2013 Bike Winter Mascot/Sticker Design competition- submissions through Sept 7 midnight.

Hiya folks,

It's time to crank on the sticker design for the coming 2013 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 15th Anniversary Chicago Critical Mass on Friday September 28th.

The deadline for submission for sticker proposals will be Friday September 7 2012, with voting taking place the week afterwards.

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 2013 (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 is too small on practically every initial submission).

2) Size is 1.5"X 4.25".
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 Friday September 7 2012, either by posting to the sticker/mascot thread in thechainlink.org bikewinter group, or as an attachment sent to sent to stickers@bikewinter.org. 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 on Friday September 14; 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 Greg Valent on August 30, 2012 at 5:15am

Shouldn't it say Bike Winter 2013 ?

 

The current sticker says 2012.

Permalink Reply by Gene Tenner on August 30, 2012 at 5:17am

Permalink Reply by John Greenfield on August 31, 2012 at 12:41am

Here's an idea someone can feel free to appropriate:

"Bike Winter: Ice Ice Baby!"

Permalink Reply by Allison on August 31, 2012 at 8:32am

Hi, here's my design!

Permalink Reply by Allison on August 31, 2012 at 10:15am

Here's my design again with the update to URL~

Permalink Reply by Jason Greenberg on September 1, 2012 at 7:35am

Here's my submission with a Narwal mascot (that must be an icicle on her snout!) Sticker background is white for snow, sno' and mo' sno!

Permalink Reply by S.Presley☠ on September 3, 2012 at 4:41am

I love this one!!!

Allison said:

Here's my design again with the update to URL~

Permalink Reply by Dan Korn on September 4, 2012 at 7:56pm

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 5, 2012 at 7:44am

+1

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!

Dan Korn said:

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 5, 2012 at 7:56am

Cameron must be seeing the white cow in the snowstorm BikeWinter sticker proposal...

I see the balaclava-scarf rabbitcycle just fine. 

Permalink Reply by Far'arned Retrogrumpalunkus #63 on September 5, 2012 at 9:24am

Oh, that's right!  

Apple owns the copyright on ALL white rectangles.  How could I forget about that?

h' said:

The white cow on snowstrom was disqualified due to copyright infringement.

James BlackHeron said:

Cameron must be seeing the white cow in the snowstorm BikeWinter sticker proposal...

I see the balaclava-scarf rabbitcycle just fine. 

Permalink Reply by Greg Valent on September 5, 2012 at 2:33pm

Are you sure that it's Apple and not Disney ?



James BlackHeron said:

Oh, that's right!  

Apple owns the copyright on ALL white rectangles.  How could I forget about that?

h' said:

The white cow on snowstrom was disqualified due to copyright infringement.

James BlackHeron said:

Cameron must be seeing the white cow in the snowstorm BikeWinter sticker proposal...

I see the balaclava-scarf rabbitcycle just fine. 

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