Boomerang Student Planner Bank Note Design Competition

DESIGN A WILD ANIMAL BANK NOTE!

What’s so interesting about bank notes?

Bank Notes come in all shapes and sizes, sporting beautiful designs, patterns and colours that are not only nice to look at but also make them hard to copy. .

A key part of this is a technique called ‘Guilloche’. Guilloche is a printing technique using engraved metal to create a series of intricate, layered geometric shapes and lines that are almost impossible to replicate. .

Bank notes also help show off our cultural identity, with many choosing to use national icons, monuments and animals as part of these designs. Notably, since animals are so important across the world, wildlife is used on nearly 1/6th of the worlds bank notes!

About How to Enter Guidelines Terms & Conditions Artwork Tips

We will be awarding some great prizes, including an iPad for the winner in each age category!

What to do

We want you to create a brand-new bank note that not only implements a guilloche pattern, but also celebrates an animal of your choice!

Your design should be totally different from any actual note and should include at least one guilloche pattern and should prominently feature your animal of choice.

It can be a combination of art, graphic design and words, but it must clearly be a bank note. We must receive entries for the competition by 17:00 Friday 29^st November 2024.

The Prizes

The first prize in each age category will receive the following prize:
- 8-10 yrs category – iPad Mini Wi-Fi
- 11-14 yrs category – iPad Mini Wi-Fi
- 15-18 yrs category – Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch Wi-Fi with Apple Pencil
The winning poster designs will also be displayed on digital screens around the UK during the pre-summer holiday period in 2024.
The top 10 runners up in each age category will each receive an 18 pack of STABILO GREENcolours colouring pencils.

The Judges

The judges have been selected to represent the following sectors and interests:

Primary and Secondary Education
Graphic design and art sector

We must receive entries for the competition by 17:00 Friday 29^st November 2024.
Please don’t post your artwork to us, we’re only accepting digital files entries via the oodlesof.info/comp web page. We will be unable to return any artwork sent in by post.
Artwork can be created digitally or by other means, but your entries must be supplied digitally.
Please only send one side of the bank note as a single file.
The bank note can be for any currency of your choice – real or imagined.
Artwork can be supplied in the following file formats, PDF, JPG, PNG. The maximum acceptable file size is 5MB.
When taking a photo of your artwork to send to us, please make sure you use natural lighting. Dark or unnatural light can result in distorted image colour/appearance.
We aim to inform all winners by midday Friday 20^th December 2024.
All entrants must be under 19-year-old and should ask permission from a parent or guardian before entering.
Prizes are subject to availability. If, in circumstances beyond our control, we are unable to provide the stated prize, we will try to arrange an alternative prize of a similar value. No cash alternative will be offered.
Generative Ai should not be used to create your submission. Any submission made with Generative Ai will be disqualified
Submissions should not include imagery of real legal currency, nor should they try to accurately replicate it.
Boomerang Ed Ltd reserves the right to cancel the competition at any time, if deemed necessary or if circumstances arise outside of the company’s control.

Rules

This competition is open to all UK residents who are full-time school students aged between 8 and 18 years of age on the 1st of October 2024, except any employee of or person directly connected with Boomerang Ed Ltd and their immediate family members. Proof of age and school may be required.
Applicants under 18 must get consent from their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) before entering the competition. The parent(s) or legal guardian(s) of applicants under 18 agree to the Rules and Terms and Conditions on behalf of the applicants.
The competition is free to enter, and no purchase is necessary.
Boomerang Ed must receive entries by 17:00 Friday 29th November 2024. Any entry which is late, incomplete or inappropriate will be deemed invalid at the discretion of Boomerang Ed.
Boomerang Ed accepts no responsibility for damaged or lost entries.
Submissions that are reasonably believed to be the product of generative AI technology will be disqualified without consideration.
Submissions should not include imagery of real legal currency, nor should they try to accurately replicate it.
The judges shall assess the entries and one winner and ten runners-up from each age category (8-10, 11-14 and 15-18 – ages as of 1 Oct 2024) will be selected. The judges’ decisions shall be final. No correspondence regarding the results will be entered into.
The first prize in each age category will receive the following prize:
- 8-10 yrs category – iPad Mini Wi-Fi
- 11-14 yrs category – iPad Mini Wi-Fi
- 15-18 yrs category – Apple iPad Pro 12.9-inch Wi-Fi with Apple Pencil
Ten runners-up in each age category will receive a STABILO product. The prizes will be sent to the winners and runners-up by post within 28 days of the winner responding to notification from Boomerang Ed that they have won.

The winners and runners-up will be notified by email (using the details provided at entry) within 15 days of a decision being made and must provide a postal and/or email address to claim their prize. If a winner or runner-up does not respond to Boomerang Ed within 21 days of being notified by Boomerang Ed, then they will forfeit their prize and a replacement winner or runner-up will be selected from the other applicants. The prize is non-exchangeable, non-transferable and no cash alternative is offered. Boomerang Ed reserves the right to replace the prize with an alternative prize of equal or higher value if necessary. The winner’s name will be published on the Boomerang Ed and Oodlesof.info competition websites depending on age category.
Boomerang Ed reserves the right to refuse entry or to refuse to award the prize to anyone in breach of the Rules or the Terms and Conditions or the spirit of the Rules or the Terms and Conditions.

Terms and Conditions

By submitting an entry, you agree to be legally bound by the Rules and these Terms and Conditions.
Any entry must be your original work and it must not infringe the rights of third parties including copyright, trademark, trade secrets, privacy, publicity, personal or proprietary rights. In addition, all entries must be produced legally without trespassing on any land and no wildlife or habitats should be harmed, put at risk or unduly disturbed in the process.
Full copyright title shall be retained by the author of any entry. By submitting any entry to Boomerang Ed Ltd (including any text, photographs, graphics, video or audio), you agree to grant Boomerang Ed Ltd a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, sub-licensable right and worldwide license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display and exercise all publicity rights with respect to your entry, and/or to incorporate your entry in other works, in any media now known or later developed for the full term of any rights that may exist in your entry, and in accordance with privacy restrictions set out in Boomerang Ed’s Privacy Policy.
By submitting an entry, you agree to waive any moral rights contained in your entry. Any entry you provide shall be non-confidential.
By submitting an entry, you agree that Boomerang Ed may use the material for any purpose and in any way it chooses, including, but not limited to, marketing, publicity, advertising and presentations.
Boomerang Ed Ltd (including its subsidiaries, agents or distributors) shall not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage or for any costs, claims or demands of any nature whatsoever arising directly or indirectly out of the use of your entry or any part thereof.
Boomerang Ed Ltd (including its subsidiaries, agents or distributors) shall not be liable for any direct, indirect or consequential loss or damage or for any costs, claims or demands of any nature whatsoever arising directly or indirectly out of the use of your entry or any part thereof.
You agree to indemnify Boomerang Ed (and its subsidiaries) against any claim from any third party for any breach of the Rules or these Terms and Conditions.
Boomerang Ed Ltd reserves the right to update the Rules and these Terms and Conditions from time to time and any updated version will be effective as soon as it is published.

Boomerang Ed Ltd takes your privacy very seriously; we will only use your personal information in accordance with the terms of these Terms and Conditions and Boomerang Ed’s Privacy Policy. By submitting an entry, you confirm that you have read and agree to the terms of our Privacy Policy.

Any personal data submitted will be held securely and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. Personal data supplied may be passed on to third party suppliers only insofar as required for fulfilment/delivery/arrangement of the prize.

The winner may be required to participate in publicity related to the competition which may include the publication of their name and photograph/ video in any media. You agree that your personal data may be used for this purpose.

Tips to design a digital poster

Design

A key feature of Guilloche is that they’re intricate and hard to copy, so try to add lots of detail.
A good way to make a Guilloche is with something like a Spirograph!
Remember, your bank note should celebrate one animal, but you can have that animal appear more than once in the design.
Think about the characteristics of your animal and how they could tie into the rest of the design.

Text

You can choose to make your bank note for any currency or any amount, real or imaged!
Lots of other bank notes use text as parts of the design, some of them have quotes or the name of the national bank.
Make sure to check your spelling.
Don’t put any text too close to the edges of the design, leave some room around the edge.

Colour

Try to use only a few different colours. Lots of bank notes around the world will only use shades of just one colour!

Images

Any images used should be clear/not blurry and eye-catching.
If you’re planning to use images of animals in your design, make sure you edit them and make them look like they fit into the rest of the design.

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