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Don't believe everything that the movies tell you about technology. There's not going to be a Cylon uprising, you don't have to choose between the red pill and blue pill, the Governor of California is not going to terminate us, we need not fear the breasts of the fembots and machines aren't going to poison our asses with poisonous gases.

Robots are our friends, not foe. Affirmative.

And we're depending on all of you to demonstrate this in our current design challenge: "People and Robots: Best Friends Forever". Think C3PO and Luke, Bender and Fry, Johnny Five and Ally Sheedy, Data and Geordi. Imagine Wall-E coming by to clean your living room every week. You get the idea.

This design challenge is the second phase of our community art project done in collaboration with Mozilla, the makers of Firefox. Mozilla products are made by a global community, who sincerely believe in the power of technology, browsers and robots to enrich people's lives.

The very creative, non-cyborg folk at Studio Number One (the design agency founded by Shepard Fairey) will be helping us pick the winners.

Some things to know before you start:
  • Make your design about technology making people's lives better. Including robots is good too.
  • Designs do not need to include the Firefox logo in the design
  • Designs do not need to be composited onto a device (unless you really want to).
  • Winning designs will be made into Laptop Art, iPhone Art, Desktop Wallpapers, iPhone Wallpapers, Firefox Personas, Firefox t-shirts and receive a featured spot in the Mozilla Creative Collective (launching shortly).
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$1000 cash

$100 of Infectious Product and 5% of Net Sales, Firefox Ogio messenger bag, and a Firefox 3.5 t-shirt.
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Roomba Vacuum Cleaning Robot

$100 of Infectious Product and 5% of Net Sales, Firefox Ogio messenger bag, and a Firefox 3.5 t-shirt.
People_robots_all_winners $100 of Infectious Product and 5% of Net Sales, Firefox Ogio messenger bag, and a Firefox 3.5 t-shirt.
DEADLINE: August 24, 2009

Judges

Winning Designs
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Mozilla is building an open source design community called the Creative Collective and they need your help. If you liked our earlier series of Firefox-inspired designs and are interested in helping them build something new and awesome, definitely check it out.
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timroberts

Got questions or comments about the design challenge? We are all ears.

 

Ryuko

Are multiple entries accepted?

 

mthardin

Sweet… Robots.

 
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timroberts

we don’t have a hard and fast rule on this… in general we do accept multiple entries. but if we are getting tons of submissions we may be less likely to accept multiple and the higher the quality the more likely we are to accept multiple. and we may stagger when we put them into the voting gallery… so as not to flood it with one artist.

 

buca

any guideline dimensions?

 
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cesarrem

LOL NICE, BUT I DONT KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ROBOTS, BUT I WILL TRY, LOL SEE YOU .

 

multimolti

sounds awesome, sadly i’m no artist…

 

wcm

what size images would you like us to submit for the desktop wallpaper category? should we submit a few in different sizes?

 
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timroberts

can anyone guess where our wonderful designer mikey got the inspiration for this illustration?

 
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wcm

Just submit your art in one size and we’ll take care of the rest! The bigger the better of course, so it can scale nicely across all our sizes. Thanks!

 
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burbskate

looks like I’m getting in early again! The idea hit me and I had to finish it.

 
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LOSmattocks

what will the design go on? everything?

So what dimensions should we make the design?

 
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RhysMcDonald

I’m with Mike, I’d hate to work on a design and have it turn out to be too small or something, is there a min. size we should keep in mind?

 
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Nillaith

Re: image size

Laptop is the biggest skin the design will be printed on, so I think it’s safe to say it should be as big as a laptop skin (15×10 inches)

 
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timroberts

man – no guesses at all for the design inspiration? anyone know this cereal?

 
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joey

Thought I’d source some pictures to inspire you all…

 
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RhysMcDonald

Tim’s last post freaked me out for a moment. So happy to be regular

 
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burbskate

i don’t need more fiber.

 
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joey

 
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mor.pratik

hi…
on which male i send this….

 
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RhysMcDonald

Joey, that last pic has made my day! I can NOT stop laughing my ass off over here

 
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joey

Hi mor.pratik – just wanted to check in and see what you mean? “on which male i send this….” let me know how we can help.

Oh and Rhys – this hottie is for you…

 
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RhysMcDonald

BFF’S!!!

And here I was thinking they didn’t make solid gold dancers anymore, pure awesome!

 
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mumbot

i’m loving those inspirational pics!!

 
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joey

OK Jade – you convinced me – one more.

If only I had a bot friend so I could break the constant and never ending cycle of placing dirty dishes in the dishwasher…

 
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joey

keep finding awesome robot images… can’t stop posting them…

 
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joey

Last one, I promise…

 

xtina

Here’s one of my old favorites:

Number 5 is ALIVE!!!

 
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burbskate

no disassemble.

 
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KieraCrimescene

Do we have to upload them already on the template?

 
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joey

You don’t have to composite your art for this contest (unless you really want to), so no need for the template. You can just upload a jpeg of your art at the right dimensions here: http://www.infectious.com/submissions/people_robots/get_started and if it’s a winner we’ll work with you to translate it into different device skins. Best of luck!

 
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vDue

“Designs do not need to include the Firefox logo in the design”
Are you indicating that we shouldn’t, or is it just that – we don’t have to?

Also you say 650 x (up to) 800 px, but I assume this is for the “preview” version, for upload purposes. 300 dpi is a given, but how big should we make the original? Sorry I’m new to this :>

 
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joey

Hi vDue. Let me double check about the logo quickly. Can you make the original art at 10″ × 15″ at 300 dpi please.

Thanks!

 
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joey

Hi again vDue. You can include the logo if you’d like.

 
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texasoasis

Hi all! I am new here and just submitted my first ever entry! Yea!
It’s not posted yet but I hear lots of you are kind in voting.

Is really 300dpi the rule? I didn’t see that anywhere in the size restrictions.
I was surprised they don’t want vector scalable images, even though I do have my work in vector should they need it.

 
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joey

Hi texasoasis – you need to have the final art at 300 dpi in case it is selected as a winner. 300 dpi and 10″ × 15″ so that we can make laptop skins (and smaller device skins) with winning art. The submissions in the voting gallery are a much lower resolution for the web and just for preview purposes. Vectored art is good too!

 
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RhysMcDonald

I’m bringing this topic back to what it’s REALLY about. Kickass Robots that bring the funk

 
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vDue

It doesn’t make sense that it should be 10″ × 15″ for a laptop. Laptop’s are usually widescreen. Sure you don’t mean 15″ × 10″ ?

 
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texasoasis

Admin Joey,
Thanks for your help.
I did a new submit format of the new titled puppybot. I also have it here in vectored 10×15 300dpi.

I was not allowed to submit my first entry, but I am confused once again because,
The rejection on my original entry told me that my art was not of the type you accept here?
I guess that’s where I am so confused. Thereas so many diverse types of art here already.
On reading the site I noticed the only banned art was of celebrities.
My art was not of a celebrity. I am lost in the fog again. Kindly explain?

Is it that I should use more graphic filters and funkify the art more to qualify?

Thanks! T/O

 
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assif

Where’d it go?

Looks like the page you were trying to access is not there.

Please go back or try again.

plz help , every time i press submit button , i get this message ! wat m i supose to do ?

 
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joey

Texasoasis – it probably means that the art is not quite what Infectious is looking for style-wise or standard-wise when this happens. Sorry about that, we appreciate it’s a subjective process. We recommend putting your art into the critique section to get some feedback from the community at large in this kind of instance. It will give you a pretty good gauge about what the community thinks about it and whether it will score well if it gets accepted into the main voting gallery.

assif – thanks for the heads up. We’ll look into it for you

Happy weekend all!

 
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joey

ps. nice Rhys ;)

 
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assif

even i tried to submit in critique section also but it gives same respond

Where’d it go?

Looks like the page you were trying to access is not there.

Please go back or try again.

this message itself is weird, it doesn’t make any sense ! page is not there ?? its not concerned with design but the page of site………very confusing process , im sorry .

 
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akhil

i just wanna know detailed info about topic

 
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assif

this is my work for infectious that im trying to submit but it could not be as yet ! http://img406.yfrog.com/i/designimage.jpg/

 
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IrFan_1933

here my feedback firefox logo !

in which there is no firefox logo !

thx 4 all…
I am still new here … and not know .. if there is any error in the know please … :)
Visit my blog :) http://blog.irfan1933.com

 
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firefox

can we use any software to make the images

 
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joey

Hi firefox, as long as you can provide us your final art as a print ready JPG, TIF, PDF, or EPS, you are free to use any program to create your art.

 
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daxx

okay… after getting bugged by your emails, I’ve finally submitted something. Now what?

 
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joey

daxx – hopefully this should answer all your questions:

http://www.infectious.com/learn/submissions

Feel free to email me at joey@infectious.com if you need anything else answered

 
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daxx

Okie dokie. Thanks for that. I think I’m up to speed. I love the idea of a creative collective. It’s like the Borg but for designers! haha

 
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daxx

I actually read ALL the FAQs.

On your Device Skins page, under Application instruction, this third point has no link…
“For a blow by blow photo tutorial of how to apply your iPhone skin please check out this nice review from testfreaks.com.”

jsyk

 
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Dou

Here’s a nice friendly robot… :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8d454hMkwI
BTW, is a rescue robot not a shredding machine as the title reads…check it out

 
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Avman

Enjoyed making the RO-BOY. Thanks you guys for this “Contest”.

 
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aomillustrations

Just a quick question, and hello to all. Can we post submissions on the day of the 24th?

 
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joey

Yup submissions are open for this design challenge until midnight tonight (PST). 13 and a half more hours to go!

 
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timroberts

robot humor.

 
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burbskate

awww … i hate having to destroy my favorite robot

 
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burbskate

ok – I feel stupid. or I can’t remember… was the winner announced for this?

 
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timroberts

not yet…. beginning of next week

 
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timroberts

People & Robot Winners announced. Congrats to
Hammo: http://www.infectious.com/profile/Hammo
Tomek: http://www.infectious.com/profile/karelias
Robert: http://www.infectious.com/profile/blackmoondev

awesome work all…. there was some amazing creativity in this one.

 
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BABAITU

FELICIDADES A LOS 3!!!!!
Que guay fueron mi selección!!!!

 
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RhysMcDonald

….what Babaitu said!

Man, the winners freakin’ rock, congrats to all!

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