Tequila plus artwork equals one happy artist. Good thing 1800 Tequila recently launched a Design Your Bottle campaign, where unknown artists, photographers, and graphic designers are given a unique platform (aka a bottle of tequila) to display their work.

Each design that is submitted on 1800Tequila.com after September 14, 2008 will be entered into the Design Your Bottle Contest, where a panel of judges will vote on the submitted artwork. The winning designer will then emerge from the unknown when their design is featured in 1800 Tequila’s 2009 national advertising campaign. The winner will also receive a grand prize of $10,000, and watch as their exclusive bottle gets put into production for nationwide distribution.

The Design Your Bottle campaign jumps off from 1800 Tequila’s “Essential Artists” bottles where nine emerging artists were given the opportunity to design limited edition bottles for the tequila, as well as for their outdoor advertising spots across the nation.