Logo Contest

Logo Submissions

Seattle is home to a number of people that are already thinking about and working towards carbon neutrality. Many of you are already taking steps to reduce your carbon footprint and have ideas for steps that the City can take to further reduce carbon emissions. Together we need to create a vision for what carbon neutrality means and how we can achieve it. To start that visioning process we are asking for your ideas for the name and logo that will help represent this initiative.

Carbon neutrality is complex and involves a number of topics – energy, land use, transportation, food systems, waste reduction, youth engagement, neighborhood planning, and economic development. So be creative! Ask your friends and neighbors what carbon neutrality means to them! Let this be a way to start a community-wide discussion.

The Council looks forward to seeing your ideas over the next few weeks! The ideas will be taken into consideration by the Carbon Neutral Seattle Communications Taskforce in creating a city-wide branding for the great work being done.

Deadline: September 14, 2010

Carbon Neutral Seattle Communications Taskforce

In anticipation of the scope of the Carbon Neutrality Initiative, and in appreciation of all the other work being done at the city to engage in climate change advocacy, the city will be putting together a Communications Taskforce. This Taskforce will include key members of the city and community, as well as design professionals, and will incorporate the ideas submitted by the community to create a full-scale branding. You can contact carbonneutral@seattle.gov for more information on this process.

Entries for submission to the taskforce may include:

• A name to describe the initiative
• A logo to represent the initiative
• Both a name and logo

Multiple entries are allowed and encouraged.

We are seeking submissions that:

• Name
  • Uses language that is positive and dynamic. We are looking for words that describe the effort as active and constructive Entries may but are not required include the words “carbon neutral”
  • Can be applied to all sectors of the cities carbon neutrality effort, for example: food systems, land use, transportation, energy, and others
  • Creativity
• Logo
  • Graphic ideas should be simple, but expressive
  • Graphics should relate to Seattle and the Pacific Northwest region.
  • Graphics should relate to the city’s initiative.
  • Creativity

To submit your entry:

• Please include your name, address, phone number and email so that we can contact winners.
• Email contact information along with a digital copy of your submission to Carbonneutral@seattle.gov.
• Entries will be announced at the September 14th Carbon Neutral Town Hall at City Hall, 600 4th Ave, Seattle.

All logo entries must be your original work. Artists own all rights to their artwork unless their artwork is chosen as a winner. Submitting an entry gives the City of Seattle permission to promote your entry in any fashion it chooses. You will have full rights to the submission unless you are chosen as the final brand for the City of Seattle. If your entry is chosen as the final brand, you are required to transfer full ownership of the completed design to the City of Seattle. “Transferring” includes royalty-free, irrevocable, exclusive and worldwide rights to use the artwork in any way whatsoever with the exception of the artist retaining the rights to display the work in his/her portfolio or advertising as an example of the work he/she does.