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PlayStation Access Cover Star

Competition closes: 05 Apr 2012
Voting period: 12 Mar 2012 - 05 Apr 2012

Competition has ended

This competition has now finished

Congratulations to JOSIAHSAL whose entry was chosen by our judges as the winning entry!

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Here's the winner!

Design a cover for PlayStation’s Access Magazine!

Winner takes home a Sony DSLR with start-up lenses, a Sony NEX-7 Compact Camera and a brand new PS Vita with start-up games! (wow!)

It’s hard work coming up with covers for Access, so we’re going to take a break and let you design next issue’s cover instead.

The theme for the issue will be ‘Gaming takes over the World’. You can enter a photograph, illustration, digital graphics, block of text or pretty much anything else that reflects the theme and makes a great cover.

In addition to the amazing prizes mentioned above, the winner will also have their design featured on the internationally collected Don't Panic Poster distributed inside the iconic Don’t Panic Pack.

On April 5th 2012: the competition closing date, the entries with the highest number of votes will be presented to Access Magazine’s expert panel. If they deem the entries to be of a high enough standard, the winning cover design will be chosen alongside a selection of the 'best of the rest' who will feature inside the magazine.

Below are the two previous Access Magazine covers, although your design need not look anything like these. Before submitting an entry, please familiarize yourself with the guidelines below.

Entry guidelines

Please take the Access masthead into consideration but do not attempt to include or incorporate it into your entry. The title of the magazine and the PlayStation shapes stay in the same place for every issue, so they'll need to fit over your image in a way that doesn't obscure important details.

- Entries accepted from UK and Ireland residents only
- A maximum of one entry per registered Don’t Panic Online member
- Colour mode: RGB
- Acceptable file extensions: JPG, PNG and GIF
- Maximum file size: 4 MB
- Artwork dimensions: 280mm wide x 385mm high, 300dpi
- Once submitted, there is no way to modify your entry! Please make sure you upload the correct file!

Prizes

One winner will have their design used on the cover of Access, and will receive a top of the range Sony DSLR camera and start-up lenses, a NEX-7 compact camera, and a PS Vita plus start-up games. The design will also feature on the Don't Panic Poster distributed by Don’t Panic, as well as being shown alongside the best of the rest inside the magazine.