Logo Contest

The Marblehead Festival of Arts invites professional and nonprofessional individuals who currently reside, work, attend a school, or belong to an arts association in Essex County, to submit entries for the 2026 Logo Contest. 

This long-standing competition, as old as the Festival itself, produces a one-of-a-kind design to symbolize each year's event.

From the entries, judges select fifteen to twenty designs as semifinalists; and from the semifinalists, select several finalists for presentation to the public.  The public then determines the winner by ballot during December 2025. 

The winner will be announced at the Logo Premiere Party in January 2026 and will receive a prize of $150.

Eligibility

• You must currently reside, work, be a student or a member of an Art Association in Essex County.

  
  

Submission Requirements

• You are allowed to enter up to Three [3] Logos.

• There is a fee of $10 per entry.

• Deadline is Sunday, November 30th 2025, at 5:00pm.

• All entries have to be submitted through the Festival’s website.

• Logo entry files must be submitted in either JPG or PDF form at a resolution of at least 300 dpi.

• All fonts should be converted to outlines to ensure correct display.

• The winning entry will be required as a vector, EPS or .ai format file to enable high quality reproduction on digital media, physical media and merchandise.

• All submitted logos are the sole property of the Marblehead Festival of Arts, Inc.

  
  

Your design must:

• Represent the arts and/or the Town of Marblehead

• Integrate the following text: Marblehead Festival of Arts July 1-5, 2026

• You may include a reference to the 60th Anniversary of the Festival. Submissions that do not include this will receive equal consideration

• Be original art

• Contain NO copyrighted material & NO clip art

• Be limited to three (3) Pantone solid (coated) colors. (Black is a color; shades of the same color are two colors. White is a color if it is an integral part of the design, otherwise the 'white background' on the submission will be the color of the material the logo is printed on)

• Have all fonts converted to outline

• Be adaptable to use on various colored backgrounds

• Be adaptable to both black & white and color print processes

• Be legible fonts reproduced in a wide variety of sizes [min font size is 14 ]

• Be adaptable to both screen printing and embroidery processes

• Be printable on 8” x 10” white paper