Post Card Design Competition - Our 'From Morecambe with Love' project anew!

One of the earliest projects we ran as a collective, back when we opened the gallery & gift shop on West street was all about sharing the love for Morecambe with an open submission for postcard designs celebrating this place we call home. The designs then went to a public vote, with the winners being hand screen printed and stocked for a number of years in our gift shop.  Some of these designs can still be found on mugs in the brew room now! Today we're launching a similar project to commemorate that time in GTC history, as we approach our 10th birthday as an organisation.

Like before, we're asking for design submissions for postcards that celebrate morecambe. They can be illustrative, photographic, graphic, whatever you like the only limit being that they have to be either one or two colour layers to be printed on the Riso Printer (more about the printing process below). The winning designs will then be printed to be sold in our upcoming 'New! Gift Shop' soft launching at the 10th Birthday Celebration we have planned for 19th & 20th of July (More details on that TBC). Submissions close on July 7th. The chosen submissions will win an A3 print of their design, a pack of all the winning postcards, as well as a £20 voucher to spend in our upcoming Gift Shop.

'From Morecambe With Love' winning designs from the project in 2016

Submitting:

You can email your design to jo@goodthingscollective.co.uk or post/drop your design to our studio in person 3 Northumberland Street, Morecambe LA4 4AU. By submitting your design you accept that you are donating your design and its copyright to Good Things Collective CIC for exclusive use to create merchandise and to support more good things happening in Morecambe. Artists will be credited in the final products. Again the deadline for submissions is July 7th!

Details on Printing:

This time, we’ll be using the Morecambe Community Riso Printer - so submission can be either one colour or two - two colour designs however will need to be created as two separate layers. When the colours overlap they make a third colour. You can play around with opacities and layering to achieve all sorts of cool effects with just two colours, so theres plenty of room for creative experimentation. Below is a digram of how Riso Printing works and what to consider when creating your two colour layers. It may seem a little daunting tho those not familiar with riso printing, but you can always design in one colour or attend one of the 'Morecambe Community Riso Press' induction workshops if you want to learn more about riso printing. The next workshop is on June 14th so you have time to attend before making your design (Get in touch via www.morecamberisopress.com/contact-form to book!)