Congrats to Muaddib. His design has been selected by my client. Thanks to all who participated. Please keep a look out for my next contest.

Eddy

Four finalists (the ones with five stars) have been chosen and will be reviewed further by the client. I will provide feedback as soon as I hear something. I think it will be in the next day or two.

If you were not selected, please do not remove your entries just yet. The client may want to see other options.

Thanks for everyone's participation.

Ok did manage to give feedback to everyone, but I'm done and won't make any more comments. If you have 4 stars, your in the running. If you have 3 stars, please leave your designs up as I will probably go back and reassess each of the 3 stars. If you have two or one, you can pull them if you'd like.

Well unfortunately, I have more entries now that I can possibly provide feedback on before the contest ends. I will of course still rate each submission, but I'm not able to provide any more comments in time for revisions to be made.

Amokana,

I've considered that, but it doesn't seem to have been an issue with all the other contests I've run. My biggest problem so far is getting clients who want to take portions of each design I show them and mix and match them up. I've tried very hard to get them to commit to a single design but sometimes they're adamant. In that case, what I've done in the past is to award the full contest prize to the designer who has the overall winning design and then smaller prizes to the other designers who created portions that I would like to use. It seems to have worked out well so far.

I am very curious as to why this contest has gotten so much interest... 65 entries in 30 hours? What has drawn so many people to take this one on? I've often held contests with twice the prize amount and ended up with half the entries (and much poorer quality). Is it the promise of the longer term work on the project? Is it because I've held quite a few of these and paid a winner every time?

Eddy

Ok I've caught up. I did want to mention a bit about my scoring method...

1 star -- you need to do some serious rework and maybe even start over. If you're here, you most likely didn't follow directions, or it's so bad I don't know where to begin to start telling you how to fix it.

2 stars -- you have something that may be workable, but you'll need to make a good bit of changes.

3 stars -- its coming along very well and you'll only need to tweak an item here or there.

4 stars -- you've taken your concept as far as it will go. No more changes are necessary. I am considering presenting your design to the client.

5 stars -- your design will be presented to the client. There won't be any of these until the contest has closed and I have chosen the best few from the 4 star entries. I usually choose 3 for presentation to the client.

If I don't have enough 4 star entries at the end of the contest then I will choose some of the 3 star entries for presentation to the client.

Eddy

It looks like everyone's been busy. I'll catch up on posting comments and rating your designs over the next couple hours.

Eddy