September 3, 2008
BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt Design Contest
Calling all designers! we've just kicked off a contest to design this year's BarCampMilwaukee3 t-shirt! Submit your design and get recognition and 2 free shirts shipped directly to you.
BarCampMilwaukee3 T-Shirt Design Contest page
Design Requirements:
• Must have the BarCampMilwaukee3 logo on the front and back, and the logo should be readable (i.e. No ultra-tiny logos to simply meet the specs). Here is the logo for your reference:
In color:
In Black & White:
In Black & White Reversed:
Download the EPS outlined logos in color and B&W, zipped (389k) compatible with Adobe Illustrator:
http://www.rohdesign.com/bcmke3/bcmke3-logo-Logo.eps.zip
• The t-shirt will be dark gray or black.
• Two colors max, with one color being white. The second color will print on top of the white on a dark shirt. Using only white in the design is OK.
• Design space is 12" x 12" max (no wraparounds, etc.) front and back.
• The design should capture the idea of sharing, learning, community, equality, technology — along those lines.
• The back must include sponsor names as listed on the site at http://barcampmilwaukee.com/sponsors. A list will probably work the best, but hey, if you have a crazy cool idea, just make sure all sponsors are listed and are treated equally on the back design (i.e. Don't make some sponsor names huge and others tiny — all sponsors are equal partners).
Here's a sample of the BarcampMilwaukee2 sponsor area on the back of the shirt from last year:
• Do not use copyrighted images in your design.
• T-Shirt designs must be your own work and not copied from someone else.
• Samples of last year's shirt designs for a starting point:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1331040068
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1343016695
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1403125149
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1404091242
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rohdesign/1468555199
• Deadline for submitted design ideas is Friday, September 12, 2008 at Midnight Central Daylight Time, submitted to Mike Rohde
• The contest is open to any designer who wishes to submit a design, whether local to the Milwaukee area or anywhere in the world.
• The winning shirt design will be announced on the BarCampMilwaukee site on September 15th, 2008.
• All submissions will be posted on the BarCampMilwaukee.com site with the option for comments by the public, for input.
• The final decision on the winning shirt design will be based on comments by those who view and vote on the designs, and selected by the organizing committee of BarCampMilwaukee.
• We reserve the right to make technical adjustments needed to print the winning design on a t-shirt.
• Winner receives 2 final printed T-Shirts in whatever size they wish, shipped to them directly.
Questions? Leave a comment below.
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August 30, 2008
Pizzas on the Grill
After mentioning on Twitter that I was going to make pizzas on the grill for friends today, I decided to record the process on video:
Making pizzas on the grill is great for small or large groups and is especially fun for kids. Everyone gets to participate, yet each person can be an individual within the group. Even better, they taste great!
Give 'em a try while you can still fire up the grill!
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August 13, 2008
Sketchnotes on Fast Company & Official SXSW Sketchnoter
This morning my buddy Bryan Nystrom let me know that he saw my SXSW 2008 Sketchnotes in a FastCompany.tv video. The video is Robert Scoble's interview of Phil Libin, CEO of the amazing product/service Evernote:
You can see Phil bringing up a photo of my SXSW Sketchnotes first spread, at around 23:00. He discusses how Evernote is quite good at OCR, but artistic hand typography used in Sketchnotes is often very tough for any OCR software to crack.
You can view all 34 pages of the SXSW 2008 Sketchnotes, in a public Evernote notebook. Feel free to test out the OCR capabilities of Evernote on hand-drawn type.
I'm an Official SXSW 2009 Sketchnoter
Thanks to Hugh Forrest and SXSW, I'm an official "Sketchnoter" and will be at SXSW Interactive 2009, capturing panels as I did in 2008. Once the panels are selected, I'll be working with Hugh and his team to choose which panels to sketchnote.Kudos to my friend Matt Henderson, for sending me to SXSW Interactive 2008 this past spring as a MakaluMedia representative. If it wasn't for Matt, I wouldn't have had the wonderful opportunity to do sketchnotes at SXSW. Thanks Matt!
Rohdesign is the site of designer Mike Rohde, who writes about design, sketching, writing, mobile computing, technology, travel, cycling, books, music and more.
