Contest: Design the WordCampNYC logo (let’s try this again)
Back on May 11th we posted the logo contest guidelines, which asked you to submit your WordCampNYC logo design by May 28th… essentially two weeks. Well, since we were too busy trying to find a venue, we didn’t do a very good job of promoting this contest. We received four entries, and two violated trademarks (you can’t use “I love NY” as a logo theme!). So we decided to extend the competition to August 31 at midnight EST. We will then post all the submitted logos on this website, and ask for your votes, with the final tally being about one week later.
Please blog, tweet and promote this contest as much as you can.
Here’s the scoop:
The Manhattan skyline? The Statue of Liberty? King Kong on the Empire State Building? What can you come up with to visually represent New York City? And can it incorporate a [W]?
The “official” WordCamp logo uses the “W” mark and text that says WordCamp. Cities around the world have used this logo, plastering it on web sites, t-shirts, programs, etc. In contrast, some WordCamp organizers create event logos that visually represent their location or community personality. New York City has more personality than most places, and our community has more design talent than anywhere else on the planet, so we should have a badass logo that will put all the rest to shame. A logo so cool that you want to wear the t-shirt every day for the rest of your natural life, after which you donate it to the museum of cool t-shirts.
If you’re a designer, illustrator, sketch artist, or generally creative person, consider designing the WordCamp NYC logo! If your logo is chosen, it will appear on hundreds of attendee t-shirts, on web sites receiving millions of hits, and on all the printed materials at the actual event in October. To allow more people to participate, we’ll hold a logo contest and let our community vote to choose the best one.
