Who wants to design a postcard for Gallifrey One: Blackjack 21? The prize is a pound of See's Chocolates, or half a kilo of Cadbury Roses (or other Cadbury).

You can also get on our mailing list, if you just want to get the postcards in the mail.

We're going to cram an entire progress report onto one side of a little postcard. What should we put on the other side? We've got full color printing capability. Bleed, even -- you can have color and stuff going right up to the edge.

Deadline for Fall postcard:
(Pacific time) 3:59 pm, 20 August 2009.
(British time) 11:59 pm, 20 August 2009.

Dimensions at 300 dpi: 1350x1875 or 1875x1350 pixels. Display thumbnail size, if you post your designs, should be 270x375 or 375x270 pixels (i.e., 60 dpi).

Design your art to be 4.5"x6.25" at 300 dpi, and allow for at least 1/8" along the edges where you won't have any text or anything vital to the design. It'll be 4.25"x6" once it's trimmed. So, don't have any text or logos within 40 pixels of the edge (1/8") and we should have no trouble trimming it.

You can e-mail the high-resolution version to gallifrey@postcardart.info, or just publish a link to it on your server (you can post the link in the Gallifrey 2010 thread on the Gallifrey Base forum, too!)

You could have a photo of Canary Wharf in flames and a big banner that says "Greetings from Torchwood!" like a standard tourist photo postcard. You could pretend you're designing a color cover for the convention program book and make a photo montage with lots of dark blue swirls in it. Make it look like a still from the opening credits sequence with the Tardis flying through hyperspace... Whatever. It should probably have the official full name of the convention on it somewhere, although that's not actually required.

Each Gallifrey has a different full name. You can use that theme as inspiration for your postcard design. If you want, we can use Peter Davison, Georgia Moffett and Sarah Sutton on our postcards. You can do a collage of photos, or you can draw any of them.

Prize for the one we use will be a 1-lb. box of See's chocolates, or 500g of Cadbury Roses (or other Cadbury chocolate), or something else if you're allergic or dieting. If you've used someone else's art in your composition, get their permission -- you'll be splitting the prize with them.

You can also get on our mailing list, if you just want to get the postcards in the mail.

Your info will be kept on a computer in California, and will only be used to send you convention postcards.

Image above: postcard art for "Gallifrey One: 20 to Life" convention, by Steven W. Hill.