Logo Contest for Project Curie - Contest Process & Winners Announcement!
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Dear Steemit Community,
Thank you all for the ultra-successful logo contest. It's possibly one of the most participated in cryptospace! We have received about 150 logo submissions. 21 designs made it into the final cut after community voting (a number of them are just for future considerations, despite not being qualified to win the SBDs).
Here's the logo contest's initial announcement for convenience: https://steemit.com/contest/@kevinwong/logo-contest-for-project-curie-calling-all-designers
Before jumping right into announcing the winners, I would like to impart some lessons learned conducting a massive contest on Steemit, in hopes that we can all learn to make future contests better together. You may jump on to the final section to find out the winners. Continue reading if you want to learn to organise contests on Steemit in the near future. It may not be the best process, but it's what we've learned.
Just think of it as an extended drumroll..
Contest Process
Keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the logo contest:-
- Need to promote community participation in spirit of Project Curie.
- So.. open logo submissions in comments and community voting.
- However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for Project Curie.
- So.. community voting as first filter, before internal voting.
- Another problem: late submissions are usually disadvantaged as there are less attention on the contest post.
- So.. we've tried to mitigate such a problem by including unique votes of logo designers in their own blogposts.
- Right at time of contest closing, save the state of browser data by right clicking > save as.. to freeze number of votes in time and to be able to prove your process with transparency. I have left the capsule in the contest post.
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Judging process
Again, keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the judging process:-
- Open a private channel in Steemit.chat, collage all final entries into a board, each design is numbered for convenience. No names are attached to logo designs to remove personality biases.
- Everyone is in different timezones. Instructions are left for judges to leave their votes in the channel.
- Not everyone in Project Curie are artistically-inclined.
- So.. we have also invited artists in Steemit to join Project Curie in the judging process.
- Special thanks to @fairytalelife, @anritco, @thisisbenbrick, @opheliafu, and @nekromarinist taking some of your time voting for the best logos!
Here's the scoresheet from our internal judging process
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To protect sensitivities, we will not show the other numbered correlations of logos. From this scoresheet, it looks like design #5, #11, and #15 are the winners. Design #11 and #15 are tied in number of votes, so that's pretty awesome considering that 2nd and 3rd prizes are equivalent in SBD amount. So I'll just name these two designs as contest runner-ups.
Winners Announcement!
Sorry for all the grandfather's story, but we hope that you've enjoyed the process of this contest! Now that the anticipation has been built nicely.. here are the winners of Project Curie's logo contest:-
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Congratulations and thank you all for the participation!
Please contact us @konti, @acidsun, and @sharker. Send in your designs in the best formats to receive your prize money! We would like to thank you all for your spirited participation in making this a big part of blockchain history!
Follow us @curie. And chat with us here - https://steemit.chat/channel/curie.
A million thanks!
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Wow amazing contest, loved it. Respect to everybody who's involved. Was a honor to be part of it.
It's an honor to have u too @modernbukowski :)
I know all three guys, they're all great people, I congratulate them on their victory!
Awesome - love the designs!
Great designs. The first one is really simple... just Curie... no Project... I'm surprised it won. I really like the second one the most with the atomic/curie symbolism. The 3rd one as runner up as it's nice. I am surprised again that just the word with the upvote on an "i" won... ah well. Good job everyone!
Haha yes, I personally liked it but didn't know it'll come up first. It's actually quite in line with what we were thinking recently. Maybe drop the "project" word down the line. For a name i think it's rather fitting.. thanks for dropping by buddy!
Congrats to everyone who entered!
The volume of amazing entries is remarkable, everyone is a winner here :))
I didnt get to finish my entries before the deadline, so I am making an independent submission for the repository. I do hope you guys like it:
Those are really nice! I wish you had made the deadline.
Thanks! Maybe some other time i guess.
Awesome! Thanks for droppin these design even though it has ended buddy..
Thanks kevin! Looking out for more exiciting stuff from the team ;)
The first one is awesome!
That was a great contest and I'm glad that the team members of Project Curie had so many excellent options to choose from!
Congrats to all the winners!
Thanks Project Curie, not only for this contest, but more importantly for all your hard work!
It's actually pretty fantastic that the final logo is @konti's logo - we've talked about it like we're in an art gallery. First of all, that logo doesn't assume anything - it's neutral with enough styling to standout, it's actually quite in line with what we're trying to do in curie, curate diversely without any stance (other than meeting certain qualities)
Very kewel! Congrats folks. Great job Kevin and the Curie team!
Thanks for your participation too buddy :)
Congratulations to the winners! :) Will you use all three over time?
Yeah probably do a rotation :)
Thank you all very much! Steemit the best!
Full size for download:![](https://steemitimages.com/640x0/https://www.steemimg.com/images/2016/09/13/85a9b53d1752e9b40b262a08f7210e53.png)
@acidsun is it possible that you drop by steemit.chat ?
Hello. I sent to Curie channel.
Congrats to all the winners!
Great entries in that thread!
WOW!
What a successful event!
Congratulations to Project Curie for another step in your continued evolution!