Create the 2026 Festival Logo!

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 60th Marblehead Festival of Arts Logo Contest. This long-standing and prestigious competition, as old as the festival itself, produces a one-of-a-kind design to symbolize each year's event.

Festival logos appear on merchandise, signage, web pages, and so much more, and are used not only at our legendary summer arts festival, but also at events throughout the year, including our film festival, champagne reception and fundraising events, just to name a few.

Judges will select 15‒20 designs from this year’s submission as semifinalists; and will then choose several finalists for presentation to the public.

The public will then determine the winner by ballot this December. The winner will be unveiled at an exciting logo premiere party in January 2026 and will receive a cash prize of $150.

The deadline for all submissions is Sunday, November 30, 2025 at 5:00 pm ET. A $10 entry fee is required. You may submit up to three entries.

Good luck! We’re looking forward to seeing your creativity shine!

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 2-5, 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