Tropicana’s renovations…

The Tropicana Hotel is currently renovating their main pool. They are understandably hesitant to commit to a completion date but are projecting re-opening the area in May/June. It is unclear at this point whether the main pool area will be available for our welcome party and dinner reception. We are currently planning for either possibility, poolside or indoor. Both events WILL be held but the location will not be announced until closer to conference. Please note that the garden pool area is NOT under renovation and will be available for our visit.

NEW! Hands-on workshops

This new approach to core material will give attendees a hands-on approach to studio set up, cross contamination prevention, autoclave/statim usage all within a “studio environment”.   Class sizes will be limited so that facilitators will be able to give participants individual attention. Join us for this first time offering!

Attendees must sign up for a single workshop session in order to attend.  This includes all Full Conference Pass attendees.  One workshop is scheduled to be done in Spanish.

T-Shirt Design Contest

The Association of Professional Piercers is asking for artwork design submissions for our 2010 Conference T-shirts to be sold in Las Vegas at the annual A.P.P. conference next May 2nd through May 7th 2010.

If you have ever had an idea for a shirt that you always thought would be the very best thing to ever grace the backs of A.P.P. conference goers, well, now is your chance to shine!  Gather up all those witty wise cracks, saucy silkscreens and  impressive images that have been cluttering up your brain, tuck them into a closet someplace and think of something good.  Get your artwork into your computer and send it to us and you may find your idea on the next conference T-shirt or hoodie.

You can send in as many designs as you like, the more you send us, the better the chances your artwork has of being chosen.

We have had a lot of people ask how they can contribute to the APP cause and this is a great opportunity.   The members and friends of the APP are a very creative bunch and we are looking forward to seeing what you can all come up with.  Not only will your designs grace the chests of piercers across the globe but we’ll send you TWO free shirts and put a special thank you in the conference program!

So now that we have made this an irresistible contest and you are foaming at the mouth to get started, there are a few guidelines you will need to follow.  Luckily, they aren’t too restrictive so read on and get those creative juices flowing!

Rules for the A.P.P. shirt designs:

  • You may submit single color designs or multi color designs.
  • If your design is for a specific article of clothing please specify the type (ie: hoodie, boy shorts, baseball-T, etc.) otherwise we will figure out what to print on.
  • All submissions must be made before January 1st 2010
  • All submissions must be emailed to William Spencer at appdesigncontest@gmail.com
  • All submissions must be in a 300 dpi flattened TIFF in RGB.  (please don’t ask if some other format is ok, this is pretty clear) Here is a link to the design templates from the company the APP uses for printing: http://www.jakprints.com/file-prep/apparel.php

Submissions must contain the following:

  • the current APP logo
  • the words “Association of Professional Piercers”
  • the words “conference 2010”

If you would like to submit a design that is just for the APP in general and not conference specific, that is fine as well.  We usually have a more basic shirt for sale along side the conference designs.  In this case you must still use the current APP logo and the words “Association of Professional Piercers” but you can skip the “conference 2010” part.

Submissions may NOT contain any of the following:

  • graphic nudity
  • offensive language
  • any copyrighted material
  • offensive, nationalistic, or religious symbolism (ie: swastikas, flags, crosses etc.)
  • excessive violence

Most of this stuff is just common sense but we wanted to give you a basic idea of what we are looking for.  Of course, we reserve the right to reject any ideas we want for any reason, even if we forgot to write it down.

The earlier you send in your designs the easier it will be for us to decide which ones will be used!

We will be deciding on the winners shortly after the last submission is accepted and we will send out another email to let everyone know who the winners are, or, you could just come to the conference in beautiful Las Vegas and look at the shirts for sale in person!

We know that artists don’t like their work mussed around with and so we don’t plan on doing that BUT if a design would be perfect with just a tweak we do reserve the right to modify the designs as we see fit.  If we find that we need to change a design we will contact you before we put your name on the modified design, in case you decide you don’t like it.  Keep in mind, we can take your name off the design if you wish but we may still use it, even if you think it sucks.

One final thing about legal stuff:  By submitting your designs to the A.P.P. you are giving ALL rights to your design over to the A.P.P.   For any design that is NOT chosen, all rights will return to the artist  AFTER the 2010 A.P.P. conference in Las Vegas.  The A.P.P. will be retaining all legal rights to the designs that are chosen. The A.P.P. will email all the contestants with a list of winning designs, after they are chosen, via the email addresses used to submit the designs.

If you have any questions about this contest feel free to email William Spencer at appdesigncontest@gmail.com

When using email please remember to include your name, address and phone number in all correspondence.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter and thank you for your future participation!  If you have any creative friends, please pass this letter on to them, the more designs we have to choose from the better shirts we can offer to the world!

APP Conference Committee