Thank you for helping the Bike Winter effort select the best possible design for Chicago's most collectible advocacy tool, the annual Bike Winter Sticker.
If this voting process is your first taste of Bike Winter, please spend some time at the bikewinter.org website and see what we're about. Join our listserve to stay appraised of our frequent events, educational and social happenings, and connect with other year-round cyclists.
Please review the following considerations which the Bike Winterites submitting the following proposals were asked to follow in the design process; then review each image, and vote once for the sticker proposal which in your opinion, according to the criteria outlined below, will best support the Bike Winter mission in the 2011 Winter Cycling Season.
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Basic considerations:
1)These stickers eat up a sizable chunk of our hard-earned funds, and their main purpose is to be seen and read easily so that they can fulfill their function as advocacy tools- thus:
a) Proposed designs need to clearly, prominently, and legibly, at a glance, even in low light conditions, say "Bike Winter 2011". Bike Winter is two separate words.
We support other cities (e.g. Madison, Milwaukee, St. Louis) with our effort so the stickers should not say "Chicago."
b) Need to clearly, prominently, and legibly, at a glance, even in low light conditions, say bikewinter.org.
2) Size is 1.5"X 4".
Can be oriented horizontally or vertically-- see the 1999-2010 sticker gallery at bikewinter.org for examples
3) Should not violate copyrights or contain elements used without permission.
4) In keeping with tradition stickers may feature a 'new' mascot and a slogan that ideally would be a corny play on words, but this is not a requirement. In keeping with tradition designs/themes should also not resemble past years' stickers but present a new look for the coming season.