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General Information
How to Enter
1. Visit mibluedesignawards.com
2. Register an account for your organization
3. Sign in and click the “New Entry” link
4. Fill out the form with your project details
5. Attach your images
6. Save your entry
7. You may revisit and submit as many entries as you wish until July 1st, 2024.
8. Once all projects are entered, use the “Submit and Pay” link to check out and finalize your submissions
Project Images
You must upload between 1 - 8, high-resolution image(s) along with your entry. Images submitted must be about 8 x 10 inches, at 300 DPI minimum (any image that does not meet this requirement will not be accepted). The acceptable format is JPG, with a size limitation of 50 MB per image. Please see our Photography Terms section.
To ensure anonymity, photos should be named by category and NOT the name of designer and/or homeowner submitting the project.
Example of correct image name:
- traditionalgreatroom1.jpg
- traditionalgreatroom2.jpg
When crediting a photographer, please list your photographer’s name/company the same way throughout all entries.
Please note, all photos submitted are eligible for selection to represent the winning entries in the Winter issue of Michigan BLUE. Photo selection and size/cropping is at the discretion of the art department.
Project Concept Statement / Description
Please provide a typed overview (100 - 250 words) detailing significant aspects of the finished project. The statement should discuss design challenges, location (city name), design solutions, and other pertinent aspects, but must not mention firm name, nor individuals involved. Entrants must include the year the project was completed.
Design projects more than five years old will not be accepted. Projects should be submitted via the entry-submission form at mibluedesignawards.com.
Readers' Choice
“Readers’ Choice Best Overall Home” is an award given to the project that receives the most votes from Michigan BLUE readers at mibluemag.com.
Projects submitted in the Best Overall Home category are automatically available online for readers to cast their votes and are eligible to win the Readers’ Choice Best Overall Home award.
Judging
An independent panel is selected from outside Michigan. Judges are drawn from national media (print and television), respected academic institutions, private practice, and include nationally recognized names from design and architecture. Their expertise reflects a broad spectrum of related professions, including architecture, interior design, and landscape architecture. All judges’ decisions are final.
Eligibility
Projects that were entered into and/or won other competitions are allowed (so long as they are no more than five years old).
Deadline
All entries must be submitted, and paid for in full, via web form by July 1st, 2024. FEE IS NON-REFUNDABLE.
Fee (Non-Refundable)
Entry fees are payable via our online entry form, which accepts PayPal®, Visa®, MasterCard® or American Express®.
- 1-3 entries: $100 each
- 4-6 entries: $90 each
- 7+ entries: $80 each
Advertising Opportunity
One half the entry fee will be rebated as a voucher toward the purchase of an advertisement in the Winter 2024 issue of Michigan BLUE magazine.
For advertising opportunities, contact advertising@hour-media.com
Photography Terms
Entrants must secure and submit royalty / reuse-free photos from their photographer before submitting images (to run in Michigan BLUE / mibluedesignawards.com at no additional charge). All photographs submitted may be published free of charge by Hour Media for up to one year from submission date. It is the entrant’s responsibility to inform the photographer of these terms.
Guidelines / Additional Terms
Only entrants will receive an award. If other companies, designers, and/or homeowners contributed to the project and would like to receive an award, duplicate plaques may be purchased upon receipt of the winner letter at an additional cost of $95. Additional contributors will not be mentioned at the awards ceremony, on award plaque, or in the magazine unless his/her company was listed as a “co-entrant.”
Important note: If you list a co-entrant on an entry, the co-entrant’s name will appear as a co-winner with your company name in the magazine and on the award plaque if your submission is selected as a winner. There is a separate opportunity on the submission form to list others who contributed to the project; this area is optional and those you list here will NOT receive an award plaque if your entry is selected as a winner. Their names, however, may be featured in the Michigan BLUE magazine editorial.
If a category doesn’t receive sufficient support, Michigan BLUE retains the right to remove the category from that year’s competition. In this event, the entry fee would be refunded for the affected entries.
Failure to comply fully with contest rules may result in disqualification. Entry fee is non-refundable and will not be returned (even if entry is determined to be ineligible or disqualified). Hour Media is not liable for lost, stolen, ineligible, misdirected, damaged, mutilated, or postage-due entries.
Winning submissions become the property of Michigan BLUE magazine. Michigan BLUE retains legal / publishing rights through one year after publishing of the Winter 2024 issue.
Questions?
Contact: Maya Stephenson
PH: 248-691-1800 ext. 165
E: mstephenson@hour-media.com
Printable entry packets are available at: mibluedesignawards.com
Dates to Remember
July 1st, 2024: Submission and fee deadline
September 2024: Winners notified
December 2024: Release of Michigan BLUE magazine Winter issue with Design Awards