Challenge Summary
Welcome to the "Design Month 2020 Banners Design Challenge"! This is a simple and exciting challenge where we need your help to create a couple of banners.
May at Topcoder is known in the community as being our Design Month, where we bring lots of exciting content from challenges to blog articles and workshops. In this challenge we are looking to design the banners to promote the design month.
Project Background
Full Description & Project Guide
In this challenge we are looking for your help to design 1 banner for promoting the 2020 Topcoder Design Month. As many of you have heard, unfortunately our dear member and friend, Gh3ablo, has passed away this month so we are going to dedicate this month from now on to him.
For each banner type, we also wish to see another 2 banner options. This can include some colors or image variations. You can do this only for the first, concept banner, but if you win you will be asked to create the other banners as part of the final fixes.
1. Design Month Banner
Each banner should include the following:
Here’s what we had last year (don't copy!). We want to make something as exciting as this one and even more!
We will need to have the banners design in several sizes (width x height):
These banners should follow as style the new topcoder.com and TCO20 site look and feel. Think about using blobs and the existing color palette defined in the branding section. As many people will be viewing this and we will promote it on social media as well, we’d like the designs to look exciting so please use your creativity at best.
As part of this design month, we will have Workshop Wednesday live chat with Topcoder admins and members. You can see here an example of what we did last year. The overall theme should be connected to the Design Month (WW2019 banner example).
2. Workshop Wednesday Banner
The Workshop Wednesday banners should include:
We will need to have the banners design in several sizes (width x height):
3. Jessie’s Design Month Dash
Last year Jessie ran a super large challenge called “Jessie’s Design Month Dash” which included many designers and judges from the company and had as prizes 1 trip to TCO19, which actually extended to 3 trips!! We’re planning to run that challenge again and we need a promo banner for it. This is the example we had last year (don’t copy!)
Content to include:
This banner shall be designed for the following sizes:
Branding Guidelines
Judging Criteria
Your submission will be judged based on:
Stock Photography
Final Deliverables
May at Topcoder is known in the community as being our Design Month, where we bring lots of exciting content from challenges to blog articles and workshops. In this challenge we are looking to design the banners to promote the design month.
- Banner designs
- 3 banners
- Desktop size
Round 1
Submit your initial designs and concepts for checkpoint review:- Design Month Banner Concept (Topcoder dashboard size) + variations
- Workshop Wednesday Banner Concept (Topcoder dashboard size) + variations
- Jessie’s Design Month Dash Concept (Topcoder dashboard size)
Round 2
Submit your final designs for round 2 and checkpoint updates as per feedback:- Design Month Banner (all sizes) + variations
- Workshop Wednesday Banner (all sizes) + variations
- Jessie’s Design Month Dash Banner (all sizes)
Project Background
- The purpose of this project is to develop a couple of banners to promote the 2020 May Design Month
- By looking at the designs, the viewers should get a quickly grasp of what the month is about
- The banners will be placed in a blog article, but also shared on social media so we’re looking for exciting designs to grab the attention
Full Description & Project Guide
In this challenge we are looking for your help to design 1 banner for promoting the 2020 Topcoder Design Month. As many of you have heard, unfortunately our dear member and friend, Gh3ablo, has passed away this month so we are going to dedicate this month from now on to him.
For each banner type, we also wish to see another 2 banner options. This can include some colors or image variations. You can do this only for the first, concept banner, but if you win you will be asked to create the other banners as part of the final fixes.
1. Design Month Banner
Each banner should include the following:
- Topcoder logo
- Title “Design Month”
- Subtitle: “In memory of Gh3ablo”
- Date: May 1 – 31, 2020
Here’s what we had last year (don't copy!). We want to make something as exciting as this one and even more!
We will need to have the banners design in several sizes (width x height):
- Topcoder Dashboard: 1538px x 583px
- Social Media: 1000px x 1000px
- Chameleon: 710px x 296px
- Email header: 560px x 270px
These banners should follow as style the new topcoder.com and TCO20 site look and feel. Think about using blobs and the existing color palette defined in the branding section. As many people will be viewing this and we will promote it on social media as well, we’d like the designs to look exciting so please use your creativity at best.
As part of this design month, we will have Workshop Wednesday live chat with Topcoder admins and members. You can see here an example of what we did last year. The overall theme should be connected to the Design Month (WW2019 banner example).
2. Workshop Wednesday Banner
The Workshop Wednesday banners should include:
- Topcoder logo
- Title “Workshop Wednesday #1”
- Date: May 6, 2020 at 10:00 UTC-4
- The photos with handles and roles of the members/admins joining the workshop
We will need to have the banners design in several sizes (width x height):
- Topcoder Dashboard: 1538px x 583px
- Social Media: 1000px x 1000px
- Youtube: 1200px x 675px
3. Jessie’s Design Month Dash
Last year Jessie ran a super large challenge called “Jessie’s Design Month Dash” which included many designers and judges from the company and had as prizes 1 trip to TCO19, which actually extended to 3 trips!! We’re planning to run that challenge again and we need a promo banner for it. This is the example we had last year (don’t copy!)
Content to include:
- “Jessie’s Design Month Dash”
- “Win a Trip to TCO”
This banner shall be designed for the following sizes:
- Challenge Details: 680px x 120px
- Topcoder Dashboard: 1538px x 583px
- Social Media: 1000px x 1000px
Branding Guidelines
- You can download the TCO logo from here
- These banners should follow the new style of topcoder.com and TCO20 look and feel.
Judging Criteria
Your submission will be judged based on:
- Creativity of design
- How exciting is your work looking
- How good it aligns to the brand
Stock Photography
- You can use any photos from TC Flickr Album or any free for commercial use site as allowed in Topcoder Rules (only use photos from Unsplash and Pexels)
- Stock icons are allowed as per Topcoder policies
Final Deliverables
- All original source files.
- Files should be created in Adobe Photoshop and saved as a layered PSD file, Adobe Illustrator or as a layered AI file or Sketch or Adobe XD.
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.