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Message started by xCepheus on 05/03/04 at 06:18:33

Title: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by xCepheus on 05/03/04 at 06:18:33

We are going to hold a contest to see who can come up with the best design for the front page logo of the MKDD Players' page and for a link-button other sites can use to link to us. If we like your design then you'll leave your indellible mark on the MKDD Players' Page and receive all of the fame, accolades, money and women that goes along with winning the contest. ;)

Rules for the logo design contest:

1. The submission deadline is 11:59 pm PST May 31st, 2004

2. The logo must be in .JPG or .GIF format

3. The logo must be no larger than 50 kb in size.

4. The logo must be no bigger than 760 pixels wide

5. The logo must be no bigger than 300 pixels high

6. You must also submit a smaller scaled-down version of the logo that must be no bigger than 250 pixels wide and 100 pixels high.

7. The logo must make clear the nature of the site.

8. The logo must have on it somewhere "MKDD Players' Page" or "Mario Kart Double Dash Players' Page." It does not have to be the focus of the logo but must be on the logo and must be readable.

Rules for the Link-Button design contest:

1. The submission deadline is 11:59 pm PST May 31st, 2004

2. The link-button must be in .JPG or .GIF format

3. The link-button must be no larger than 15 kb in size.

4. The link-button must be no bigger than 90 pixels wide

5. The link-button must be no bigger than 30 pixels high

6 The link-button must make clear the nature of the site.

A person may submit up to 3 submissions in each category. Good luck!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by AlexPenev1 on 05/03/04 at 13:21:52

Here are some images which the artists may use as a source:

a) The box art (http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/images/box.jpg) (168K)

b) An icon I stole from IGN (http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/images/ign_icon.jpg) (16K)

c) The original image for my banner which I stole form www.mariokart.com (http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/images/splash.jpg.old) (52K)

d) My original long-width banner (http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/images/finallogo.jpg) (67K)

e) There's 8 pages of screenshots (in-game) available at IGN.. some of these can be used as background and stuff.. here's the first page: http://media.cube.ign.com/media/016/016574/imgs_1.html

I used Photoshop, PhotoEd and Paint to go from c) to d)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by avw6s on 05/03/04 at 18:56:11

there's always the good old. ::)

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~avw6s/MarioKart/MKDD_logo-green.jpg

also available in whatever colors you want

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~avw6s/MarioKart/MKDD_logo-200-515.jpg

I'm too lazy to make another logo :P

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Moritz on 05/04/04 at 07:58:07

This logo shows the players playing battle. ;D

Moritz

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by xCepheus on 05/04/04 at 08:54:29

i recommend finding a way to upload your pics and submit hyperlinks in this thread

if that is not possible and if you want to send your submission via e-mail send them to mark<at>rokken<dot>org

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 05/07/04 at 01:57:52

Hello! I'm back!
Still can't play MKDD (bad wrist injury), but I'm gonna cook up an almighty ass kicking logo and button frenzy!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Ptan on 05/07/04 at 04:45:52

I found a nice mario kart picture , i uploaded to my main page http://www.geocities.com/tanney86/

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by bhoj31 on 05/10/04 at 04:19:40

http://bhoj31.free.fr/MKDD/Prashant%20Bhoja's%20logo.jpg

http://bhoj31.free.fr/MKDD/Prashant%20Bhoja's%20logo%20small.jpg

Hey, Prashant Bhoja here(UK). This is my logo design i've created the past few days. Hope you like it.

Please feel free to suggest improvements.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by bhoj31 on 05/13/04 at 06:24:14

ok, no problem i'll try do it this week end.

Thanks

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 05/15/04 at 08:50:35

Could them be animated gif ?

I propose this picture :

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/elite main2.jpg

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by KeSi on 05/16/04 at 03:40:04

Here's something I whipped up with a couple of Nintendo's Kart Images :P

http://members.rogers.com/kesi/images/MKDDPP.jpg

Text and stuff is changeable, please give suggestions/comments :D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by KeSi on 05/16/04 at 17:38:16

Hmm.... well size shouldn't be a problem, everything is scalable, I just made that one using the size limits set by Mark, and its usually a good idea to start big then shrink. I still have to make a different design for the smaller MB banner, so I'll see what I can do with that.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by bhoj31 on 05/17/04 at 06:41:39

http://bhoj31.free.fr/PBfinal%20logo2.jpg

Hey, Made a totally new logo.
Hope you like it!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by bhoj31 on 05/17/04 at 07:21:10

yep, i think your right i'll change it sometime this week.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by bhoj31 on 05/17/04 at 10:08:28

http://bhoj31.free.fr/PBlogofinal.jpg

OK, I've made the changes. :)

What do you think?

Prashant Bhoja.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by AlexPenev1 on 05/17/04 at 17:23:24

A bit hard to read the writing.
But you're getting the right idea by sticking the background behind it to make it blend in.

I still think mine is --><-- that much better ::) ;D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by bhoj31 on 05/17/04 at 23:25:51

Honestly, I do think yours is better Alex. It's got something about it that makes it look good. I dont know what it is but what ever it is, it makes your logo way better.

F**king Cunt. Got to be the best at everything. :D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Tanney on 05/17/04 at 23:28:43

Oh GOD stop sucking up to him ;)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by bhoj31 on 05/18/04 at 00:58:32

LOL, It may seem like I'm licking ass :o but Alex's logo is way better.
Just look at it. It's way more professional looking. It doesn't look like a copy and paste job. ;) even though it is. :)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Jon on 05/18/04 at 00:58:42

KeSi's logo has got to be the best so far! The graphics are so clear and smooth, looks great! :)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Tanney on 05/18/04 at 01:24:02

Yes i love kesi logo , im in love with it :-* LOL

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Michael on 05/18/04 at 06:44:25

Yeah, Kesi's logo looks very clear and smooth. I really like that.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 05/18/04 at 12:35:35

wait for it you bitches :)

my masterpeice is on it's way :D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 05/20/04 at 02:14:48

thats awesome, i'm loving that, but the players page writing doesn't stand out enough from the background. Perhaps make it hardcore and put it in black.. or white with black 2d shading. if you guys can wait till the weekend, i'll submit mine :O)

tom

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Michael on 05/20/04 at 06:07:35

That logo looks also very promising Fernando.
I also think you need a better quality version of the MKDD text logo in that pic. The colors in the text "MARIOKART" look a bit blurred (looks like it's scanned from a paper with a low quality scanner). And there's some white stuff around the edges of the logo.
Kesi's logo is an example of a very clear looking logo, that blends perfectly with the background. I think the background in your pic looks more interesting than Kesi's though, although i'd currently still pick Kesi's logo.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 05/20/04 at 11:18:54

I propose another one ;D , I hope you like it :D

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/main1.jpg

small version :

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/main1_small.jpg

Text under "Mario kart double dash" is customisable :)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Trystan_Pugh on 05/20/04 at 11:23:48

I really like the idea about the pictures of the tracks, im not sure about the centre and the text though, what about squashing Moritz' logo into that so you can both win the contest?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 05/20/04 at 11:30:06

do you mean something like that ??

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/main2.jpg

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Michael on 05/20/04 at 11:41:17

Man, so many great logo's. But probably all of them except for one will not be used...

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 05/20/04 at 11:49:49

I've made the correction for the black between R and T ;)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 05/20/04 at 22:26:30

I'm working more on something without borders, something that isn't rectangular.

Just so I know, are you guys banking on a rectangular style banner?

If so, I should probably stop what I'm working on...

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 05/21/04 at 05:37:27

I think the link button will be a image where to click to go to the site ... but a 90x30 banner, to me, is too small to put anything else but simple text ... ???

here are just link buttons without text :

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/link_1.jpg

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/link_2.jpg

Edit : I can choose other characters and other karts ...
And I think that text is unreadable on such a small area ... tell me what you think :)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 05/21/04 at 12:05:04

surely 100 x 35 is the universal standard for a button

or 50 x 50

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 05/22/04 at 23:23:53

I prefer the text of the 3rd one but the font of the 2nd one (world championship league) looks great !! :)
Therefore, I try the font :D :

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/main3.jpg

with an other font :

http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/main4.jpg

actually, text is customisable (font, color, size etc ...)
if someone see an interesting font for the site, just tell me :)
you can find many font here : http://www.fontfreak.com/index2.htm

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 05/23/04 at 21:12:01

mines almost finished, i dont know how to upload it somewhere and add a hyperlink so can i email it to someone and get them to put it up?

cheers in advance

tom

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Moritz on 05/24/04 at 02:04:12

e-mail me and I host it for you.

Moritz

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 05/25/04 at 02:47:58

cheers, i was shagging some bird last night so i couldn't finish it, i left her house and came straight to work this morning. I'll finish it tonite and send it to your email.. can i click on the link next to your name or do you wanna post it?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Tanney on 05/25/04 at 02:51:13

LOL like we wanted to know that.You could have just said u were busy or sumit.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 05/25/04 at 02:54:41

i wanted to put across my priorities, not much would've taken priority over me finishing the design apart from antics with this bird.

tom :)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 05/25/04 at 03:01:20

thomasgx1 wrote:

i wanted to put across my priorities, not much would've taken priority over me finishing the design apart from antics with this bird.

tom :)

I want details

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 05/25/04 at 03:06:06

details of my design or details of the antics?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Tanney on 05/25/04 at 05:15:12

He was having sex with a girl so he couldnt do his logo , we call good looking girls "birds" in the UK for some reason. :P

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by ZeSolo on 05/25/04 at 05:38:31

LOL, this perfectly fits to the german translation:
shag=vögeln and bird=vogel

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 05/25/04 at 07:17:39

es war sehr gut in sie bett :O)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Tuomas on 05/25/04 at 07:38:31

I'm calling WWF you sicko ;D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 05/26/04 at 05:19:20

Tuomas wrote:

I'm calling WWF you sicko ;D

lol

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 05/26/04 at 23:33:01

ive found a new flat to live in with my mate, should be good. i'll have some time to do my design, if people are getting anxious and wanna decide out of the logos already on display then go for it, mine wont be conventional anyway and will take another day or two.

tom

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Moritz on 05/31/04 at 06:16:07

I deleted my previous messages. These are my final logos.

http://www.moritz.trix.net/mkdd/moritzlogo.jpg

Small version:

http://www.moritz.trix.net/mkdd/moritzminilogoA.jpg http://www.moritz.trix.net/mkdd/moritzminilogoB.jpg

Extra small version:

http://www.moritz.trix.net/mkdd/moritzminilogoextraA.jpg http://www.moritz.trix.net/mkdd/moritzminilogoextraB.jpg

Remember that text font, color and size are changeable.

Moritz

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 05/31/04 at 09:04:02

Yep, so here's my final stuff, didn't change much, added smaller ones, bleh...

http://www.chronicbasement.co.uk/mkdd/

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 05/31/04 at 09:46:43

Great your link button !! ;)
I don't know if it is possible to do better in such a small area ! :P

Edit: I try a link button : http://timetrial.mkdd.free.fr/link_3.jpg

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 06/01/04 at 08:21:06

So .... is there a winner ?? ::)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Moritz on 06/01/04 at 12:31:47

Jonathan Steel wrote:

Thats a great logo, but I dont like the 'players page' font.

No offense ;)

Try a few different fonts :)

I can choose another font if they want to.

Moritz

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by John on 06/01/04 at 14:17:56

they're all crap go home ;)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by m_brown on 06/01/04 at 17:31:20

John wrote:

they're all crap go home ;)

Yeah, Change 'em

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Rinky Dink on 06/01/04 at 21:04:29

m_brown wrote:

Yeah, Change 'em

Why don't you make one?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 06/02/04 at 05:42:24

Please, give us the name of the winner !! ;D
We can't wait anymore !! ;D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by thomasgx1 on 06/02/04 at 06:17:27

patience is a virtue, also the longer this wait is the more chance i have of actually submitting mine!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by m_brown on 06/02/04 at 06:27:08

Good point dink, I got nothin

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by MgBrOwN on 06/02/04 at 06:39:19

And actually Paco's is pretty nice - very creative.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by xCepheus on 06/02/04 at 07:34:28

Sorry for the late post but I've been busy lately. The contest is officially closed for new entries. I was emailed a few logos to my personal mailbox so you haven't seen all of them. Don't worry though... there is gonna be a special way to decide the winner which I will reveal very shortly. So stay tuned!

Thanks for everyone who participated... they look great!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Mark Jones on 06/04/04 at 12:29:50

Well we've had several great entries in the contest to design a new Players' Page logo. And now it is your chance to decide who your favorite is. We currently have 8 people, and their designs, to choose from. Some people submitted multiple designs but to make things fair we are only allowing one entry into the final competion from each person so the staff voted for their favorites out of those people that submitted multiple logos and those are the ones that made it into the final poll.

The voting will end at 11:59 PM EST on June 14th. So that gives you just a little over 10 days to cast your vote (http://www.mariokart64.com/mkdd/poll.php). So go for it!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 06/05/04 at 04:32:28

Don't mean to be picky or anything, but wouldn't it have been better to display all the final banners on a black background, as this is what they will be used on?

???

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Mark Jones on 06/05/04 at 04:59:49

hmmm... we'll look into it

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Ian on 06/06/04 at 14:03:40

I vote Chu, like the course pics incorporated into his logo :)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 06/07/04 at 04:02:51

Thanks a lot !!! ;D ;D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Moritz on 06/08/04 at 04:58:51

Mark Jones wrote:

hmmm... we'll look into it

I made a page with all logos in the site background.

http://www.moritz.trix.net/mkdd/logos.html

Moritz

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Cowman on 06/08/04 at 05:38:26

For the Logos, isn't the text style and font changeable?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 06/08/04 at 06:47:11

Actuallly, in my logo text is changeable (text, font, color, ... whatever you want ;))

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Moritz on 06/08/04 at 07:31:10

Cowman wrote:

For the Logos, isn't the text style and font changeable?

Mine it is.

Moritz

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 06/08/04 at 11:51:34

haha! you know what? I didn't even realise that there was a pattern on the site background, I thought it was just black!

oh dear, mine looks shit on that background

aw well ::)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by AlexPenev1 on 06/08/04 at 13:21:58

If you win, we can remove the background and make it all black, then it will blend in ::)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 06/08/04 at 14:21:22

AlexPenev1 wrote:

If you win, we can remove the background and make it all black, then it will blend in ::)

that's cool :)

I think that's a problem with a few of them anywayz, not just me wouldn't you say?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Cowman on 06/10/04 at 14:01:22

Do the people who run this site know who has the most votes currently? I voted for Chu and I think he's the favorite to win, but Penev is a close second.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by AlexPenev1 on 06/10/04 at 18:32:34

Top secret.
Yes, me and Mark know everything.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Mark Jones on 06/10/04 at 18:33:22

Correction... "Mark and I know everything" ::)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by AlexPenev1 on 06/13/04 at 18:34:46

Depends - we have to like the winner! =)

I can change the images back and forth within seconds, it's not a problem.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by AlexPenev on 06/15/04 at 17:11:58

Hey yeah, it is over.
Ok, I can see who won. Even if we weed out the votes from sly people who attempted to vote more than once and got away with it, it seems that the outcome is unaffected.

I think Mr CEO Jones should say what happens now...

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Mark Jones on 06/15/04 at 19:19:51

OK, first off I want to thank everyone that participated in the contest. There were so many good submissions that it was a very close poll. But with no further ado here are the top 3 and the winner!

1. Jonas Pettersson 22
2. Francois Chu 18
3. James Boyce 16

There were 98 total votes. 100 votes would have been nice but regardless, 98 was a good showing for this poll. So congratulations Jonas on a very well designed logo!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by TatsuyA on 06/15/04 at 21:15:58

Good job Jonas, your logo is excellent ;D

I actually shit my self when I saw it for the first time, hehe ;)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Paco on 06/16/04 at 05:26:47

Great job Jonas !! ;)
I just want to congratulate you for your victory ;)
Your logo is the best-looking so far ... it's a pity that your logo doesn't illustrate more TT mode but it is great by the way !! ;D

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Michael_Fried on 06/16/04 at 05:27:13

So it's on the site now, but shouldn't you also put it on the MB?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Matt B on 06/16/04 at 07:31:52

Congrats Jonas, it looks good on the site ;)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by ZeSolo on 06/16/04 at 07:50:22

To be honest: I voted for a different one.
I think Jonas' logo is not varicolored enough and misses the bright colors which characterize all mario karts.
But nevertheless it's a good job, congratulations!

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Trystan_Pugh on 06/18/04 at 12:57:06

When I go to the site on my laptop the new logo is on the main page etc. but when I go on my desktop PC (which I go on most) the old one appears, anyone know why this is?

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Mark Jones on 06/18/04 at 13:11:52

when you are on your home pc hit "F5" when you open up the mkdd page

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Prashant Bhoja on 06/30/04 at 08:32:36

Hmm has every one forgot or what, who won the link button design contest ???.

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Cowman on 06/30/04 at 08:36:11

edit: Oh I see you're talking about LINK BUTTON not LOGO DESIGN. Delete this post if you want to ;)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by AlexPenev on 06/30/04 at 08:46:22

We haven't voted on a link button yet. There weren't too many button to choose from in the first place :)

Title: Re: MKDD Logo and Link-Button Design Contest
Post by Prashant Bhoja on 06/30/04 at 08:47:44

lol :) ok but will there be one even if its not from the ones that were submitted