Instructions for Designing the PRINT Cover

DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES IS JUNE 30, 2008.

How Entries Are To Be Submitted
All submissions must be mounted and in comprehensive, finished form. The designer should also submit the cover in digital format on a CD. No more than five (5) entries per school may be submitted. No entries will be returned.

Download cover specs (PDF).

Logo and Copy Lines
The typeface, size, and position (upper left-hand corner of the cover) of the PRINT logo and accompanying tag line, DESIGN CULTURE YOUTH, cannot be changed. The designer may, however, use any color he or she wishes for these elements.

Download PRINT logo (EPS)

Colors
PRINT covers are printed in 4-color. Please do not use metallic or fluorescent colors, or any colors that would require special treatment during the printing process.

Trim Size
9" X 10 7/8"

Cover Theme 
The theme is the same as the tagline: Design Culture Youth. Our Mar/Apr issue publishes the results of our New Visual Artists competition--20 designers, illustrators, photographers, animators, and typographers under 30 years old--in addition to the Student Cover Competition. We ask all participants to keep in mind our issue theme when designing a cover.

Use of Copyrighted Materials
Avoid using copyrighted/trademarked materials/objects as elements on the cover, as well as materials that require special clearances. Remember that the cover will be printed and prior permission must be obtained in order to reproduce these materials. If models are used on the cover, a signed model release form should be included with the entry.

The following information must appear, neatly printed, on the back of the printed submission and on the CD casing:

• Name of designer
• Home address, phone number, and e-mail address of designer
• Instructor's name, phone number, and e-mail address
• Name and address of school

No entries will be accepted before March 17, 2007.

Mail to:  

PRINT's Student Cover Design Competition
PRINT
38 East 29th Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY  10016