Design Rodeo Details
Learn about the Design Rodeo
Are you ready to make your mark on the 2026 Benton County Fair & Rodeo? The NEW Design Rodeo is your chance to help shape the look and feel of the Fair & Rodeo by creating a logo that captures the magic of summer, community and tradition. Whether you’re a seasoned designer or just love to create, your work could become the face of the Fair and earn you the Ultimate Fair Experience.
Jump to: Prizes | Theme | Eligibility | Submission Requirements | How the Contest Works | Examples | Publicity
Prizes
First Place
The Ultimate Fair Experience
- Four season Fair passes and parking
- VIP area access at the Mainstage and Rodeo Arena
- Two Carnival wristbands
- Scheduled meet & greets with Fair celebrities like the Rodeo Queen, contest winners and more!
- Food vouchers for select vendors (Minimum $50 value)
Entire event brand use on
- Fair promotional materials
- A publicity campaign about the logo with attribution
- Commemorative, limited-edition items like stickers, hats, t-shirts and more (with a percentage kickback to the artist, TBD)
Honorable Mentions
The Ultimate Fair Experience
- Two season Fair passes + parking
- Inclusion in our publicity campaign with attribution
Theme
Each submission should relate directly to the 2026 Benton County Fair theme: Stars, Stripes and Summer Nights.
Eligibility
This contest is open to all who have an interest in participating, with a few notable exceptions:
- Employees and members of Benton County or Benton County Fair Board who serve on the judging panel and their family members are not eligible.
- A parent or guardian will be required to sign an additional form for any participant under 18 years of age.
- Contest ends at 8 a.m. Pacific Time on February 16. Late Submissions will not be considered.
- If any of the submission rules are broken, eligibility will be revoked.
- Each participant may submit up to three entries. Entries beyond the third will not be considered.
- Participants must submit a completed and signed entry and consent form for each submission.
Submission requirements
- Designs must be original, previously unpublished and not AI generated.
- Designs should be made of elements that may be used as standalone iconography (see examples) or as an entire logo.
- Each submission should use at least one of the County brand’s primary palette colors:
| Color Name | Color | CMYK | RGB | HEX | Pantone |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benton Blue |  | C100 M85 Y34 K0 | R35 G72 B123 | 23487B | 2748 |
| Willamette Blue |  | C81 M51 Y19 K0 | R61 G117 B163 | 3D75A3 | 2144 |
| Opportunity Yellow |  | C11 M34 Y100 K0 | R227 G170 B36 | E3AA24 | 7408 |
| Earthy Brown |  | C34 M71 Y96 K0 | R178 G101 B54 | B26536 | 7592 |
| Sustainable Green |  | C89 M42 Y83 K0 | R37 G123 B88 | 257B58 | 2419 |
- Submissions should be in high-resolution, using an EPS file format, built using CMYK color blend. Designs should be visually appealing in both small and large scale.
- Artists should avoid using half-tones and gradients in their color palette
- Each submission must include a short description of how the logo relates to the 2026 Benton County Fair theme (see below).
- Feel free to include alternate versions of your logo or mockups. You will be given space to provide a writeup and context for your submission(s).
How the contest works
Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of County employees and the Benton County Fair Board for a set of five finalists. From there, voting will be opened to the public to determine the winner. Judging will be based on creativity, originality, relevance to the theme and overall visual impact.
Examples
Since this type of contest hasn’t been held in quite some time in Benton County, we don’t have examples of past winners. What we do have are examples of how your submission(s) might be used, from other events or brands.
If you have questions about specific examples or overall uses, please contact our Public Information team at PIOinfo@bentoncountyor.gov.
Publicity
By accepting the prize, the winner and honorable mentions agree to participate in publicity efforts related to the competition, including but not limited to interviews, photographs and social media promotion.
Attribution will not be included with every use of the winning logo in fair promotional materials.