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-----Original Message----- From: Luke Pebody <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2010 17:26:58 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [gcj] Re: T-shirt designs for Code Jam 2011. The Code Jam should have a cuddly mascot, maybe a curious Squid called Jammy. Different rounds of the contest should show Jammy wrestling with Python, trying to stop a runaway Ruby on Rails, and so on. The T-shirt should show Jammy in yet more strife. On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Shrey <[email protected]> wrote: > Some ideas to throw around: > > 1. Have Randall Munroe design something. I don't think xkcd has > covered programming contests yet. > 2. An upside down programming contest cheat-sheet. Has been done > before, useful nevertheless. > 3. Something like "Among the top 500 results on Google search for kick- > ass programmer" > > On Dec 16, 5:55 am, Christopher Chen <[email protected]> > wrote: >> With these sorts of things I'm fond of designs that look interesting >> even to people who don't know what the shirt is about. Like how some >> conference shirts just list a name, date and logo in Helvetica while >> others do interesting artistic things in theme and feel much more >> wearable as a result. >> >> So try for something unnecessarily pretty! Well-picked data >> visualisation always looks really good and you have plenty of stuff to >> work with just from the competitors' nationalities / programming >> languages / progression rates alone. >> >> Or do a text-as-art piece naming all the different mathematical and >> algorithmic ideas that have featured in solutions to past GCJ rounds >> (like VFIX's suggestion but you don't have to aim for a giant 'GCJ' at >> the end, the shape of a shiny hyperbolic polyhedron would do just as >> well :D). >> >> Or a collage of the flavourtext/stories for 2011's various problems; >> there'd be enough material that you could pull off uniform-visual- >> noise quite well and then leave some space in one part for a strongly >> contrasting bold message/logo/etc. >> >> If you insist on it saying 'Google Code Jam 2011' somewhere on the >> shirt (which, well, fair enough), at least don't feel obligated to put >> it in a giant font where it steals all the focus from the rest of the >> design. :) >> >> On Dec 15, 3:59 pm, Igor Naverniouk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > Greetings! >> >> > We are playing with a few t-shirt designs for next year, and we would love >> > to hear (and see) your ideas. >> >> > What would you like to see on a Google Code Jam t-shirt? >> >> > Send your ideas to this group, if you want to hear comments from other >> > contestants, or send them to us at [email protected] if you want to keep >> > them secret and create a surprise for everyone else. >> >> > igor >> > -- Google Code Jam team > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "google-codejam" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "google-codejam" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-code?hl=en.
