Challenge Summary
Welcome to this exciting print contest. This is the follow up to the previous contest we just ran. We want to create a fresh and clean design for a printed program that will show information about two TCO12 sibling events.
** Notice this is a FAST contest with a tight deadline – jump in now!!!!
Round 1
Deliver the designs for pages 7, 8, 9, 12, 13 and 14 for a initial review.
Round 2
As final round deliver all of the required screen plus client feedback. You will deliver the merged files of the whole program.
During the TCO12 there will be held two particular events, the Customer Round Table and the Innovation Summit, both of them will host speakers to offer educational conferences to the event attendees. We want to provide a printed mini program with information about these events. You will be designing this program.
Recently we ran a contest to get the look and feel of the program and some pages. You’ll finish the last pages in this contest using the attached files as your base for work and merge with the original files.
Branding Guidelines
- Use the provided template 5.5" x 7.5". Make sure to follow the bleeding and margin guidelines.
- Keep the look and feel of the already designed pages (TCO12_CRT_IS.zip attached). Overall graphics and colors should compliment the existing design.
- Fonts are open to the designer with the exception of the Bank Gothic font. Please be aware of font delivery requirements.
- Check the TCO past programs as reference but don’t copy anything.
Design Requirements
Page 2/3 UPDATE
- Update the schedule using all the information from the attached source (TCO12 Schedule - CRT-IS.xlsx)
Page 7 (R)
- Ttitle: TopCoder Copilot Presenters
- Place bio and picture from CRT_Bios.docx
- This page will replace the current page number 7 from the attached CRT/IS program design, so left page would remain the same and you would place your elements into page 7
Page 8 (L)
- Title: Toast to Open Innovation!
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Content: Join us poolside for a cocktail reception 5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. at the Caribe Royale. Food, beverages, and good conversations!
- Content can be placed however and doesn’t have to be in one block
- Look and feel of this page needs to be different than others. Make it fun!
Page 9 (R)
- Title: 2012 TopCoder Innovation Summit
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Use the Innovation Summit Logo
- Content: use all the text from this page http://www.topcoder.com/innovation-summit/about/
Page 10 (L)
- Title: 2012 TopCoder Innovation Summit Agenda
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Use the Innovation Summit Logo
- Content: use attached schedule (Innovation Summit events only)
Page 11 (R)
- Title: 2012 TopCoder Innovation Summit Agenda
- Schedule from page 10 can also go on this page
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Use the Innovation Summit Logo
Page 12, 13, 14 (L, R, L)
- Title: 2012 TopCoder Innovation Summit Speakers
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Use the Innovation Summit Logo
- Place the speakers and their headshots from InnovationSummit_Speakers.docx
Pages 15, 16 (R, L)
- Title: 2012 TopCoder Innovation Summit Panelists
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Use the Innovation Summit Logo
- Content: The Emerging Era of the Quantified Self Panelists
- Place the panelists and their headshots from InnovationSummit_Panelists.docx
Page 17 (R - top half)
- Title: 2012 TopCoder Innovation Summit Closing
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Use the Innovation Summit Logo
- Content: Join us at The Venetian Room inside the Caribe Royale for a delicious meal after a productive day of conversations. The Venetian Room has earned AAA's prestigious Four Diamond Award for eight consecutive years. http://www.thevenetianroom.com/
- Add image attached venetianroomrev.jpg
Page 17 (R - bottom half)
- Title: Close out TCO12 in Style!
- Content: We will close out the 2012 TopCoder Open at the famous dueling piano bar, Howl at the Moon. Event will take place Wednesday, October 3 with buses leaving the Caribe Royale at 6:15 so if you’re still in town, we hope you’ll join us!
- Use Howl at the moon logo attached
Page 18 (L)
- Title: Join us at the TopCoder Road Show
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- Add the TopCoder Road Show logo
- Add part of the Road Show site Washington DC image attached
- Content:
This event will pair amazing speakers working on Federal and State projects powered by Open Innovation and Crowdsourced tactics, and an educational forum that prepares the audience members in the proper manner so they too can get going in Open Innovation.
The event will focus on both STEM Education initiatives powered by Open Innovation and communities and boldly showcase how various agencies and divisions within government are utilizing Open Innovation to get some amazing things accomplished.
TopCoder currently works with over 30 Fortune 1000 clients and scores of Federal agencies including HHS, NASA, USPTO, DARPA and others. We are helping these enterprises and agencies accomplish more work, create new innovations, and simply get more done than ever before.
More information and registration can be found here: http://www.topcoder.com/roadshow/
Pages 19, 20, 21 (R, L, R)
- Title: Notes
- Use the TC brackets logo on this page and every page in the same location
- The rest of the pages leave blank please (this is meant to be a blank space for hand writing)
** ATTENTION: you have to deliver the complete program in the final round; merging the provided original design + updates + your new pages.
Target Audience
Prospect and current clients, sponsors, any onsite attendee.
Judging Criteria
- Creativity.
- Quality of design.
- Completeness of the requirements.
Preview Image
Create a 1024x1024 JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode and place a screenshot from your submission within it.
Submission File
All requested contest requirements/screens as JPG or PNG files at 72dpi.
Source Files
One (1) high-resolution PDF file or one (1) .EPS/.Ai file containing the 5.5" x 7.5" spreads.
All original source files of the submitted design at 300dpi using the provided template as a removable layer in your files.Files should be created in Adobe Illustrator and saved as layered AI or EPS files.
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.