iTime Email Template Design Concepts Challenge

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Challenge Summary

Welcome to "iTime Email Template Design Concepts Challenge". We are looking for your best email templates and concepts for iTime. We have supplied you with a good visual direction for the iTime brand, including concept boards, brand colors, fonts, and images. We also supplied you with all of the content that you will need to flow into your email layouts. You can use all of these assets to start building your designs with. We look forward to your submissions!

NOTES : We've got fast timeline for checkpoint submission phase, so JUMP IN NOW and HAVE FUN!!

Round 1

Initial Email Template(s) Design for client review
- Feel free to include a few different directions/ layouts for how the content can be organized. Make sure each direction is labeled appropriately.

 

Round 2

Final designs and layouts, including any checkpoint feedback applied.
- Email Template(s): Feel free to include a few different directions/ layouts for how the content can be organized. Make sure each direction is labeled appropriately.


About iTime
At its core, iTime is a charge code (an absence code) designed to allow you to account for the time you spend innovating AND be recognized for it. But the concept behind iTime is much bigger than a charge code. iTime is about igniting a movement inside Basic Company where each of us are compelled to act on the spark of an idea and do something to bring it forward. iTime is your time to fuel that spark of an idea that you know could become something awesome. Because ideas take time.

Inspiration
Use the supplied branding document and supplied images for your design direction. Your designs MUST align with the concept boards and branding. We are looking for your concepts and ideas on how to best layout and organize the email templates and layouts.

We’ve also included a few emails as inspiration to get you thinking about your layouts and designs in a more creative way.

Email Template Requirements
-- Content for the Email Template is supplied. This should be used in your designs.
-- Feel free to include a few different directions/ layouts for how the content can be organized. Make sure each direction is labeled appropriately.
-- Your document should be 680px wide with a 40px borders at 72dpi (600px active area)
-- We’ve included a PSD template with the correct dimensions, borders and guides to get your started. The length can be extended to fit content
-- Your design should be engaging and visually appealing, but also easy to read
-- Be aware of the limitations of designing for email. Make sure your designs aren’t too complex with alot of overlapping elements.
-- Please use Arial for any “live text”. Fonts within graphics, icons or on top of images can use the fonts outlined in the branding document.

Target Audience
- Internal Employees

Judging Criteria
-- Is your design engaging and fun to look at
-- Do your designs match and align with the established brand
-- Cleanliness of your graphics and overall layouts
-- Align to email requirements and limitations
-- Typography

Submission & Source Files
Preview Image

Please create your preview image as one (1) 1024x1024px JPG or PNG file in RGB color mode at 72dpi and place a screenshot of your submission within it.

Submission File
Submit PNG/JPG images based on contest submission requirements stated above.

Source Files
Source files should be layered PSDs at the correct dimension and dpi. Make sure layers and assets are named and organized appropriately.

Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics, layouts, typography and colors. Any Final Fixes will remain within the scope of the challenge.

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.

Stock Photography

Stock photography is not allowed in this challenge. All submitted elements must be designed solely by you. See this page for more details.

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:

2015 topcoder 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

You must include all source files with your submission.

Submission limit

Unlimited

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