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Michigan State Grad Wins NOW's Annual Love Your Body Day Poster Contest

May 21, 2003

by NOW Staff

The National Organization for Women Foundation is delighted to announce that Stephanie Black of East Lansing, Mich. is the grand prize winner of the 2003 Love Your Body Day poster contest.

Love Your Body Day is NOW's national day of action to speak out against ads and images of women that are offensive, harmful, dangerous, and disrespectful.

Black, who recently graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in graphic design and photography, said she entered the annual design contest because it solicited creative responses to the onslaught of negative images that impact women's health and self-image.

"I was drawn to the Love Your Body Day competition because it was an opportunity to create a poster for a cause I really believe in and that will hopefully benefit many girls and women," Black said. "The idea for the poster came from a desire to address the issues in a positive way rather than simply illustrating them."

In addition to winning a $600 grand prize award and a $400 prize award for undergraduate and graduate students, Black's poster design—which compares the price of beauty and fashion products with the costs of groceries, college tuition and travel—will be reproduced as the official 2003 Love Your Body Campaign Poster and distributed nationwide, featured on the NOW Foundation web site, and exhibited at the 2003 National NOW Conference in July.

Other winning posters were designed and submitted by Jennifer Mangini of Waltham, Mass., who won the $400 prize in the open competition category, and Mehek Fatima of Houston, Texas, who won the $200 prize in the high school category.

You may be our next contest winner! Look for information about the 2004 Love Your Body Day poster contest at http://www.nowfoundation.org. More details about how to enter the contest will be available in June 2003.