Dateline: 28 September 2008
3 Mobile and Don't Panic are looking for a designer to create a poster as part of a street ad campaign, and there's a prize of £500 ($900).
Mobile Broadband is a service offered by 3 that gives customers access to the internet on their PC or laptop using a USB modem and 3's HSDPA network. Mobile Broadband and dongles are becoming more widely understood but there is still an education job to do to communicate their benefits, and that's where Don't Panic comes in.
Don't Panic is organizing a competition that allows artists and creative types as much freedom as possible, while still creating a visual message which related to 3's mobile dongle (they are offering you £500 after all!).
Create a personal, unique piece of work representing freedom, communication, locality or whatever that can be drawn from 3's mobile-broadband Dongle. Take any part of it as an inspiration: it's name, it's functionality, it's colour scheme, mobilisation, the internet, whatever.
As well as a £500 cash prize, the winner (as selected from a publically voted shortlist) will also have their work reproduced as part of a limited edition collection of posters available through east London, as well as being used in a flyer poster campaign and included on stickers inside the Don't Panic packs.
The collection will be exhibited in the Truman Brewery in October where the winner can come down and showcase their skills in a live art studio with some of the UKs leading creative artists.
This is a chance to shine, to create something cool, desirable and beautiful and have it seen via various media throughout the world.
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