Our friends at the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest are sponsoring the first annual Food Day this October. Similar to Earth Day, it aims to stimulate thousands of activities across the country. The activities will focus on key aspects of food -- health, sustainable agriculture, animal welfare, and more. Can you come up with a dynamic logo?

Food Day is expected to be a highly publicized national event with activities ranging from cooking classes in elementary schools to teach-ins at universities. It will largely be a celebration of delicious, healthy food produced in a humane, environmentally sustainable way. Food Day will advocate for policy changes at the national, state, and local levels. It will also be an effort to denounce junk food makers and their marketing to children, ending inhumane practices on factory farms, and minimizing food deserts in inner cities (where grocery stores are non-existent).

If you don't know about CSPI, you should: it led the lobbying efforts to get the Nutrition Facts label on food packages, led the charge against trans fat and sulfites, stopped dozens of deceptive food labels and advertising (including phony "natural" claims), and much more. Michael Jacobson, Ph.D., CSPI's executive director was recently given the annual "Hero" award by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation.

How the project will work

This will be a pro bono (unpaid) effort to help make Food Day a huge success. The FearLess team is accepting logo entries now through Sun, January 23. All designs should be created in Adobe Illustrator, but should be submitted as a 520x400 pixel, 72 dpi RGB jpeg to: projects [at] fearlesscottage.com.

One stunning logo per person is all we’re looking for, but if you feel strongly about more than one design, you’re welcome to send up to three. Please also provide your name and contact info with your submission. Once we’ve reviewed the submissions, we’ll put our favorites up for voting. All the finalist designers will get a FearLess t-shirt and a free subscription to CSPI's Nutrition Action Healthletter, the world's largest-circulation (850,000) health newsletter.

Thanks, and good luck!

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