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The Contest is now over. No more entries will be accepted.

ll members of the Department of Computer Science are invited to participate in the CS Design Contest, sponsored by the Department of Computer Science and the CS Graduate Students Group (CSGSG). The goal of this contest is to design any or all of the following:

1. CS Dept. T-shirt design (for general use by the CS Dept.)

2. CS Dept. coffee mug design (for general use by the CS Dept.)

3. CS Dept. logo design (for letterheads, business cards, etc.)

If you think you have it in you to create designs that will be identified with the CS Dept. for years to come, here's a golden opportunity! So, design a CS T-shirt, coffee mug, logo, or all of the above. The best designs from all the submissions will be chosen as the designs for the official T-shirt / mug / logo, of the Department. Prizes will be $100 cash for each winning design, and $50 for the first runner-up in each category.

This is a great opportunity to see your creative design(s) being used on a massive public scale! (at least a couple of hundred mugs and T-shirts will be commissioned professionally based on winning design(s)).

• Create your designs using any reasonable tool or media (e.g., Visio, Photoshop, MS Word, paper, etc.), and keep the final resolution of your design at least 300dpi (so that it may be used in printed documents, etc.).

• You can use full-colors in your design, but if so, please also create a low-color version (i.e., 4-colors or less), just in case our printing costs for full production become prohibitive.

• You may create and enter into the Contest up to three designs in each of the categories (1) through (3) above (this increases the chances of winning).

• Put all your design(s) on a single Web page - the URL of this page would be your actual Contest entry.

• The judging will occur primarily through a general (web-form -based) vote, polling all Department members, and then a judging panel (composed of a mix of faculty and students) will make the final selections based on the general vote. (Our Chair has veto power over the panel's decisions).

• All designs that the Dept. decides to use will become the property of the Dept. (entry into the Contest constitutes consent to this rule).

• Questions about the CS Design Contest should be directed to Anand (or to Gabe Robins).

• In searching for design ideas/concepts, you may want to also look at the new CS Dept. brochure.

• You may also want to look at what other CS departments and universities have chosen as their logos / motifs.

• While it is difficult to specify design rules / guidelines a priori, and we certainly do not want to limit or restrict the design space in any way, keep in mind that often *simplicity* is the key to a good design (think "Occam's Razor").

• Finally, we have placed in the CS Lounge a comprehensive set of graphic design books (from the collection of Gabe Robins) which provide a rich source of ideas for T-Shirt/logo/letterhead and other design concepts and examples, color combination guides, etc. Please feel free to look at these books for inspiration (but please don't remove them from the Lounge).

• Ryan McGeary, for the front of the Dept. T-shirt
  
• Ryan McGeary, for the back of the Dept. T-shirt
  
  

• Bob Sielken, for the front of Dept. mug #1
  
• Nuts & Glenn for the back of Dept. mug #1
  
• Dave Coppit, for the front of second Dept. mug #2
  
• Kit Chapin, for the back of Dept. mug #2
  
  

• The most popular logo according to the vote was Ryan McGeary's: