OUGD503 SB1 - Secret 7" - The Rules & Monotype

Below is a list a rules and guidelines set by the Secret 7" organisation that our submissions should follow...

1. Your design must not include the artist’s name or the song title
2. Concentrate your design on what will be the front, only this will be visible in the exhibition
3. Dimensions should be 184mm x 184mm, with a 3mm bleed all the way around. That’s 190mm x 190mm
in total. The bleed won’t be visible, so bear that in mind
4. Your le must be produced in CMYK so it’s set-up to be printed. Any PMS specials will be converted. Metallic or uorescent inks cannot be reproduced
5. Your le must be 300dpi
6. Your le must be saved as either a Tiff, JPEG or PDF
7. Do try and reduce the size of your le as much as possible - 10 MB maximum
8. You can submit a sleeve design for as many of our tracks as you like, and more than one for each track
9. You must have until 23:59 GMT on 2 March 2016 to upload your designs. Late submission will not be accepted. We advise that you don’t wait till the last few minutes to upload, as the site will be busy
10. Last but certainly not least - if we email you with the good news that you’ve made it into the show please keep it a secret. It makes for a much better project!

We ask for all your details when you submit a design so that we can shout about all our designers once our sale day has passed and the secrets are out.

Note: design inspiration to be 140 characters (including spaces) or less. MS Word count does not include spaces so twitter is the best way to check this. Avoid unusual characters. And remember, your artwork is priority. Keep the description simple. 

Furthermore while looking through the guidelines set by Secret 7" I also discovered that in conjunction with the submissions the type foundry Monotype have got involved with the project, allowing everyone who submits work for Secret 7" to have access to their type libraries vastly broadening the range of typefaces that I can use in the completion of briefs and giving us access to a wide variety of fonts of which we would not be able to afford to use in a normal context as they are allowing the use of them for free in the completion of Secret 7" briefs.