will advice consolidate Eye’s position as the accurate all-embracing analysis for clear designers, art directors, illustrators, photographers, typographers and beheld practitioners of all kinds.”

Instant acknowledgment to a activity advantaged the Music Design Awards automatically calls to apperception book work: sleeves, CD and DVD covers, and the like. But architecture for the music apple is added and broader than that. The Music Design Awards will, of course, admit arete in vinyl, CD or DVD art, but they will aswell admit abide date appearance design, video architecture and art direction, business and bartering design, commodity and accouterment design. All together, 11 architecture categories above 5 music brand groupings accoutrement all music types, from classical to hip-hop, and from pop to folk, via jazz, blues, World and R&B.

The Music Design Awards are international, with 7 top awards for the best plan from anniversary continental region, to ensure that architecture houses in complete markets do not win aggregate in sight. Marie Thomas, operations director, expresses absolute activity for the hotlink with Eye magazine: “to accept bent the absorption of such a badly admired advertisement as Eye is a absolute bang to our activities. We aim to crop the Music Design Awards to every bend of the apple and recognise arete in clear architecture for the music industry wherever it can be found. We are currently demography abundant achievement from the amount of visitors from African, Asian and South American countries who are blockage out the Awards website appealing thoroughly.”

Eye editor John L. Walters (also a Guardian music writer) adds: “Graphic designers accept consistently begin avant-garde means to coin able relationships amid complete and image, from vinyl sleeves and casting logos to videos and visualisers – it’s in their blood!”

Entry to the Music Design Awards is online and designers can access as abounding times as they wish. They alone charge to upload a simple illustrated PDF book anecdotic anniversary project, for the aboriginal date judging. Finalists who accomplish the short-list will be arrive to abide concrete examples of their work, for the board to audit at the additional date of judging. Video makers will be able to accumulation abstract cine files for antecedent application by the judges.

There is a fee for entry, which covers the administration and processing of entries, defended accumulator of any samples or acknowledging material, the anticipation of the entries and the advertisement of the short-list of finalists. Full data of the fees and access action are begin on the Music Design Awards website, which has a abounding account of categories (http://www.musicdesignawards.com).

Judging of the Music Design Awards will aswell be international, and online, acid out the charge for board to biking unnecessarily. Judges themselves will be fatigued from arch accordant architecture publications, including Eye magazine, as able-bodied as from architecture houses, web development houses, assembly companies, bartering and business agencies and, of course, the music majors and arch absolute labels.

The closing date for entries is October 31, 2009: anticipation will crop abode during November and December, with the shortlist accepting appear in backward December or aboriginal January; and a anniversary of the winners will crop abode in aboriginal March 2010.

Contact :
Marie Thomas
Music Design Awards
80 Great Portland Street
London W1W 7NW, UK
+44(0)2086758405
marie.thomas@musicdesignawards.com http://www.MusicDesignAwards.com .