PRIZES

• First place winner(s) get their two—page spread in the next issue of Cruisin' Style Magazine following the Woodward Dream Cruise. Their work will also be featured on cruisinstyle.com as the grand prize winner. They will receive a Cruisin' Style t—shirt, cap and a subscription to Cruisin' Style Magazine.
  
  
• Runner(s) Up will receive specific awards for Best Photography — Runner Up, Best Story — Runner Up, and Best Layout — Runner Up. They will also receive a free subscription to Cruisin' Style magazine for themselves or the auto-enthusiast in their life.
  
  
• All entrants will get their work featured on cruisinstyle.com, various bits o' swag, feedback on their work from the editorial staff, and bragging rights.

HOW IT WORKS

Each submission can be the work of one or more persons. The goal is to create a two—page spread including text and images covering the 2008 Woodward Dream Cruise. The same person can take the pictures, write the story and design the layout or three students can team up — a journalist writing the story, a photographer, and a graphic designer. So, one more time: You can work with a team or on your own — it's your choice. If a team is the winner, each member would get a cap, a t—shirt, etc.

You submit a two—page layout of your Woodward Dream Cruise story using this template (control-click on a Mac, right-click on a PC to save the file), photographs you take at the cruise, and the story you write. Send it all (including a PDF would be a great idea) on one CD to:

Cruisin’ Style Magazine
Woodward Dream Cruise Design Contest
608 6th St. West
Palmetto, FL 34221

You can email questions to me at: jay@cruisinstyle.com or call 941-729-6669.

You can even email your submission as a PDF if it's 11:55 PM on September 1 and you have the single greatest layout in the history of printing but you better make sure the native files are on their way on a CD as soon as you click Send in that email. Absolutely no submissions will be accepted after September 1.

All submissions including written word and photographic images become the property of Cruisin' Style Magazine.

CONTEST RULES & INFO

• All designs must be two whole pages. This is your opportunity to get a double page spread in a national magazine — use it or lose it. Submissions that only have one page or a page and a half of content will be disqualified.
  
  
• Do yourself a favor and read the Writer's Guidelines and Photographer's Guidelines.
  
  
• All designs must use the InDesign Template (right-click on a PC or control-click on a Mac to download the file). The template is an InDesign CS2 file.
  
  
• Take a look at some two—page spreads in our Digital Editions Archive but don't think your layout has to look anything like ours. Use your creativity, imagination, and unique vision. Don't make the mistake of thinking yours won't win just because we've never seen or used anything like it.
  
  
• Put your name, address, phone number, email address, age, school, and any other details about yourself you think are interesting on the pasteboard of the InDesign document, in a separate text file, and fill out this entry form. The reason we ask for this information multiple times is it would be very sad if we had a winning layout and didn't know who the winner was.
  
  
• DO NOT SEND US ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS. If you're using a "regular" camera, scan the pictures and send them on a CD. We won't be returning anything to anyone.
  
  
• Captions for photographs are a great idea. Name the car's owner & hometown and give juicy details about the car. Give the file a descriptive name like "Bob Dobbs' 55 Chevy.jpg"
  
  
• Specifically identify the writer, photographer, and designer — even if they are all the same person and especially if they're not.
  
  
• If you have two brilliant ideas for layouts, by all means submit two. One concept per CD or the CD will be disqualified because, well, that's just confusing.
  
  
• CDs, etc. will not be returned.
  
  
• All submissions including written word and photographic images become the property of Cruisin' Style Magazine to use in the future if we so desire and as we see fit. All rights to sell and publish these works revert back to the designer, photographer and writer after the contest.
  
  
• Send all files on a single CD.
  

WHAT YOU'LL NEED (or at least need access to)

• Photoshop or equivalent
• InDesign CS2 (you can rent a graphics computer at Kinko's)
• A digital camera or scanner
• A CD burner
• Creativity & talent
• Writer's Guidelines and Photographer's Guidelines

JUDGES & JUDGING CRITERIA

It's going to be subjective — it's art, what can I tell ya? As I'm sure you've learned already, there are no secrets to pleasing everyone. Just do your best, do what you think looks great. The editorial staff of Cruisin' Style Magazine will give each piece long and thoughtful consideration. We may even get into a fist—fight over it. The Grand Prize Winner(s) will be contacted by phone. Runners Up will be contacted via email (and via USPS when you get your awards & swag). Winners, Runners Up, and Honorable Mentions (that's everyone else who got their submission in on time and met basic requirements like your layout included photographs of cars) will be announced on the website by October 1.

DEADLINE

The Woodward Dream Cruise is August 16. Get your submission to us on or before September 1, 2008. That gives you "only" 10-13 days to work because you want to send your entry on or before August 27th to get it to us by September 1st. Getting an awesome opportunity like a double-page spread in a magazine doesn't mean we'll enable you to slack off in your young career by ignoring deadlines.

ELIGIBILITY FOR PARTICIPATION

Student Status. If you make your living as a graphic designer — this contest is not for you. If you are a high school or college student of graphic design, photography, and/or journalism — this contest is for you. If you're between semesters or taking the year off — don't sweat it — as long as you're of high school or college age, you're good. If you've made a little money at the student paper or doing ads for local raves or Dad's Hardware Store — don't sweat it — we just want to make sure this opportunity for portfolio material and credits from a national magazine go to a young person not some schlep who enters the contest like a middle aged guy looking for a date at the high school prom.

The whole purpose of this contest is to give someone an awesome chance at kickstarting their career in publishing whether that be in design, writing, and/or photography. So play fair — and yes, we will check up on this. Please send a copy of student IDs or current/recent class schedules with your submission. If you're between semesters or taking the year off, a letter on school stationary from a teacher vouching for your school-agedness will be fine.

On the other extreme — if you're a middle-schooler and go to some tech-advanced school and are involved in the student paper or something similar ... far be it from me to keep First Place from some brilliant young artist just because they're not in 9th grade yet!

Residency. You do not have to live in Detroit or even Michigan to participate in this contest. If you live in Los Angeles, California and want to hitch-hike to Detroit by all means, do so (safely).

HOW TO ENTER AND WIN

1. Go to the Woodward Dream Cruise (visit their official site to learn more about the cruise).
2. Take lots of pictures of cars & cruisers.
3. Write about what you see — interview some cruisers and get some info about the cars & clubs. It's your story so that's as much guidance as you get (just don't go all Hunter S. Thompson on us).
4. Lay it out in the template provided.
5. Send all your files (including a PDF would be a great idea) to us on one CD to Cruisin Style Magazine, Woodward Dream Cruise Design Contest, 608 6th St. West, Palmetto, FL 34221
6. If you win, that layout goes in an upcoming issue of Cruisin' Style Magazine.

GUIDELINES

• Writing Guidelines.
• Photograph Guidelines.

FLYERS