| Communications Category Recognizes: achievements in  communicating landscape architecture works, techniques, technologies, history,  or theory, and the lesson value to an intended audience. Typical entries  include: print media, film, video, audio, CD, or DVD formats; online  communications; interpretive design; exhibition design; and more.  Criteria: The jury will  consider the effectiveness of message presentation, the innovation in approach  or delivery, and the value to the intended audience.  Recognition: The Professional  Awards Jury and the Student Awards Jury may each select one Award of Excellence  and any number of Honor Awards in this category.  NOTE: Official  entrants in this category are not required to be a professional member of ASLA, but may be an Affiliate member or join as an  Affiliate member in order to enter.  Entry  Instructions Entrants in this  category will submit: Official Entry  Binder
 Upon receipt of the entry form and payment, ASLA  will issue an official, numbered entry binder for each project to be  submitted. Each entry kit contains a submission binder, forms, and  instructions. All submission materials must fit into this binder, which  contains 24 page views in an 8.5” x 11” format. However, unlike the  other categories of awards, entrants in the Communications category may also  submit an actual example of the item being entered. For example, if submitting  a book, video, or DVD, a copy of the book, video, or DVD should be included  along with the entry binder describing it. Please label such items with  the entry number. As much as possible without editing or defacing the communications  item itself, please conceal the identity of the official entrant. Materials in the binder must not reveal the names of the entrant.
 Entrants must use an  easily readable typeface, such as Times Roman, Garamond, or Arial, no smaller  than 10-point size, for all text.  Binder covers may not be altered in any  manner.  Entry binders in  the Communications Category must contain the following items: 1. Descriptive  Data Summary: The first two  (2) views of the Entry Binder must include a descriptive data summary of up to  two (2) typed pages. Please use the appropriate form provided for Professionals and for Students. 2. Images*: Include at least five (5) but no more than  fifteen (15) total images (screen shots, excerpts, photographs, etc.) to  illustrate the submission. Images must be 8.5” x 11” format, portrait or  landscape orientation. Brief captions of no more than 40 words each may be  placed on each image page.   Concealed  Identification and Credit Form
 Please list all project credits on the Concealed Identification and Credit Form.
 CD-ROM 
 The CD-ROM must contain the contents of the official entry binder and the  Concealed Identification and Credit form as submitted to the awards program.  Text documents must be in a word processing application (such as rich text  format, MS Word, WordPerfect, WordPad), not a portable document format  (.PDF) file. Images must be in .jpg format at a minimum of 300 ppi (pixels per inch).  Label each image with the entry number and the number of the image. For  example, if the entry number is “123,” label the .jpg files as 123-01, 123-02,  123-03, and so on. Please label the CD-ROM jewel case with the entry  number.
 *Entrants  are responsible for clearing photographs with photographers for publication and  reproduction by ASLA. ASLA will provide proper photography and other  project credits when using photos, but will not assume responsibility for any  copyrights or photography fees.  ASLA  retains the right to publish photos submitted in winning entries in Landscape  Architecture magazine, on the ASLA  web site, in promoting the awards program, and in other products in conjunction  with promoting landscape architecture.       Back to Top^ |