Graphics for the Theme Competition needed

By robertdouglass on 11 Dec 2005 at 20:39 UTC

Soon we will be hosting a theme competition with significant cash prizes, thanks to the funds from our involvement in Google's Summer of Code program. I'll be running the competition, and a formal announcement will follow shortly. I need some help, however, as I have very little talent for creating catchy graphics and logos. I'd like some graphics/logos (in the standard drupal.org formats) to use to advertise the theme competition. The graphics will be used both here and on sites like Apress.com (they'll be sponsoring the competition as well!)

One idea that I had was to have 3 or more Drupalicons with different patterns (stripes, polka dots, stars, paisley etc.) to emphasize that Drupal can have many different looks (themes).

Thanks in advance for your help!

-Robert

UPDATE: I've received the first submission! Isaac Horton sent me this great "candied Drupal" looking graphic last night (attached below). Thanks Isaac!
UPDATE: Isaac's comp is attached if people want to take it and work with it.

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Comments

cool

bertboerland commented 11 December 2005 at 20:54

first of all good news on the themes competetion. kind of a paradox that you need the community for making a banner to get the commuity started to getcreate themes ;-)

I will try to make some "early drafts" that might inspire real graphic gurus. will be able to submit them wednesday. btw: we need more banners! (drupal.org turing 5, release 4.7 and more!)

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looking forward to it :-)

robertdouglass commented 13 December 2005 at 22:30

- Robert Douglass

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My sites: HornRoller.com, RobsHouse.net

Lots of great themes already...

deanypop commented 12 December 2005 at 05:06

...that no one's sharing back.

Is one of the stipulations of the competition that the themes need to be actual* downloadable* themes for all potential drupal users at competition's end?

Just curious... But, apart from server issues, the theme garden seemed to get hammered by the principle of "look but don't touch". It would be a shame if the competition did the same.

First rule: GPL and on Drupal.org

robertdouglass commented 12 December 2005 at 10:38

The goal of the competition is to get more themes in the Drupal.org repository. We've got enough money to make it worth while.

- Robert Douglass

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My sites: HornRoller.com, RobsHouse.net

Weeelllll....

reikiman commented 18 December 2005 at 20:49

I am working on a compendium of a bunch of themes ported from wordpress. I've posted about it several times using the name CSSimple, because the base theme is a pure-CSS template. As I was developing CSSimple I found all these wordpress themes from a competition they had, and I've been porting away.

Anyway .... I'm trying to get them donated into the drupal contributions. However, I am being stymied in that my requests for CVS access are going unanswered.

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