$75.00 Quarter Page Ad Contest. Ends Friday at 9:00am EST (US)

[jrbiz]

Hi,

This is a $75 contest and the winner will be selected this Friday, May 1, 2009 at 9:00am EST (eastern time in the U.S.) Payment will be made immediately by Paypal and we must receive the final artwork by 12noon EST on the same day. Please do NOT participate in this contest if you will not be able to meet these strict deadlines.

We need a Quarter Page print ad artwork based upon the following specifications:

Ad Specifications

Ads in the conference program may be a pdf, Illustrator, or Photoshop file with fonts included or outlined as artwork.

Art must be actual size, 300 dpi, four-color, and must not bleed. Quarter page is 3.75” x 5” live area.


Ad Content

1. The ad must have this logo in it:

http://verygoodsystems.com/files/vikinglogo.jpg

We leave its actual size and placement to your design discretion.

2. The following content must be put in the ad:

<begin content>
* Producing and supporting mission-critical, enterprise-class Viking software for the fundraising community for more than twenty-three years.

* Web-based advancement, membership, social service, adoption, child sponsorship and call center software

* Completely integrated, flexible, easy to use and surprisingly affordable

* Fundraising and technology consulting
<end content>

We leave the content's actual size and placement to your design discretion.

3. The following contact information must be in the ad:

<begin contact information>
Very Good Systems
www.VeryGoodSystems.com
<end contact information>

Please get back to me with any questions. Good luck to all!

JRBIZ

[jrbiz]

Still looking for participants in this contest...

[owain1]

Still looking for participants in this contest...

I may be interested, will try and have a go in a minute!

[jrbiz]

Great. I will look forward to seeing your submission.

[owain1]

Have you any preference on colour schemes etc? You say it needs to be 4 colour, do you want a white background with coloured fonts?
Any other graphics wanted other than the viking logo?

[jrbiz]

We would prefer:

(1) white background
(2) some appropriate business fonts
(3) conservative, professional, business ad for a business publication
(4) additional, appropriate graphics would be nice

Thanks.

[jrbiz]

One more thing: you can pick the matching color schemes (keeping in mind the logo colors, of course.

[owain1]

Didn't see you reply until just now!

Let me sort the pic out a minute, photobucket is compressing the file and messing up the colours!

bear with me

[jrbiz]

Okay. The first image was pretty good and we do have some comments/changes, etc., but we will wait to see the latest from you before posting.

[owain1]

Okay. The first image was pretty good and we do have some comments/changes, etc., but we will wait to see the latest from you before posting.

Here's the updated one
Hopefully the colours will work properly ( unless it was just on my pc! )

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/owain-/vik2.jpg

Let me know of the changes

Thanks

[owain1]

Sorry about the hugeness of the file! I can make it smaller if need be

[jackieh1791]

I'll have something up in a bit...

[jackieh1791]

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2008-8/1320277/vikingsample1jpg.jpg

[logorice]

Is this still open? Wanna try this one(just give me a couple of minutes)

[jrbiz]

As I mentioned, this contest will run until 9am EST on Friday. We will then pick a winner, make the Paypal payment and expect delivery of the final proof image by 12noon EST (we have a deadline to meet.) Thanks.

[logorice]

Thanks for the wait..... so here's my design

http://fenixupload.com/files/uoppg0mylsghi3g8vgnq.jpg

Rice a student and logo artist.
KEEP IT SIMPLE!!!

[owain1]

As I mentioned, this contest will run until 9am EST on Friday. We will then pick a winner, make the Paypal payment and expect delivery of the final proof image by 12noon EST (we have a deadline to meet.) Thanks.

Just trying to work out time zones, 9am est - is that approx 18 hours away?

Just checking I'm around, If I've got it right I'll be around

Have you got any feedback on the advert, you said there were some changes you wanted on the orig?

[jrbiz]

Hi Owain, Yes, 9am EST is about 18 hours away. It is New York City time at time.org, if that helps.

We decided that we prefer the logo when it is free floating on a white background. We really like your graphic treatment and are hoping that you can somehow modify it to keep it, yet get the logo free of it.

You and everyone else should note that some of the textual content may slightly change. The current text is a good place holder, so don't let that hold upyour designs. I will know more in about an hour or so.

[jrbiz]

owain, jackie and logorice (and anyone else thinking of entering.) Now that we have seen the titles and bullets in the designs and in this size ad, we would like to change the top title and the body of the text. These will be the last changes that we make:

1. Title at the Top:

Change from 'Very Good Systems' to 'Viking Web'

2. New Bullet Content:

* Mission-critical enterprise software for the fundraising community.

* Web-based advancement, membership, social service, adoption, child sponsorship
and call center software.

* Completely integrated, flexible, easy to use and surprisingly affordable

* Fundraising and technology consulting

* Supporting the fundraising community for more than 23 years


Thanks. The designs are looking good.

JRBIZ

[owain1]

Hi Owain, Yes, 9am EST is about 18 hours away. It is New York City time at time.org, if that helps.

We decided that we prefer the logo when it is free floating on a white background. We really like your graphic treatment and are hoping that you can somehow modify it to keep it, yet get the logo free of it.

You and everyone else should note that some of the textual content may slightly change. The current text is a good place holder, so don't let that hold upyour designs. I will know more in about an hour or so.

ok thanks,

I've pm'ed you with a modified version - let me know what you think

Cheers

[jrbiz]

Couple other things for everyone to remember:

The completed ad must be exactly the size in the specs that the publisher is requesting and I put in my original post. Also, as it state, the colors cannot 'bleed'. This means that there must be a small white margin around the entire ad border so that there is no color touching an edge of the ad.

Thanks again,

[DCStudio]

waiting your feedback, submitted entry via PM

[logorice]

http://fenixupload.com/files/1l5pn2g6e1eoqk12qi1l.jpg

White Border is been made.

[jrbiz]

Very nice. Please see my post (a few up) with the changes to the text that we need. Thanks.

[jackieh1791]

Here is my revision. Just to be clear, the original file is the correct size and resolution. I've resized it for posting. Thanks!

http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2008-8/1320277/viking2jpg.jpg

[logorice]

Yeah....... same with my entry......... it is been small just for posting but the true dimension of it is the same with your post........ thanks........ entry via pm....... check it out!!1

[jrbiz]

Thanks to all so far. I believe that I have replied to everyone with comments, etc. Please let me know if you are still expecting any feedback from me. Some great submissions, by the way.

[7days]

Sent a PM with my work :)

[jrbiz]

I would like to start off by thanking everyone who participated in this contest. All of the submissions were quite good and, to be honest, it was a very difficult choice. In fact, if we had the need, we would have purchased multiple ads.

However, we have chosen 7days' ad submission and the payment has been made.

We willl likely have more work in the months ahead, so keep watch on this forum for more opportunities. Thanks again to all.

JRBIZ

[jackieh1791]

Please post the winning entry.