New Design Competition, interest thread Options

[brooklyneast05]

alright homies, since thomas' design competition has ended, i'm going to start a new one.

basics:

- it will be formatted similar to thomas' in that there is no real elimination, only winners each round. you can compete in every round regardless of whether you win or don't win the round before. also you can pick and choose rounds to participate in. so for example, if you're too busy for round 1, you can still enter round 2, 3, 4 ect later on.

- i'm going to be steering this competition away from things like icons, blends, myspace layouts and towards more "real life" design. examples: book covers, posters, package design, website layout, logos, stationery, whatever else we can come up with.

- as far as winners, there will be a separate pinned thread where the winners and runners up of each round will have their work displayed. so there will be a lot of winners probably. to determine an over all winner we're going to use a point system. if you win a round you get 10 points, if you are the runner up you get 5 points, everyone else competing in that round gets 0. at the end of the contest whoever has the most points is the "official" winner over all.

- the "official" winner and runner up will receive free advertising on Gabi (schizo) & Amanda's (Blaqheartedstar) sites. there may or may not be more prizes added later on depending on how the contest plays out. recognition as the winner is your main prize.

judges:

- (brooklyneast05)
- Natalia (manny-the-dino)
- Gabi (schizo)
- Mike (Mikeplyts)


post in this thread if you are interested in competing or have questions.

competitors won't be limited to those who post in here, we just want to get an overall idea how many people are interested. if you are too busy at the moment, but think you will be less busy later and are interested, you can still post telling us you might be interested when you have more time later.


interested:

- joseph
- kristina
- murat
- ariel
- queen
- mark
- holly
- ricky
- abbey
- toby
- zephyr
- christy
- xzkdxrawrx (what's your name homie?)
- luke

[rickysaurus]

im definitely in. the last competition wasnt really my strong suit. this is more my area :)
when is the first round?

[brooklyneast05]

im definitely in. the last competition wasnt really my strong suit. this is more my area :)
when is the first round?

i don't have an exact day yet. i just posted this thread yesterday, so i'm going to give it a few more days for people to log on and see it. my estimate is that we'll start the first round next week possibly? we'll just have to see.



to everyone participating:

if you wanna post here and let me know when you have finals/end of year tests that might be helpful. i'm not gonna promise to cater to everyone's schedule...but if we have a lot of people who have finals around the same time then that will for sure be something we'll take into consideration when thinking about round themes and length.

I am, most likely, in.

What if the winner doesn't have a site, though? For instance, the only things I have are a cb and myspace account, and I doubt Gabi and Amanda would want to advertise a personal myspace like that.

mike brought this up too. which is why i say that recognition for wining is your main prize. you'll go in a design competition hall of fame. same as other competitions on cb that don't give tangible rewards. i think thomas has kind of spoiled some people now there may or may not be other prizes added later that would fix that, i can't guarantee anything really right now.

if you have your graphic work based on myspace or a cb account, they will advertise that. for instance in your case you have a sort of business on your myspace. ( it looks like anyway) you can still advertise that.