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Vote for your favourite: Design Our Merch!


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And the winner is…@cyberabbit!

Check out the winner alongside some of our favourite submissions below:

Design our merch! We’re celebrating our 175th anniversary this year and it’s time we get some swag. 🥳 Enter for a chance to have your art featured on RCIScience merchandise, plus WIN a cash prize of $500 CAD, a free piece of swag with your design on it, and a featured interview on our blog! We want you to get creative with science or its history–we’re looking for eye-catching designs celebrating science and/or modern twists on our vintage archives, inspired by illustrations in RCIScience’s historic journals!

Prize Includes:

  • Cash Prize of $500 CAD

  • Winning design becomes part of the RCIScience merchandise collection

  • One (1) piece of merchandise with your design on it

  • Image credit

  • Featured interview on the blog

How to enter:

  • Follow @RCIScience on Instagram

  • Like our contest post

  • Find inspiration from our favourite designs and archival illustrations our Pinterest page

  • Share your design(s) on Instagram and tag @RCIScience in your post(s)

  • Use the hashtag #RCIScience175 in your post(s)

Official Rules:

  • Participants must be 18+ to enter.

  • Participants must live in Canada or be a Canadian citizen.

  • Participants must create original art (no AI).

  • No purchase necessary to enter the contest.

  • Contest closes at 11:59pm (EST) on Thursday August 22, 2024.

  • One (1) winner will be chosen by Jury on Friday August 30, 2024.

  • The winner will be notified through an Instagram DM from the @RCIScience account  and announced publicly on all RCIScience social media channels

  • We will never ask for your credit card or payment information.

  • Winner will need to provide contact information, including shipping address upon   accepting prize.

  • Winner will need to provide a clean, high resolution digital file (TIFF, PNG, SVG, AI, EPS, CDR), at 300 DPI, with art measured at a minimum of 8”(inches) width by 8”(inches) height, or 10”(inches) width by 12”(inches) height.   

  • Artist signature on design must be below image and no larger than 2”(inches) width by 1”(inch) height.

  • Winner must respond within 72 hours of receiving the DM, and upload artwork to RCIScience no later than September 3, 2024 otherwise another winner will be selected

  • Artist retains copyright and gives RCIScience full rights to use art in any format for merchandise and/or marketing purposes, including editing art where necessary.

  • This contest is not affiliated with Instagram.

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