MOO announced a sticker competition in April, looking for 90 designs for a custom-made and limited edition sticker book – the brief being to submit stickers that you’d want to stick on a laptop[1]. The prize wasn’t as *spectacular* as some of MOO’s previous competitions – a Flickr pro account and a bit of glory and so I decided to look through my photos and also some of the illos I did for benpeek‘s now (sadly[2]) abandoned Dialogues project (originally called Street Conversations), rather than spend huge amounts of time on new stuff. I’d also decided to get some sticker books because MOO had a three for the price of two sticker offer and so I picked a heap of images (mostly photos) for that and I chose five of them to enter into the competition.
And low and behold – one of them was picked for the sticker book!!! It was my ‘Ciggie’ picture (2nd from right), which means I’ll get free Flickr for a year and the glory of having a bio on the MOO website! I’m actually really pleased that one of my illustrations was picked, rather than one of my very pretty but completely fluke-ish photos (demonstrating luck rather than skill). I did consider whether to submit ‘Ciggie’ or not because it depicted a cigarette, which has certain connotations (even though this one is most decidedly stubbed out!!), but it’s definitely one of my favorite illos that I drew for the Dialogues. And I *didn’t* submit another of my favourite – a pen and ink of the electric chair from Sing Sing. Anyone who’s in need of an awesome electric chair illo, let me know… 🙂
The competition was run through Pixish, which I’ve heard good and bad things about. I can’t comment so much on the concept, but I did find the site difficult to navigate – hard to find stuff – and so I’m not sure I’ll be back there again unless there’s a specific competition that I want to be a part of. But, right now, yay me!!
[1] Actually, I’d prefer to keep *my* laptop pristine, but that’s just me 😉
[2] Or not!!? I was actually a bit shocked to see how crap some of the illos now appeared. Though perhaps this means I’ve got better??
i guessed it — great illo. i’d stick it on my laptop, if the colours were reversed. 😉
That could be arranged…
do you think it would still work, the other way around? if i had a white laptop, i’d definitely use it as-is, but my current one has a black case. . . hmmm, maybe that doesn’t matter.
it may not. I’ve done direct negatives of other images and they don’t look right cos all the highlights are wrong. But it’s an easy thing to check…