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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.