PokerDIY needed a new button or icon design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 64 designs submitted by 16 freelance designers.
Wanted: 4 Clean/poker-themed icons for a poker social networking site. I've listed a detailed description but the end result is 4 simple icons. Possible future work for good designer. See current design at test.pokerDIY.com or the old design at http://www.pokerDIY.com
View the current design at test.pokerDIY.com (this will become the new design in a weeks time, but the old design is the current site at http://www.pokerDIY.com) first please.
My description below is a bit verbose, but the end result will be 4 simple icons of the same theme.
I
want the top 4 icons redone (Poker Leagues, Poker Groups, Poker Games
and Poker Classifieds). I think the current square-ish look works well,
and you don't need to put the words under them.
- A Poker
League is a series of games over which the scores are tracked, so this
could be represented by a stats icon (like the current one) or a medal
(here is an example of a league leaderboard with medals) or something to represent rankings/leaderboards.
- A
Poker Game is actually an Event (you don't play live poker on the site)
so either a pack of cards which is universal or something to represent
a calendar with a poker theme.
- A Poker Group is a collection of users (like Groups on MySpace/Facebook) - not sure if you can work poker into this.
- The Classifieds are poker classifieds (like sales/wanted games/home games) - I thought the thumbtack worked quite well.I
will probably need more icons in the future so there is a possibility
of more work for the right designer. I am not a designer but I believe
I want it in vector format so I can resize it if necessary (correct me
if I am wrong!). I use PaintShopPro to dabble in, but that or Photoshop
(as well as .gif format) format too please in case I need to make
changes. I will also use these icons as a basis for my 3 intro panels
on the home page (Leagues, Groups and Games), so I need the icons in
32*32 and 64*64 (and possibly bigger) . If you have a suggestion for
these panels, let me know!.
- The icons must all be of the same theme/style (I think the "button" look works well like the current test.pokerDIY.com
- They do not HAVE to have a poker image in the icon - for example Classifieds is a hard one to apply the poker theme to.
- Could
be single colour theme (e.g the red from the logo, like the existing
one) or it could be multiple colours, but don't go overboard). Possibly
use the red/navy of the current PokerDIY logo
- All images must be optimised and of a small filesize
- Don't use words/letters/text or localised values (like $)
- Copied images