“A big head crammed with info, which is really what a library is there to do for you,” is how Holly Miller, winner of last year’s Chicago Public Library Poster Design Contest, describes her triumphant entry, chosen among more than 160 contenders. Now the Library’s back at it again with the second annual contest and the winning design will again appear throughout the city as part of the Library’s “Not What You Think” marketing campaign, which highlights some of the Library’s lesser-known free services. Ironically, Miller now lives in Europe, but she says she remains “a Chicagoan at heart: habits, likes, dislikes, sense of humor, all formed by my city, which I love dearly. My graphic design is Chicago. My history, experience: Chicago.” The 2010 design contest, which ends May 16, invites entries from any and all users with a design idea, with its only stipulation that it make use of the URL chipublib.org. “We’d like to keep it wide open because we’d hate to squash anyone’s creativity,” says Ruth Lednicer, the library’s director of marketing. “It’s fun to see how others interpret the library. We know who we are, but [the contest] allows us to see how the community views the library’s services,” Lednicer says. (Andrew Rhoades)
“A big head crammed with info, which is really what a library is there to do for you,” is how Holly Miller, winner of last year’s Chicago Public Library Poster Design Contest, describes her triumphant entry, chosen among more than 160 contenders. Now the Library’s back at it again with the second annual contest and the winning design will again appear throughout the city as part of the Library’s “Not What You Think” marketing campaign, which highlights some of the Library’s lesser-known free services. Ironically, Miller now lives in Europe, but she says she remains “a Chicagoan at heart: habits, likes, dislikes, sense of humor, all formed by my city, which I love dearly. My graphic design is Chicago. My history, experience: Chicago.” The 2010 design contest, which ends May 16, invites entries from any and all users with a design idea, with its only stipulation that it make use of the URL chipublib.org. “We’d like to keep it wide open because we’d hate to squash anyone’s creativity,” says Ruth Lednicer, the library’s director of marketing. “It’s fun to see how others interpret the library. We know who we are, but [the contest] allows us to see how the community views the library’s services,” Lednicer says. (Andrew Rhoades)
