Lipscomb University’s Department of Art, partnering with Advent, is proud to present Nashville’s Third Annual Award for Excellence in Logo Design.

In anticipation for the Lipscomb University Presidential Lectureship for Art and Art History featuring Lucille Tenazas of TENAZAS DESIGNS in New York, all Nashville and regional graphic designers are asked to submit new logo designs from the past year.

On Monday, November 10, Lucille Tenazas will present her lecture “The Designer as Cultural Nomad” and it is at this time that the winners of the Nashville’s 3rd Annual Award for Excellence in Logo Design will be announced. Participants are asked to submit creative logos to be judged in the following categories:

Winners for each category will receive Apple prizes. The Overall Design Winner will receive a iphone while winners from the other categories will receive ipods. All entries will be judged by a panel from presenting sponsors/endorsers. Attendees will have the ability to vote on the People’s Choice Award at the pre-lecture reception at 6pm that evening.

All graphic designers in the Nashville community are called for entries. Want bragging rights? Want to be known as the best Nashville designer? Want to know who is the best in town? Enter to win!

Contest Rules

1. Logo submissions must have been created with the last 24 months.


2. Logos are to be submitted in an eps or jpeg format at 300 dpi, centered on a 8.5” x 11” white background


3. A brief description of the design purpose must be submitted in 50 words or less.


4. Must be present at the time of the awards to win.


5. By submitting a logo for entry in the competition, the designer acknowledges that he/she is the person that created the logo and is its rightful owner. The designer also certifies that the logo does not infringe upon the rights of any third party and that it does not violate any copyright. By submitting a logo(s) for entry in the competition, the designer also gives permission for the entry to be published in area publications.


6. Designs will not be returned to the designers. No responsibility can be accepted for entries that are lost, delayed or damaged. Any submissions which do not satisfy the above "submission format" will be ignored without any warning.


7. Eligible contestants: Any designer in the Greater Nashville area is eligible. Limit of 3 entries per designer/design firm. There is no entry fee. Entries must be received by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, November 5, 2008.


8. No artwork created in a university or collegiete classroom setting is elligable. Artwork must be created in a professional setting.


9. No employees of sponsors or presenting companies are eligible.

November 10, 2008- Presidential Lectureship for Art and Art History Series presents Lucille Tenazas
6:00 pm - Reception and Logo Design  Gallery Viewing in The Ezell Center, Room  363
7:00 pm - Guest Speaker Lucille Tenazas will lecture on "The Designer as Cultural Nomad" in the Ezell center, Room 301

The 3rd Annual Presidential Lectureship Series for Art and Art History will feature renowned graphic designer Lucille Tenazas and her lecture entitled “The Designer as Cultural Nomad.” In this lecture, Lucille will discuss her work as well as her students’ projects, providing a methodology that offers an alternative perspective on the role of design —one that it is not merely a way to sell and convince, but an opportunity to enlighten, pose questions and offer a way to interact with and understand the world. In teaching opportunities here in the US and abroad, she has considered these experiences as sojourns of cultural discovery, using her skills as a designer to elicit deeper experiences of community, participation and empathy.

Lucille Tenazas is the founder and principal of Tenazas Design, a communication graphics and design firm working primarily on projects for cultural, educational and non-profit organizations as well as city, state, and Federal agencies. The firm was based in San Francisco for 20 years but relocated to New York in 2006, returning to the city where she originally began her practice in 1982. Among her clients have been the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Stanford University Art Museum, the San Francisco International Airport, the National Endowment for the Arts, Rizzoli International and Neue Galerie Museum for German and Austrian Art. She has also been a visiting critic at North Carolina State University, California Institute of the Arts and Yale University.

Tenazas has lectured and taught extensively here and abroad and she has participated on juries for numerous design competitions. From 1996-98, she was National President of the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA), presiding over the organization during a period when the role of design was undergoing a conceptual realignment in the aftermath of rapidly evolving technological advancement. In 2002, she was awarded the prestigious National Design Award for Communication Design by the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum and was honored in 1995 as one of the ID Forty, ID Magazine’s selection of America’s leading design innovators.