The submission time for BIG CITY LIFE has just ended and the voting has started!!

Thank you all for submitting such wonderful designs! We are very excited to see how this round of scoring will turn out and who will come top.

Which designs make you laugh, which ones make you think? Which ones do you want to see on a T-shirt?

SCORE DESIGNS NOW

For all the newcomers to the site: you can score points for each design once.
0 points means: "Na, I really don't like that one" and 5 points means: "Yes, this is so cool that I want to see it in print".

Remember that you don't have to score all designs at once. You can score a few, have a coffee and return later to score the rest. Our server will remember you and tell you the ones you already scored by fading the image into black and white. Neat ;) but don't forget to score all the designs ..they all need your vote!

So go ahead, vote for your favourites and choose the ones you want us to print!!!

Scoring Ends on Monday, 27th July, 11 pm GMT.

Just little over a day left now to submit entries. We are a little surprised with the number of rejections. I would say that we rejected about 40 designs this time around which is quite a high number considering in the last competition we had about 86 in total that were voted for. I believe we only rejected about 15-20 designs in the last Monsters & Mayhem competition. I can't stress enough how important it is to put some time into these designs. We are getting a lot of submissions with people thinking that spending 5 min doing a design would be sufficient ...it really isn't especially when compared to those designs that do show a lot of effort. We even got few designs where people put in the descriptions “5 min submission” which only makes us even more reluctant to accept...and the worst thing is that they look like 2 min submission :). Anyhow, the submissions that have been accepted are really cool and we can't wait to share them with you.

At the time of this post, there is only 1 day and 4 hours remaining to submit. Thanks to our Mac OSX widget, we can see exactly how much time is left, without having to be calculating it all the time with all this GMT business :)  The cool thing about the widget is that the new timer will appear on Tuesday which will be for voting. It will say how much time is left to vote. Very neat!

For those not familiar with the voting process, you don't have to score all the designs at once because the system remembers which ones you have scored and how many you have remaining. We also think this is one thing we should probably put up a page for, how to vote, with examples of what the page looks like. Our old users know this already but the new ones don't. This is also reflected in some submissions with people uploading Voting Gallery Images or thumbnails orientated the wrong way. Anyhow, make sure you score all the designs..but more about this on Tuesday when the voting goes live.

Its also very interesting that a lot of submissions are a little negative about cities ...and this is very worrying. Does this mean that our generations are no longer welcome in the cities? Do cities really alienate people? Are we really overworking ourselves and not getting much in return? Do we feel alone? Do smaller town provide more value for money?  A number of designs raise these questions, and it would be interesting to see what your thoughts are.
We will raise some of these issues over the course of voting and it would be great to get some discussions going. We want to see what our members think.

1 DAY LEFT TO SUBMIT

Only few days left now to scoring! Its getting really exciting and the submissions are coming in dozens now. Its also great to see that people are submitting more than one submission and they are all as good. I think we are going to have a very close fight this time around ... and its going to be really interesting to see where your votes go.
The submissions have generally been very varied and even though there is one theme, the designs are so very different.

We are also looking at bringing new feature for the next competition. Developing these things takes time and we just didn't have time to include them in this competition. They are mainly about getting you guys in more of a driving seat when it comes to new submissions. The features are really cool and we think you will like them. If you have any suggestions, NOW is the time to make them! We are always looking for new ideas how to improve the site and the way competitions work.

ONLY 4 MORE DAYS TO SUBMIT

Welcome to the daily updates on Allmightys current "Big City Life" T-Shirt design competition.

Our older members are already familiar with these updates as we had a section under My Allmightys which was called Member News and did exactly this. From now, all the competition updates will be posted in the main blog where you will be able to comment, ask questions and everything else.  If you still want to access the old Member News you can do that from here but the menu is now removed.

We've had designs coming in from the first day the competition was announced, which is fantastic. The response was also very good but we are getting worried that a lot of people are leaving submissions to the last minute ...please DONT!. Please submit as early as possible because in the last few competitions we had people submitting at 22.50 at night when the deadline was 23.00.  By leaving things to the last minute you risk your design not being accepted ..so please don't!..we want you beautiful designs!! :)

Unfortunately, as always, we had to refuse some submissions :(  but we think this is for the best. Its always better to offer designers that last opportunity to improve their designs rather than face disappointment when the results come out. If your design has been refused, just do a little more work on it and we think it should be fine. Ask you friends what they think or even you can ask us ...  just drop us an email at submissions_at_allmightys.com and we will respond as soon as possible with what we think.

ok, we think this is it for the first of many posts about our current competition to come.

Keep an eye on the blog and fee free to ask any questions about the competition and off course keep those designs coming!!

6 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT

Hello All! There is now a little over a week left to submit designs for our current “Big City Life” competition. We have already had a number of entries and they look really cool. If you haven't registered already, and want to submit, please don't wait for the last minute and register today!

As always, a week before the submission deadline we begin posting about the competition so keep an eye on the blog.

If you are mac OSX user, download our widget here to stay in touch with the news and watch the countdown to submission deadline.

finally the dates:
Submission deadline 16th July 2007 11PM GMT (sharp)
Scoring Starts 17th July 2007 AM GMT

9 DAYS LEFT TO SUBMIT
Yours, Allmightys Team

We have a new competition for you!

BIG CITY LIFE

We thought long and hard about this one and we think its going to be really fun.
Cities play a huge part in our lives. Its a love/hate relationship. Sometimes there isn't anywhere else we want to be but also sometimes we just want to get away and get as far as possible.  What is it that makes cities so incredible? 

We want you to think crowded streets, empty streets, dark alleys, glaring city lights, cats in the dark, multi storey mega supermarkets, weird people, suits, morning coffees, rush hours, parking wardens, games in the park, 4 wheel drives, pickpockets, public transport and the buzz...

1EUR from each "Big City Life" T-Shirt sold goes to Oxfam International Charity.


Here are some important dates:
Submission Deadline: 16 July 2007 23.00GMT
Scoring Starts: 17 July 2007
Scoring Ends: 27 July 2007 23.00GMT
Results Announced: 28 July 23.00GMT

We look forward to you fantastic submissions!

Yours,
Allmightys Team

Don’t Panic would like to invite all artists and designers out there to enter our coming poster competition. The best designs will exhibited at a Don’t Panic exhibition and the king of them all will become the official Don’t Panic poster.

The theme for the competition will be ‘Media’ and we are looking for entries inspired by and based around that issue. Your interpretation of the theme can be rendered using graphic design, illustration, photography, type or any medium you can think of which we can print.

All posters will be voted on through the website as democratically as possible. When voting finishes the 20 top runners will be judged by Jonathan Barnbrook - one of the UK’s most innovative graphic designers (www.barnbrook.net).

All 20 top runners will have their posters exhibited at a special Don’t Panic exhibition. The winner, as chosen by Barnbrook, will have 80 thousand of their posters printed and distributed. Don’t Panic will supply the winner with 20 flat copies without advertising on the reverse. We will also sell 20 signed and 200 unsigned copies via our website and split the revenue with the winner.

Winning posters will be printed A2 size (594x420mm) at 300 Dpi. For the purposes of voting and previewing on our website, poster entries uploaded should be:
File Format: JPG or PNG
Resolution: 72 DPI
Max Filesize: 2MB

Visit the website at www.dontpaniconline.com for more information and make sure you upload your poster as soon as possible, because the longer it is online the more votes it can receive.