WRRF Logo Design Contest!

FIRST General Forum
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An E-mail from Ken Krieger of Western Region Robotics Forum

Hey all you arteests out there!

WRRF Needs a logo! and you need $$$!

So how about we trade?

Here’s the deal… Since WRRF is now incorporated, and we will be
generating all sorts of printed material, business cards, letterhead, etc… we need a symbol that is easily recognized as representing the WRRF.

For this we are willing to reward the creative efforts of the individual or group whose design we select by awarding them $100! REAL MONEY!

Details and requirements are as follows:

The Logo should:
-No more than one color + black
-SCALABLE! NOT bitmap (ie. vector/eps/illustrator/etc…)
-Do not indicate any state affiliation
(cuz we are for more than just CA)
- Do not incorporate the FIRST Logo
(cuz we don’t have their permission to use it)
- Must contain the words “Western Region Robotics Forum”
- May include the letters “WRRF”
- Not too intricate… we’ll be using these on Biz cards
and letterhead, as well as banners and posters.
- Interesting, creative, eyecatching, and distinctive!
(like the FIRST logo)
- Submitted as a PDF document for evaluation, final delivery in EPS
-$100 award for chosen design
-Due Aug 1

The chosen design will be displayed on all printed materials, and on banners at Cal Games, Workshops, and the FIRST Regional competition in San Jose. It will also be used on the WRRF Web Site.

Please spread the word. If a team works together and submits a design, we will write a check to your team for $100 if your design is chosen… If an individual works up a design which is chosen she or he will be awarded the $100.

Please submit all entries to [email protected] . This e-mail address will work up until the deadline. After that no new submissions will be accepted!

Thank you all very much in advance for your investment of time and effort into this project, and good luck!

Cheers,

ken

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Come on, guys. I’ve seen lots of creative banners and logos all around FIRST. Are you saying you aren’t even willing to spend a couple hours of your talent and come up with something good? What happen to all the artist and graphic designers who keep bragging about their work?

Consider this doing me a favor ;). I will buy you dinner if your logo win this design contest :wink: :wink: ;).

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I’ll give it a shot.

Can we submit more than one design?

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I’ll give it a shot once I get back to my house on Monday.

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*Originally posted by M. Krass *
**I’ll give it a shot.

Can we submit more than one design? **

Sure! Seeing there is no submittion right now…

It only matters that your logo get picked out of all the submitted ones, not how much you submit.

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*Originally posted by Ken L *
**Sure! Seeing there is no submittion right now…

It only matters that your logo get picked out of all the submitted ones, not how much you submit. **

I turned in four already.

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So I take it we don’t have to be a member of a Western team to submit a design?

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…and by “one color + black,” we’re counting white as a color? Or, is it black, white, and a single other color?

Danke.

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*Originally posted by M. Krass *
**…and by “one color + black,” we’re counting white as a color? Or, is it black, white, and a single other color?

Danke. **

Black + White + another.

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*Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin *
**So I take it we don’t have to be a member of a Western team to submit a design? **

Anyone can submit a logo, as long as its good ;).

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How important is it that you get these as a PDF file? :stuck_out_tongue: I don’t have anything I’m aware of that converts files to Acrobat format.

…unless Photoshop does? I haven’t checked. I’ll check. If not, and if it is important, can anyone recommend software that’ll export graphic files into acrobat format?

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PDF is only for evaluation. If you cannot submit in pdf, that’s fine. As long as it’s something easy to open.

The final product, however, have to be “-SCALABLE! NOT bitmap (ie. vector/eps/illustrator/etc…)”.

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*Originally posted by Ken L *
Sure! Seeing there is no submittion right now…

sorry, i was at disney world when the thread was started…
i’ll get right on it

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Hey all.

I asked Brandon to set up a section in the gallery for this contest.

Its inside the Misc section: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&galleryid=104&perrow=3&trows=4&quiet=verbose&direction=DESC&sort=date

Once you submitted a logo to the e-mail address, I will upload it to the gallery for everyone to see.

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*Originally posted by Ken L *
**Hey all.

I asked Brandon to set up a section in the gallery for this contest.

Its inside the Misc section: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?s=&galleryid=104&perrow=3&trows=4&quiet=verbose&direction=DESC&sort=date

Once you submitted a logo to the e-mail address, I will upload it to the gallery for everyone to see. **

Will we be able to know who’s designed each of the submitted logos, or will they be shown anonymously?

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*Originally posted by M. Krass *
**Will we be able to know who’s designed each of the submitted logos, or will they be shown anonymously? **

Unless the designer wants to be shown anonymously, I will put up the designer’s name so they can be recognized for their work.

Whatever the designer wants. If they wish to remain nameless, just include that in the e-mail.

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Ok… what aspect of the WRRF is the logo attempting to put across? The introductory post in this thread said the logo must represent the WRRF, but thats really not enough, I think. Hrm, a better question: when someone sees the WRRF logo, what should they envision?

[edit]* Furthermore, what is the WRRF’s purpose for being? My ignorance in this area may or not be surprising, but although I have heard about the WRRF, I don’t really know what its purpose is. *[/edit]

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*Originally posted by Joel J. *
**Ok… what aspect of the WRRF is the logo attempting to put across? The introductory post in this thread said the logo must represent the WRRF, but thats really not enough, I think. Hrm, a better question: when someone sees the WRRF logo, what should they envision?

[edit]* Furthermore, what is the WRRF’s purpose for being? My ignorance in this area may or not be surprising, but although I have heard about the WRRF, I don’t really know what its purpose is. *[/edit] **

I’m no graphic designer, so I can’t tell what one is supposed to think of when viewing the logo, but I can tell you about the WRRF, generally. It might help.

For the past few years, the WRRF has been a FIRST-team-volunteer-run organization for supporting FIRST teams. For the most part, it’s been localized to the San Francisco Bay Area, but with so many recent developments, things will be changing a lot in the near future. Geographically, it will be increasing (the thought is from San Louis Obispo to Hawaii to Northern California), and it will be more focused towards educational systems, rather than supporting FIRST teams (make no mistake, though, FIRST is still one of, if not the most prominent “co-operative competitive project-based learning programs”, so it will be the focus). It is also an officially incorperated non-profit organization, and will (with any luck) have some real financial backing in the very near future.

The WRRF’s main points of interest are still the California Robot Games (CalGames), which will be held in mid-September, this year, and the pre-season workshops. These will, as far as I know, always be part of the WRRF.

So, basically, you’re making a corperate logo. As was mentioned in the original message, this logo will be used for official documents and whatnot…

Uh, hope this helps… :confused:

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I have been looking through the submissions here in CD’s gallery, and I just wanted to point out something for people who may be interested in pursuing a logo design for the WRRF.

Remember that the criteria calls for black and a single other color, as well as a transparent background (as per Jim :slight_smile: ). Blurs or motion trails or glow effects use more than the allowed colors and cannot be printed in many applications such as vinyl cutters and things.

Just a head’s up.

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Forwarding an e-mail from Ken Krieger, President of WRRF

Howdy y’all!

Check this out!

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pictures.php?action=display&galleryid=104&perrow=4&trows=10&sort=date&quiet=verbose&direction=DESC&startid=0

These are the entries we have received so far! Some pretty good ones in
there. Where is yours?

You still have 4 days to design and submit your logo for consideration
as the official WRRF logo, to be used on all our business cards,
letterhead, etc…

And remember, the author of the selected logo goes home with a crisp new
$100 bill! (Plus a celebrity dinner with Ken Leung!)

Here are the parameters…

The Final Logo should:
-No more than one color + black
(grey is same as black, so black, white, and ??? is OK)
-SCALABLE! NOT bitmap (ie. vector/eps/illustrator/etc…)
(Submitting a JPG or bitmap is OK for evaluation)
-Do not indicate any state affiliation
(cuz we are for more than just CA)
- Do not incorporate the FIRST Logo
(cuz we don’t have their permission to use it)
- Should contain the words “Western Region Robotics Forum”
- May include the letters “WRRF”
- Not too intricate… we’ll be using these on Biz cards
and letterhead, as well as banners and posters.
- Interesting, creative, eyecatching, and distinctive!
(like the FIRST logo)
- Submitted as a PDF, JPG, or bitmap document for evaluation,
final delivery in EPS, or ai
-$100 award for chosen design
-Due Aug 1

And keep checking the CD forum to see what’s up!

Take it easy…

ken