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As part of their sponsorship of the 2004 Melbourne Fringe Festival, Resolution X is inviting entries for an open Gobo Design Competition. The winner will see their design used to produce a gobo that will be projected onto the façade of Melbourne's landmark Federation Square complex during the Festival. The winning designer will also receive a $500 Lighting Hire credit with Resolution X, for use on their next production. (see conditions below)

Projection of the winning gobo design will be officially switched on by its designer, at a ceremony to be held in Federation Square at 7:45 on Friday 24th September. The gobo will then be projected on the Federation Square building each night until 3rd October.

Entries must be an original art or photographic work, suitable for reproduction as a metal-on-glass greyscale gobo. Entries may not contain company logos, advertising material or any image that is not the copyright property of the designer. A limit of five entries may be submitted by any one designer.

Some design examples:

The design shall be in greyscale or monochrome and should be submitted in electronic form at a resolution of 2000 x 2000 pixels (see format information below). Entrants should also take into consideration that the final projected image may be rotated in either direction.

To enter the competition, simply send your design with your contact details to Resolution X. Entries should be submitted in PC format as a Photoshop, EPS, JPEG, TIFF or other bitmap file, and should not exceed 4MB in size. Artwork created in vector formats by such applications Illustrator, Freehand and Corel Draw should not be converted to a bitmap format, but PDF previews of the images should provided for judging purposes.

Care should be taken when using file formats such as JPEG that use lossy compression techniques to reduce file size. Applying too much compression can severely reduce the quality of the image and render it unsuitable for gobo production. A 1.5 to 2MB JPEG file will generally be acceptable for a 2000 x 2000 pixel gobo.

You may send the design on a CD to Resolution X (see contacts page for the mailing address), or email them to gobocomp@resolutionx.com.au

All entries must be received at Resolution X by 12 noon on 20th September 2004. The competition will be judged by a panel of Resolution X staff on 21st September 2004 and the winning designer will be notified in writing on 22nd September.

This competition is subject to the following terms and conditions.

1. Hire is subject to Resolution X Pty Ltd (Resolution X) standard terms and conditions (available on request).
2. All equipment is subject to availability.
3. The AU $500.00 can only be used for a credit on hired lighting equipment from the Resolution X hire catalogue and can not be used to purchase consumables (e.g. tape, gel or lamps etc) or for crew services.
4. There is no cash alternative.
5. The AU $500.00 credit must be used before 28 th Oct 2005
6. The Judges' decision is final.
7. On submitting the design to Resolution X you hereby agree to the following:

The submitted Materials, Designs, Artwork and Photographs (Artwork) becomes the property of Resolution X. Resolution X may use the Artwork for any purpose it sees fit. Resolution X reserves the right to pay royalties to the artist. Resolution X may at any time disqualify an entry without notification or explanation.