Vancouver is made up of a vibrant series of distinct neighbourhoods. The City of Vancouver is testing a new, online way to connect residents with projects in their neighbourhoods. Anyone logging into PlaceSpeak.com can express ideas about city issues, but only residents can vote. PlaceSpeak is a location-based community consultation platform that connects citizen users with proponents of issues taking place in their own neighbourhoods.
To help promote PlaceSpeak—and build neighborhood pride—the City and PlaceSpeak are launching a neighbourhood emblem contest. “Tag Your ‘Hood“ invites the public to use our creative genius and come up with symbols for each of Vancouver’s 26 neighbourhoods. They want to know what the various communities in the city mean to each of us.
The winning emblems will be used on the city’s new community web-pages,throughout the City of Vancouver, and at PlaceSpeak. Anyone can submit a design, but only the residents within each of Vancouver’s neighbourhood boundaries will be able to vote.
Entrants who submit winning designs are being invited to meet Mayor Gregor Robertson as part of the city’s 125th birthday celebrations. The contest closes June 24, 2011.
All of the submissions will be uploaded to the PlaceSpeak website after the June 24th deadline. A 2-week voting period will follow. During this time, residents of each neighbourhood will have a chance to vote for the design they like best.
Vancouver’s Neighborhoods
| SunsetMount Pleasant | FairviewSouth Cambie |
From PlaceSpeak
Objective
To engender a sense of community identity and civic pride in connection with the city’s 125th birthday by holding a contest to create emblems for each of Vancouver’s 26 neighbourhoods.
This document describes the official rules (“Official Rules”) of the Tag your ‘hood Logo Design Contest organized by New City Ventures Inc. (“PlaceSpeak”), (the “Contest”). The object of this contest is to design logos for various neighbourhoods within the City of Vancouver. Information on how to enter and about the prizes is part of these Official Rules. To the extent of any inconsistency, these Official Rules prevail.
Definitions
“Entry” means a logo design created by the Entrant for this Contest.
“Entrant” means the individual that offers the Entry under the terms of this Contest.
Eligibility
● The Contest is open only to individuals. The Contest is not open to companies, educational institutions, organizations, etc. or to groups associated with such institutions.
● Entrants must be a Canadian Citizen, reside in Canada, of sufficient legal age (18) and standing to enter into a contract with the City of Vancouver as required below.
Contest Rules
● Your design can be any shape and include a variety of color and text
● Participants can submit an emblem for any of the 26 neighbourhoods
● Participants are welcome to submit multiple designs
● Winning emblems will have to be provided at a minimum 72 DPI
The Winning Submissions
● Will be used to represent neighbourhoods on PlaceSpeak and the City of Vancouver’s website
● Will be invited to take a photo with the Mayor of Vancouver recognizing the official neighbourhood emblem
● Will be displayed at Vancouver’s 125th birthday celebration in July
How to Submit:
1. Create a unique Emblem following the contest rules;
2. Send your design to tagyourhood@placespeak.com, with the name of the neighbourhood as the subject, and your full name in the message.
Promote your Design Submission:
Share your design(s) with friends and colleagues and get them to vote for your design. When the voting period begins, PlaceSpeak will send you an email reminding you to encourage your friends to vote.
Example
Feel free to use any of these shapes as an outline for your emblem.
Deadline for Submissions: June 24th, 2011