Challenge Summary
Tongal needs a sharp, new PowerPoint presentation for meetings and lectures. This presentation must be clean, minimalist and professional. Graphics and slide transitions should be kept simple. For this contest, you will use the existing presentation to create something new.
Tongal is a startup that uses the TopCoder principals and applies them to video content. The site is launching in February.
Round 2 Round 2 starts now with the announcement of the Five $75 Round 1 winners and their design review from Tongal. Round 2 is open to any Studio Member who submitted a design during Round 1 of the competition. The top five submissions are posted to this contest and Tongal will post their feedback in the Studio Forums. The designers are free to view the feedback left for them, as well as the feedback left for the other winners, and use that feedback as guidance for their Round 2 submission. Round 2 General Design Guidelines (1/21/09) Client Feedback for All Submissions: Overall we were happy with the submissions for round one. The winning submissions overall did a nice job of keeping things simple and clean, however, we felt that the effort on branding the presentations whether it be through color or graphic (even something as simple as a border or footer) fell short. That having been said, we think that the five submissions we selected as winners for round one did the best job of meeting our goals for style and content. We would have liked to have seen a more unique visual approach on either the template or in the content of the slides of some of the presentations. Top 5 Winners: please view the forums for individual feedback Tongal Logo You can use parts of the Tongal logo in your design in a creative way. You must show the complete (whole) logo somewhere in your design for branding purposes, but feel free to use the circle, the bull or any other part of the logo individually in your design if you feel it will add more flavor. Embedding the Flash into PPT: - Slide 9 needs to have a flash video embedded into the PPT. The Tongal video player and "What is Tongal" flash video were run through a Bug Race competition to ensure this embedding will work. Please use the attached files and instructions. Please ask the client any design or company related questions in the forums All members who submitted to Round 1 are eligible to compete in Round 2 ____________________________________________ Round One Guidelines This contest requires you to take the current PowerPoint slides and design something clean, sharp and minimalist. Target Audience: This presentation will be used in meetings and lectures with business owners. The presentation should appeal to a wide range of people from sophisticated investors to potential clients to users. Logo and Branding: You must use the Tongal logo attached to this contest. You may not modify the logo in any way, except to resize it. Do not change the aspect ratio. Design Goals: We are specifically looking for a very clean, minimalist design - something sharp and "Apple-ish" in nature. All slides should have a white background. The entire presentation should flow well. The layout/placement of text, along with the font style, size and color should be given high consideration. Slides: Use the existing text from the PowerPoint uploaded to this contest. Do not move text from one slide to another or rearrange the order. Slide 1 - Title Slide Slide 6 and 10 - Section breaks. These screens only contain a section title. Slide 9 - Video Player and Video must be embedded. These files are available for download from the Contest Details page. Judging Criteria: You will be judged on how well you incorporate these guidelines into a professional presentation. Other factors will include branding and creativity. Preview Image: Please use a JPG screenshot of one single PPT slide with no added effects or skewing for your preview image. If you do not have MS PowerPoint, you may use GoogleDocs and save your presentation as a .ppt file.
Entries must be your original work, and must not infringe on the copyright or licenses of others. Stock art, clip art, templates and other design elements from other sources are prohibited unless specifically permitted here in the Contest Details.
________________________________________ This is Round 2 - Anyone who submitted to Round 1 is eligible to submit to Round 2 Congratulations Round 1 Winners on your $75 Prizes: 15773 - djackmania 15774 - djackmania 15775 - djackmania 15779 - JGeeks 15777 - ajie Round 2 will be for $525 with a First Place prize of $400 and Second Place prize of $125.Round 2 Round 2 starts now with the announcement of the Five $75 Round 1 winners and their design review from Tongal. Round 2 is open to any Studio Member who submitted a design during Round 1 of the competition. The top five submissions are posted to this contest and Tongal will post their feedback in the Studio Forums. The designers are free to view the feedback left for them, as well as the feedback left for the other winners, and use that feedback as guidance for their Round 2 submission. Round 2 General Design Guidelines (1/21/09) Client Feedback for All Submissions: Overall we were happy with the submissions for round one. The winning submissions overall did a nice job of keeping things simple and clean, however, we felt that the effort on branding the presentations whether it be through color or graphic (even something as simple as a border or footer) fell short. That having been said, we think that the five submissions we selected as winners for round one did the best job of meeting our goals for style and content. We would have liked to have seen a more unique visual approach on either the template or in the content of the slides of some of the presentations. Top 5 Winners: please view the forums for individual feedback Tongal Logo You can use parts of the Tongal logo in your design in a creative way. You must show the complete (whole) logo somewhere in your design for branding purposes, but feel free to use the circle, the bull or any other part of the logo individually in your design if you feel it will add more flavor. Embedding the Flash into PPT: - Slide 9 needs to have a flash video embedded into the PPT. The Tongal video player and "What is Tongal" flash video were run through a Bug Race competition to ensure this embedding will work. Please use the attached files and instructions. Please ask the client any design or company related questions in the forums All members who submitted to Round 1 are eligible to compete in Round 2 ____________________________________________ Round One Guidelines This contest requires you to take the current PowerPoint slides and design something clean, sharp and minimalist. Target Audience: This presentation will be used in meetings and lectures with business owners. The presentation should appeal to a wide range of people from sophisticated investors to potential clients to users. Logo and Branding: You must use the Tongal logo attached to this contest. You may not modify the logo in any way, except to resize it. Do not change the aspect ratio. Design Goals: We are specifically looking for a very clean, minimalist design - something sharp and "Apple-ish" in nature. All slides should have a white background. The entire presentation should flow well. The layout/placement of text, along with the font style, size and color should be given high consideration. Slides: Use the existing text from the PowerPoint uploaded to this contest. Do not move text from one slide to another or rearrange the order. Slide 1 - Title Slide Slide 6 and 10 - Section breaks. These screens only contain a section title. Slide 9 - Video Player and Video must be embedded. These files are available for download from the Contest Details page. Judging Criteria: You will be judged on how well you incorporate these guidelines into a professional presentation. Other factors will include branding and creativity. Preview Image: Please use a JPG screenshot of one single PPT slide with no added effects or skewing for your preview image. If you do not have MS PowerPoint, you may use GoogleDocs and save your presentation as a .ppt file.
Please read the challenge specification carefully and watch the forums for any questions or feedback concerning this challenge. It is important that you monitor any updates provided by the client or Studio Admins in the forums. Please post any questions you might have for the client in the forums.