In order to broaden interest and participation in the Van Sinderen Book Collecting
Prize competition, the Van Sinderen Committee is requesting design proposal submissions
from undergraduate graphic designers for a poster announcing this annual prize.
Deadline for submission of poster design proposals:
noon, Thursday, October 11, 2007.
Submissions should be addressed to Stephen Parks and may be dropped off (clearly
addressed and labeled on the reverse with the designer’s name and contact
information) at the reception desk near the main door of the Beinecke Library.
Poster proposals can be submitted in either digital or ‘handmade’
form (collage or letterpress for instance), but all submissions, other than those
intended to be rendered by letterpress, must be readily reproducible by color
laserwriter or ink-jet processes.
Poster proposals should be submitted full-sized in two formats: large
(maximum 11 x 17 inches, vertical or horizontal) to be used in residential
college posting areas; and small (8.5 x 11 inches, vertical) for posting on
campus outdoor bulletin boards.
If your submission is chosen, you may be asked to make minor text and design changes
to your work, and you will be expected to oversee its production at Yale RIS (or
in your College letterpress shop, if that option applies). You should plan to
be available to oversee production and to meet the production deadline of 5 pm,
Thursday, November 1, 2007.
A prize of $500 will be awarded to the selected entry, plus costs of poster production.
The committee reserves the right, however, to decide not to award a prize in the
event that none of the entries seems suitable to the competition’s objectives.
Please feel free to contact John Gambell (john.gambell@yale.edu, 432-6531) with questions.