Chicago Fringe Festival Design Competition!
Enter yourself, or pass on the information below
to all your designer friends!
Chicago Fringe Festival
2012 Design Competition
50 shows booked. 1 design needed.
What Chicago Fringe Festival is: an artistic extravaganza taking place in the Pilsen neighbo
rhood August 30-September 9. 50 shows will be performed by theatricalizers of every stripe, from actors and dancers to performance artists, female impersonators, puppeteers and scientist-comedians.
What Chicago Fringe Festival needs from you: a single design that will be emblematic of Chicago Fringe 2012. We need a design that is so arresting, dynamic, searing, whimsical, mind-bending or otherwise amazing that it will radiate cartoon-like waves of energy. Some further crucial information to help you create the graphic gold we’re panning for:
· The design should reflect, suggest, embody, convey or otherwise relate, directly or obliquely, to an election year theme. An election is about choice, and so is Fringe: Audience members have 50 shows to choose from. But the 2012 Fringe will be better than the 2012 presidential election! At Fringe, there’s not a limited choice between two major tickets – the Fringe Festival is the You-Pick-It Ticket. It presents patrons with many shows, which are radically diverse. Festival goers can pick what to see according to their whims, mood and interests, and so create their own Festival experience.
· The design should capture (or at least not contradict) some of the other key characteristics of Chicago Fringe theatre. To learn more about what Chicago Fringe is, visit chicagofringe.org.
· Last year’s winning design and runners up can also be seen on the Chicago Fringe website, and for further inspiration, you might look at designs from other Fringe Festivals around the world, such as Adelaide Fringe.
· You can (but are not required to) include the words “Chicago Fringe Festival 2012” as part of your design, but no other text, please. Be bold: the design will appear in whole or in part on CTA ads, print ads and web ads, so it needs to grab people’s attention and hold their interest. In other words, the masks of comedy and tragedy could be part of the winning design – but probably won’t be.
Prizes
See your design on CTA ads and Fringe materials distributed all over Chicago! The winner’s design will be the design for the official 2012 Fringe Festival poster and will appear in part or in whole on a wide range of Fringe materials, including ads, tee-shirts, festival programs, pins, banners and more. The winner’s name will appear on the poster and all other materials on which it is practicable to include an artist credit. The winner will also receive a commemorative Fringe button granting entry to all days of the Festival and two complimentary tickets to one Fringe show of choice. And as far is it is practicable, the winner will receive copies of all Fringe paraphernalia and merchandise, including a tee-shirt, featuring the design. Three runners-up will have their designs published on chicagofringe.org.
Submitting Entries
All entries must be emailed to the address at the top of this posting. The design size of the file must not exceed 11”x17”. The design can be saved at a resolution that will enable us to zoom in to see details during judging, but the file size must not exceed 2MB. Designs may be in any medium. Multiple submissions are acceptable.
Submit PDF files only. Keep in mind that if your design is chosen, you will need to supply a version 12x18” at 300 dpi.
In the body of your email provide:
Your First and Last Name
Phone Number
Email Address
The Deadline
Your submission must be submitted by 8:00 p.m. on May 8, 2012. Submissions received after the deadline will not be considered for the competition.
Other Important Stuff
Winning Entrants agree to assign all rights in their work to the Chicago Fringe Festival. These include but are not limited to the rights to edit, reproduce and distribute on printed and digital materials (including the Chicago Fringe Festival website). All entries must be 100% original work by the artist. No use of a third party's copyrighted material is allowed in any way, even if it is allowable under Fair Use guidelines. Chicago Fringe Festival will notify winners by June 7, 2012 or after judging is complete.
If you have additional questions, e-mail us at info@chicagofringe.org
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Ah, so it would be a contest to decide the logo representing the festival for this year? That sounds like fun. What was the winner last year? While imitating it is a no-no, one can learn a thing or two by understanding why it won in the first place. Of course, making the design mesh with the events of the festivals is a good move too.
ReplyDeleteHi Felix - the winner and the finalists are all on our website - see our link above. :)
DeleteIs this a logo or a poster design?
ReplyDeleteHi Dood - it's a poster design. Though we may take elements from it to translate it to other formats like a button, or a cta ad.
DeleteAre we allowed to submit more than one design?
DeleteYes, go for it!
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ReplyDeleteentries must be emailed to chicagofringefestival.com ?
ReplyDeletecorrect?
The correct email is design2012{at}chicagofringe.org. Apologies for confusion, all!
ReplyDeleteWhen will the winner be announced?
ReplyDeleteSome further crucial information to help you create the graphic gold we’re panning for: chicago banners
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