Rumor has it that some user group editors go days without sleep, weeks without sex, forsaking all but their computers just to produce a newsletter of excellence.
Sound familiar?
This is your opportunity to display and be rewarded for your hard work in producing a user group newsletter of excellence. Let’s face it. Not everyone produces works of excellence - and not everyone will walk away with a UG Newsletter Excellence award. But those who do, feel a satisfaction unparalleled in the user group community. They’ll also go home a little richer!
Awards and Exhibit will be held on April 3,4, and 5, 1992 at the 1992 National Apple User Group Symposium & Workshop, in Albany New York. Winners in each category will be awarded prizes including: DesignWorks™ Clip Art Collections, Publisher’s Warehouse™ Fonts, and Major Software Packages from Adobe, and others (to be announced). All Those selected for display will receive an award certificate of excellence.
Winners will be interviewed and highlighted in a Mug News Service disk edition, as well as in a news article to be provided to the major computer news magazines.
Major divisions will be:
Division 1......... User Groups with UNDER 150 MEMBERS
Division 2 ........ User Groups with 150 to 500 MEMBERS
Division 3 ........ User Groups with MORE THAN 500 MEMBERS
Newsletters selected for display will be recognized and awarded for merit in these four categories:
Cover Design - major criteria: masthead design, overall layout, quality and appeal of art or graphics.
Art & Layout - major criteria: pleasing layout, integration of graphics, use and quality of art, photography and design devices, as well as overall visual presentation.
Content & Structure - major criteria: good editorial mix, story flow, information control and ease of accessing information.
Technical - major criteria: use and control of typography, grid structure, consistency and overall visual appeal.
Preparation of Entries - User group newsletter editors are invited to submit up to two issues of their user group newsletter published in 1991 for evaluation. One cover design and one inside spread ONLY (not necessarily from the same issue) will be selected for display.
All entries MUST be contained in a single package, with an ENTRY FORM filled out and attached to each entry and sent to: Fred Showker, Showker Graphic Arts & Design 15 SouthGate, Harrisonburg VA 22801
All entries MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE February 1, 1992. Remember: this is NOT a postmark date. This is the date your entry MUST be in our hands!
Jurors - (to be announced)
A hanging fee of $8.00 will be charged for each entry submitted. This will help cover costs for materials, mounting, mailing and certificates of award.
Checks must be made out to: Fred Showker, Awards Chairman and attached to the entry. Entries sent without hanging fee will not be considered.
All entries selected for display will be notified by certified mail.
All entries become the sole property of The Mug News Service and will NOT be returned.
The entrant grants permission to copy, reproduce and display selected entries as deemed appropriate by show officials.
All decisions are FINAL - the show chairman reserves the right to admit or reject any entry.