You should make sure the kids over the in the Screenshot and Fan Art section see this. Who knows what they'll turn out.
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<ul type="square">[*]Submissions must be in the form of ten (12) awesome logos that will be rotated on a weekly basis. If you're just so inspired that you submit more, that's cool, too, but no less![/list]
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/e brainexplode
Okay, I know the mathematical "proofs" that can make ten = 12, but maybe this needs some fixing?
Also, if they're rotating on a weekly basis, wouldn't some multiple of 7 be a little more ideal? Or do rotations slow down on the weekends?
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Okay, I know the mathematical "proofs" that can make ten = 12, but maybe this needs some fixing?
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Egads, you're right! I'm glad I put the actual number out there too! I was originally going to say ten, but I changed my mind, figuring that twelve would make them last a nice, even, three months. (Give or take a day or two.) Thanks for the correction! (Maybe my posts need to be wikified. 
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And just to clarify, each of the logos will last on the site for a week, so twelve logos = twelve weeks. The intention is to run the contest again in a couple of months, give a month of leeway to submit and judge, and in three months, have a whole new set.
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Great idea! For some weird reason, I didn't even think about that. 
It's done!
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
12???? Geez, my art fu's not nearly good enough for that! Eager to see the results, though.
Dec out.
Your art? Heh. My logos are really just manipulated fansite kit art. I don't want to give the impression that I'm expecting individually hand-crafted masterpieces, although I don't want to discourage it, either.
Seriously, I'm just looking for logos that are new and interesting. They can be hand-drawn icons, Photoshopped screenshots, in-game graphics tweaked for logo-iness, or anything else. No specific genre, the sky's the limit!
If I do hold the contest again in a couple of months, I'll keep any submissions that don't win around so that you'll be eligible to win in the future, too. (Unless you ask me not to, such as to make them more fancy and resubmit them as a new entry.)
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
Yeah, but I'm a fuss [censored]. It took me forever to make Decorum's logo, and all that is is the Superman logo from a different angle (albeit from scratch in PSP). 
I'll see what I can think up, though.
12? I'm lucky if I get one good idea a month.
Dec out.
Hey TonyV, I moved your post over to the Screenshots and Fan Art section. I think you'll find more people here who may be interested in your logo contest.
You might consider just asking for people to submit what they come up with, rather than all 12, and then collect your 12 submissions you like the most and rotate through those. They wouldn't have to all be from one person? Or maybe I read that wrong. Wouldn't be the first time 
Have fun!
Lighthouse
Community Relations Manager
If you have a specific in game, account, tech or billing problem please contact our Customer Support team via The Knowledge Base "Ask A Question" page.
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Hey TonyV, I moved your post over to the Screenshots and Fan Art section. I think you'll find more people here who may be interested in your logo contest.
You might consider just asking for people to submit what they come up with, rather than all 12, and then collect your 12 submissions you like the most and rotate through those. They wouldn't have to all be from one person? Or maybe I read that wrong. Wouldn't be the first time
Have fun!
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*gasp*
Is that Lighthouse?
In the Fanart section?
*faints* 
Lighthouse
Community Relations Manager
If you have a specific in game, account, tech or billing problem please contact our Customer Support team via The Knowledge Base "Ask A Question" page.
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Hey TonyV, I moved your post over to the Screenshots and Fan Art section. I think you'll find more people here who may be interested in your logo contest.
You might consider just asking for people to submit what they come up with, rather than all 12, and then collect your 12 submissions you like the most and rotate through those. They wouldn't have to all be from one person? Or maybe I read that wrong. Wouldn't be the first time
Have fun!
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*gasp*
Is that Lighthouse?
In the Fanart section?
*faints*
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He must be lost...
Anyway, i'll give this a whirl this weekend and see if inspiration pinchs me in the butt.
@Jeffery Duke
Meanwhile...On The Internet...
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*gasp*
Is that Lighthouse?
In the Fanart section?
*faints*
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I don't know... did he post first then move the thread, or did he move the thread then post in the Fan Art forum?
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*gasp*
Is that Lighthouse?
In the Fanart section?
*faints*
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I don't know... did he post first then move the thread, or did he move the thread then post in the Fan Art forum?
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Whatever he did, he was obviously wrong and CuppaJo would have done it better.
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Hey TonyV, I moved your post over to the Screenshots and Fan Art section. I think you'll find more people here who may be interested in your logo contest.
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Wow, I'm just thrilled that my post is showing up in the Community Digest!
I certainly won't turn down submissions of less than 12 logos. I definitely plan on setting up a page in the wiki that shows off all of the submissions, complete with designer credit. Maybe not an Ed McMahon-worthy prize, but at least it's something, and yes, there's a decent chance I'll rotate individual logos in the mix, too!
The main reason I picked 12 was so that I could use a different logo each week and have enough for a quarter of a year. Also, I want to reward someone for going through the effort, thus the prize, but I have only so many prizes to give out. (Bummer!) Plus, I have some other contests in the pipeline to improve the site in other ways, too. (NOT a bummer!)
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
Hey all, I just wanted to remind everyone that this ends at the end of the day on this coming Saturday. If you want to submit any entries, be sure to send 'em on in before then!
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
hey I was wondering if the winner of the contest had been selected yet.
Hey all, I've decided to run a little contest to help publicize the Paragon Wiki a little more, and even improve the site!
[*]You can submit your logos by e-mailing them to me at tonyv@pcfreepress.com. Be sure to include your global name, and be sure you send them from a valid e-mail address! No, I'm not going to use your e-mail address for marketing purposes. I swear by the lips of Mick Jagger that it will remain our little secret until I die. (Or the cops come beat it out of me...) But if I can't get in touch with you, I can't give you the game card codes if you win![*]Offer void where prohibited. Oh, and on Easter Island, too. I'm sorry, but those statues creep me out.[/list]I posted the sweet logos I designed way back when at the bottom of the Paragon Wiki forums message. You don't have to make them look like this. They don't even have to have the site name on them if you wish. But, of course, if you send me logos of puppies, it's a pretty good bet that they won't win. (Apologies to puppy lovers out there.)
Grand Prize:
Four months of free City of Heroes gameplay!
Nutshell Version:
Design and send twelve logos (135px by 135px) that appear in the upper left corner of the Paragon Wiki home page to me at tonyv@pcfreepress.com. We'll pick the set we like the best, and the winner will score the loot.
Ramblings of a Mad Mind:
A while back in the wiki forums, I mentioned that I plan on running a few contests this year to try to improve the site. Well, here's the first one!
The Paragon Wiki logos were designed one afternoon by me. I mercilessly stole stuff from the fansite kit (hey, they asked us to, right?) and threw them together with The Gimp. I think they're really cool, but I'm just too used to seeing them now.
So the first contest I'm going to run is a contest to design new logos for the Paragon Wiki. The prize: A couple of game card codes to score four free months* of playing City of Heroes!
The Nitty-Gritties:
<ul type="square">[*]Submissions must be in the form of twelve (12) awesome logos that will be rotated on a weekly basis. If you're just so inspired that you submit more, that's cool, too, but no less![*]If you want to submit multiple entries, you can, but each set must consist of at least twelve unique logos.[*]Each logo should be 135 pixels by 135 pixels. I prefer them in .png format (alpha channel for transparency is fine), but if you give them to me as .jpg's or .gif's, I'll convert them.[*]Submissions must be received by midnight on Saturday, March 17, 2007. (That's the wee hour between Saturday night and Sunday morning.) I'll announce a winner within a week.[*]The winner's logos will be publicly available under the FreeDoc license, so if you plan on selling them later for a billion dollars, don't submit them.[*]How will the winner be chosen? Hmm... Well, I could just unilaterally decide myself, but that probably wouldn't be very cool. I'll do this: I'll poll the wiki admin editors which ones they like best, and the logos that get the most votes will be declared the winner, booyah. If you are a wiki admin editor and you want to submit logos, you can, but you don't get to vote for your own.
If the contest goes over well, I'll probably run it every quarter or so. That way, we'll always have fresh, new, and exciting logos. If you have any questions, feel free to reply here or in the thread linked to a little earlier in this paragraph.
*Technically, it's 120 days, not four calendar months. But if hard drive manufacturers can act like a gigabyte is exactly one billion bytes, then surely I can get away with acting like four months is exactly 120 days!
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)