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Challenge Summary

Welcome to NASA Tournament Lab Magazine Page Design. For this contest we want to create a stunning and creative graphic to accompany a feature article on TopCoder in an industry trade magazine.

NASA, Harvard Business School, and TopCoder have established the NASA Tournament Lab (NTL), which enable the TopCoder community to compete amongst each other to create the most innovative, most efficient, and most optimized solutions for specific, real-world challenges being faced by NASA researchers.


The graphic you’re designing has to be very exciting, entertaining to the eye. This graphic will appear in a print magazine to promote the NASA Tournament Lab program as a “center of excellence” for all government departments to use for innovation. Be creative, be sharp, sky is the limit; we need your most brilliant ideas to flow and be placed on this design.

Requirements and Branding Guidelines
- The main idea is focused in the TopCoder community (or an individual member), competing to create efficient, innovative solutions for NASA or a government department.
- Here some appropriate terms you can use if you want to compliment your design: NASA Tournament Lab, Open Innovation, Center of Excellence, Platform, Competition, Challenge.
- You can use NASA Tournament Lab logo. See attached.
- You’re allowed to use any colors.
- You’re allowed to use stock imagery from istockphoto.com (see more details below).
- Avoid simple designs, not too traditional.
- Size: 9 x 12 inches, 300dpi.

Resources
- NASA Tournament Lab websites: http://www.nasa.gov/directorates/heo/ntl/ | http://community.topcoder.com/ntl/
- You can get some ideas from browsing magazines such as Government Computer News, Computerworld, Forbes and BusinessWeek; however the client provided a few possible approaches for inspiration:

  • You can use interpretive imagery representing a coder competition or coder marathon experience, or even the NASA competition.
  • Think about a post-deadline coder workspace, the classic screens awry, Post-it and Coke-can strewn workspace of an adrenaline fueled all night logic binge.
  • Use some kind of hexadecimal representation of the project or the NASA competition or the coding life in a clever way.
  • Think about using NASA or space imagery or images representing the medical kit challenge and turn them into a collage.
  • Depicting a virtual facility with the idea of being able to “order” a solution (maybe like a fastfood restaurant or a shop where product is being taken off the shelf) would be great.


Target Audience
Government, Businesses, Professionals of technology and software field overall.

Judging Criteria
- Creativity and implementation of design.
- Quality of design.

Submission File
All requested contest requirements/screens as JPG or PNG files at 72dpi.

Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design at 300dpi. Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape and saved as layered PSD files, AI or EPS files.

Preview Image
Create a 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode and place a screenshot from your submission within it.

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.

How To Submit

  • New to Studio? ‌Learn how to compete here
  • Upload your submission in three parts (Learn more here). Your design should be finalized and should contain only a single design concept (do not include multiple designs in a single submission).
  • If your submission wins, your source files must be correct and “Final Fixes” (if applicable) must be completed before payment can be released.
  • You may submit as many times as you'd like during the submission phase, but only the number of files listed above in the Submission Limit that you rank the highest will be considered. You can change the order of your submissions at any time during the submission phase. If you make revisions to your design, please delete submissions you are replacing.

Winner Selection

Submissions are viewable to the client as they are entered into the challenge. Winners are selected by the client and are chosen solely at the client's discretion.

ELIGIBLE EVENTS:

2012 TopCoder(R) Open

CHALLENGE LINKS:

Screening Scorecard

SUBMISSION FORMAT:

Your Design Files:

  1. Look for instructions in this challenge regarding what files to provide.
  2. Place your submission files into a "Submission.zip" file.
  3. Place all of your source files into a "Source.zip" file.
  4. Declare your fonts, stock photos, and icons in a "Declaration.txt" file.
  5. Create a JPG preview file.
  6. Place the 4 files you just created into a single zip file. This will be what you upload.

Trouble formatting your submission or want to learn more? ‌Read the FAQ.

Fonts, Stock Photos, and Icons:

All fonts, stock photos, and icons within your design must be declared when you submit. DO NOT include any 3rd party files in your submission or source files. Read about the policy.

Screening:

All submissions are screened for eligibility before the challenge holder picks winners. Don't let your hard work go to waste. Learn more about how to  pass screening.

CHALLENGE LINKS:

Questions? ‌Ask in the Challenge Discussion Forums.

SOURCE FILES:

  • Layered PSD files created in Adobe Photoshop or similar
  • AI files created in Adobe Illustrator or similar
  • EPS files created in Adobe Illustrator or similar

You must include all source files with your submission.

SUBMISSION LIMIT:

5 submissions

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