Press Release #15

Press Release #15, December 2008
Anticipation announces the winner of the Hugo base design competition.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Anticipation is pleased to announce that Dave Howell has won the competition to design the 2009 Hugo Award statue base. Dave Howell is an artist and fan based in Seattle and has attended Worldcons since 2001, where one could see his parking stickers, part of his “Working Wizard” art project.

Dave Howell’s winning Hugo base design will be unveiled at Anticipation’s Hugo Awards Ceremony on Saturday, August 8 at the Palais des congres. Worldcons have often held an open competition for the design of its Hugo bases. Anticipation solicited artists and designers to design a base worthy of the Hugo Award instructing the designers to make the base an integral part of the design of the Hugo while incorporating an aspect relating to Montreal or Canada.

As winner of the competition, Dave Howell will receive a free, full attending membership for Anticipation and will introduce this year’s Hugo base design at it’s unveiling at the Hugo Awards Ceremony.

For samples of Dave Howell’s work, visit his website at http://howell.seattle.wa.us/art/

The 67th World Science Fiction Convention, known as Anticipation, will take place in Montréal, Québec, Canada from Thursday, August 6th through Monday, August 10th, 2009. More information about Anticipation, including current membership rates, is available on our web site (http://www.anticipationsf.ca); you can also write to us for more information.

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Contacts:
Anticipation The 67th World Science Fiction Convention P.O. Box 105, Station NDG Montréal, QC H4A 3P4 http://www.anticipationsf.ca/
email: media@anticipationsf.ca

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