2026 Custom Cruiser Contest

Hand illustrated custom Cruiser record player

Your Art. Your Style. Your Custom Cruiser

Crosley Radio is thrilled to invite art departments nationwide to participate in our national design competition:
The Crosley Custom Cruiser Contest. We are challenging high school students across the country to customize our iconic Cruiser Record Player by painting, drawing, or more on a Cruiser to create a design the world has never seen before. We will send your school your own Cruiser and some awesome vinyl records to spin on it (that you will get to keep), and then you will send us images of the finished product for the judging phases. Let the Crosley Custom Cruiser Contest be the stage where passion, music, and audacious design collide!

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2026 Contest Applications Are Now Closed.

Participating Schools will be announced shortly.

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2026 Theme: Crate Culture

Analog music today isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about connection. Free from swipes, screens, and shortcuts, physical music turns listening into an immersive experience of seeing, feeling, hearing, and sharing. Step inside an independent record store and you’ll see it: new listeners and longtime collectors side by side, digging through crates, discovering something unexpected. Local record stores prove physical music isn’t fading, it’s evolving. They’re where generations overlap, where vintage pressings sit beside new releases, and where community is built around sound.

This year, design a Cruiser that celebrates the culture of independent record stores. What does crate culture look like near you?