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Northern Sun wants to give you money! Do you have a message that needs to be spoken or a graphic that says it all? Submit it to us and you could be rich. Okay, not rich, but we do pay you for your ideas. We're always looking for the next great idea. Maybe it's your idea?

We will pay you $25 for a button idea and $50 for a bumper sticker idea. T-Shirt designs get you a flat fee or a royalty for each t-shirt sold.

You don't have to be a professional artist or writer to be a contributor - we're happy to add graphics to your text or words to your graphic.

Submit a graphic or words electronically.
If it's text without graphics, email it to submitideas@northernsun.com.
Email a graphic to submitideas@northernsun.com OR on our website Submit A Graphic.
We will contact you and let you know if your idea/graphic is accepted. If your graphic is accepted, we'll work with you to get the art into a format we require to produce the final product.
Note: we cannot accept graphic submissions in any other format.

If you submit your ideas by mail, make sure your contact information is on the submission (in case it gets separated from its envelope). If you want your submission returned, include a SASE. Send your mail submissions to:

Northern Sun Catalog Committee
2916 East Lake Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406-2050

Occasionally, we get the same idea from more than one person. If your idea is accompanied by good artwork, you'll have an advantage over someone who sends in a rough sketch. If you're submitting a phrase, we pay the person who submits the idea first.

We regret that we're unable to confirm receipt of submissions over the phone. Electronic submission response time is quicker. The sooner you submit an idea, the better chance it has of appearing in an upcoming edition of the Northern Sun catalog.