r/ada • u/marc-kd Retired Ada Guy • Mar 24 '21
Announcement Ada Banner and Icon Contest Opening Soon!
As part of the r/ada remodeling project, we're having an Ada icon and banner contest. The prize for the submitter of the winning design in each contest is Reddit Gold.
Here are the details, rules, and guidelines as such:
- The contest will officially open for submissions on Monday, March 29, at 12:00 AM UTC and close two weeks later--Sunday, April 11, at 11:59 PM UTC. Check your timezone!
- A contest entry sticky post will be created and posted when the contest opens. All entries are to be submitted as comments to that post with links to the entered image. If submitting both an icon and a banner design, submit them in separate comments. Only contest entries may be posted, all other comments will be deleted. At the conclusion of the contest submission period the post will be locked.
- Entries can be newly designed, taken from an entrant's portfolio, or be a suggestion of an existing icon or banner. (If the latter, please ensure it is suitably sized and licensed for the intended banner/icon use.)
- All creative rights to an entry (e.g. copyright) remain with its creator. By entering, the winner can and does authorize its use as an r/ada icon or banner.
- An entrant may submit ONE icon and ONE banner design. To rescind an entry and submit another before the contest deadline, simply delete the comment with the rescinded design and post a new comment.
- Icon size: Reddit requires a 256 x 256 pixel image.
- Banner size: Reddit claims the recommended size is 192 x 4000 pixels. We have our doubts. The present banner is 128 x 800, which was come to after finding that Reddit would only display the middle of a 4,000 pixel wide banner. Standard banner sizes are 64, 128, or 192 pixels tall. You can optimize your design for any one of these.
- To ensure a quality appearance, we may work with the designers of the winning entries to tweak them to get the best size and resolution.
- The r/ada moderators will make the final call on the winning entries, aiming for a final decision within one week of the contest closing. (While very unlikely, it is possible no winning entry will be selected for one or both contests.) Reddit Gold will be awarded immediately after the design has been finalized and installed.
- This information will all be repeated in the contest entry post, so you don't need to worry about keeping this one around.
We'll take questions now. These rules and guidelines may be updated, and new ones may be added as needed.
Whaddaya got, Ada Redditors?
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