Revolutionizing Innovation - Book Cover Design Challenge

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Challenge Summary

Welcome to Harvard - Revolutionizing Innovation - Book Cover Design Challenge. In this challenge, we are looking for your design ideas for a book cover that is being published by two of expert authors from Harvard.

Really excited to see your designs for this challenge.

Round 1

Submit your initial cover design for Checkpoint Feedback
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Round 2

Your Final design with all Checkpoint Feedback implemented.
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Purpose of this challenge is to create a book-cover design for Revolutionizing Innovation book. This book is not yet published, authors have turned to the topcoder design community in coming up with a book cover design that would be apt for this book!

Design Considerations:
- Looking for modern, catchy design that would still look fresh even after 5 years from now.
- Currently we have a book cover (please see attached), but it's dreadful, really lame and is not liked by the authors.
- Colors are open to the designers.

About the Book:
This book is about innovation, crowdsourcing, how to do it all, the platforms that are doing it today, and how to make it all work.
You can go through the 1st chapter of this book (attached) in-order to come up with the design for this cover.

Required Cover Design:
- This cover has to be very prominent, eye catchy, make the people want to read it!
- We need you to come up with book cover of size as 6" wide x 1" deep x 9 inches tall

Front Cover: 
We need these information in the front cover:
- Title: Revolutionizing Innovation, caption: Users, Communities and Open Innovation
- Edited By: Dietmar Harhoff and Karim R. Lakhni
- The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England

Back Cover:
- What do we need here? Looking forward to your thoughts!

References:
Some inspirations for book cover:
- Reference 1
- Reference 2

Target Audience:
- Academics, Business leaders, Analysts and Journalists, and Curious people.

Judging Criteria:
- How well you capture your ideas visually
- Cleanliness of your graphics and design
- Completeness of the requirements and consistency.

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 JPG/PNG for your submission files.

Source Files
All original source files of the submitted design. Files should be created in Adobe Illustrator as a layered AI file or Adobe Indesign.

Final Fixes
As part of the final fixes phase you may be asked to modify your graphics (sizes or colors) or modify overall colors. We may ask you to update your design or graphics based on checkpoint feedback.

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:

2016 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

  • AI files created in Adobe Illustrator or similar
  • INDD created with InDesign

You must include all source files with your submission.

Submission limit

Unlimited

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