The UMO – International Cartoon Contest is held by UsabilityMatters.Org towards the World Usability Day. All the awarded and qualified cartoons will be exhibited on 3rd November 2005 on the World Usability Day.

Participation is open to all cartoonists from every country in the world.

There is no Entry fee.

Please go through the rules and regulations – and in particular – the conditions applicable to the intellectual property rights.

Theme for the Competition
Frustrations caused by Technology

eg., machines, gadgets appliances & internet

Technologies have now become the integral part of modern era. In our daily routine life we encounter with several products and technologies to make our work and life easy but does it solve the purpose always?..

Sometime it comes as a fear to learn,
Sometimes it’s dangerous to use, and
Sometimes it leads to frustration….
Our encounter with technology continues every single moment, when we are relaxing, or when we use different appliances in home or office, our lives are full of moments with technologies, and theme for the competition is to identify such moments, specially the ones that cause frustration and convey them with a humorous and thought provoking cartoon.

Awards and Acknowledgements
A jury will select the top 6 winning entries, the cartoonists will be granted a cash prize award of

First prize Rs.25,000/- (Rs. Twenty five thousand only)
Two second prizes of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. Ten thousand only) each and
Three Third prizes Rs. 5,000/- (Rs. Five thousand only) each
An exhibition of the winning and short listed entries will be held and UMO will publish an exhaustive works report.

The jury and the judgment criteria
We are in process of putting a jury of well-known professionals and socially active personalities. The names will be announced in due course, depending on confirmation.

For Judgment jury will use criteria such as creativity, humor, visual communication, presentation, persuasiveness, originality, cleverness, relevance of content and execution to identify the winner.

Deadline for Submission
Cartoons will be accepted through October 3, 2005

Rules and Regulations
Entries : up to 3 cartoons per person

Size (snail mail) : A4 (210 X 297 mm) or A3 (297X410)

Size (digital) : 300dpi and in dimensions that are suitable for printing

Technique : free

Entries in hard-copy/paper will not be returned.

Exhibition and Prize distribution
On World Usability Day, November 3, 2005

Submitting your entries
Mail your cartoons keeping the competition name in subject line to usabilitymatters [at] gmail [dot] com.

If you are sending through the snail mail, use the following address:

“Usability Matters.Org”
407E- Block,
Keerthi Apartments,
Yellareddyguda,
Hyderabad-500 045
India.

Please mention a little background information about yourself that may help identify you with your work and the email id that will help us get back to you with any communication.