Submit your ticket artwork for Firefly 2012!

The deadline is May 31.

Submissions should be sent to FFTicketArt (at) fireflyartscollective (dot) org

Technical details:

"Firefly" and "July 4 - July 8, 2012" must be featured in your design

300 dpi or higher resolution

2" x 4 1/2" image size, no borders

pdf, Illustrator, Photoshop, png, high quality jpeg.

Non-technical:

We've always had good-looking tickets at Firefly.  The unique and radically DIY ticket artwork produced within the community is just one of the countless awesome things that define the event.  Admittedly, we may have even come to take it for granted, that so many of you artistic people would come forward with beautiful designs every year. Indeed, most years we have had more submissions than we could print. So last year we weren't even trying too hard and only sent one announcement early on. We still got some truly beautiful tickets (thank you guys!), but alas, there were fewer of them than in the years past. Well, we've learned our lesson. This year, there will be 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!   We're also doing something new this year!  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 kinda 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