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Personal Mobility in 2050
The International Car Design Competition 2000

Organizer: CAR STYLING
Sponsors: San'ei Shobo, Tokyo Auto Salon Association (TASA), Tools Corporation

What will personal means of movement be like in the year 2050? What will global society be like? What about transportation systems? Resource and energy problems? These are all difficult issues, and no one can offer any certain responses. We think it would be more agreeable if entrants gave us their optimistic predictions for how they hope the future will be.

Syd Mead, that master of future design illustrations, said "I draw as a rehearsal for living in the society of the future".

Rather than see the future pessimistically, we must build a bright future for the next generation. How should we do this? What sort of designs will the means of personal transport that can be used 50 years from now have? This theme puts your vision of the future into question.

Open to: All. Entrants will be divided into two categories: the Student Division and the General Division.

Categories The student division is for those who will be registered in university or college at the time of the final deadline for preliminary screening; others will be entered in the general division. If the applicable category is not clear, the contestant will be entered in the student division.

Schedule
The competition will begin with preliminary screening, followed by the final judging. There is no need for advanced registration.
Deadline for entries for preliminary screening: 17:00 on June 17, 1999.
Announcement of results of preliminary screening: CAR STYLING vol.132 (on sale August 19, 1999)
Deadline for entries for final judging: 17:00 on December 27, 1999.
Entries for final judging will be displayed at the Tokyo Auto Salon (January 7 to 9, 2000).
Announcement of final results: January 8, 2000, at the Tokyo Auto Salon, and in CAR STYLING vol. 135 (on sale February 19, 2000).

Preliminary screening
Entrants will be screened based on a description of the concept and two-dimensional representations. The documents listed below should be submitted. Your name should be written on all documents.
(1) Personal information: Indicate your category, name (in such a way clearly indicating which is your given name and which is your family name), sex, age, address, postal code, telephone/fax number where you can be reached, occupation and nationality on one sheet of B5 (182 x 256 mm) or A4 (210 x 297 mm) size paper.
(2) Description of concept: If in Japanese, 500 characters or less. If in English, no more than one A4 page of 30 lines.
(3) Package layout drawings: Clearly indicate the motor, drive system, seat layout, etc., on one sheet of B3 (364 x 512 mm) size paper.
(4) Views from the four sides: On one sheet of B3 paper.
(5) Rendering: On one sheet of B3 paper. Indicate the features of the exterior and interior design and the graphics.

Students should write the name of their school, their major, their school year and their school's phone number. Those in the general division should write the name of their company, their department, their occupation and their work phone number. If for example you are from a school, clearly indicate whether you are a teacher, a staff member or a student. If you work for a manufacturer, indicate whether you work in design, production, administration, etc.

Works will not be returned, whether they pass preliminary screening or not. Make copies for your personal records and to be used when making models.

Final judging
Those who have passed the preliminary screening will compete in the final judging with three-dimensional models. The models should be scaled to about 1:10, and affixed to bases measuring a maximum of 250 x 500 mm. The models should be made in industrial clay or the like. They can be in any color. The parts should be fixed on the models when the models are sent in. For participants from outside Japan, the model can be photographed and color prints or color copies sent in instead of the actual model. The photographs should be cabinet size (120 x 168 mm) or larger. There should be at least six prints or copies, showing the model from six angles: front, side, back, diagonal front, diagonal back and top. Please indicate your name on the back of the photos.
Models will be returned to contestants after the end of the Tokyo Auto Salon (17:00 to 17:45 January 9, 2000) at the exhibition hall. They will not be returned at any other time. Please take photos of them for your records.

Official languages Japanese and English. Please indicate Chinese and Korean addresses, personal names, school names and company names in English letters.

Judging committee
Chairman: Yoshihiro Imoto (Technical Illustrator)
Members: Manabu Kumano (Motor Journalist)
Ryuzo Hoshino (Professor, Tokyo Zokei University)
Kenji Morie (Professor, Musashino Art University)
Akira Fujimoto (Chief Editor, CAR STYLING)

Awards
All contestants who pass the preliminary screening will be given a set of Alpha Clay by Tools Corporation to build their models.

The awards for final judging are as follows:
Grand Prize:
Student division (1) ... Trophy and \500,000
General division (1) ... Trophy and \500,000
Excellent Awards:
Student division (3) ... Plaque and \100,000
General division (2) ... Plaque and \100,000

"Digital" Award (For a work which have used computers effectively for design development. May be granted to the winner of one of the above awards.): For both divisions (1) ... Plaque and \100,000

"Tools" Prize (For a work demonstrating excellent modeling techniques and not a winner of one of the above awards. Previous called the Too Prize.): or both divisions (2) ... Copic Marker set Honorable Mention: To be awarded to a few works.

Address to which entries should be sent
International Car Design Competition (ICDC)
CAR STYLING
4F, 4-8-16 Kita-Shinjuku
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
169-0074 Japan
Office Director - Key Takaghi
No results will be divulged by telephone, fax or e-mail.

WebSite: http://www.sun-a.com/carstyling/eng/icdc2000.htm

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