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Re: Map Contest (Grand Prize $1000)
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:57 pm
by RjBeals
thanks for the compliments guys - but i didn't even come close to winning. Ind Helix didn't either. We're up against some heavy hitters. But it was fun nonetheless.
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winners here:
http://www.theydrawandtravel.com/blog/w ... ap-contest
Re: Map Contest (Grand Prize $1000)
Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:05 pm
by cairnswk
Guys, nevermind. You just didn't get "arty-farty" enough
you tried and that's more than i did.
I must say i'm not totally impressed by the winning maps, but then what do i know...
Re: Map Contest (Grand Prize $1000)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:02 am
by natty dread
Really? I don't know what kind of criteria they use to choose, and I'm not saying I'm an expert art critic, but to my eyes the winning entry is fugly, uninteresting and unoriginal. I mean it looks like it was drawn with crayons ffs.
The 2nd one (the antarctica one) looks better designed, but again the style is unoriginal.
The 3rd one (seattle) looks nice, with a nice style, but there's absolutely no aspect of the image that says "map" to me.
What really hit my eye was that
none of the prized entries were
actual maps. One would think that a mapmaking contest would reward at least one entry that was a
map, but...
Re: Map Contest (Grand Prize $1000)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:35 am
by RjBeals
Yeah, it was misleading. It should have been "Illustrate your fav city", not "Map your fav city"
Re: Map Contest (Grand Prize $1000)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:05 am
by Victor Sullivan
Plus one to natty and cairns
I liked IH's and RjBeals' maps better, but of course, I'm biased
-Sully
Re: Map Contest (Grand Prize $1000)
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:42 pm
by natty dread
The whole site is misleading... it claims to be about "maps by artists" but very few of them are actual maps...