We are looking to refresh and update the Minnesota Home Brewers Association’s logo!

 

Submission Guidelines

• The purpose of the contest is to design a logo for the Minnesota Home Brewers Association. The logo will be used online, in print, and on merchandise.
• Entry can be done in any media: electronic or created by hand.
• Flexibility is a key requirement: it needs to resize easily and to look good in black and white as well as color.
• Entry needs to be original and not in any way similar to existing logos or other copyrighted images.
• Entrant must have legal permission to use any components for the logo. Legally obtained or free clipart or stock images maybe used, but images from Google search may not.
• The logo must contain the words “Minnesota Home Brewers Association”.
• Paper entries must be on 8.5” x 11” and the logo must be at least 6” x 6”.
• Electronic entries can be any size or format. 

 

Eligibility

•  The contest is open only to individuals. It is not open to companies, educational institutions, organizations, etc. or to groups associated with such institutions.
•  Entrant must be a current member of the MHBA.
• Entrants must be at least 21 years old.
• MHBA Board member may enter the contest, but he/she will be prohibited from the judging selection.

 

How to Enter

• Entries can be submitted by:
• Emailed to crankycat@gmail.com
• On website at http://www.mnbrewers.com/logo-contest
• Mailed to MHBA Logo Contest c/o Gera Exire LaTour, 3757 Dupont Avenue N, Minneapolis, MN 55412
•  The entry must include the name, age, postal address, phone number, and email address of the entrant.
• MHBA members can submit multiple entries.
• The deadline is midnight on May 23, 2014.
• There is no fee to enter the contest.

 

Prize

• The winning designer will receive a $200 gift card to plus a work shirt with the logo on it, to be ordered after the logo is approved.
•  Accepting the prize constitutes permission for MHBA to make public and otherwise use winner’s name publicity purposes.

 

Judging and Selection of Winner

• Top logo design entries will be judged by a committee designated by the MHBA Board and put on the MHBA website and Facebook page for People’s Choice judging.
• The number of entries selected for People’s Choice judging will be determined by the final number of entries and is at the discretion of the judges.
• People’s Choice judging will be from May 24 through May 31, 2014.  
• The winning logo design will be selected based on the number of the People’s Choice votes and by criteria determined the MHBA Board. 
• MHBA reserves the right not to select a winner if, in its sole discretion, no suitable entries are received. 
• The final design selected may be altered, if determined necessary by the MHBA Board.
• All entries will become the sole property of MHB and may be used in any manner the MHBA desires, including but not limited to displaying publicly.