Citi Bike Design Contest
Enter the Citi Bike Design Contest by August 31, 2022 for a chance to win a $500 Mastercard® gift card and have your art featured at bike stations in your neighborhood.
How to enter
Design a Citi Bike ad panel using this template. Follow the design prompt and technical specifications below.
- Email your entry by August 31, 2022 to NYCcommunityprograms@lyft.com. In your email submission, include:
•Name
•Date of birth
•Mailing address
•Phone number
•2-4 sentences describing your design inspiration
•1-2 sentences explaining your connection to your neighborhood
•How you found out about the contest
•If you are under the age of 18 on the date of your submission, include the name of a legal parent or guardian (who will be Lyft’s point of contact for this contest), as well as their mailing address and phone number.
- We’ll announce four winners on Oct. 9, 2022. Each artist will win a $500 Mastercard® gift card and have their designs displayed on ad panels in the borough where they live. (An ad panel is the static advertising display at each Citi Bike station.)
Contest details
Eligibility
Contestants must be legal residents of New York, New Jersey, or Connecticut.
All ages can participate. Artists under the age of 18 need permission and involvement of a legal parent or guardian.
Design prompt
Create art that shows how taking a Citi Bike ride moves you and connects to your community in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, or the Bronx. How it feels to breeze through your borough. To ride around town while laughing with friends. Capture all that ride-a-bike joy!
Designs can range from literal to conceptual. Here’s an example of a design or two created for BIKETOWN, a bikeshare system in Portland.
Technical specifications
- Pixel (.jpg .gif .png .tif) and vector (.ai .pdf .eps .svg) designs are accepted. Vector designs work best.
- Pixel designs should be formatted to the sizing in the template with a minimum of 200 DPI at scale.
- A standard bleed of .125” on all sides is recommended.
Use CMYK color code (RGB will also work, but the colors will print slightly differently).
For drawings:
- Scan or photograph hand-drawn designs at the highest resolution.
- Mask clipping into the design template.
- Drawings must extend past the red line.
For photographs:
- Capture photos at the highest resolution (minimum 200 DPI when image is at scale). Cell phone cameras likely won’t capture enough pixels per inch.
- Photos must be digitally overlaid on the template and must extend past the red line.
For all the Citi Bike Design Contest details, read the official rules.
Judging criteria
Eligible entries will be scored based on the following criteria:
⅓ on originality
⅓ on meaning or inspiration behind the design
⅓ on aesthetic
The designs with the highest scores overall will be announced as the winners.
Contest dates
The contest begins on June 24, 2022 and ends on August 31, 2022. Winners will be announced on Oct. 9, 2022.
No purchase necessary to enter or win. The Citi Bike Design Contest ends on August 31, 2022. The contest is open to legal residents of NY, NJ and CT. Void where prohibited by law. Each winner will receive a Mastercard® gift card with a retail value of $500.00. There will be four (4) total winners for a total prize value of $2000.
To enter and see Official Rules visit citibikenyc.com/adcontest.
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