The 2015 Bike Winter Mascot/Sticker Design competition thread

Hiya folks,

It's time to crank on the sticker design for the coming 2014-2015 Bike Winter cycling season . . .  typically we start with a little open brainstorming, and see if we can get any new folks to come out of the woodwork and offer up drafting or design skills to make the ideas reality.

 

Our target date for sticker distribution is the big 17th Anniversary Chicago Critical Mass on Friday September 26th.

The deadline for submission for sticker proposals will be Sunday September 7 2014, 11:59 P.M., with voting taking place  Monday the 8th through Wednesday the 10th.

Lookee here for past stickers/mascots/slogans:

http://bikewinter.org/stickergallery

 

Go ahead and discuss away, but if you'd like to cut to the chase and design a sticker proposal, here are some considerations that will need to be taken into account:

1)These stickers eat up a sizable chunk of our hard-earned funds, and their main purpose is to be seen and read easily so that they can fulfill their function as advocacy tools- thus:

a) Proposed designs need to clearly, prominently, and legibly, at a glance, even in low light conditions, say Bike Winter 2015 (Not Chicago Bike Winter! we have other cities that we like to support with these).      Bike Winter is two separate words.

b) Need to clearly, prominently, and legibly, at a glance, even in low light conditions, say bikewinter.org. (hint- the URL tends to be too small on practically every initial submission).

2) Size is 1.5"X 4.25". This allows readability on bicycle tubing and on bike racks.
Can be oriented horizontally or vertically-- see sticker gallery for examples

3) Should not violate copyrights or contain elements used without permission.

4) In keeping with tradition stickers may feature a 'new' mascot and a slogan that ideally would be a corny play on words, but this is not a requirement. In keeping with tradition designs/themes should also not resemble past years' stickers but present a new look for the coming season.

5) Proposals need to be submitted in final, production-ready form by the end of Sunday, September 7 2014, either by posting to the sticker/mascot thread (i.e. this one) in thechainlink.org bikewinter group, or as an attachment sent to stickers@bikewinter.org, or by posting to the bikewinter "announce" listserv.  Please try to reduce your image file to under 500k in size before posting to the bikewinter list.

6) Submissions not meeting 1 through 3 above will not be included in the voting.
Voting will take place via SurveyMonkey and will be conducted under the supervision of the Bike Winter leadership.

7) The winner will be determined by a tally of votes at the end of Wednesday September 10; by submitting a design the creator hands off ownership to the Bike Winter effort and its volunteers for use in promoting the Bike Winter effort; creators agree that they will assist promptly if their design is chosen in any minor changes needed to assure visibility, compatibility with the printer's requirements, etc., and/or authorize others to make said changes.

8) Designs submitted in the past may be resubmitted with necessary updates,  but must be submitted by the original artist

 

Questions/comments/complaints/ideas/proposals/submissions below!

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Curcio on September 2, 2014 at 8:14am

I see that you are! Hmm, "Cool Beans" was 2014.  Maybe we want to do the winter of 2014 over again?
 
Jaik S. said:

just following the rules(loosely).

"a) Proposed designs need to clearly, prominently, and legibly, at a glance, even in low light conditions, say Bike Winter 2014 (Not Chicago Bike Winter! we have other cities that we like to support with these).      Bike Winter is two separate words."

Lisa Curcio 6.6mi said:

Isn't it 2015?

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 2, 2014 at 8:16am

I second that. (mostly because I don't want to change all of them again.....but here I go...)

Lisa Curcio 6.6mi said:

I see that you are! Hmm, "Cool Beans" was 2014.  Maybe we want to do the winter of 2014 over again?

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 2, 2014 at 8:27am

Updated. Thanks Lisa! (and I thought of the next design I'm going to do.)

Permalink Reply by Jason Greenberg on September 2, 2014 at 6:04pm

Here is a Bike Winter design sticker update from 2013 remade for 2015.  Yes, the return of the Narwhal!!

Maybe its time has come!?

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 3, 2014 at 2:15am

I'll try to fancy it up a bit...but anyone else can download a copy that's twice as large(8.5x3.0) to work with here. I don't mind any changes...it's all for fun, right?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Bedno on September 3, 2014 at 6:43am

Utilizing popular memes helps reach the youngins.

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 3, 2014 at 8:04am

It's the letter shading...I think?


h' 1.0 said:

Strange quasi-illusion here..... when you scroll past the Narwahl sticker it appears the whole thing is skewed clockwise a degree or three-- but when you examine it carefully it doesn't seem skewed.  Advertising firms pay big bucks for unsettling little effects like this :-)

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 3, 2014 at 12:04pm

sigh...I'm sick of looking at monitors for the day.

Permalink Reply by x on September 3, 2014 at 3:09pm

Here is something a little simpler this year.

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 5, 2014 at 2:34am

Permalink Reply by Jaik S. on September 5, 2014 at 2:41am

hahaha, bad paint.net drawing of Buddy the Elf.

Permalink Reply by Damara on September 5, 2014 at 10:59am


My submission.  Open to changes

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