Tekserve Mac FAQ Cover Art Contest. Call for Entries - Deadline: September 30, 2012

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Tekserve Mac FAQ Cover Art Contest
Call for Entries - Deadline: September 30, 2012

We're looking for artists and graphic designers to design the next Tekserve Mac FAQ book cover. Three finalists will be chosen to win over $4,100 in prizes from Adobe and Tekserve and one design will be featured on over 10,000 copies of Tekserve's Mac FAQ. The Tekserve Mac FAQ is the pocket guide for trouble-shooting your Mac.

Tekserve offers Mac sales, service, and good advice -- online, over the phone, and at their 25,000 square foot facility in New York City. You may enter two designs before the deadline. For prizes and design specifics, please visit the contest page. Enter up to two covers by September 30th, 2012.

Prizes

One Grand Prize:
Adobe Master Collection Creative Suite 6 ($2,599 value)
$1,000 Tekserve Gift Card
Published cover design of the 12th Edition of the Tekserve Mac FAQ
Featured online on the Tekserve Mac FAQ site
 
Two Finalist Prizes:
$250 Tekserve Gift Card

Cover Design Specifics

Size: 4.25" wide by 7" tall with 1/8" to 1/4" full bleed

Resolution: 300 dpi

Printing: Printed on 100# glossy cover stock in color

Binding: Perfect bound. Submitting a back cover and spine design is optional. 

Required Elements

  • Uses a Tekserve logo on the cover (download Tekserve logos)
  • Theme Idea: The cover should communicate that the answers to your Mac problems are in this book and come from Tekserve. (Other themes and ideas are welcome too.)
  • The Apple logo may not be used except as part of the Apple Specialist logo. The "Apple Specialist" logo can be found here.
  • Includes the following text:
  • Tekserve Mac FAQ (book title)
  • Twelfth Edition (subtitle)
  • Mac OS X 10.7 & 10.8 (subtitle)
  • David Lerner, Paul Dunford, and Michael Truskowski (editors)

How to Enter

Entries must be emailed to faq@tekserve.com by midnight EST on September 30, 2012.

Attach a JPEG or PNG copy of your cover design. Attachments must be 5MB or less.
Include your name, email address, mailing address, and phone number in the body of your email.
Entries will be judged by the editors of the Tekserve Mac FAQ and Tekserve's graphic design staff. Finalists will be contacted via email by October 15th, 2012 and posted online. The winner will receive the grand prize and the other two finalists will receive $250 Tekserve Gift cards. All entrants must be 14 years old or older and reside in the United States.

For More Information  http://www.tekserve.com/service/mac-faq/introduction/cover-art-contest---mac-faq-12th-edition.php
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