Earthlings: ARKYD Space Telescope Needs Your T-Shirt Design!

Status: Closed
Prize: $2000
Entries Received: 2009
Winner: MajoX21

Winner

Contest Brief

This is your chance to design something that is truly out of this world! Planetary Resources, the asteroid mining company, is now making space exploration accessible to everyone!

Introducing the "ARKYD" – an advanced, orbiting space telescope that will be publicly accessible by YOU, the crowd! Conduct citizen science or simply get your photo taken in space above the Earth.

Check out the crowd-funded project for design ideas and to show your support by pledging here:

http://bit.ly/ARKYD-100

As part of this game-changing project, we are crowdsourcing a T-Shirt Design, with a huge $2000 prize! In addition, the winning designer will receive "Education Ambassador" status in the ARKYD Kickstarter campaign ($5000 level)! Be part of this unprecedented project in exploring the space of design and the space beyond Earth - get your entries in now!

Thanks to Freelancer.com and Planetary Resources YOUR design and YOUR community can be part of history.

DESIGN BRIEF:

The T-Shirt design can be funny, inspirational, or both. Themes that touch on citizen science, interactive education, accessible space exploration, “space selfies”, or asteroid mining are encouraged. It should be visually striking and impressive, as well as easy and affordable to print onto a T-Shirt (Samples below)

PRIZES:

Design the winning T-Shirt and take home $2000 cash, have your hometown's name written on the telescope and have a personalised photo taken from space with the Earth as the backdrop!

PLANETARY RESOURCES:

Planetary Resources will provide to Freelancer.com for their selection of one (1) Grand Prize award consisting of “Education Ambassador” status, providing rewards commensurate with Planetary Resources’ Kickstarter campaign level of the same designation to the institution of the winner’s choice. Prize includes access to the ARKYD as well as teaching and research tools will comprise the following prize terms: (1) 25 Main Optic Observations to be directed by the winners, (2) 30 Digital Space Selfies, (3) an educational poster describing the technology that makes the ARKYD work, (4) a full size desktop model of the ARKYD as a teaching tool with the pledger name (if desired) etched into it, (5) access to a curriculum and tutorial developed by the team at Planetary Resources, in collaboration with educators, and (6) a one-year membership to The Planetary Society. Estimated delivery in August 2015.

Approximate Retail Value of “Education Ambassador” prize: $5,000.00.

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Getting Started

The competition begins 12:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on the 11th of June 2013 and entries close at 12:30 PM PDT on the 24th of June 2013. Judging and voting will continue until 7:00 PM PDT on the 30th of June 2013, at which point the prizes will be announced. To participate, all you need to do is create an account on Freelancer.com (free to register) and submit your design.

Promotion

• All contest entries must place Freelancer.com and Planetary Resources in a positive light. Entries featuring illegal acts, or acts that bring Freelancer.com or Planetary Resources into disrepute will be rejected. Offensive graphics or words will also be rejected.

• If the Freelancer.com logo is used in the design it must be the version available in the media kit which can be found on at freelancer.com. Planetary Resources media can be used as available from PlanetaryResources.com

• Group entries are permitted (if you want to form a team).

• We will make each and every contest entry publicly viewable on this website as entries are submitted.

• All entries submitted for the contest will remain the property of Freelancer.com and will not be returned to the participants. Freelancer.com will make the winning design available to Planetary Resources to use as they see fit, without limitation.

• The design must be provided in both vectorised and standard formats. EPS and JPEG are optimal.

• Finalists may be asked to provide the original files used during production of the entry.

• We reserve the right to modify the rules at any time.

Participation

This contest is open to anyone except where legally prohibited. We want entries from all over the world! Contestants must be registered members of Freelancer.com, which is free. Non-members can sign up to participate!

Conditions of Entry

Any entry that is clearly and objectively insulting, sexist, offensive, racist, crude, intolerant and all sorts of other words similar to “inappropriate” will be automatically disqualified! Enter as many times as you like. By entering the contest, you agree that all entries submitted for the contest will remain the property of Freelancer.com and will not be returned to the participants. All entries must place Freelancer.com and Planetary Resources in a positive light. Nothing illegal or designs that bring Freelancer.com or Planetary Resources into disrepute will be accepted. No offensive graphics or words will be accepted. Entries which do not meet the required Submission Format will be automatically disqualified from the contest. Freelancer.com or Planetary Resources are not liable in any manner, for entries lost, delayed or damaged. Prize funds will be paid out to winners through Freelancer.com. Thus, participants must have a valid Freelancer.com account to participate in the Contest. “Education Ambassador” prize will be fulfilled by Planetary Resources through the medium of their choosing.

Selection of Winner

POTENTIAL WINNER IS SUBJECT TO VERIFICATION BY FREELANCER.COM, WHOSE DECISIONS ARE FINAL AND BINDING IN ALL MATTERS RELATED TO THE CONTEST. AN ENTRANT IS NOT A WINNER OF ANY PRIZE UNLESS AND UNTIL ENTRANT’S ELIGIBILITY HAS BEEN VERIFIED AND ENTRANT HAS BEEN NOTIFIED THAT VERIFICATION IS COMPLETE. FREELANCER.COM IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH PLANETARY RESOURCES AND THIS CONTEST DOES NOT REPRESENT AN ENDORSEMENT EITHER PARTY OF THE OTHER.

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“@MajoX21 won the contest on 2 July 2013”

Planetary, Australia.

Public Clarification Board

sashakib345
- 3 weeks ago
congrats MojoX
- 3 weeks ago
WidyaWindriana
- 8 years ago
Congrats yahh
- 8 years ago
ahmeadkamal
- 10 years ago
Weldone majo
- 10 years ago
fecodi
- 10 years ago
It's nice to see that good design actually wins some times :)
- 10 years ago
1. jaksyousaf
  - 10 years ago
  ya good when ur pockets empty
  - 10 years ago
gerd13
- 10 years ago
Congratulation Majox21
- 10 years ago
1. niloysarker
  - 10 years ago
  Welcome
  - 10 years ago
smileforever
- 10 years ago
Congrates Majox21
- 10 years ago
bqcreative
- 10 years ago
MajoX21 "CONGRATULATION"
- 10 years ago
Amorlife
- 10 years ago
Congrats MajoX21...Beautiful design indeed!
- 10 years ago
muhammadijaz8
- 10 years ago
nice work..... #1455
- 10 years ago
passionstyle
- 10 years ago
congrats MajoX21........really nice work done..
- 10 years ago
jain034567
- 10 years ago
MajoX21, enjoy a party congratulation dear. :D
- 10 years ago
sergeiTabalov
- 10 years ago
MajoX21, congratulations!
- 10 years ago
Saphiregirl
- 10 years ago
Yes i know it :) Congrats MajoX21 your design was one of my favourites ;)
Well deserved good job
- 10 years ago
airlvov
- 10 years ago
Congrats MajoX21 ! :)
- 10 years ago
ashokdy
- 10 years ago
congrats MajoX21
- 10 years ago
ajeeshin
- 10 years ago
congratulations MajoX21,
- 10 years ago
SheryVejdani
- 10 years ago
wow... Congrats Majox21...
- 10 years ago
m1983s
- 10 years ago
congrats Majox21, nice job.
- 10 years ago
allanabao
- 10 years ago
MajoX21 jojo Congrats!
- 10 years ago
Tanumon
- 10 years ago
Congrats! MajoX21. Very nice design.
- 10 years ago
hammadraja
- 10 years ago
really good design outstanding work cheers to majo
- 10 years ago
laila721214
- 10 years ago
Congrats MajoX21..
- 10 years ago
sirrom
- 10 years ago
congratulations MajoX21, very nice design ............... your shout :) - sirrom
- 10 years ago
mtuan0111
- 10 years ago
It's very impressive design. Cheers
- 10 years ago
Zaywood
- 10 years ago
congrats MojoX totally deserve it.
- 10 years ago
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1. crayonscrayola
  - 10 years ago
  Agree!
  - 10 years ago
2. lanangali
  - 10 years ago
  prok,prok,prok....yes,yes,yes...congrats majox21..
  - 10 years ago
rhayramos11
- 10 years ago
Congrats Majo
- 10 years ago
robnielmanal
- 10 years ago
Congrats dude MajoX21. I like the originality of the design.Well deserved :)
- 10 years ago
XYZaxis
- 10 years ago
from level 8 they drop my level to level 6? why did i do wrong? strange.
- 10 years ago
XYZaxis
- 10 years ago
5 star rating and a LIKES does matter.... at all.
- 10 years ago
XYZaxis
- 10 years ago
haha, fail contest for me! a hand sketch crayon on a paper and the logo i submitted were on the same rating of 1 star, funny judgement. anyways congratulation winner
- 10 years ago
NikkiParker
- 10 years ago
http://www.planetaryresources.com/ watch the live stream of the ARKYD Planetary Resources Kickstarter Grand Finale!
- 10 years ago
Contest Holder
- 10 years ago
Congratulations to Marian Smolka [MajoX21] from Slovakia for winning the ARKYD T-Shirt Competition! You win $2,000 cash and an amazing $5,000 space education package!
- 10 years ago
XYZaxis
- 10 years ago
and the winner is???????? say are?
- 10 years ago
robnielmanal
- 10 years ago
So who won?
- 10 years ago
helalstar
- 10 years ago
Entry #1977 by helalstar Just 2 star! Thanks.
- 10 years ago
GMCreativeArt
- 10 years ago
What about this designs? #2557 , #2558 .Thank you and the best of luck! ;)
- 10 years ago
GMCreativeArt
- 10 years ago
Take a look and tell me what you think. #2542 , #2543 , #2547 , #2550 , #2553 , #2539 , #2536 , #2560 , #2566 , #2535
- 10 years ago
millinpanwar
- 10 years ago
I m the one who submitted the design at the beginning and excited to see how many stars will i get?
- 10 years ago
kajiliz
- 10 years ago
#1103
- 10 years ago
millinpanwar
- 10 years ago
There are still many entries which have not been checked yet? are freelancer or Planetary resources going to check them.
- 10 years ago
GMCreativeArt
- 10 years ago
Or these? #2543 , #2542 .
- 10 years ago
GMCreativeArt
- 10 years ago
Do you like them? #2558 , #2557 , #2535 , #2566 , #2560 , #2536 , #2539 , #2553 , #2550 , #2547 .
- 10 years ago
lynatenorio
- 10 years ago
Check out my entry #1160
- 10 years ago
SPIRALdesign
- 10 years ago
pls check #360 THX ^^)
- 10 years ago
yuvi1991
- 10 years ago
please give reviews for #700
- 10 years ago