The Savannah Stopover Music Festival announced a poster competition to create the official poster for the 2018 festival, which will take place March 8th-10th, 2018 in Savannah’s Historic District. “This is the 8th year of the poster contest and we’re thrilled to be bringing it back, with a slight twist”, said Kayne Lanahan, the festival’s founder. ”In the past, the posters were primarily focused on and inspired by specific bands playing the festival. This year, we’re starting earlier, before any of the bands have been announced, and giving more creative free reign for artists to focus the design on the festival as a whole."
The Savannah Stopover Music Festival capitalizes on the logistical good fortune of Savannah, Georgia’s proximity to interstates 95 and 10 by presenting traveling musicians with a welcoming place to play en route to Austin's prestigious SXSW Music Conference each March.
The festival has hosted such notable up and comers as Grimes, of Montreal, The War On Drugs, Future Islands, Mac Demarco, Wye Oak, Generationals, St. Lucia, DIIV, Ra Ra Riot, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, St. Paul & The Broken Bones and hundreds of others before they broke out of the pack. Offering three days of musical discovery, music fans can hop from venue to venue keeping track of all of their favorite new acts.
Savannah’s unique brand of low country hospitality and southern gothic ambiance, not to mention burgeoning music scene, music-hungry demographic, and an established arts community set the stage for this wholly unique event. The three-day festival puts a premium on musical discovery in an intimate, historical setting that is uniquely Savannah and takes place across multiple historic district venues from churches, museums, clubs to unexpected pop-up locations.
Submitting a poster is easy and can be completed online at our website (http://www.savannahstopover.com/poster-competition). Artists are encouraged to visit the festival website for further inspiration on what makes Savannah Stopover, Savannah Stopover, using the specifications outlined below. The poster is meant to be representative of the entire festival, so please do not include individual bands in your design.
The grand prize winner will see their design printed as the official poster and featured on the official festival guide, select advertising materials and other promotional products. The grand prize winner will receive 25% of any net proceeds from the sale of festival merchandise using their design through the end of 2018.
In addition,the top ten posters will be on display for the Festival Opening Night event on March 8, 2018, at The Ships of the Sea Museum, remaining on display throughout the weekend.
Submitting a poster is easy and can be completed online at our website (http://www.savannahstopover.com/poster-competition). Artists are encouraged to visit the festival website for further inspiration on what makes Savannah Stopover, Savannah Stopover, using the specifications outlined below. The poster is meant to be representative of the entire festival, so please do not include individual bands in your design.
DESIGN REQUIREMENTS
Must be included:
The full festival name: Savannah Stopover Music Festival
The festival date: March 8-10, 2018
Posters must be designed and submitted in vertical format
Posters must be submitted as a PDF 18x24 inches with full bleed (no border) at 300 DPI
a. Grand prize winner will be asked to provide a fully editable, not flattened, file with all fonts and imagery.
Do not include individual bands in your poster design. The poster is meant to be representative of the entire festival.
Please use the following filename structure: 2018_SSO_OfficialPoster-YourLastNameYourFirstName.pdf
The deadline for submitting posters is Friday, Dec. 15 at 5 p.m. Failure to comply with the above requirements will disqualify your poster. By entering the winner gives Savannah Stopover Music Festival and their parent company, MusicFile Productions, the right to use these materials in perpetuity for promotional purposes.