I will award 40 Steem to the Steemian who produces the best Giving Steem design and 10 Steem to the next best 2.....if there are that many.
The competition will run until approximately the same time next Friday.
The logo will feature on all of my main post images and I hope, should any other Steemians adopt the Giving Steem initiative they may also choose to use the logo.
I am looking for a simple design that works when it is small...containing a hand and the Steem logo.
edit it would be better if the logo did NOT contain the word steemit or any photography. My appologies for not making that clear from the outset! Thank you
Please put your designs in the comments. I will choose the winner based solely on what I like, but may be influenced by Steemian's votes...though not definitely! ;)
I will need a high resolution image of the logo and also a transparent version that can be sent through Steemit.chat I hope.
Best of luck and thank you.
Happy Steeming
Small version (128x128 pixels):
This fits the idea behind the brief perfectly. Thank you very much for entering penguinpablo.
Wonderful, this fits the brief perfectly. Thank you so much inber.
It was my pleasure to take part:)
Here's your winner ;)
2 color, reduces down and maintains legibility, minimal and universal, can work vertically or horizontally.
Thank you very much, it fits the brief perfectly.
You're welcome. Enjoyed it.
It works many different ways
It is very clever.
Here is attempt at making your logo.
Hi-rez:
Low-rez:
This fits the brief perfectly, thank you very much
This is clever!
Thank you!
without beckground
i love this one!
OK ! I came up with a steem , giving hands logo , that I made on tool whiz photos ! Hope you like my design ! you should be able to make it smaller . I don't know how to do these things LOL !
Thank you for this. Just a quick tip, using the steem symbol rather than the word steem would enhance your chances. I'll say no more as I want to try to be as fair as possible....
yes I thought of adding the logo as well after I made it and posted it ! I will try to add it but I don't know if I can, its hard for me to figure out that part ! LOL but the hands alone with the word steem obviously means what it conveys !
OK ! Sorry , how about this one ! My second attempt ! Hope you like it ! Steem on !
This fits the brief very well, thank you!
your welcome!👍
I love glitch art. How about this?
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Thank you very much for participating! If you could add something in, like the impression of a hand that represents the giving of steem, then it would be closer to what I am looking for. I like the glitch art effect!
This is a lovely image, would it be possible to amend it in some way so that the hands are not photographs? That would really help as the logo will need to be easily applied to other images....like the steem logo. Thank you so much.
Hi, very nice initiative - This is what i made for you - with beckground
Hi olegw, these are fantastic, but not quite what I'm looking for. Two things, there should be no real image in the logo....like the photo of a hand and no reference to steemit as steem can be given in other applications too.
Think of the logo as being an extension of the original steem logo....just with the artful addition of the impression of a hand.
I hope this doesn't put you off, I really like them. Please feel free to try again.
The hand holding steem is lovely and fits the brief. Thank you so much.
This is my entry for this competition.
Thank you very much rocksg, this is a perfect fit for the brief!
The image described, The hand of a poor man asking for help.
It is a beautifully poignant image. Thank you for sharing it.
This is my entry. Good luck to everyone in the contest. Let me know if you'd like to see the 'younger hand' version.
Thank you very much kontora!
Looking forward to seeing what our talented artists come up with :D
Me too! I hope they are not too busy :)
I'm sure they'll make time for this. Everyone is so enthusiastic about creating art around here, which is probably why I love the place :D
You know, you are absolutely right! I love that too.
^_^
nice post @benjojo
Thank you silvia
Great idea! I was actually thinking of doing the same for my contest if it ever gets picked up :-)
Cool! Is your contest about art? I'll take a look at your blog...
It's about tales, however people want to tell them. Writing, art, comics.
I only just started it this week, so not many people have seen it yet. I'm keeping it in my blog posts as part of my signature to make it more visible :-)
I like it! It has a good, well thought out framework and short enough to be fun! If I get the time...can't promise anything...i'll have a go. I have to make up fairytales for my daughter almost every night, this should be a breeze. No wait, your standards might be quite a bit higher than hers :) As long as she's the hero....the rest is superfluous.
Haha yeah, I'll believe that! I'd love to see an entry from you. You know, you don't have much competition yet either way. I'm happy with all the entries I can get and I'm sure yours will be great! Everyone likes fairytales :D
I'm glad you like the idea of the contest. I wasn't sure if it would be well received :-)
Very nice! I'll participate! We'll see if my basic skills are worth looking at.
Also: resteemed & upvoted!
All entries are very welcome. Thank you very much! I look forward to seeing your design :)
First I'll have to fetch some ideas and due to the fact, that I'm a dreadful perfectionist making that logo could take some time.
By the way: Are you more into some simplistic art or some kind of more realistic/fancy? I'm asking this, because we just have one chance to make a logo, that'll be chosen by you/(the community) and will then (hopefully) gain popularity.
I am hoping for something simple and elegant that will look good if shrunk down. I want the logo to convey the simple message of giving steem and alert steemians when they see it on the main image of posts, that the person making the post will be giving some of the rewards to charity....how much will be up to them to find out if they are interested.
As promised, here's my entry:
(When you're giving more than one Steem)
(Giving a single Steem)
Basically the idea was, that Steem needs some kind of container to be stored in to make it visible. I found spheres to be kinda pretty.
So I just put some Steem into an empty glass sphere and instantlly there was lightning and shit, because Steem is way too powerful.
Warning: Handle with care! Those things are pretty dangerous / fragile, due to the massive power stored in those little orbs! (Wasn't easy to put Steem into them, but I somehow managed to pull it off.)
They are both lovely and fit the brief perfectly. Thank you!
Thanks! :)
great idea! i will try to come up with something!
thank you karenmckersie! That would be wonderful.
just entered hope you like it , my first time trying to make one ! LOL !
like it thanks for sharing
My pleasure.
a post full of steem! let us know the final design sounds like a fun competition!
I will do a post announcing the winner with the design in the main post image :)
Cheers for this benjojo.
Here are my entries
CC0 License - free for personal and commercial use
Hi puffin, these are beautiful, just not quite what I'm looking for. Think of the logo as an extension of the steem logo. I wouldn't be able to shrink this down to put on all sorts of other images. I think i'll update the post a bit. I hope you do not feel discouraged! Thank you so much for participating.
Hi btc.ctb, thank you very much for participating! This is very close to fitting the brief, if you could remove the word steemit and enhance the resolution of the steem logo, that would certainly improve your chances :)
Thank you, that fits the brief perfectly!
This My Entry ! I Hope you guys like it !
This is a fantastic image blackswith12, if there was any way you could produce something without the photography and the word steemit, it would fit much closer to what I'm hoping for.
this one nice ?
It is very nice and definitely a step in the right direction. Still not quite a fit for what i'm after because the hands are photographic images. Think about how the logo will look in the corner of lots of different images. Thank you so much for keeping on going!
i cant give up haha , my bad , i hope this fit
You can enter as many times as you like! :) This is the brief in a nutshell!
You have nailed the brief, thank you very much.
Sample pack/post linked here to see larger sizes: https://steemit.com/steemit/@artwatch/a-light-in-the-dark-giving-steem-away-logo
I call it "A Light in the Dark.
I hope it is what you were looking for @benjojo. I can do edits or change the colors to suit you.
If the background can be dropped.....though I think the image is beautiful.....so that it can be a logo on any other image, then you've certainly nailed the brief. Thank you very much.
This is the best so far @benjojo
Excellent idea to run this competition! :)
Thanks firepower!
Hey dude you kind of indirectly inspired a post. Just knowing that even some of the big fish here support lofty goals for humanity makes it so much easier to talk about.
https://steemit.com/gifteconomy/@whatamidoing/optimism-at-the-end-of-the-world-4-what-do-you-have-to-offer-to-the-gift-economy
I hope we have a chance to chat sometime. Are you ever on the steemitchat?
I would love to chat some time :). I left a comment on your lovely post.
good idea - i am not much at design but i am following you now -David
Thank you very much for your entry couch-potato!
It's a bit rough but here's my entry! :)
Great contest and initiative!!
Hi tonyr, thank you very much for your entry!