Competitions
National Speed MousePad Design...
Profile: George Taylor
Company: National Speed, Inc.
Opens: 07 September 2007
Closes: 12 October 2007
Prize value: US$200.00
Details:
National Speed is a startup automotive performance company in the US. You can get more information on National Speed at this link: National Speed Information
This competition is a little different. We already have a logo (designed through a previous LogoSauce competition), and now would like some help with a mousepad design. The mousepad dimensions are 9.25 × 7.75 inches, and it should include the following:
- The National Speed logo;
- The tag line “Fuel The Fireâ€;
- And the website address, www.nationalspeedinc.com
You can get a copy of the logo information here:
Logo in EPS Format; Logo in JPG Format; Logo Design Info.
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We’re looking for an exciting and interesting layout and background that still allows the logo to be dominant.
The winner will receive US$200 via Paypal (and of course a couple of mousepads), and must be able to deliver the winning design in vector and jpg format, and must agree to relinquish all rights to the design by electronically agreeing via email to the following agreement: NSI Design Purchase Agreement.
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If you have any questions, feel free to email me at george@nationalspeedinc.com. And thanks for your help.
39 Logos submitted
Competition closed
This competition closed on 12 October 2007, and a winner is being chosen.
Comments:
Hope Digger has the money and he can choose a winner!
so is a winner going to be chosen, or will this be yet another abandoned contest where designers wasted their time entering?
is this serious ?
Can you give us a little more guidance about what you want from the mousemat?
I don’t think I was alone in assuming that, with a strapline like “Fuel the fire”, you were after something fairly “traditional” in terms of car imagery.
I think it might help to get something that meets your needs if you gave us all a bit more creative direction.
It would help if you could tell us all:
- Who the mousemat’s aimed at (Males in their 30s who have a serious interest in cars and devote over 25% of their spare time to them? 50 year old professionals who have lots of disposable income and a casual interest in nice, high ends motors? etc) - How it will be distributed - What you want your target audience to think about National Speed (are you the guys who know everything about engines, are you an exciting company etc) - What “style” you had envisioned. Examples would help, but words will do. Eg. Trendy, angular, bright, colorful etc etc
Finally, if you want to be able to blow it up to poster size that’s great, but personally, I wouldn’t make that a restriction on entry. It might be an idea to ask people to tell you in the blurb by the designs if they’ve got access to the image at higher res (300dpi at A3 size, say). Personally, I have access to lots of high res imagery that could be used in a poster at a later date.
First and foremost, I think it might be an idea to try to come up with some mousemat designs you really love, and then deal with the poster issue later?
LadyBird
For the mousepad, the raster format would be fine, but we wanted it in vector format so that we would have the choice of scaling it up for a large poster if we wanted to.
just asking- why do you need a vector image ? not raster ?
EmLiam
At the risk of upsetting everyone, the truth is I’ve been a little surprised and disappointed in this contest. When we did the logo contest a while back there were a number of designs that I really thought were unique and great but that I couldn’t choose because of restrictions the various media formats placed on us (large signs, t-shirts, stickers, etc.).
With a mousepad though there are virtually no restrictions and so I was really hoping to see more original and unique designs. Instead, I think everything has too much fire (my fault I guess with the Fuel The Fire), tire and wheels and not enough originality. These concepts are way overused in the automotive market and I think should be used in a more subtle way than what I’m seeing.
Anyway, the design I like the best is this one: Click Here To See Image.
It’s cleaner and the flames are more subtle (although I think though that I’d like to see what it looked like with the logo a little larger). That being said though, I’m not sure I’m prepared to select it as the winner. While I like the overall design, it just doesn’t seem to pop enough. We’ll see.
Anyway, I hope that’s helpful and doesn’t just upset people.
removed, my fault :|
No offense Ladybird, but if they’re not contenders, they should be removed as entries into the competition.
i`ve post my photoshop works although it was said “in vector and jpg format” ; just wanted to show them; i know I can`t take part in this competition
Cwik:
No, you’re right. In the last paragraph of the competition description, it says that you “must be able to deliver the winning design in vector and jpg format”.
George,
I’m confused (or maybe blind) after seeing some raster designs posted. Was it mentioned somewhere that we are allowed to design using non-vector elements in the design?
I emailed the comp holder a couple days ago to ask them to give us an update. Didn’t get any reply.