"If for Pinays only, the image or identity cannot be left to be determined by those selling sex tours in the Philippines or mail-order brides. The Filipino woman is much, much more than that - - - but she has to know this, believe in this, and fight for this. The Net is one great place to do it. You can have a hundred online magazines and websites in no time. You can create a worldwide network to support this. And in the end, when someone would search for "pinay" or "Filipina" in Yahoo! then these sites would top the list." --- Jesse Liwag, Editor of i-Site, 1998

"...computers and the Internet are some of the tools that will finally liberate both women and Asians from bondage. You see, women in general, and Asians as a set of countries and races, could never have come to the fore in the Industrial Age of Steel and big machines. These were meant for the big men of brawn... the tools of production shifted from iron and steel machines to electronics, computers and the Internet, which are small, handy, fine, cheap, and require more mind than brawn to operate. Due to these qualities ... big men of brawn are not what are needed to run today's industries anymore. What are more necessary now are fine hands and minds, both of which are amply available among women and Asians." --- Mila D. Aguilar, activist, journalist, poet, documentary film-maker, 1998

"...Filipinas defying all gender and race stereotypes and myths, and taking an active part in creating and presenting their identity and transforming it for themselves, regardless of cyberspace, are part of the larger struggle of Filipino people reclaiming their identity. " --- Perla Paredes Daly, web publisher, 2005

Pinay.Com Logo Design Contest

JUDGING DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO November 15, 2008.

Limit of entries per person has been increase to 8.

GUIDELINES FOR DESIGNS:

A logotype design that:

• Is timeless.

• meets Web 2.0 design standards.

• Contains the words “pinay” or “pinay.com”

Your entry can either be something from your own vision or it can incorporate one of the
following ideas:

1)Design logotype of the words pinay.com similar to how “shine”(not “from Yahoo!) have been used as a logotype here at http://shine.yahoo.com(Property of Yahoo!)

2)A unique treatment of the “dot” in the reading of “pinay dot com” logo type.

3) The logotype should be horizontal in format and should be able to read withsimilar to how “Yahoo!” reads above next to the Shine logotype.

The winning logo will be used in the up and coming website of www.pinay.com, a new web portal for Filipinas and by Filipinas that is about Pinay awareness, pride and empowerment.

One of the underyling reasons to create pinay.com is to help balance Filipina presence online and counter Filipina cyber stereotyping or cybertyping that is present on the Internet.

So if you think you might have a winning concept and design, what are you waiting for?! Take a look at the PDF guidelines very carefully and then get on your PC and open up Adobe Illustrator, Corel or whatever graphics software you use, and whip up a design or two or three for us.

And remember, the moment you submit your entry via email, you are subject to all the requirements and rules. So please read all guidelines and follow them well.

Prize Money

The artist of the winning entry will be awarded P15000.

You must be able to receive your money in one of the following ways in the Philippines:
Cash pickup at a business location in Metro Manila.
Western Union Wire Transfer direct to your bank account in the Philippines or pickup at one of their agent locations.
Xoom Wire Transfer direct to your bank account in the Philippines or pickup at one of their agent locations.

We will not announce the winner until that person receives his/her cash prize.

Guidelines

NAMING YOUR ENTRY. please use your first initial and last name to name your entry---end it with 1, 2, 3 etc, depending on the entry number. For example if your name is “John Doe”, name the files "jdoe1.jpg", etc.

Please click here for the Complete Guidelines in PDF format. This document contains all details regarding formats, manner of submission, disqualification, and more. Please read all rules very carefully before creating your entry and submitting it.

Deadline

As of September 3, 2008, you can start sending your logo entry/ies to logo@pinay.com. The deadline is now November 15, 2008, 11:59PM U.S. Pacific Standard Time.

The Winning Logo

The rights and the copyright of the winning logo will belong to the publisher of pinay.com from the time that the winner is announced.

The logo design that wins, will appear in the web site of www.pinay.com for the launch in 2009 and will be used by the publishers to promote the website of www.pinay.com for an undesignated period of time.

The winner will be notified starting November 30, 2008 via email. Once the winner receives the cash prize, we will announce the winner here.

Participation

If you have a web page or website you may, at your own discretion signal your attention to participate in the competition by putting up a link to www.pinay.com, or by blogging about this project (if you have a website).

FAQs

If you have questions please check the FAQs to see if you can find answers.

Judges

The winner can either pick up their cash winnings in Manila or we will have the funds transferred to their bank account. The winner must have receipt of their cash prize before we will announce the winning design.

Blogs and Comments

If you blog about this contest please let us know so that we might be able to place a link to your website. Note: You need to inform us that you blogged about this contest and the any of the entries by sending us an email.

Media Coverage

(click here for press release)

Contact

The publishers of Pinay.com reserve the right to specify the rules, guidelines and restrictions of this contest. Details of this contest may be subject to change as per the publishers' discretion.