Calling All Designers of the Sci-Fi Persuasion! @loncon3 @thehugoawards @sfsignal @KevinStandlee

Photo courtesy Kevin Standlee. Hey you. Yeah, you!  Do you have a flair for super-cool sculpture?  Then check this out; the World Science Fiction Society has put out a call for submissions for designing the Hugo Awards base for LonCon 3.

The competition is open to anyone, and the submission deadline is January 17, 2014.

Last year for the LoneStarCon 3, Texas-based artist Vincent Villafranca was chosen to design the trophy base.  Villafranca was known for his  futuristic and fantastic bronzes using a traditional lost-wax casting process.  SF Signal has a great video about Villafranca and his submission at http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2013/09/vincent-villafrancas-2013-hugo-award-base-design/. 

And if you have some talent in this area, but are on the fence about submitting a proposal, LonCon 3 also notes that , "The winner of the 2014 Hugo Award base design competition will receive a full attending membership for the convention, where they will be invited to take part in the public unveiling of their design."  So if that isn't incentive enough, then I don't know what is!

You can read the official announcement on the LonCon 3 site at http://www.loncon3.org/hugo_base.php, which includes links to base design specifications and on how to enter the competition.

And just because I always like to tie the blog posts back to The Handbook, I'll make note that the Hugo Award is mentioned in ten of the 42 lessons presented in Rugg's Handbook of Sales and Science Fiction.