Bond No. 9 Brooklyn Bottle Design Competition
When Bond No. 9 introduced their latest fragrance, Brooklyn, last month, its breakthrough street-art surface design brought praise and a barrage of responses. Well, we already know that aficionados of the borough of Brooklyn can be opinionated. But so many strong opinions reached the New York based fragrance brand about what a Brooklyn bottle could look like that they realized they’d better offer more options if they knew what was good for them.
So throughout March 2009, Bond No. 9 invites everyone—amateurs and artists alike—to join their Brooklyn Bottle Design Competition and create additional visuals for this contemporary male-oriented cardamom-cedarwood eau de parfum.
Ground Rules:
→ Create your design to fit within the outline of the Bond No. 9 superstar flacon and to include our circular “token” logo.
→ Any style, figurative or abstract, is fine.
→ Inspiration can come from anywhere in Brooklyn—DUMBO, Park Slope, Flatbush, Canarsie, Midwood, Bay Ridge, et al.—or from the very idea of Brooklyn.
→ Any medium is okay: oil, acrylic, watercolor, house paint, pastel, crayon, Magic Marker, makeup—even a ballpoint pen or pencil will do.
→ Completed designs should be submitted to contactus@bondno9.com or Bond No. 9, 9 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012 by March 31, 2009.
After two winners are chosen in early April, the victorious designs will be out into production, with the winner’s names displayed on the bottles. Each winner will also receive one bottle of Brooklyn per month for a year.
March 2nd, 2009 at 9:36 am
I can’t believe their at this again. Last year a fried of mine at Parsons in their illustration program told me that the CEO/founder/owner/whatever lady came to Parsons asking for people to design the Astor Place one. Well she went from being nice to hating everything and then they found out she had gone to several other schools doing the same and basically using everyone like unpaid slaves. I hope people don’t participate in this, it just looks like she’s trying to save money again by not paying the right people to design her bottles.
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:59 pm
The owner of Bond No. 9 actually came to our school and had our entire class work through the semester on her Astor Place bottle with promises of using one of our designs. So she collected all of our image files and didn’t choosing anything. We soon discovered that she had already pulled the same scam with other schools (Pratt, FIT, Parsons…). This woman is just looking for ways to avoid having to pay for her designs. DO NOT PARTICIPATE! Seriously.