Group Description

The theme of the 2009 myDetour exhibition in San Francisco is "District of You" - a tribute to the familiar places and an invitation to find the extraordinary side of your ordinary surroundings. Whether you're in the Bay Area and preparing to submit your notebook to the myDetour program or elsewhere and just want to express your creativity, we invite you to participate in the Chronicle Books "District of You" contest, where we would like to see your sketches, drawings, photos, or thoughts on your personal "places of inspiration."

Where do you find your creativity? How do your surroundings inspire you? Simply scan your Moleskine notebook and post your images to our Flickr Group. Five submissions will be chosen at random to receive a special gift from Moleskine.

Submission deadline is September 30, 2009.

This contest is sponsored by Chronicle Books in partnership with Moleskine, in conjunction with the 2009 San Francisco myDetour program, running from September 10 - October 1, 2009. myDetour is a Moleskine project dedicated to the community of Moleskiners and anyone who loves to paint, photograph, illustrate, write, and use their Moleskine notebooks for other creative projects. It is a chance for Moleskine users to show their notebooks, both online and offline, and share their creativity and imaginations with both their local communities and with the larger Moleskine community.

Starting September 10, myDetour will be featured as a special display at the Chronicle Books headquarters at 680 2nd Street in San Francisco, as well as at various other book and art supply locations throughout the Bay Area. Moleskine users are invited to visit the displays to check out completed books by authors and artists around the world, as well as drop their Moleskine notebooks in the collection boxes for consideration to join the traveling archive as it continues throughout the world.

**Please note: submissions to the District of You contest are not considered official submissions to the myDetour project.**

For more information on myDetour, visit www.moleskine.com/mydetour/sfo.

To learn more about Chronicle Books, visit www.chroniclebooks.com.