Logo Contest for Friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park

The Friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park is a nonprofit group formed to provide a voice for the Park's unique and diverse resources. We're a group of park goers and friends dedicated to supporting and enhancing this park. Our organization's goal is to provide meaningful opportunities for people to develop special relationships with the Park and contribute to the Parks' programs and stewardship.

We are offering you an opportunity to enter our Friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt (FoFDR) State Park logo contest. Contestants must be 18 years old or over.

The winning logo design will represent our organization on our Internet homepage, T shirts, mugs, stationery etc.. There will be one winner. The name of the winning designer and the logo will be presented publicly at the FDR State Park "I Love My Park Day", May 4th. The winner will receive a letter of appreciation from our organization and the park manager. Their design will be on display in the FDR park office for a limited time and their name will be announced publicly. The winner will sign over full and complete copyright authority of the winning logo design to the Friends of FDR State Park.

FDR State Park is located in northern Westchester County, New York. Our park is visited by nearly 500,000 thousand people from all over the United States annually. The park offers picnicking, boating on Mohansic Lake, a 3,500 person capacity swimming pool, licensed fishing, ice skating, disc golf, numerous walking trails, playgrounds and basketball courts, educational programs and many other enjoyable activities.

We suggest that you review FDR State Park online before creating the logo at http://nysparks.com/parks/148/details.aspx

Rules on Submission of Logo Designs:

1. Must be an original design created by the person submitting the logo

2. Submit two variations of the logo

a) Complex design: with full name of organization (for ex. T shirts and mugs)

b) Simplistic design: leaving out some of the elements and must include the abbreviation, "FoFDR" (for ex. clothing patches, signs)

3. Must be a combination of text (stating the name- "Friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park") and image (ex. lake)

4. Should convey the ideas/concepts of community, conservation and recreation

5. May be designed by hand or by computer

6. Should contain two or three colors only. One of the colors must be green.

7. In black and white, the logo must be easily reproduced, recognizable and offer

excellent contrast

8. Must be visible and scalable, at least 8"x10", and visible and effective at 1"

9. Must be submitted as jpegs, at least 200 to 300 ppi

10. Must include with the submission your full name, street address and telephone number

11. Must be 18 years old or older to enter this contest

Send to: fofdr.logo@yahoo.com

Deadline for submission: 6:00 PM, April 21, 2013.

The winner of the contest will be notified by email or telephone on April 30, 2013. The public announcement of the winner and display of the logo will be May 4th at 11 a.m., on "I Love My Park Day", at the FDR State Park. Members of the Board of Friends of FDR State Park and their families are not eligible to enter the contest.

This is a great opportunity to display your artistic talents and help a community organization. We hope that winning this contest will further your personal ambitions and career goals.

Thank you and we look forward to your participation in this event. Please submit all questions about the contest online to fofdr.logo@yahoo.com.

Thank you,

Friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt State Park