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:
5 pm, Thursday, October 20, 2011
Submissions should be addressed to Rebecca Martz and may be dropped off (clearly
addressed and labeled on the reverse with the designer’s name and contact
information) at the Office of the University Printer, 2 Whitney Avenue, Suite 203.
Poster proposals can be rendered as either digital output 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 Printing & Publishing Services (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, Monday, November 7, 2011.
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, 203 432-6531) or Rebeccca Martz (rebecca.martz@yale.edu) with questions.