Brickset banner competition results
Posted by Huw,
As part of our Super Heroes month we held a competition to design a Super-Heroes themed banner to be displayed at the top of the page for the next four weeks.
There have been some absolutely stunning entries submitted to Flickr and Instagram (among all the Mighty Micros). Entrants used a wide range of methods to create them and I have been blown away by the creativity shown by everyone, particularly as I have no graphic design or art skills whatsoever.
It was incredibly hard to choose a winner but there can be only one, and it is Chris Rumsey! His winning image is now in place and will be there at the top of the page [1] for the next four weeks. I chose it for its originality, how well it fits the brief, the inclusion and placement of the Brickset logo, how it looks at the top of the page and, most importantly, because it features a sausage!
So, congratulations Chris, I will be in touch to arrange for the collectable minifigures to be sent to you, along with some Brickset goodies.
Given the high standard of entries, I have chosen a number of runner-ups who will also receive some Brickset goodies. See them after the break:
Ready Brickset Go! by IamKritch. A very clever design which incorporates both Brickset in an interesting way and features Mighty Micros, the subject of our other competition.
There were lots of entries that used minifig heads in a row with the first letter of each one's name spelling out Brickset. These two were my favourites:
By A. Stormtrooper:
By Grayson Leigh:
I love the comic book feel of this one by Seraph, and the Brickset logo in the middle:
One of the first entries, by TheOneVeyronian is a wonderfully original idea: Tony Stark/Iron Man viewing Brickset on his head-up-display.
This colourful and original work by toarickbrick features Spider-Gwen.
So, congratulations to Chris and the runners up, and thank you all for entering. I will know where to come to should I want custom banners designed in the future!
I will contact the winners via Flickr mail to get your addresses.
Oh, and stay tuned for our Super Heroes designer interview which we will be publishing in the next day or so plus more Super Heroes set reviews.
[1] Note that at screen sizes less than 1024px wide the regular banner will be shown, which will include most tablets in portrait orientation, and phones.
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Congratulations!
The banner on my screen looks odd (it's one and a half a banner actually), there are two Brickset logos, the second one being cut in half.
Is it due to screen size?
You might need to ctrl-F5 to ensure the latest CSS is loaded.
I'll take steps to hopefully prevent that being necessary.
Congratulations to Chris and all runners up! All the banners are really striking and creatively designed, nice one guys!
I love all these contests being held at this site, keep them coming!
I'm experiencing the same as Alonzo, I see Batman and Superman twice at the top of my screen, the second time on the right where the banner 'starts again'.
That shouldn't happen: what screen resolution and device are you using? Can you send me a screenshot (huw[at]brickset.com]
I've added background-repeat: no-repeat; to the css which might help but as the image is exactly the right size it shouldn't be an issue.
Congrats to everyone!
Although I feel like something has to be said about the last one, because it would tarnish the amount of effort everyone else put into their work. It is literally the header of the official lego dc superheroes site: http://www.lego.com/en-us/dccomicssuperheroes. Sorry to be a party pooper, it just doesn't feel right to let that slip by.
I know that many of them pinched bits from official images: there was nothing in the rules to preclude it. I felt CM4Sci should be rewarded because of the sheer number he entered and, official image or not, they do look very cool and would look great as a header...
Wow you're right.
I think someone forgot to centre the banner. The website is centred, but the banner's aligned left, so on my screen, it's way out of line. >.<
Congratulations to the winners! They did a fantastic job!
That's the difference between plagiarism and appropriation. It's one thing to "pinch" images from elsewhere to create something different and it's another to just swap logos on an existing work. Another one of his entries was taken from the marvel site as well: http://www.lego.com/en-us/marvelsuperheroes. Again, not to be a party pooper and of course it's up to your discretion, but to me it kind of takes away from the effort the other participants put in their banners.
Those are all pretty adorable.
Lots of great entries in this contest. Sometimes it feels like the LEGO community so heavily revolves around building that LEGO fans' other creative abilities rarely get a chance to shine, so this contest was a great idea!
I do have to agree with pigeonbobble, as someone who spent a decent amount of time finding, cutting out, manipulating and re-positioning images to come up with the banner for my idea it does feel like a bit of a slap in the face to read that CM4Sci should be rewarded just for the number of banners he made considering the lack of thought and effort that would have needed to go into them.
It's obviously fine not to win the competition, especially as I know I couldn't make an entry with the style or feel of any of those you selected but when there is a section for banners that fall as runners up and you see that those banners made the list over those that people obviously put a lot of work into it really feels disheartening. Any of us could have just as easily made numbers of similar banners using the elements that are freely available on the LEGO website but instead made the choice to make something for ourselves and so to see someone rewarded in any way for taking such an obvious shortcut is a little upsetting.
Congrats, weird I'm getting the same as everyone else it is split in half.
OK, display problem now fixed and I bow to your pressure as you make some good points: the final runner up has been removed.
I think the one the Tony Stark is my favorite! Awesome idea.
Wish I'd just stolen one from the LEGO website now. :P *sour grapes*
Congrats to the winner.
I really enjoyed perusing these, there are some awesome banners. Congrats to Chris !
Very Good entries.... I wish I knew anything about either art or web design. Huw can I ask if the "refresh background button code" see my previous statement about web design knowlede needs moving.... i quite often get back to brickset and click the icon for a refresh.... it still works but with the new banner you have to click where the old logo was not where it is now....... thankyou
^ Yes, I should really fix that :)
Yay! Great job Chris and everyone else!
Congrats to everyone, really cool designs!
Now it looks and works (link) perfectly fine, thanks.
@jmjt4 Everyone else's was also original work it was just made digitally, not hand drawn. But I agree with you his does look awesome!
Oops. I won't do as many entries next time. You're right, they didn't take much effort, but I think they still looked neat as banners. Didn't think people would be this upset over it. Oh well...
The winning entries do look cool, though. There was one with a fully drawn picture of a ton of characters that I saw, that was really cool!
Congrats to the winners! :)
I knew that was the sausage. I guess next month everyone will include helicopters and lighthouses as well XD
^^ They did indeed, which is why I highlighted them. But as others have rightly said, quality is more important than quantity.
^ I'll remember that next time. Thank for for considering me in the first place :P
There's always next time!
The winning entry is excellent not least for its humorous inclusion of a sausage!
Of the runners up, TheOneVeynronian's stands out for its creativity and execution. I'm glad I didn't have to choose between it and the one that won. They're both very cool.
Would it be possible to have the banner alternate? Such as you'll have one banner on one visit, and when you close the website and come back a different one will appear and cycle through all the runnerups?
@huw, from a PC works, from iPad it's the standard brickset banner still.. And I've refreshed / reloaded the page...
^ It's difficult to display it properly at less than 1025px wide so it will show only on desktops over 1024px wide.
Ok thanks, that's my excuse for a iPad pro then.. Business justification: brickset banner competition viewing!
Actually, at 1024px it works OK although Iron Man is obscured by the search box, so I've tweaked the CSS so it'll show in landscape mode on iPads. That'll save you a few hundred £'s :)
I like how Superman is holding Batman's hand... or trying to steal the hot dog. Either way works for me.
Doesn't show on ipad mnis though. Never mind.
^ Not even in landscape mode? It has the right resolution: https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8q=ipad%20mini%20resolution
What could have been...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/needslego/25331012044/in/dateposted-public/
Until next time!
Looks good! Congratulations to the winner!
Wow! Love seeing the alternate creativity of Bricksetters. Congratulations to all.
Ah Deadpool, so smart of him. Nice entries.
Huh, I'm surprised there was a runner-up category in this contest! I'm the creator of the Tony Stark banner btw. It's such a pleasant surprise to be picked, and thanks so much for this contest Huw. It's not often that non-building creativeness gets to be showcased in the LEGO community and I'm glad to show my artistic capability here. Oh, and congrats to the winner and other runners-up too! :o)
p.s. when will the Flickrmail contacts be sent out? I haven't received any contact via Flickr yet, so I was just wondering. The email connected to my Flickr is different from my main email so I don't check it...
Congratulations
Here are ones I made that I thought were good...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58012526 @N00/25243071623/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58012526 @N00/25509400536/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58012526 @N00/25413601690/in/dateposted-public/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/139948200 @N07/25752266021/in/dateposted-public/
What did I do wrong lol
Congrats to the winner and the runner ups! Also well done to all of those of you who participated!
Congratulations to Chris and others! There were some amazing entries from very talented community members. I love those featured here and tried to look at all the submissions, too.
I'm honored and shocked to be featured in this post. Thank you!
Here was my effort. Bit gutted, but hopefully there will be more competitions of this type.
https://flic.kr/p/EhHdCx
@bigrickmachine I really liked your Joker one, with the cards.
And I thought TheOneVeyronian's entry was great too.
Thanks for sharing the runners-up as well; I enjoyed seeing some of the alternatives as well as the well-deserved winner! Lots of talent and dedication went into these submissions! Many thanks to everyone who submitted.
@TheOne, drop me an email and we'll do it that way.
Ok, now I can see the entire thing.
Dropped you an email Huw :o)
By the way, to the person who said only one of the featured entries was hand drawn, that's not really true. My entry, though it was digital, it was drawn and coloured freehand using a graphics tablet, so technically it is (mostly) hand drawn :o)
EDIT: Can't believe this took 5 attempts to post, it kept disappearing when I hit post :o/
@Huw
The banner actually appears for about a second as the page loads, then it reverts to the old one once fully loaded.
@TheOneVeyronian I meant drawn on paper but my point in my reply to @jmjt4 was to say that they are all original artwork, drawn or digital.
I don't know how you guys decided there were so many good ones! Congratulations to all, you do amazing work.
What a fantastic competition and superb entries. Beautiful!
@Putters
Thanks :) and I agree, I hope for more competitions like this
I would love to have participated, but between my daughter being born and a death in the family a few days later, there was no way I could have done one this time around. Please do another one soon!
Sausage FTW!