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Credit: NotWhatYouThink & Sean G. Fermoyle

The Art Of Promoting Chicago's Libraries: Not What You Think

By Staff

GOT INSPIRATION?

For the second year in a row, the Chicago Public Library is holding a poster illustration contest to promote the URL chipublib.org.

Details about the contest can be found here.

The deadline for submitting your work is Sunday, May 16th at 11:59 pm Central. Voting takes place from May 17th through the 23rd and is open to anyone in the world.

Above is "City Of Reading," by Sean G. Fermoyle, one of 13 submissions received so far in the 2010 contest.

Last year there were 164 entries which you can still check out on Flickr.

Posters of the finalists and winners will be exhibited at Harold Washington Library Center.

Here's a few entries from this year and last:

Credit: NotWhatYouThink & Aaron Wooten .
"Cloudy Skies" submitted in 2010 by Aaron Wooten.

Credit: NotWhatYouThink & Kenneth Denson
"City Of Learning" submitted in 2009 by Kenneth Denson.

Credit: NotWhatYouThink & Maggie Puckett
"Not What You Think by Maggie Puckett. Submitted in 2009.