The Entries for Unreality’s Banner Redesign Contest!
Unreality’s banner design contest went on all last week, and from the amount of you proficient in photoshop, I think we might have to start doing these sorts of things more often.
We recieved a lot of entries, and I’ve done my best to compile all of them for your viewing pleasure below. We have all ranges of the artistic spectrum, and entries scale from amateur to pro, but we appreciate them all. There was a particularly hilarious one using Comic Sans I seem to have misplaced. Damn…
Feel free to let me know your favorite piece in the comments. I thought about doing public voting but eh, I’ll probably just pick my favorite. Seems fair to me! But I will take your opinions into consideration if there’s a clear favorite. If you win, expect an e-mail in the next few days, and the banner will go up on the site probably next week. Reminder: This change isn’t permanent, it’s just for a week. Probably.
Alright, check out ALL of the entries below. Click to make them full size.
1.
by ME-Design Solutions
2.
by Barb
3.
by Sid
4.
by Mariana
5.
by Caio
6.
by Caio
7.
by Penny
8.
by Tomislav
9.
by Shrey
10.
by Mark P.
11.
by Mark H.
12.
by Mariana
13.
by Astrubal
14.
by Chingiz
15.
by Chris
16.
by Rupert
17.
by Axel
18.
by Tomislav
19.
by Carl
What’s your favorite?
These all look great!
My vote goes for whichever banner manages to incorporate Firefly, Arrested Development, and Pokemon 🙂
Number 15 is my fav
The first one is best, offers the best balance between quality and being streamlined
15
Insanely tough, because all of these are awesome.
I like #1 a lot, but I agree that #15 is really sweet because it stands out as different from the rest to me.
gotta go with #1
They’re all very good.
Personally, I think number two is the best. Simple and sweet.
Love the blue!
15 is good. But if you want to keep the same or similar color scheme, I’d go with 2 or 9.
Also 7 would make more sense if you ever talked about doctor who. Have you ever watched it? Do you know what TARDIS stands for? Not trying to sound like a pretentious douche, I’m just curious.
Yes, 15 it is!
7 and 15 are awesome
15 or 3 are my picks. They are all good and everytime I look at them I change my mind…
Number 15 reminds me of metal gear solid peace walker! Cool, but don’t stay true to Unreality for not being blue color.
Am I the only one who thinks the current is actually better than all of these?
Failing that, my choices:
3rd: 14
2nd: 8
1st/Best: 3
I like #15. I think it’s simple and clean. Not cluttered like some of the other banners.
#15, though not the best, is the only one that doesn’t scream myspace generation (1998 -2005)
11 and 12 also get high marks.
15, by far.
9 & 15
8
14
18
1 is also cool
15
Sorry I’ve gonna give a reason here since I didn’t on my comment above.
I pick 15 cause it seems timeless. I mean it would not get outdated as time passes. Very simple.
17
Gotta go with 15.
15 if you want to change your colour scheme.
15 all the way. Some of the others are cool but 15 is in a different class.
Wow, these are all geat! My choice would be:
#1 Number 11
#2 Number 9
#3 Number 5
Number 1’s best IMO. Keeps with the blue of the site and feels a fair bit different from the current banner (compare that to 16 which really just feels like they changed the font and that’s it =/ Not enough for me). But a veeeeery close second is 15. Subtle/simple, not too overbearing (I’m not a fan of the ones with the characters in it for that reason), and just overall fantastic. But it’s not blue, which seems like a really minor thing, but still.
Can’t wait to see which one you choose though~
Also! Kudos to #7; I don’t think it’s as high up in quality as some of the others, but it gets extra points for using Paper Mario (The Paper Mario series is one of my personal favorites. So yeah. Yay~)
I like the blue color schemes, but #15 is the cleanest. I like the use of icons instead of having 2 or 3 different fonts or multiple images on the banner to get the point across. Really well done.
#15, but you’ll have to rework the rest of the site to meld it in.
#2, 8, 9, and 15 are my favorites, though 15 seems like it might be visually appealing for a longer period of time than my other favorites.
15 is the coolest and i think a more modern look
#8 is great.
Am I the only one who doesn’t like 15 at all?
6 and 9 are the coolest!
#1
Really like 1, quite retro
18 and 12.
I’m with the others. 9 is nice, in keeping with the blue color theme, but 15 is my standout favorite.
1, and the apparently unpopular 13! 8 is pretty solid, too. Whatever you choose, it’ll be great. The selection is flawless.
8 or 5
15 and 18 are superb. 8 is really awesome.
hopefully the one you choose, you retool the look of the website to that logo.
VOTE: #15
Nine or sixteen.
I really like number 16, it is simple
9
1 and 9 are some pretty sexy-looking banners 🙂
I like 13, 14 and 17. A lot of the others are just some font placed on a random starry background. 15 is bland and emo.
14 gets my vote.
Sixteen is probably the best there, but then again, it’s out of line for me to vote for my own. 14 and 17 are my favourites.
No wait 9. I’ll vote for 9. I missed that one the first time.
#9 & 15
1, 9, 11.
6
The first is the best.
I wouldn’t mind the first and the third colliding as one though…
15
I’d go for any that doesn’t include the blue/orange colour scheme. Ever since Unreality pointed this out to me I’ve been seeing it everywhere. 🙁
I love nr. 15!
8!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
either 8, 9, or 15
13!!!!!!! Castiel <3
9 and 15!
(For the love of all that is holy, not 13… 1) I don’t remember the last time you’ve had a post on Supernatural, if at all, and 2) hardly anyone watches Supernatural anymore.)
15 and 12, in that order.
5. awesome typography and sun flares effect
6. seems like age of empires title!
8. amazing use of 3D in the typography!
9. love it! also goes with the same theme of the site right now! and there’s no need to change the page css
18. too much gay (sorry folks)
19. UNreadably
15, for sure.
But I’d change it the ring on the left to some other circular, less-specific object (planet like the existing one works, or something to complement the gears on the right), and the color scheme should be adjusted to fit with the existing site a little more closely.
8 and 9.
My likes:
11
13
15 (in a different color)
#1, then #15
number 2, it’s really streamlined and simple, 13 would be my second choice.
#15 uses that same old gay font and totally looks like the psn interface.
13 & 17, would be great, and you can change the images every few weeks
15
15. It reminds me of coffee, and every morning I read all posts of the previous day with a nice cup of coffee beside me. 15 really manages to convey that feeling.
#1
#9
#15
pretty much in that order, and you should really consider making it permanent paul, especially #9 could work really well as a new (brighter) design.
13, you should have created a pool it will be hard to sum up all favorites.
Eleven!
15 looks pretty original and might be useful longer since the figures maybe outdated sometime later.
2 and 15
9
Can i vote for mine? #13!
I VOTE 9 or 15. Woohoow!
15 is my favorite. Understated and elegant.
1 and 8 😀
15
For me, it’s definitely no.9. Just the concept that there’s another world which you can see through the typeface just blew me away. And i think it matches this website’s feel and theme nicely.
And 9 as a permanent design
I’m lovin #5
#2 gets my vote.
In all honesty, though, I don’t think ANY of these are better than what you currently have.
*sniffles* Only one vote for me (#7). I cwies nao!
I think my favorites are the ones that incorporate characters. Like #3, #7, #14, and #17. But most of them are great. Why not just change the logo once a week and use all the ones you like? Starting with the winner, your favorite, and moving on from there?
9..9….9……….9
hey i know the contest is closed and all… number 9 is the winner for me
make it a permanent banner!