Information about Dr. Toy's Children's Products Awards Programs | ||
This section provides guidelines for companies who wish to submit toys and/or products for review by Dr. Toy.
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New Submissions
There are three award programs held by Dr. Toy each year. Any company with product or products suitable for consideration in Dr. Toy's Award Programs is invited to do the following:
Not sure? Send your questions via fax to 510-540-0171 or email us at: Thank you for your interest, understanding and response to our programs! Dr. Toy's Schedule for Best Product's Awards Programs 2001 1. Best Classic Toys Program: January 5 - March 1 (deadline for submitting all products). Reviews in March with final report released in time for NAEYC's "Week of Young Child" (April 1 - 7, 2001) and "Turn off the TV" weeks. This program seeks the most outstanding products available for ten years of more. 2. Best Vacation Products Program: March 30 - May 4 (deadline for submitting all products). Reviews in May with final report released before June 16, in time for summer vacation promotion. This program seeks most useful products for after school activities, travel and leisure time fun. 3. 100 Best Children's Products Program: June 1 - August 3 (deadline for submitting all products). Reviews in September. Final report is released before October 1st for the Fall/Holiday features. This program seeks to recognize the outstanding new learning and developmental skills products of the year (includes products that promote creativity, education, and physicality, as well as other aspects that assist children with language, other skills, and emotional and social development). Review website for previous award programs and more information. Graphic Files If you would like to have your award-winning product photo on our website it is necessary for you to attach a JPEG or GIF file (300x300 pixels max, please) and send it to Dr. Toy's webmaster. Your image will appear best at 72 DPI resolution and it should total 50k in size - or less. With any of the current image manipulation programs available now, 50k is a reasonable size. Our goal is to have the award page to load quickly. In order to best draw attention to your product and so that the award images will be consistent, your image preferably will have a white default background. Please send your company's image via email to our Webmaster at . If you must send by conventional mail, copy your image file to a 1.44 MB PC formatted diskette and clearly write your company name, phone number and the product name on the disk. Send to the Institute below. All imagery - by email or other means - must be received by Dr. Toy no later than May 19th (for the Best Vacation Products Program - 2000). A few more technical points regarding graphics, please note:
(JPEG's and GIF's scanned at 72 DPI provide the smallest size files. Small files transfer most successfully through email. Files larger than 50K are not manageable! JPEGs work great for full color photos whereas GIFs are better for graphic oriented work with large swatches of non-graduated color) Non-electronic images (illustrations, drawings, B/W or color photos/prints): If you prefer you may send these to Dr. Toy:
and send via overnight mail. Text FilesPlain ASCII, (best) or a common word processing format (MS Word or Word Perfect: Win 95/98 for PC) You can send text to us via email. If you are using Macintosh, please save your MS Word or other word processing files to PC format (an option generally available on any of today's word processing applications). All texts - by email or other means - must be received by Dr. Toy no later than March 1st (for the Classic Products Program - 2001). If you are snail-mailing a file generated via Macintosh, save it as a MS Word file for PC onto a (PC-formatted) diskette and mail by the 15th. All entries should be submitted to Dr. Toy, c/o Institute for Childhood Resources, 268 Bush St., San Francisco, CA 94104. 1996 - 2000 Contest award winners. If you have won an award from Dr. Toy, you are entitled to display the Dr. Toy Award Seal logo on your web site and promotional materials. The Award Seal indicates to parents right away that this is a quality product. Imagery from all of our Awards programs - 1996 through 2000 - for your web page are provided here. See list below. On most PC's, use your right mouse button to select image, choose a folder, and then click to 'save image as' a GIF file. If you need further information about Dr.Toy's Award Winner's graphics, or to or to order self-adhesive seals, contact Harpreet at Proper Publishing via (501) 843-2901. For anything else, email us at . Award Winners Graphics for advertising, packaging or display on your website:The following black and white media files are available for download: 100 Best Children's Products, Dr. Toy WINNER - GIF Format 2000 Best Classic Toys - GIF Format 1999 Best Classic Toys - GIF Format 1998 100 Best Children's Products - GIF Format 1997 Best Classic Toys - GIF format 1996 100 Best Children's Products - GIF format |