We want you to design our new logo

We’re changing The Tab logo and we’re inviting you to design it in the first Tab Logo Competition. The winner of the competition will get a $1,000 prize.

The Tab is one of the fastest growing global media companies and we want our logo to reflect the bold, young and original journalism our students are producing.

Who we are

The Tab was founded by three students at Cambridge University in 2009 as an antidote to dry university newspapers. Since then it has grown into a global news network with 8 million monthly readers and offices in New York and London.

Our university editorial teams at 100 of the leading universities in the US and UK deliver bold, fearless and entertaining journalism to readers on their campuses.

Why we’re changing our logo

We want the evolution of our logo to communicate what we are today and match our values as a bold media company. When our existing logo was designed more than four years ago, we were known as an online tabloid at a small number of universities. Now we are a global news network with broader editorial and more ambition, so we want something new.

The vibe

Bold, young and original — like our news.

Requirements

• Must be our full name: The Tab

• Must be more rectangular, not square.

• Must not be the color red.

• Icons or other elements are allowed, but the full name ‘The Tab’ must still be a part of the logo.

What to submit with your design

Please submit your design as a high quality (at least 300dpi) .jpeg file along with the logo in the following mock-ups. You can use the images provided or use your own.

What your logo would look like on our site

What your logo would look like on one of our Facebook pages

Facebook thumbnail: What everyone would see in their timelines

Site favicon: The icon which appears in a tab on a reader’s browser

An example of how your Tab logo could be customized for a local site

In the past, we’ve had the university’s name below the logo and added a custom photo within the logo. These are just examples — we are excited to see how creative you can get for how we could customize a logo for a local site.

An example of the logo on any merchandise: What we would send to Tab writers

In the past we’ve sent out custom t-shirts, sweatshirts, stickers and pens. You can choose to mock up one of these examples or choose your own.

How to submit your design

Please submit your design and the requirements mentioned above to Eleni Mitzali at [email protected] with the subject line ‘The Tab logo submission / YOUR NAME’ and include the following:

• Your name.

• Your university.

• The year you’re in or the year you graduated university.

• A short description to accompany your design. We would like to hear about your thought process and how the final design came about.

The deadline for sending in a submission for The Tab’s logo competition is Sunday, April 2 at 11:59pm EST.

This competition is open to students and graduates.

The winner of the competition will receive $1,000.

If selected, your logo will appear on our global site thetab.com as well as all Tab local sites in the U.S. and UK and all our social media platforms.

Good luck!