Maiden Christmas Card Competition
From Iron Maiden's official website:Aaaaaah it's that time again. Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat... hang on, it's only October! Ahem.
Right. As many of you will know, the last few years we've thrown the design of the official Iron Maiden xmas card open to you guys. This is the card that gets sent to FC members, to friends of the band... and to the last minute people we realise we've forgotten. Each year, the standard has been amazingly high and we've had a real challenge agreeing on a winner.
So, we'd like you guys to do it again. Send us your designs - conforming to the specs below - and the winner will be picked by Rod, be printed and sent to loads of people. The winner will get a credit on the card and a big bag of groovy Iron Maiden stuff.
Your design needs to be A5 size (about 21 by 15 cm) - it's up to you which way round it goes (portrait or landscape). The picture is entirely up to you.
Now here's the important stuff - as the design will be printed, you need to make sure you have a high-resolution image that you can send us if we choose your card. If you're hand painting or drawing, no problem, but if you're creating your design from scratch in Photoshop or whatever, please make sure you do it at 600dpi and not at the lower resolution you'd use for things that are going to be displayed only on a monitor. Keep the original in a very safe place, and send us a copy.
HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR DESIGN:
Please send in your submissions as lower-resolution JPEG or GIF images - we don't need you to send the huge hi-res file until we choose the winner.
Please make sure that you name your file with your own name - eg. jimsmith.jpg - cos otherwise we get 200 'maiden.jpg'!
Email you entries to us here and please make sure you include your contact details.
Closing date for entries is 15th November. Good luck!
Source: IronMaiden.com
7 Comments
I suppose that prize bag includes a calendar with printed autographs and an order sheet for official Maiden merch?
QUOTE(Shadow @ Oct 18 2004, 06:06 PM)
I suppose that prize bag includes a calendar with printed autographs and an order sheet for official Maiden merch?
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Printed autographs: if you ever receive them 
I reworked the layout of the news a little.
A little question: is it me or they are throwing competitions without telling who are the winners of the past ones ?...
Cheers
QUOTE(The Saint @ Oct 18 2004, 11:02 PM)
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[right][snapback]89409[/snapback][/right]In the FC photos the autographs are not printed as each photo is individually signed.
QUOTE(GhostofCain @ Oct 19 2004, 09:15 AM)
In the FC photos the autographs are not printed as each photo is individually signed.
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I know, I was just joking
There's always five or six thread about this on the official board ("WILL I EVER RECEIVE MY SIGNED PIC !!!111 OMG") ![lol[1].gif](style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/lol[1].gif)
Cheers
My brother is into artwork and stuff. he's really talented and he had this fucking great idea for a cristmas card 3-4 years ago but he's always too lazy an ass to draw it up! I remember back then the first prize was a "tailgunner" flight jacket, quite a treat... what is it now? a sticker?
QUOTE(gor @ Oct 19 2004, 02:14 PM)
My brother is into artwork and stuff. he's really talented and he had this fucking great idea for a cristmas card 3-4 years ago but he's always too lazy an ass to draw it up! I remember back then the first prize was a "tailgunner" flight jacket, quite a treat... what is it now? a sticker?
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When they say a bag of goodies, they mean a bag of goodies. I once received 3 different T-shirts and a hair bandana...
The winner last year received a Maiden jacket and a "Dance of death" test pressing vynil signed by the band.