Chen's idea of data visualization (or something along those lines) arranged into an elegant structure would make for a beautiful t-shirt to wear indeed.
I suppose there has to be some sort of choice made between whether or not the creators want to design the t-shirt as visually pleasing, or as a means to convey some sort of 'message' about what GCJ 'is'. I honestly don't think the second goal is that important as long as Google Code Jam is mentioned in some way - and the first goal makes a t-shirt far more wearable in my opinion. -Nathan On Dec 15 2010, 7:55 pm, 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.
