FREELANCER.COM Logo Contest 2009
6 November 2009 – 08:29Deadline: Friday November 20th 2009 (midnight EDT)
What Happened?
We are excited to announce that on the 5th October we unexpectedly secured the domain FREELANCER.COM! As a result GetAFreelancer will now be known as Freelancer™!
What does this mean?
As a result, we will be handing out all the original prizes (2nd to 10th place) this week (Friday 9th October) except the US$10,000 Grand Prize and People’s Choice award to the entrants for the GetAFreelancer.com logo, and extending the competition and jackpotting the grand prize to US$15,000 and total prizes to over US$20,000 for development of a new logo for our new name, Freelancer™!
Yes! there will be ten new prizes for the new logo for Freelancer™! GRAND PRIZE JACKPOTS TO US$15,000!
WHAT IS FREELANCER™ ?
Freelancer.com is a global marketplace for online jobs where businesses connect with independent service providers to outsource their work. Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, the site currently has over 1,000,000 registered professionals and businesses from 234 countries and territories worldwide. According to Alexa.com, we’re about the 1000th most popular website in the world and growing. We want an image that will help us break into the top 20!
WHY HAVE WE DONE THIS?!?
We feel given current developments it is the best thing to do rather than complete the current competition and then seek a redesign. We will be awarding the original 2nd to 10th place prizes this week to the entrants in the first round.
TOP 25 FROM PREVIOUS COMPETITION
CONTEST INTRODUCTION
Here’s your chance to redesign the the logo for the world’s number one freelancing website and win the grand prize which has jackpotted to US$15,000! We’ve passed our first million registered users, and we need an exciting, vibrant image which will help propel us to the next level!
PRIZES HAVE JACKPOTTED!
Submissions are now being accepted through Friday November 20th 2009 (midnight EDT). All contest submissions must be entered through our online submission form and must conform to our Contest Terms and Conditions in order to qualify for entry. Artists may enter multiple submissions. Late submissions will not be accepted, no exceptions.
NEW PRIZES!
- Grand Prize:US$15,000 & Master Logo Designer Insignia added to user’s profile.
- People’s Award:US$2,500 and Master Logo Designer Insignia
- Second Prize:US$2,500 and Specialist Logo Designer Insignia
- Third Prize:Adobe Illustrator CS4 and Specialist Logo Designer Insignia
- Fourth Prize:Apple Ipod Touch 32GB and Specialist Logo Designer Insignia
- 5th-10th Prize:US$50 Apple iTunes Voucher and Specialist Logo Designer Insignia
AMAZING PRIZES TO BE WON!
We will announce the top finalists on Monday the 23rd of November, 2009. The top finalists will be chosen based on a variety of factors including originality, creativity, ingenuity, and the artists efforts to promote their design. Following this, the final top 10 will be announced on Wednesday the 26th November. On Friday the 27th of November, the fifth to tenth places will be announced. On Wednesday the 2nd December, fourth and third place will be announced. On Friday the 4th December the winner and runner up will be crowned!
LOGO HISTORY
Historically speaking, Freelancer only had one logo design since it first went live on February 7, 2004. The iconic lilac and grey logo was reminiscent of the height of cold war design, with visual homage to the 1972 Munich Olympics.
For four years and a half, the now iconic GETaFREELANCER.com logo (with the ‘GET’ shown in an outlined form and the ‘T’ represented by an outlined person) have been the mainstream symbol of the long enduring, relationship between project owners and service providers.
Constructed from 4 different fonts and leftover paint from the USS Midway, the GETaFREELANCER.com logo was at its time the pinnacle of global brand design.
On the 1st August 2009, we launched a logo competition to bring us out of the ice age with a new, vibrant, web 3.0 logo. However unexpectedly we managed to secure the domain name FREELANCER.COM midway through the competition. As a result, we have extended the competition and jackpotted the prizes to over US$20,000 for the development of a new logo for our new name, Freelancer!
PEOPLES CHOICE AWARD
On Monday the 23rd of November, the top finalists will be announced, and a gallery of their submissions presented. At this time, online voting will be enabled. Online voting will close at midnight on Thursday the 3rd December 2009 EDT. The winner of the People’s Choice Award will be presented on the 4th with $2,500 and the Master Logo Designer Insignia!
INSIGNIA
The Master Logo Designer and Specialist Logo Designer Insignia are highly coveted awards presented to the top designers in their field. The insignia will be displayed next to the user’s name when bidding on graphic or design related jobs, as well as on the user’s profile.
RULES
Purpose
The logo will be used everywhere that the Freelancer.com brand will be shown, and in any new places we might think up, including the website, brochures, software media labels, leaflets and other printed materials, hardware, coffee mugs, bumper stickers, running shoes, yo-yos, Twitter, the Australian 20/20 Cricket Team* (only joking), etc. This is not an exhaustive list.
Participation
This contest is open to designers, novice or professional over the age of 18. Contestants must be registered members of Freelancer.com (which is free) and must join the contest in their own private personal capacity.
GUIDANCE - IMPORTANT!
- The logo must be immediately identifiable to Freelancer (yes "Freelancer" not "GetAFreelancer").
- The text "Freelancer" (not "Freelancer.com") must be included, either next to a logo as logotype, or integrated.
- It must be an original design of the participant in order for it to qualify. Concept must be original and not copied from anywhere else. You must be willing to certify that this is the case, and the finalists will be subject to public review before the winner is announced.
- The logo submitted should be vector graphics and not a bitmap image.
- It should be usable (print & otherwise) in both color and monochrome media, including limited colors.
- The submitted logo must not discriminate race, religion, culture, sex, morality, belief, etc. and must not be pornographic in nature.
- Besides being aesthetically pleasing, the logo must convey Freelancer’s attributes (feel free to use your own interpretation). By "attributes" we mean the qualities that make Freelancer great.
- The original "man" device must not appear in the new design.
- You may enter as many different logo concepts as you wish as separate submissions!
- Here’s some inspiration: Logos of Web 2.0
SUBMISSION FORMAT
To qualify, each entry should be submitted through the online interface must include the following details and format:
- High resolution, print-ready scalable vector format (i.e. portable EPS, scalable vector graphics (SVG) or Adobe Illustrator (AI) format. This file should be zipped.
- JPG or PNG version with a maximum resolution of 640×480. Do not zip this file.
- A detailed logo design concept and/or description.
- Designer’s full name, country or nationality where based, website (if any) and email address.
- Designers must use the supplied templates for EPS and PSD to correctly align their designs.
Freelancer.com © 2004-2009.
Freelancer™ is a trademark of Ignition Networks Pty Limited (ACN 134 845 748)
Source: GetAFreelancer Microsite
