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September 12th, 2007

Nick Hornby Poster competition

Sex Symbol
Sports Star
Rock Rebel
Movie Idol
Fashion icon
Freedom Fighter
Who’s your hero?
Slam the new novel by Nick Hornby bestselling author of Fever Pitch and About A Boy is coming out in October 2007!
Slam stars Sam, a 16 year-old skater whose girlfriend gets pregnant and his whole world flips upside down. He turns to his idol for advice, skate legend Tony Hawk, talking to him through the poster on his bedroom wall.
Which role model would you turn to for guidance? Which hero deserves a place of honour on your bedroom wall?
You could WIN the chance to have your poster of your hero exhibited at London’s Design Museum and be a VIP at Slam’s London Launch Party
Just design a poster of your hero
Your poster should be at least A3.
Email it to slam@spinebreakers.co.uk
Or post to Slam, 34-44 Tunstall Road, London, SW9 8DA and mark entry Slam Competition

Drop into: The Design Museum, 28 Shad Thames, London SE1 2YD
Your poster should be at least A3 size. If you’re sending your entry digitally it should be a .pdf or .jpeg and be 300dpi.

Competition closes 21 September
All the entries will be judged to form a shortlist. The judging panel will include Nick Hornby and a selection on young artists who have designed their very own posters of their hero's when they were 16.
New - JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT
Maya Wild - Diane Keaton
Eboy - ACDC
Peter Stitson - Blondie
Will Ainley- MC Hammer
Stevie Gee - Fonzerelli
Von - Michael J Fox as Teen Wolf
Check out these examples of posters we've had so far!!!.... Can you match them to the posters?
The winner and finalists will get to hang out at the launch party of Slam at The Design Museum to see their work exhibited alongside these artists.

The winner will have their print made into an official limited run to feature amongst a well known artist and of course you will have your work shown at the Design Museum – which usually you only get to do after you’ve been in the biz for years!

That’s it – simple.