Technical details:
IMPORTANT! As an experiment, we are going to accept ticket artwork images in a 3:4 aspect ratio. Have you had a great design idea that could not be squeezed into the long outline of the "traditional", 2” x 4.5” Firefly ticket? Here's your chance! The image must be 3" x 4" in size, at *300 dpi or higher resolution*, no borders.
Already working on a great design in the old aspect ratio? Didn't finish your design last year, but were hoping to submit it for 2013? - No problem! Artwork for "classic" size tickets will also be accepted: 2" x 4.5" in size, at *300 dpi or higher resolution*, no borders.
"Firefly" and "July 3 - July 7, 2013" must be featured in your design.
PDF, Illustrator, Photoshop, PNG, high quality JPEG.
Non-technical:
Last year, we received quite a few awesome submissions. Like last year, we will send out extra reminders, and we'll be taking it seriously; working with the artists, and making sure that if your entry ends up going to print, you are made appropriately famous inside our small but fabulous community! After Firefly, there will be an online picture gallery with all art ticket submissions, even if your design wasn't chosen to print. Ticket Art submissions are open to anyone in the community, even if you aren't going to be attending Firefly this year.
Also, some general guidelines:
There are no formal requirements for the artwork. It is definitely not a design competition. Remember, Firefly is all about DIY. So you should not be afraid to submit your work because you don’t think it looks “professional” enough. But it should be original, above all. If it’s based on some really awesome graphics, but you simply found it on the internets, then it goes against the very philosophy of our event. It may be very simple, it doesn’t have to contain multiple levels of painfully elaborate detail. But it always helps when it looks like some loving effort has been put into it. If it’s just a picture taken at the event, with the word “Firefly” written in whatever was the default font in Photoshop... granted, it can be a really good picture and can still be a good-looking ticket, but it just spells “lazy”. And that may work against your design when compared to others. It’s always a good idea to avoid anything that’s potentially divisive -- such as things that are explicitly about politics, religion, etc. And any references to anything illegal and otherwise inappropriate -- we don’t even have to mention that, do we?
So yes indeed, it is time to go and produce some nice-looking tickets!
See you in the woods!!
~Firefly~