Well I am as humbled as I am surprised that my entry won the contest. Thank you very much, and congratulations to everyone else who participated, you are great competition, and there are some really good posters in this thread.
I am of course available to make any final adjustments to my poster required to match you standards and requirements. There is always a somewhat implicit need for some post-contest fine-tuning, even from my part, as I would myself like to make a few small additions and touch ups for the final version. So let me know what Jeremy, Mat, Eric or anyone else requires. A few questions of my own that stand out the most are: - Is the poster size really 210mm × *279*mm ? I know we are accounting for American standard paper sizes, but an ISO A4 paper is 210 x *297*mm. Just want to make sure it is not a typo. - The Tiddler fish entry is a full vector SVG drawing (no raster graphics whatsoever) so there should be no print quality issues at any size, it can also be export as raster graphics of any required dimensions, but: - Shouldn't the "default" poster download file be a PDF file? It is easy to print directly, well supported (opens everywhere, most current browsers have built-in PDF viewer), and since it is vector based too, provides a great balance between file size and quality, and can also easily be imported back into Inkscape for further editing without any major loss of information. Most common users are probably not tech savvy enough to deal with SVG files, and will most likely print *as is*, no editing involved, so SVG might be overkill. Images are either low quality or may become quite large in terms of file size with high enough resolution. JPG is probably a bad file format for this kind of "illustration" type of image (causes compression artifacts), PNG is also widely supported and would probably provide better secondary file format (with the downside of increased file size). - Anyway for display purposes inside TiddlyWiki SVG would still be the best bet, so from my part I will gladly provide the final version in all three file formats (PDF for printing, SVG for display inside tiddlywiki, and PNG (or JPG if you prefer) for display/printing elsewhere. Anyway let me know what you think, and what needs to be done. If you wish to continue in a more private fashion you can reach me at my GMail duarte.framos Thanks again On Saturday, 3 January 2015 22:42:09 UTC, Mat wrote: > > Dear all! > > I am proud to say the jury has reached a decision. And the WINNER is... > > Oh, just first, I should mention that the decision process turned out > trickier than expected. In fact, I pulled in assistance from two friends > who work in marketing AND even my fiancee (M.D.) whom I bombarded with a > zillion questions such as "Which ones catch your eye the most?", "If this > appeared on your work place, what would the others think when reading > this?", "Which posters would work better on a board in a stressed and messy > environment - and which ones for a calmer place?", "What would non-tech > people think?", etc. There was particular talk about what creates a > "desire" to go to the webpage. > > Well, there was quite a heated debate but in the end there was a next to > unanimous decision. Can you guess? Well the WINNER is: > > > Oh, just first, we should have a rundown of all the contributions for > everyones enjoyment and for reference. > > Here are the final versions of the variants people included. In reviewing > them we looked at earlier versions also (for instance WiMs many touch ups) > but there was an agreement the latest was the best anyway so this did not > affect things. So, here I only include the final versions of the > contributed variants: > > *In ARBITRARY, i.e no particular, order:* > > > WiMs TW Concept (remade into jpg for display here): > > > <https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9Nflw7QAuq4/VKhRIlQ5cSI/AAAAAAAAPFY/Ruc5B4AO2qQ/s1600/WiM_final.jpg> > > Stephens Ordination: > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aEs5-O5pKkU/VKhQ9IDEehI/AAAAAAAAPFI/fOufnU2r2fY/s1600/Stephen_doctorsorders.jpg> > > World of Stephen: > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nVRrSt2llhg/VKhRDKnCJVI/AAAAAAAAPFQ/3Oic7IA76ik/s1600/Stephen_youcancreate.jpg> > Duartes Node Tree: > > > <https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-tXqCI6M8z2U/VKhQxPc0uxI/AAAAAAAAPFA/J__Vqf1FD9I/s1600/Duarte_Nodetree.jpg> > > Duartes Fish: > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_pQV8bLTcIo/VKhQqTcFujI/AAAAAAAAPE4/vAdL16wZGTE/s1600/Duarte_Fish.jpg> > > Duartes Diamond: > > > <https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-rG-nQv68sCM/VKhQlbiEYiI/AAAAAAAAPEw/oMY21pCnxEg/s1600/Duarte_Diamond.jpg> > > ...and a bonus by Mr. Stickleback himself - AlexHough going ascii (thanx > Alex!!!) > > }<!!!!!;( º> <http://tiddlywiki.com> > > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ }<!!!!!;( º> <http://tiddlywiki.com> > > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#%20%7D%3C%21%21%21%21%21%3B%28%20%20%C2%BA%3E%20> > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#%20%7D%3C%21%21%21%21%21%3B%28%20%20%C2%BA%3E%20> > > }<!!!!!;( º> <http://tiddlywiki.com> > > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#%20%7D%3C%21%21%21%21%21%3B%28%20%20%C2%BA%3E%20> > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#%20%7D%3C%21%21%21%21%21%3B%28%20%20%C2%BA%3E%20> > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#%20%7D%3C%21%21%21%21%21%3B%28%20%20%C2%BA%3E%20> > > }<!!!!!;( º> <http://tiddlywiki.com> > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ }<!!!!!;( º> <http://tiddlywiki.com> > > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#%20%7D%3C%21%21%21%21%21%3B%28%20%20%C2%BA%3E%20> > .·´¯`·.´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸ > <https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#%20%7D%3C%21%21%21%21%21%3B%28%20%20%C2%BA%3E%20> > > }<!!!!!;( º> <http://tiddlywiki.com> > > > We also got encouraging input from several people that has affected some > of the contributions. > > So... are you ready? > > My warmest contratulations goes to the fisherman - non other than Duarte! > > While I explicitly did state that beautiful graphics were not important - > *per > se* - it is undeniable that his fish catches the eye. A good catch to say > the least. And you go "hm, what's this". As particularly my fiancee pointed > out, it also creates a first impression of TW namely that it is something > polished and slick. Now, both my marketing friends and I have some opinions > that there probably should be some more "call to action" but on the whole > we were all *very* impressed. > > I also want to bring up WiMs contribution. Bri-li-ant! In fact, it is so > good that I have made a version myself which I will put up shortly. (Oooh, > I wish there was a contest ;-) > > Of course also my warmest thank you to Stephen! I really liked both the > doctors order (funny!) and the globe (impressive!) I doubt people would > understand it was about some kind of personal wiki, but cool nonetheless! > And I don't think I must mention which one my M.D fiancee liked the most ;-) > > GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CONTE... no, wait.. FOR OUR COMMUNITY, GUYS! > > > So what happens now? Well, the prize money has already been transferred as > a contribution to Erics Inside TiddlyWiki project (even if via paypal) and > he will, if not already, be informed about Duartes win. BTW, I urge > everyone to take this remaining last day to jump on his SUPER PERK UPGRADE > <https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/inside-tiddlywiki-the-missing-manual>. > I just did myself the other day. Imagine your friends or colleagues seeing > your poster, starting to use TW... only to find out you are also part of > the book!!! And this/these books, Inside TiddlyWiki, will be around for a > looong time, for sure! > > Let me also tell you that Jeremy has promised that ALL posters *can* > become available via tw.com meaning that anyone wanting to do a quick > printout can choose whichever is most suitable at that time! However, there > are some file format aspects. In a private conversation, Jeremy wrote: > > "Basically, in order to print at decent quality at A3 size we'd need the >> JPEG to be around 3,500 by 5,000 pixels. SVG is just the most web-friendly >> resolution independent format (decent quality still requires that any >> embedded bitmaps be of a sufficiently high resolution)." >> > > Now, the poster competition was about A4 (figuring this is what will > result in the maximum numbers of posters actually put up). But, > particularly for the winning poster, would anyone be willing to help make > it perfect according to Jeremys description? (Yes, we're all looking at you > @Duarte ;-) > > > Ok, thank you guys. It was a great contest and we did it for us! > > > <:-) > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. 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