Honorable mentions to Charlotte, Marie, Natalia, Lea, Qurcya, Olive and Emmanuel. Thank you to everyone that entered, and thank you to those who voted.
All the competition entries can be viewed here.
December 2011 Calendar
About the pressure to be thin (2009):"I've never felt the need to be thin; always being very thin isn't pretty. I'm never on a diet. I love cooking and eat. I make excellent raspberry tarts and amaretti (almond pastries)."
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Congrats!
to the winner and All the hounourable mentions!
love to all those who entered!
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uhm… guys, DECEMBER was written without an “E”
oops
Oops, I’ll ask Charlotte for a corrected version.
Congratulations to the winner and the honorable mentions as well. All the calendars look great. 😀
Oopsies!! Woww sorry, yea I’ll fix that.
Man, the picture is really great, fantastic job!
But should there be any days – Mo, Tu, Sat….?
Otherwise, apart from being pretty, the calendar is kinda useless..
I actually agree with you, a calendar where you can’t even find which day of the week you are is not actually a good calendar for me =/
Maybe there should be a art contest or something like this appart from the calendars !
I would like to thank Marie and Victoria for their beautiful calendars – i voted for you.
Congratulations to all the winners !
Oh thank you! That’s really sweet!!
And thanks for the ones who voted for me! and congrats for the winner and the othe honorable mentions !
Loved your calenders too. Really nice job 😉
Thanks Thessalie and anyone else who voted for me. Unfortunately I didn’t get an hon mention or a win this time round; personnally I thought these were my best calenders yet! I do love the winner though, great job 🙂
Awh, your calenders were lovely! don’t be disheartened..there’s always next month. 🙂
I agree Victoria your calendars were very beautiful and shouldn’t feel discouraged. It’s just odd sometimes what people vote for :\ For instance I thought there were many that as far as graphics were much better than the one of mine that got an honorable mention. So I guess you just never know, but I’ve totally felt that way too sometimes.
Both of yours were beautiful 🙂 You totally deserved Hon Mentions! <3 Thanks for the words of encouragements, I'll be back at it next month. I think it defenitely helps to use relatively recent pictures in the calenders, and that's what I am going to try next time XD Thanks again…
Looking forward to your next calenders! 😉
i thought that my cal was the best i made!
and previously i got hon mentions lol 😛
I´m glad that at least one of my favourites got HM…..
hey! my name is charlotte too! 😛
PS: I live in Canada, I’m not on Internet at 11!!! 🙂
The spelling on December has been corrected.
As for the days of the week, I guess normally calendars have them, but they aren’t required in the rules, and we’ve had 5 winners this year that didn’t have them.
About other contests: If you have an idea for a contest you can make a suggestion. The nice thing about a calendar contest is that it is displayed on the site for a month. I’m not sure what else we could do.
something else that really emphasises graphic design. i love the calender contest, but feel that sometimes people just aren’t voting for calenders that are trully graphically rich. this winner was great, i admit, but i think that there should be a bigger highlight on graphic design skills…
You are probably right. I would guess that most people base their votes on what they like, and not which shows the most artistic skills. But with competitors ranging from beginners to very talented people, maybe that’s the best way to give everyone a chance. Perhaps if we had some contest where people compete in a class, so beginners were up against other beginners etc., it would work to judge on skills.
Perhaps a banner competition where the winner’s banner will be put up as the site’s main banner? Or a banner for the photo gallery maybe? Just my 2 cents. 😀 *peace*
I like that idea too – with classes maybe.
I talked about another time of competition not for the competition itself, but because it would push those great artists we have on the site to produce great pieces of work ^^
It could happen in the middle of the month, in order for us to have 2 voting pools per month.
I agree, I love doing graphic design as a hobby and I love doing these competitions because I like sharing my work with others and seeing everyone elses wonderful works as well. However I definitely feel that I sometimes get more caught up in the graphic design portion of it and pay little attention to the actual calendar.:\ I apologize to anyone that really wanted the days of the week. I’ll keep that in mind and do my best to include them in future entries.
Oh and dook just as a side note the misspelling is still there. I think my new version was titled the same thing as my old one, so it may have been confusing. Just wanted to point it out :]
Charlotte, it is changed. The old one is probably in your browser cache. Try force reloading the image.
Having majored in graphic design myself… it really is hard to even judge sometimes based on “artistic skills” vs how the image actually looks to you. Maybe the people who voted this month just prefer the picture that was used… or maybe they like certain colors better than others, you know, etc etc. Art is so subjective. A design could win that took the person only about 5 minutes to create and very little effort, when put up against one that someone else spent hours/days on… just because it just looked better to certain voters. And its fine because its just based on artistic taste.
IDK, this is the second time I’ve entered and I thought mine was really good this time. I won the first time, and this time I didnt even get into the honorable mentions, haha. I think I just had a different idea of what I wanted then everyone else. I just put up my calendar on my computer at home so I can at least see it myself sometimes, its cool 😉
I must say I also vote base on the pictures, sometimes great calendars use pictures I can’t stand, it’s human not to vote for such a reason 😉 Pure chance, it’s not about skills.
However good picture + bad skills won’t get my votes, i promess !
Many people send in two or three calendars. It’s not uncommon for someone to have the winning calendar, and another that gets almost no votes. Skill is a part of winning, but I think a lot of it is having the right picture, the right colors, at the right time.
Same here!! haha, that’s what happend to me and i totally gree with you 🙂
Congrats to the winner 🙂 and thank to all who voted for my calendar. It’s my first entries and comment on this site so I also wanted to say hello;) and apologise for my english.
Congratulation charlotte. but m sory i did not like your calender. I thing blur portion r not done very well near emma image. Sory for complain. I hope u r doing great at the next month of callender. Thankyou
i am going to enter the January contest
Where are the pictures from the one with the cool hat from? Haven’t seen those before.
Congrats to the winner and all the Honorable Mentions,they all look great 🙂 x