Dreamscarred Press's 2012 Logo & Design Contest!
Dreamscarred Press is proud to announce its 2012 Logo & Design Contest. In 2011, Dreamscarred Press held a Psionic Bestiary contest, where contestants submitted one or more psionic monster entries in hopes of receiving a paid writing commission. This contest is designed to give graphic designers and creative talents a chance to create a new logo or graphical designs to be used on Dreamscarred Press products. Dreamscarred Press owners Jeremy Smith and Andreas Rönnqvist will judge the entries and oversee the competition.
The Logo & Design contest contains two categories - Logo and Graphic Design. Each category will have a winner, and one contestant can win either or both categories. Winning prizes are based upon the category.
Logo Category
For the Logo Category, you can submit your graphical design for a new logo for Dreamscarred Press. The winning logo will be displayed everywhere the Dreamscarred Press logo is currently found, including all Dreamscarred Press books and website.
Design Category
For the Design Category, you can submit your design for a Dreamscarred Press-branded t-shirt and other merchandise.
Complete rules are available below.
Submission Details
- No Purchase Necessary
- Contest will begin 12:00 AM CST May 6th, 2012 end at 11:59 PM CST May 31st, 2012
- To enter, submit one to three original graphical designs per category.
- Each submission should be in high-resolution TIFF format, in either black & white or color.
- Entries must be submitted to submissions @ dreamscarredpress.com
- Entries will not be accepted by mail, telephone, fax, or any other method.
- Incomplete entries or entries that violate copyright laws will not be accepted.
- All entries become the property of Dreamscarred Press. Dreamscarred Press is not responsible for lost entries.
- Winning the contest will be based upon design quality and creativity and will be judged by Andreas Rönnqvist and Jeremy Smith of Dreamscarred Press.
Contest Rules
- By entering this contest, the contestant authorizes the use, without additional compensation, of his or her name and/or likeness and/or voice/photograph and municipality of residence for promotion and/or advertising purposes in any manner and in any medium (including, without limitation, radio broadcasts, newspapers and other publications, and in television or film releases, slides, videotape, distribution over the internet and picture data storage) which Dreamscarred Press may deem appropriate.
- The winner of the Logo category receives a hardcover copy of Psionics Unleashed and a softcover copy of Psionics Expanded, both with the winning logo on the cover, and permanent access to the entire catalog of Dreamscarred Press PDFs at no charge.
- The winner of the Graphic Design category will receive two t-shirts with their design printed on them and permanent access to the entire catalog of Dreamscarred Press PDFs at no charge.
- In accepting a prize, the winner acknowledges that Dreamscarred Press may not be held liable for any loss, damage or injury associated with accepting this prize.
- Dreamscarred Press retains the right, in its absolute and sole discretion, to make substitutions of equivalent kind or approximate value to the Winner's or selected entrant's prize in the event of the unsuitability of any part of the prize for any reason whatsoever.
- Approximate value of the winning prizes are subject to the cover price of the hardcover version of Psionics Unleashed and the cost of the t-shirts.
- This contest is subject to federal, state, and local laws where applicable.
- Dreamscarred Press reserves the right to withdraw or terminate this contest at any time without prior notice for either or both categories.
- The Winner and selected entrants are responsible for any local, state, and federal taxes owed due to their participation in this contest.
- Decisions of Dreamscarred Press are final.
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Quick request on behalf of all the other designers. Can you please give us a short "elevator pitch" regarding Dreamscarred Press (specifically what the needs are of this rebranding project), I can design 99 random logos for you in an hour, but I'd rather spend my time focusing on developing a single submission of the highest quality, one that will hopefully last for years (and win of course).
So - here goes,
1) What is the full text for the logo & the tagline/subhead that needs to be included?
2) Does this logo need to be more Modern/Professional or Antique/Fantastical?
3) Does it need to have the option of being Reversible (printable in White Ink only)?
4) Does it need to function on Trade Show Banners and Business Cards?
5) Anything else you's like to share style/opinion wise (like "No d12s in the logo")
6) Is there anything that will get a logo booted immediately (like the use of Papyrus or Comic Sans?)
Thanks in advance, and good luck to everyone who enters - but I warn you, you best bring your 'A' game, I know I am.
Absolutely.
1) Just Dreamscarred Press
2) We don't have a preset logo concept, so either style is acceptable, although I would recommend avoiding "Comic book style".
3) That's not a strict requirement, but it wouldn't hurt
4) Yes.
5) When it comes to logos, my belief is that simpler is better. It should certainly convey the brand - and for us, that's psionics & the power of the mind - but if it's too busy, then it's easy to forget what the logo actually is. Creative, but concise.
6) Just the above mentioned "comic book style" - it doesn't fit the company. Modern and Medieval can both comfortably fit, but the sort of fonts you would see in, for example, 1970's Batman comics, would definitely clash with our style.
Thanks for the questions! A new logo is something that we've been discussing for a long time, and I do look forward to seeing what folks come up with!
There's 17 days left for this contest and for those of you submitting for the Graphic Design category, I'll be wearing the winning entry to GenCon this fall. :)
One week remains for this contest, so make sure to get your entries in! Not only do you get books or shirts, the winners get lifetime access to the Dreamscarred Press library!
We'd like to thank everyone who participated in this contest!
We expect to have a winner selected later this month.
I'll be sending out responses this week. :)
Sorry for the delay.
After much discussion and reviewing some great designs, we have selected our winner for the Dreamscarred Press 2012 Logo Design contest!
I am pleased to announce that our winner is Timothy K Wickham.
Tim's logo will appear on Psionics Expanded and all future Dreamscarred Press products, and will soon be up here on the Dreamscarred site.
In addition, as the winner Tim will get a hardcover copy of Psionics Unleashed and a softcover copy of Psionics Expanded and permanent access to the entire catalog of Dreamscarred Press PDFs at no charge.
We appreciate the time and creativity that is involved and we would like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in this contest.
Stay tuned for future contests!