Poster Design: Echo for the World

Echo for the World
Originally uploaded by GraphicIdentity

Here is my design submission for Big Typography Contest launched at MyInkBlog.
I don't know if Andrew Houle would accept this entry :P, since this is the last day to submit the design poster for this contest.

I just want to come with simple typography, so for me... ARIAL ruleeeeeeees! :D

You can also enjoy amazing posters from various designers at Big Typography Contest Flickr Group and don't forget to shout comments there!

PSDTUTS Contest: "Solving Poverty" Button Design

Poverty is a worldwide social issue, and do you know as a graphic designer, your talent and skills can help to solve today's most complex issue in the world. PSDTUTS just starts a design contest with the spirit of "Solving Poverty".

It's easy to think that there isn't much an individual can do. Fortunately this isn't the case at all. There is a range of activities one can contribute to a cause.

All you have to do is to design button(s) that will both raise awareness of solving poverty and contribute funds directly to help entrepreneurs in developing countries lift themselves and their communities out of poverty. Give a real act now to solve poverty!


HOW TO JOIN THE CONTEST
The Buttons should have positive visual statement and may use the words "Solving Poverty," or another equally uplifting message on the theme of poverty. You can download the button template format file before you start designing. Submit your entries to the PSDTUTS Flickr group, tagged "solvingpoverty". There will be no limits to the number of buttons you can submit for this contest. For more detailed information, just visit the PSDTUTS "Solving Poverty" Button Design announcement post.


FOLLOW UPs
The best of 10 Buttons will be featured on PSDTUTS, and will be available for sale on Cafepress. These buttons will then be publicized as part of Blog Action Day too. The artists behind the winning entries will receive exposure through these channels and on the sales page of Cafepress. Any money raised from the sale of buttons will also go straight to Kiva.org. Prizes are wonderful too as you can get the chance to help others simply by participating this contest! All entries must be submitted before midnight September 28th, 2008.


INTERESTING BUTTONS SUBMISSION
While the contest entries keep coming everyday, we stopped by at PSDTUTS Flickr group and found these interesting buttons design submission for your inspiration. Just click the button designs below to shout a comment if you like :)

designed by EAMejia

designed by _Fer.nan.do_

designed by badiali

designed by IMMarus

»» Trim

Trim can be used to create complex shapes. The process of trimming depends on what object you select for trim. Please understand the procedure carefully.

1. Open Corel Draw.

2. Select Rectangle tool and draw a rectangle. Select Ellipse tool and draw the circle so as to overlap the part of the rectangle. Keep the circle selected.

3. Go to Arrange > Shaping > Shaping

4. This will open the docker i.e. the dialogue box fixed to the right of the desktop. Select Trim from the drop down. "Source Object" is selected by default, if not select it leaving other option blank.

5. Click Trim. You will get "Trim" cursor to select the object you want to

trim by the already selected object.

6. Click the cursor on the rectangle.

7. The selected rectangle is trimmed; it means the portion of the rectangle is cut in the shape of the overlapped part of the circle. And the source object that is the initially selected circle will also remain intact.

Try it out and enjoy Corel Draw....

June Graphic Flux entry - Xerces CD Cover Design

Wow ;) Finally, I finished the design submission for Graphic Flux June Graphic Design Challenge. Still 5 days to go for the entry deadline date, so please join now if you still haven’t submitted your own design.

You can take a look to some of the recent design entries on Psiplex.com. The design challenge is to create a CD artwork cover for a band, and here are the details:

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The group's name is Xerces. They are your countrymen and need to make a global impact with this release. Groundbreaking artwork for their CD will be used to carry over to their other media to create a strong connection to the group. Xerces' main focus is music for rain forests. They are all about letting the world know about this incredible but shrinking resource. They would like the CD artwork to reflect their passion for rain forests. Xerces wants to keep the artwork 4-color and their only other requirement is to use the font face 'Petie Boy' available for a free download from Bittbox.

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To set 4-color schemes only into this CD cover design is absolutely challenging, so I went to see natural background that has mono color hue and this dark wooden board background became my choice. Xerces’s is a unique band and focusing on music for rain forests, therefore emphasizing it to fit the natural context is important. I want it to be simple but mystify at once :p, so I was adding up a floral abstract leaf which has rich detailed texture.

To be honest, I prefer to have destroyed BB Petie Boy fonts on the design. But, then again, it is rather difficult for me to make it readable when only 4-color schemes allowed to use in this design challenge. In the end, I decide to put the red “S” destroyed font letter to spice up. The other font’s characters are white and to make it stand apart from the background, I thought I need to add red stroke to each of it.

I want to hear your comment regarding to this design challenge and my design submission! :D so please drop comments and I really appreciate it if you would join this Graphic Flux June Graphic Design Challenge also!


Related Post:

• Graphic Flux – Design entry by Moonshadow
• Graphic Flux – Design entry by Doug Cloud
• GraphicFluxEntries

June's Graphic Flux Challenge

The June's Graphic Flux has started, as Psiplex.com announced the theme of the challenge for this graphic design project.

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To join this collective graphic design project, you must create one CD artwork cover design for a fictional indie band. Some rules of design are set to get start. Be ready to drive your maximum creativity and start to design after you visit the detailed design submission rules at: The Graphic Flux June Graphic Design Challenge

Please comment, if you have any question regarding to this blogging activity. This graphic design challenge is open for everyone :D

You can grab the banner above if you like to spread this challenge to the internet readers across the globe!

The Deadline for the design submission would be in: June 30th 2008

Related Post:

• The Graphic Flux June Graphic Design Challenge
• Graphic Flux – Collective Graphic Design Blogging Project
• Graphic Identity Blog Updates

Graphic Flux – Collective Graphic Design Blogging Project

It was started from a small discussion with graphic designer friends who are also bloggers, I have an idea to set a collective graphic design blogging activity. An event that I hope will be continuously persist in every month and growing.

The main objective is to showcase everyone skills and talent in graphic design. The submission entries don’t have to appear like somewhat of professional graphic designer can do. They can be a process of a newbie experiment to learn advance technique...anything that will express your sense of art in graphic design or simple stuff that has developed from creativity.

Graphic Flux is the title of this Collective Graphic Design Project and it was first brought by Psiplex.com. We hope that this collective blogging project will dynamically visualized your graphic design as we are calling out more and more graphic designers or everyone who has big passion to graphic design to get involved into this project.



What to Do?

• In every month round, we will set a new graphic design task for the participants. We think that different theme challenge in monthly time line set would encourage you to stay creative with more challenging task.
• We will choose the blog host every month to showcase all the entries. If you are a Blog Catalog user, and has been actively involved in our group called Blog Catalog Graphic Design Group, then your chance to be chosen as the host blog for this project should be more.
• As we announce the new monthly round task, give yourself time to design as what will be described in Graphic Identity blog or the host Blog! We think that monthly round timeline should give all the participants to design and relax into pure creative time.
• Create your graphic design based on the theme’s format and rules.
• When you are finished with your design, just post it in your blog and don’t forget to link back to the chosen host blog and to the Graphic Flux announcement post on the host blog itself. If you are not a blogger, you can always write a guest post about your submission design on my blog or your friend’s blog.
  
• Describe your design process tricks and tips or just share the story of why you come up with your design.
• We will notice that you are in the game, by contacting to the Graphic Flux blog host of the month via email or post a comment to the Graphic Flux announcement post (depends on the announcement rules set by the host blog) and include:
  1. Your name
  2. Your blog name and URL
  3. Your design post permalink
• The deadline for each entry submission would be in the date of 30th every month. Once the submissions are in, the host blog will pick some of the best designs and showcase them on a round up post in the following month.
• You are allowed to contribute only one design per project/site.

What You Will Get from This Blogging Project

• We like the idea of staying connected to each other’s blog. Which are you probably have done it by commenting on a someone’s blog post, subscribing to a blog, or many things that you can do to get involved in everyone’s blog. Well this collective blogging activity would somehow connect you in more unique way :D
• You can learn new tips and techniques from other blogger mates who have joined this blogging project.
• Showcase your design work in a growing community and having a chance to let people find out more about you.
• You will get more related back links and of course: Link Love. By the end of the month, Graphic Identity blog will give the link love to all the participants of this graphic design project in a monthly round up post. Graphic Identity Blog now has received PR 5, so please use this benefit and submit your entry when we launch this project next week!

The Blog Host for this collective project is already chosen, and that would be Psiplex.com. While we gather more participants within a week, kindly subscribe to Graphic Identity blog Feed to hear the next update about the project task for the June’s round.

DESIGNATHLON - Logo Design vs Blog Design

Time to get your self warm up now! New events are likely get you to exercise into rounds of enthusiastic battle of DESIGNATHLON competitions. :D Don't get confuse to what I'm trying to say. DESIGNATHLON is just a dummy term to describe what's going on here.

There are two design competition events that I've been following recently. Held on Logo Design Love and Vandelay Website Design, I think if you could watch these competition it would be as fun as watching a game competition. You don't have to sweat to create and submit your hell of astonishing design, because all you have to do is to vote. You will be the judge reader along with other blog readers across the globe to choose some of the design entries as your most favorite design.

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Enough with the chit chat let see what you can do ;)!

Reader Appreciation Award at Logo Design Love

There are 10 award categories of logo submission. As well as an outright winner decided by the judges, you are also invited to vote by leaving comments on the individual category posts. Add a comment below every post category as your favourite design (or 1st, 2nd and 3rd favourite). Once all categories have been published, the votes will be counted and the final round featured .
Categories already published are hyperlinked. The remainder will follow very soon. Find these 10 logo design categories and start your votes now!
* Business blogs
* Design and photography blogs
* Entertainment blogs
* Environmental blogs
* Health and self-development blogs
* Marketing and PR blogs
* Personal blogs
* Political blogs
* Technology blogs
* Miscellaneous (for everything else)


Blog Design Madness

The Blog Design Madness competition is now officially underway! There are 64 blogs that have been chosen, and the participants are all listed in this post. Because each competition requires a separate poll, Vandelay Website Design needs to break up the first round into 2 parts. There are 16 matchups in this post involving 32 outstanding blog designs, and the second half of round one will come in a few days.
Each matchup includes a poll, links and a screenshot of both blogs. Vote for your favorite blog on Blog Design Madness: Round One now!
Here are the competition participants:
* Freelance Switch vs. Mark's Digital Farm
* Vocino.com vs. You the Designer
* Pro Blog Design vs. Tim Kadlec
* 9513 vs. Webstock
* Grand Sierra Magazine vs. Elitist Snob
* The Big Noob vs. Blog Design Blog
* Reflections vs. Trailer Flick
* David Airey vs. Kollermedia
* ProBlogger vs. Sully's Design Studio
* Artico vs. Young Go Getter
* Cult Foo vs. N. Design Studio
* Robert Beerworth vs. Noupe
* Laura Alter vs. Loon Design
* Rob Goodlatte vs. A List Apart
* Josh Spear vs. Mostly Lisa
* PSDTuts vs. Bart-Jan Verhoef

UPDATE:

• The results from the 1st half of round one are as follows (see the original post for screenshots and links):
  


• Blog Design Madness has completed the votings for The Second Half of Round One
  There were 32 excellent designs to decide on, and the winner of this second half round one are:
  Freelance Switch vs. Mark’s Digital Farm
  Winner is Freelance Switch
  
  Vocino vs. Youth the Design
  Winner is Vocino
  
  Pro Blog Design vs. Tim Kadlec
  Winner is Pro Blog Design
  
  9513 vs. Webstock
  Winner is 9513
  
  Grand Sierra Magazine vs. Elitist Snob (this poll was tied, so I took am removing my vote for Grand Sierra Magazine and using the readers votes of 15 to 14 in favor of…)
  Winner is Elitist Snob
  
  The Big Noob vs. Blog Design Blog
  Winner is Blog Design Blog
  
  Reflections vs. TrailerFlick
  Winner is Reflections
  
  David Airey vs. Kollermedia
  Winner is David Airey
  
  ProBlogger vs. Sully’s Design Studio
  Winner is Sully’s Design Studio
  
  Artico vs. Young Go Getter
  Winner is Young Go Getter
  
  Cult Foo vs. N. Design Studio
  Winner is N. Design Studio
  
  Robert Beerworth vs. Noupe
  Winner is Robert Beerworth
  
  Laura Alter vs. Loon Design
  Winner is Loon Design
  
  Rob Goodlatte vs. A List Apart
  Winner is A List Apart
  
  Josh Spear vs. Mostly Lisa
  Winner is Josh Spear
  
  PSDTuts vs. Bart-Jan Verhoef
  Winner is PSDTuts
  

What is Graphic Design Poster Competition on Veerle's Blog

I could have posted this design competition announcement earlier, too bad I found about it late after digging links to some design forums when the submission deadline was only two days left to go. Veerle never provides email subscription to her blog, I got a little upset to my self, why I didn't subscribe to any feed reader before.

The basic concept of this contest is to come up with something creative or witty that visualises the question 'What is Graphic Design?'. Veerle is the only judge and jury for the contest and she gathered attractive prizes to win from sponsors like Adobe Creative Suite CS3, Expression Engine CMS and much more.

Veerle put forward her own poster design, and got interesting comments by other Flickr users. :D She used the same color scheme as shown on her blog, but the design visualized what Graphic Design is in different typos.




The closing date was 15 February 2008, and the contest got the mass attention nearly up to 600 design submissions. As some of you probably know that Veerle's Blog gets PR 8, so this should not be a surprising thing if you find enormous numbers of great poster design entries. You can surf down to enjoy each entries in a Flickr pool group called: What is Graphic Design Poster Competition.

This was my final shot only in 24 hours before the deadline ;p "Feeling Red" LOL it could have been more worst than this one. Check out and please comment and give your critique if you wish.




You can also put your comment to the group pool by login to Flickr or register first if you still don't have Flickr account.

I will add the updates for the winner announcement as soon as Veerle gets the judge result! Stay tune guys :D

UPDATE:

Veerle has featured some of the contestant entries for What is Graphic Design poster competition and they really are outstanding in every aspect of design. She said that her readers are creative bees!
Here is my favorite one, designed by gravitymachine, this poster just captured my eyes right away.



Take a look of these bees now :D

The 1st winner of "What is Graphic Design Poster Competition" on Veerle's Blog is:

Juanma & Gabriele



See the other winners and please give their wonderful designs a comment!

Th 10th Prize winner looks like adopting traditional Balinese mask, I love the cultural touch in it. Designed by Gage Batubara who said

Graphic Design is MASKING your ideas

Gravitymachine gets the runner up prize, as I have previously shared you their design entry and I'm so happy that my favourite choice turned out to be one of the winner. Not bad at all guys :D, congratulation to all the winners!

Related Links:

Winners of the What is Graphic design poster competition