CulturePulse Logo Contest

The recently launched North Dakota arts and culture calendaring website, CulturePulse.org, is sponsoring a logo contest with a cash prize of $200. The contest is being conducted online at 99Designs.com from January 26 through February 5 and is open to anyone wishing to enter.

“We’re gearing up for a statewide marketing campaign and want to have an eye-catching, memorable logo. It needs to capture in a glance that CulturePulse is the site that broadcasts all that’s ‘playing’ throughout the entire state during any given week,” says spokesperson and technical coordinator for the website Scott Wild of Wild Inspire.

The design contest asks the contestant to consider both full color and black and white appearance, and provides specifications for both. Each quadrant of the state, based in Grand Forks, Fargo, Bismarck and Minot, administers a regional division of the website and has the contest posted online as an event entitled ‘CulturePulse Logo Design Contest’ at www.CulturePulse.org. All details on how to submit a logo idea, including format, are on the www.99Designs.com contest website. Interested individuals can ‘Browse Open Projects’ and look for Culture Pulse Logo.

Designers who enter the contest should visit www.CulturePulse.org and explore each of the four quadrant sites to grasp the site’s purpose and potential. The website operates beyond a traditional calendar by offering in-depth profiles of all the artists and organizations whose events are listed. It also features high graphic content—slide shows and videos— for each individual event, cross links each event to ticket purchasing and culture websites, invites visitors to write reviews of each event, and provides venue maps for each listing.

Originally created with a grant from the Knight Foundation, the expansion of CulturePulse is possible through the support of North Dakota Council on the Arts and select arts organizations and their sponsors in each quadrant of the state: In the northeast quadrant, the North Valley Arts Council of Grand Forks; in the southeast quadrant, The Arts Partnership of Fargo; in the southwest quadrant, the Frances Leach High Prairie Arts & Science Complex of Bismarck; and the northwest quadrant, the Minot Arts Council. For more information about the contest or about CulturePulse.org call or email Jennifer at jhaaland@bisparks.org, 701.471.9492.