{"id":1735,"date":"2011-04-08T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T07:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/?p=1735"},"modified":"2011-05-03T00:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T07:58:08","slug":"competition-illustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2011\/04\/08\/competition-illustration\/","title":{"rendered":"Competition: Illustration"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Illustrative<\/p>\n

After the great success of the first two FontStruct competitions, “Handmade<\/a>” and the “SportsComp<\/a>“, we’re launching our third competition with the theme of “Illustration<\/strong>” and more great prizes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Brief<\/h3>\n

Many FontStructors concentrate on designing alphabets and letterforms, but the FontStructor has also proven a wonderful tool for creating useful and fun libraries of modular illustrations. We’d like to invite FontStructors to take a brief holiday from the familiar comforts of the letter, and build some pictures.<\/p>\n

Competition entries can be icon fonts, pictogram fonts for a particular purpose, or simply a series of illustrations, built as a FontStruction. <\/strong>Most importantly, no letters<\/strong> from real or imaginary writing systems should be included. Alternative forms of symbolic notation such as musical notation, braille or morse code will also not qualify.<\/p>\n

You can take your inspiration from anywhere. You may like to take a look at the almost 200 existing top picks in the picture\/symbol category<\/a> \u2013 not all of these are purely illustrative (some would not qualify as they contain letters) \u2013 but here you will find examples of icon fonts, fonts full of wierd and wonderful characters, pattern fonts, architectural fonts, and fonts consisting entirely of sheep, cars, clocks, flowers, even moustaches!<\/p>\n

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Competition time period<\/h3>\n

April 8th \u2013 April 29th 2011<\/p>\n

Competition rules<\/h3>\n

1. You must be a registered FontStruct user<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2. Your submission(s) must be posted and made \u201cpublic\u201d between April 8th \u2013April 29th 2011.\u00a0Although you are encouraged to share your submission(s) at any time between these dates, your FontStruction submission(s) must be public (marked \u201cshare with everyone\u201d) no later then April 29th at 11pm PST. Additionally, your submission(s) must remain public until May 13th in order to give the judges enough time to review all qualifying entries.<\/p>\n

3. Your submission(s) must be tagged with a \u201cIlluComp<\/strong>\u201d tag. (For fairness, during the competition time period, April 8th to April 29th, no FontStruction with the \u201cIlluComp<\/strong>\u201d tag will be awarded a Top Pick or be available for a Featured FontStruction pick.)<\/p>\n

4. Your submission(s)\u00a0must be downloadable. If your FontStruction cannot be downloaded, the submission will be disqualified.<\/p>\n

5. Your submission must be a newly published FontStruction. Simply adding the \u201cIlluComp<\/strong>\u201d tag to an already published font is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n

6. For each submission, you must post at least one sample image<\/strong> in the comments of the FontStruction.<\/p>\n

7. No letters in each submission can be MORE THAN 48 bricks high<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

8. FontStruct cloning is permitted but the judges will be looking for original work.<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0You may enter up to three FontStructions to the competition.<\/p>\n

10. This is a friendly competition. Cheering, favoriting<\/a> and fun banter is encouraged but cruel and uncivil behavior will not be tolerated.<\/p>\n

11. No rules regarding licensing. You may choose any Creative Commons license you like for your FontStruction.<\/p>\n

Judging and announcing the winners<\/h3>\n

All qualifying FontStructions will by judged by the FontStruct staff and guest judges, including Kai Vermehr from eBoy<\/a>, between the April 30th to May 6th. Three prizewinners (One winner and two runners-ups) will be chosen. One of these will be the FontStructors\u2019 Favorite. Winners will be announced in a FontStruct Blog post on May 13th.
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Prizes<\/h3>\n

\"Prizes\"<\/p>\n

First prize is a copy of the coveted FontBook<\/a> from our ever generous sponsors, FontShop International<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The FontBook<\/a> is the most complete digital type reference in the world. Since 1991, \u201cthe big yellow book\u201d has been the trusted friend of designers, typographers, advertisers, manufacturers, publishers, historians, and anyone else who uses type.<\/p>\n

Two runners-up will win their choice of one of the great t-shirts from the FontStruct Shop<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition, all winners will have their winning FontStructions posted as Featured FontStructions for two weeks<\/em> starting May 13th 2011.<\/p>\n

FontStructors’ Favorite<\/h3>\n

The valid entry with the greatest number of legitimate<\/em> favorites at 11pm PST on April 29th will be one of the three prizewinners.<\/p>\n

Spread the Word<\/h3>\n

Tell your friends. The \"\"button floating above every FontStruction is a really quick and easy way to point your friends and followers to your work. Maybe you can drum up some more\u00a0 \"favorite\" s for your entry in that way, or entice some novice FontStructors into the game.<\/p>\n

Questions?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

If you have questions just add them as comments to this post.<\/p>\n

Let’s get FontStructing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"Illustration<\/a>
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