Accepting 2025 Design Tourney submissions!

Our sixth annual design tournament invites submissions from all current DCC students and alumni and offers one of the biggest prizes of the entire academic year—a $250 award, 500 Family Points, and the chance to have your own work featured on DCC apparel as part of StuCo’s annual spring merchandise fundraiser.

We’ll begin accepting competitive submissions for a multi-round, single-elimination tournament bracket on Monday, January 27, 2025, with submissions due by noon on Friday, February 14, 2025. All entrants will receive 250 Family points for their submission.

All submissions must abide by the following guidelines in order to be considered valid for the tournament:

— Submissions must be received by dcc-honors@umd.edu by February 14, 2025, at noon.

— Designs must be limited to a maximum of three unique colors.

— The aim of the contest is to choose by popular vote the most compelling, most creative/inventive, most interesting, most well-designed logo for DCC merchandise. Submit your best work—the kind of work that you would show a potential employer or include in a public portfolio. All submissions, but especially the winning one, should demonstrate effective design principles, exemplifying DCC’s role as a prominent design program on campus.

— Submissions should be prepared as vector graphics and submitted as an Adobe Illustrator .ai file (strongly preferred; with all type, if any, converted to outlines), a high-resolution .jpeg, or a Photoshop .psd file.

— Designers can work individually or in pairs to submit a design. Whether you are working individually or not, you can only be a part of one contest submission, and if you are working in a pair, the monetary prize must be split among both designers. 

Good luck, designers!