It’s time.
The search is on for a new local artist to create the next full cast of Flingers Craft Characters. Will it be you? There’s a $1,000 prize and artistic immortality at stake. It's Project Pie 4.
Let's see what you got.
THE SUBMISSION WINDOW IS NOW OPEN
FOR YOUR ORIGINAL, NON-AI RENDITIONS
OF FOUR FLINGERS CRAFT CHARACTERS:
DEADLINE TO ENTER:
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30
Details Below
1) drag & drop your artwork
2) drag & drop your headshot
3) tell us a little about yourself
4) Confirm your characters are not AI
Upload your 4 original characters as JPEG or PNG files. Before uploading, please make sure the filename of each image includes your name and the character: (example: KateMartin-Superfreak.jpg)
Upload a good headshot photo that you’d be fine with us using in promotional materials if you advance. Again, before uploading, please make sure the filename of the image includes your name: (example: KateMartin-Headshot.jpg)
Give us your first & last name and a valid email, and then in the text box, share something interesting about yourself and tell us what you love about Flingers. When you’re done, click Submit!
Project Pie is a contest searching for one local artist to create original characters for each of the 21 menu items in our craft character series.
Around the time Flingers re-opened in 2015 as Bloomington-Normal’s home for craft pizza & craft beer, we noticed many major craft brewers putting fun names and labels on their beers.
Three Floyds is a great example. Rather than simple names like 3 Floyds Pale Ale, 3 Floyds Wheat, and 3 Floyds IPA, they created Zombie Dust, Gumballhead, and Lazersnake…and each with its own custom artwork. In the ice cream world, Ben & Jerry’s does something similar. Each pint features its own wacky name and a cool design, like Cherry Garcia or Half Baked.
So we thought: if Flingers is really a place with craft pizza, why not go all-in and apply that idea to our own suite of original menu items? Only one problem: we’re not artists. We can come up with fun names, but someone else needs to create all these characters. How can we find that person?
That’s Project Pie: our search for one local artist to create original characters that personify each of our craft pizza creations, giving them their own visual identity.
To keep it fair and compare apples to apples, everyone who enters must create the same 4 characters: your renditions of the Super Freak, the Flinger Rolls, the General Cheesebomb, and one wild card of your choice. Then we’ll select a Top 10, Flingers fans weigh-in with their vote, we name a Final Four, and determine the winner live at our Grand Finale Event. It’s a little like Shark Tank meets American Idol, livestreamed on YouTube. At the end of the show, the winner gets a big cash prize and then has all winter to finish the rest of the craft characters before they’re all featured in the new menus after the first of the year.
Flingers is your pizza pub. And we’re turning over one of the most important parts of our identity to you –because our customers are collaborators, not cardboard cutouts. So if you’re an artist, or if you know an artist, let them know this contest is going on and direct them to this page. It’s Project Pie. Let’s see what you got.
