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Design Challenge 

A billboard design competition open exclusively to Vallejo and Benicia students.​

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QUESTION: What about Vallejo inspires you?

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Compete to be the Big 3! This free-to-enter competition offers prizes valued at $18,000. Learn more >>​

 

We have extended the deadline.  Submit your design by October 7, 2024 at 11:59PM (PST) for individual artists and October 21, 2024 at 11:59PM (PST) for youth groups. Participants must create unique and original Vallejo-centric designs for:

  1. digital billboard

  2. social media

  3. t-shirt graphic​​​​​​​​

Handbook:  Rules, Guidelines, Pro-Tips & More!

Everything you need to know can be found here.​

Download Designers' Handbook (for Individual Artists)

Download Designers' Handbook (for Youth Groups)

Get Tickets! (Free)

2024 Inspire Vallejo Designer Showcase
(Designers will present their artwork and judges will vote for the Big 3)

RULES & TIPS
PRIZES

Compete to be the Big 3!

Finalists will be evaluated by a panel of judges who will decide on the Top 3 Designs of Inspire Vallejo — with prizes valued at $18,000.

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  1. Certificate of Special Achievement

  2. Commercial placement of design on digital billboard at Solano County Fairgrounds

  3. Iconic design featured on an augmented reality (AR) t-shirt

  4. T-shirts produced and available online for sale. With each t-shirt sold, Miles McNeal & Powell LLC (dba Vallejo.City) will share 50% of the profit with the designer

  5. Design featured in 4th of July Parade 2025

  6.  Monetary award

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  1. Certificate of Special Achievement

  2. Iconic design featured on a t-shirt

  3. T-shirts produced and available online for sale. With each t-shirt sold, Miles McNeal & Powell LLC (dba Vallejo.City) will share 50% of the profit with the designer

  4. Design featured in 4th of July Parade 2025

  5.  Monetary award

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  1. Certificate of Special Achievement

  2. Iconic design featured on a t-shirt

  3. T-shirts produced and available online for sale. With each t-shirt sold, Miles McNeal & Powell LLC (dba Vallejo.City) will share 50% of the profit with the designer

  4. Design featured in 4th of July Parade 2025​

  5.  Monetary award

Meet the Judges

JUDGES

Incredibly Thankful
to our Inspire Vallejo Sponsors

SPONSORS

for their generosity and making a tremendous impact in the Vallejo arts community

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About Us
Vallejo.City is a local community resource for Vallejo, California’s civic engagement, healing, and narrative change.  With a mission to advance the Vallejo experience through culture, community, connections, and collective impact.


Vallejo.City is a passion project powered by Miles McNeal & Powell, a social enterprise and community impact interests firm that designs sustainable solutions to close the gaps of opportunity, economic equity, and well-being.


©2024 Vallejo.City, a Miles McNeal & Powell Company

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