We are fortunate to be surrounded by many creative minds in our communities and have decided to run a logo design contest. To encourage logo design submissions the winning designer will be awarded a prize valued at over $1,000 and featured with their name and a bio box at the bottom of Dan's Papers index page for the entire year. The guidelines for preparing and submitting designs are listed below.

LOGO DESIGN CONTEST RULES:

1. All submissions must use the current Dan's Papers logo as part of the design

2. All submissions must clearly indicate that its Dan's Papers 50th Anniversary

3. If a tag line is used in the logo design, it must be no longer than five (5) words

4. Logo submitted must be a CMYK high-resolution (300 dpi or higher) image or artwork that can be scanned for reproduction.

5. Logo should be scalable to any size (ex. logo on business cards, about 1.5") without losing any image quality.

6. Artwork must be original, no copyrighted or trademarked material/images can be used.

7. The selected logo becomes property of Dan's Papers and may be used for any purpose determined by Dan's Papers and affiliates.

8. Submissions should be sent as pdf files to dans50th@danspapers.com, or mailed to Dan's Papers office P.O. Box 630, Bridgehampton NY 11932 or 2221 Montauk Highway, Bridgehampton, NY 11932

9. All submissions must include the artist's name and contact information and are due by November 30, 2009.

10. A panel of judges appointed by Dan's Papers will choose final logo and contact the winner.

The logo will make its debut in the first issue of 2010.

Click here to download a high-resolution Dan's Papers logo in JPG format for use in your design.