Amal and I can’t art. But there are many creative and talented folks in the community so if you’ve got an idea, throw it down. If we decide to use your design–you get free shit. What in particular? If you’re selected, we’ll reach out and see what you want. Instead of a traditional contest, this has no guaranteed winner and also no hard limit on the number of designs we will accept. In short, until this post is updated to say we’re no longer accepting submissions, it’s still on
Edit: expect this to be open at least until the end of the year.
What in particular?
A sticker no larger on one axis than the current sticker (flex boxes are narrow)
Doesn’t necessarily have to be branded
Limits:
1 submission per person, per day
No two consecutive submissions from the same person (ie, if you post and by the following day no one else has posted, you should wait until someone else makes a submission before posting. Variety of perspectives tends to drive things naturally and prevents it from being monopolized)
FAQ
How do you submit? Post here or DM–we prefer public submissions because if the community doesn’t like it, what does our opinion matter?
Can you use AI? Sure. We do hope that it won’t just become an AI slop feed though.
Got another question? Feel free to ask below and I’ll keep updating this.
What format? For showing it off the design, use something that the forum supports and avoid transparancy (unless you can give us enough contrast) as it get’s weird depending on light/dark mode. For the final product, we don’t want to be resizing things so SVGs.are great but a PSD, or evem high quality png/jpeg/etc can work to. It should use CMYK compatible colors.
Something that fits thematically with what we’ve got going on. You can make Danger mcDangerface. It would have to be pretty amazing with the mcFace weighing it down
As a non-creative type, it’s hard for me to be more specific. Because if I could, I would do the thing
Edit to clarify: they do not necessarily need to display our branding. Not that we wouldn’t appreciate more branded merch.
Here’s a GDrive link to the svg. You need to enable that filetype for upload in the Discourse admin console.
Please don’t use AI image generators for something like this, that’s so wasteful and looks bad. I purchased the high quality hand x-ray svg I used for my submission from this etsy listing. Support artists.
That was a PNG with transparency that I exported from the svg for your convenience, but you would have to image trace that again to do anything with it and you’ll get artifacts. I can’t stand adobe but using raster editors makes me feel like I’m using an etch-a-sketch.
I mean I’ll export this for you, but we’re keeping the PNG with transparency. I use dark mode too but the file should be the file regardless of your subjective environment. You can always open the black one in another tab and it will add the white back in and either clip it from there or just save it as a jpg. You always want more options. Forced white backgrounds are a blight upon humankind.
