Aspiring student artists of Santa Clara County - The San José Downtown Transportation Plan needs you!
MoveSanJosé is looking for a vibrant, eye-catching logo design for our new transportation initiative, in which we aim to make travelling around and in Downtown San José safer, easier, and more affordable for all.
With a $700 Grand Prize (and $100 each for three runners-up), we want to involve our emerging local artists in the important work of improving transportation equity in San José.
Start by checking out and taking the Downtown Transportation Plan Survey, and then read the official contest rules and guidelines below!
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Rules
- This contest is open to all Santa Clara County residents enrolled part- or full-time in a degree-granting college, university, or polytechnic institute.
- All entrants must be 18 or older as of October 1st, 2020.
- Entrants must submit preliminary designs by email to [email protected] 11:59pm on Monday, November 16th, 2020.
What are we looking for?
The logo must be eye-catching and exhibit clean design.
The design must convey the goals and intentions of the Downtown Transportation Plan.
Entries may be submitted as unfinished preliminary designs, as the MoveSanJosé team will be offering feedback and revision suggestions to the winning entry. Your intended final design must be clear in any entry submitted.
Winning artwork must be produced by the artist in the following formats:
- All files submitted must be saved as CMYK color format.
- Resolution must be no lower than 350 DPI
- The primary file must be produced in a vector format, which will allow us to resize the image without loss of quality or pixelation.
- Tiff file format, no less than 350 DPI, white background
- PNG at 350 dpi, with a transparent background, in the following sizes with no loss of image quality:
All submitted artwork must be original to the entrant.
One submission per individual. All submissions must be representative of one individual’s work - no teams.
Designs must be non-partisan, and must not feature any of the following: demeaning or disparaging content, profanity, violence, unlawful goods or services, unlawful conduct, obscenity or nudity, prurient sexual suggestiveness, “adult” goods or services, promotion of alcohol, firearms, tobacco or marijuana sales, content that is false or misleading, defamatory, political, or religious.
We encourage use of the DTP acronym, but entrants must ensure that any included text is clear, legible, and will scale well to multiple sizes.