STUDENT LOGO DESIGN COMPETITION
Now is the time to encourage your students to enter the annual AEJMC conference logo contest! Winners this year will receive a $250 award.
The logo design entries must be designed as solid black on a white background. After a winning logo is selected, AEJMC reserves the right to add color later to the winning logo.
A LOGO ENTERED INTO THIS COMPETITION MUST:
- Include the following typographic elements: AEJMC; August 2026; New Orleans (no other typographic elements can be added to the logo entries for this contest).
- Include AEJMC as an integral part of the logo.
- Represent the diversity of AEJMC and visually suggest “New Orleans.”
- Be legible and effective when scaled for different executions
- Retain a sense of balance and internal integrity when typographical elements are removed.
- Be reproducible in solid tones using one color (black). No tints, no blends, no gradations are allowed.
- NOT INCLUDE COPYRIGHTED ARTWORK. This means no clip art. All elements must be student creations.
SUBMISSION DETAILS:
- Submit each logo as both an EPS file and a PNG file.
- Convert type to outlines
- The file names must bear the last name and first initial of the entrant (for example: smith-d.eps and smithd. png). If a student has more than one logo entry, add a sequence number after the first initial (smithd2.png)
- Entries must be the work of students enrolled in classes taught by AEJMC members.
- Each school may enter up to 10 logos per design instructor.
- The logo entries must be submitted by a faculty sponsor (do not have students submit logos directly to the competition chair.)
- Faculty sponsors must also include a Word doc with their name and full contact information at the top of the page and include the following student information for each logo entry: student’s logo file name, student’s full name, student’s email address, phone number, and mailing address.
- The logo chair may request the winning designer to make minor changes for legibility purposes.
- Faculty sponsors, please send logo entries to AEJMC 2026 Logo Competition Chair Tara Mortensen at taram@sc.edu with the subject line “AEJMC 2026 Logo Competition Entry.”
- Questions? Contact Tara Mortensen, taram@sc.edu Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of South Carolina.
DEADLINE: Entries must be successfully submitted no later than 11:59 p.m. ET, May 1, 2025.